Law was prolific in the first-class circuit, in both county cricket and the Sheffield Shield, amassing 27,000 runs and 100 professional centuries in a career that spanned two decades. Despite that, he represented Australia in just one Test in 1995, scoring an unbeaten half-century in his only innings, and was never picked again.

“I still ask Trevor Hohns, who was the chairman of selectors back then too, the question – why? And he said, ‘Well, you had to score runs.’ I said, ‘OK. Well, the captain declared on me, I couldn’t do much more than what I did’. To be honest, I wasn’t keeping out any player, I was keeping out Steve Waugh who at the time was one of Australia’s greatest, legend of the game.

“If I wasn’t good enough, please tell me I wasn’t good enough. I’ll go away and try to prove you wrong. But it was never that, it was always, ‘Nah, go and score more runs, you are nearly there, we’re just waiting for this, waiting for that’ … and when the opportunity came, nothing happened.

“So, bittersweet memories of my Australian career, and who knows, in time I’d be able to sit down and write a book and divulge a lot more information on it, and hopefully people get a good insight into what we actually had to put up with in those times.”