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AS with any election everything swings on the result. Australian cricket faced the referendum of a home Ashes series and delivered a landslide victory.
All the troubles that had preceded it were instantly muted. Replaced by cheering, victory speeches and the clambering for credit.
The afterglow surrounding Michael Clarke's team has been particularly warm for the improbability of it all. Like Paul Keating's win for the true believers.
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The fault lines in the team are still easily identified but Australia played three superb Test matches that revealed the fundamental difference in nature between the two teams.
England became world-beaters waiting for its opponents to err. The Australian way is to charge and force error.
England trailed in each Test and could never execute its worn strategy. Australia sought to exert scoreboard pressure, relentlessly and furiously, until the English collapsed under the weight.
It was a tactical annihilation playing perfectly to the strengths and obfuscating the weaknesses of the home XI.
In the corridors of power there will have been deep sighs of relief. These past few days have been deliverance. With it comes term and tenure. The catalogue of mistakes left for redundancy rather than retribution.
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On the dramatic day Darren Lehmann was installed as coach, a desperate and bold move in the face of impending wipeout, the jobs of the faceless men were placed in his hands.
Lehmann was fundamentally opposed to the ideology at play in Australian cricket and scrapped the policies those in charge had implemented.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland couldn't help but indulge in the throes of electoral victory the morning after: "It looks like a pretty good decision, doesn't it?" he noted triumphantly.
Indeed it does.
It neatly sheets home all the problems of the past to the previous coach Mickey Arthur. As if he was singularly responsible for the depths to which a dysfunctional setup had sunk.
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Sutherland wasn't replaced when the Argus Report laid bare the shortcomings that had developed on his watch. He was instead entrusted to fix things.
He presided over the hiring of Arthur. The coupling with team performance manager Pat Howard was a flawed union. Two scientifically oriented, process-driven, linear thinkers.
One informed school of thought believes Lehmann was identified as the ideal candidate in the first sweep but declined to participate in what he saw as a beauty pageant for the coaching position.
Cricket Australia didn't persuade or lure him.
But when the emergency chute was pulled three weeks from the northern Ashes, Lehmann was the only consideration because he had been the right man all along.
Lehmann was the complimentary and necessary lateral thinker. The creative force, the visionary, the man who engaged with his players.
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Howard had used Lehmann as a sounding board when both were based in Queensland. The administrator well knew his survival was linked to his capacity to work with the new coach and salvage what they could from the summer.
The old thinking was swept away. Lehmann criticised the rotation policy from the outside and scrapped it without hesitation.
It is hardly a coincidence that fortunes turned in a settled and stable environment.
It neatly mirrors the situation now delivered to Cricket Australia with the core necessity of winning met.
It has breathing space to the business of governing where the challenges are as difficult as they were before. From regenerating the national team to combating the power of India.
It's the beginning of a term that likely stretches beyond the 2015 World Cup and through to the winter Ashes.
The change in circumstance neatly measured through the passage of five months.
The Big Bash League was regrettably launched with a coordinated campaign in the hours following the abject humiliation of a 347-run Lord's defeat. It said everything about CA's skewed priorities and its failure to grasp the collective black mood.
Last night BBL03 commenced as a celebration of cricket rather than the concept responsible for ruining what is held dear. And a nation basks once more in the unifying power of the game.
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