Three world-class quicks, born within three years of each other, all hailing from the state of New South Wales. Together they have dominated Australian cricket for the best part of a decade, leading from the front with red ball and white, the unremitting battering ram of a champion side.
The excellence of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood has been sustained over such a long period that it has become easy to take them for granted, to lose sight of how freakish their records are.
Australia had already been blessed with a world-class pace triumvirate this century, but even McGrath,...
