In his excellent new book, On The Ashes, the Australian journalist Gideon Haigh summarises the nation's historic cricketing philosophy.
"Australian cricket doesn't have much time for elegance," he writes. "It looks unserious, brittle, even a little effete. Australians favour aggression — bustling, bristling, business-like. They like to think of themselves as all about effect and output; it's not how but how many."
