It started with whether David Warner had earned the right to finish on a high as a Test opener. And it's ended with whether Steve Smith can start afresh as a Test opener. It began with Marnus Labuschagne not sounding very keen to replace Warner at the top and finished with Labuschagne sounding very keen about Smith being perfect to replace Warner at the top.

With 10 days still to go for that first Test against the West Indies, more importantly the first Test of the post-Warner era, the