3 ODIs in 3 days followed by a Test match a week for 3 weeks will lead to a lot of injuries
Players are already being rotated in and out of the playing XI, so we might as well take advantage of the opportunity that creates.
Can you imagine? Work finishes on a Friday and you head down to the SCG with a bunch of mates whom you've persuaded to spend a few hours at the cricket that night before you head out later on. Tait hits 160kmh twice, Nannes breaks someone's arm and Warner hits 13 6s on the way to a magnificent century. Jack from accounting actually catches one of the sixes and is pretty pleased with himself.
Everyone has a ball and asks loads of questions. You end up agreeing to watch the WACA ODI at a pub next Saturday because it's got "the greatest chance of someone's arm being broken again", and everyone thought that was a pretty cool moment in the game.
Saturday rocks around and it turns out people have been following the games in the paper or watching at home. They know that Tait didn't make the ODI squad and that Harris is injured, but they've turned up anyway because apparently Josh Hazlewood is playing and he's supposed to be the next thing and why not anyway? So you have another great night and it's a thriller of a match, because although New Zealand is lacklustre they did manage to fluke a T20I series win and therefore took a lot of confidence into the ODIs.
Two office outings in two weeks is plenty, so no-one talks about going to see the Test matches in the following weeks. But the TV is always on in the break room during the Tests and everyone at work is talking about them (at least a bit) and when the SCG Test goes down to the fifth day with the series hanging in the balance, no-one turns up to work until a miraculously recalled Tait gets the last wicket with a wicked bouncer.
And then, miracle of miracles, you actually get some time off before the next tour because they're all so compressed. And the cricketers go home to their wives and domestic competitions, and all is right with the Sheffield Shield as it was in days of yore.