I do realize that for a lot of people this is a big day and I wouldn't want to ruin it for anyone. It would be like someone trying to tell me that the Academy Awards don't matter. That it doesn't matter what Halle Berry's dress looks like …

If you had grown up watching Pakistan's tours of Australia in the '80s and '90s, it was exactly the kind of thing you'd have grown accustomed to, but now it felt strange and new; wonderful even (if you can say that of your home country's a…