It hardly felt like a coincidence that Australia's 11-month, 14-match winning streak in one-day internationals should come to an end on the day that Adam Zampa was indisposed.
Sidelined with illness, the absence of their idiosyncratic legspinner who featured in all of those 14 wins made Mitch Marsh's team feel slightly unbalanced and directionless at Chester-le-Street on Tuesday, in their 46-run DLS defeat in the third ODI against England.
Without their go-to twirler to turn to once England had overcome Mitchell Starc's early double strike, it was soon obvious how much the 32-year-old was missed, as no-one in the Australian attack seemed to have any idea how to keep a rampaging Harry Brook and Will Jacks in check.
