"Time flies," Mark Waugh told Jack Wildermuth when presenting him with his first Australian cap on Friday (July 6), "so enjoy the ride." It was to the point from the former great, in Zimbabwe for his final tour as a national selector. For some, an international career can be just that as well: over in an instant. The challenge, per Waugh's words, is to embrace it from the get-go. On this new all-rounder's first day in the yellow shirt, that's precisely what he did.

In the moments after pulling on his new hat, Justin Langer arranged for a call to be put into Queensland so that the 92nd man to represent Australia in the format could break the news firsthand to his mother that her boy was going to be making his