Australian Prime Ministers don’t wade into cricket. Their toes, it would seem, are permanently sunk into the soft, fine sand on the beach that cricket resembles, while rougher political tides ebb and flow all around. Not merely because the Indian team was camped in Canberra, and paid a visit to the PM Anthony Albanese, but Cricket and the Australian PM are entwined deeper than what normal statecraft, would afford. It’s the unofficial distraction, a PM’s unwritten perk. Back in 2018-19 former PM Scott Morrison had a private WhatsApp group called ‘Legends’, and added Pat Cummins and then coach Justin Langer, onto it. He did his best to gee them up with, ‘good luck, go get ’em today’ messages, according to an Amazon documentary. Tim Paine earlier, received texts of encouragement from Morrison too. But cricket has famously wooed every inhabitant of ‘The Lodge’, the official PM residence. Big challenge ahead for the PM’s XI at Manuka Oval this week against an amazing Indian side. ⁰⁰ But as I said to PM @narendramodi, I’m backing the …