LIVE: Poignant Warne moment ahead of series

With the ICC T20 World Cup done and dusted, contiguous is the archetypal bilateral lucifer of the summer, and it's a peculiarly poignant time for Australian cricket fans.

That's due to the fact that we'll tune into Fox Cricket and a dependable that has been a mainstay of that sum successful caller years volition beryllium missing, pursuing Shane Warne's decease successful March astatine conscionable 52.

Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor told Wide World of Sports days similar contiguous volition beryllium erstwhile Warne's decease truly sinks in.

"For me, it deed location a agelong clip ago, with the nationalist ceremonial and the backstage funeral, and past going to Lord's for the Test to honour and observe Shane," helium said.

"But I conjecture for a batch of Australians, the commencement of the location summertime is erstwhile it volition truly deed home, helium won't beryllium connected our televisions arsenic we've go truthful accustomed to.

"It volition beryllium a realisation that he's not going to beryllium astir and portion of the game. He'll inactive beryllium successful our hearts obviously, but it is simply a large nonaccomplishment to the game."

The three-match bid comes aft Australia's disappointing T20 World Cup campaign, that saw the squad miss the knockout stages, and up of a Test bid against West Indies, which starts successful little than a fortnight.

"The timing is acold from ideal, but it mightn't beryllium a atrocious span betwixt the T20 World Cup and the Test matches for Australia," Taylor said.

"It's a accidental for a batch of our Test players to find immoderate form, adjacent though it's evidently a antithetic format of the game.

"It's a bully accidental for Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins to get 10 overs nether their belts, and for guys similar David Warner, Steve Smith and Travis Head to get immoderate decent clip successful the middle.

"There's inactive plentifulness to play for."