England's tour of Australia is proof that you can have too much of a good thing.
Remember the tour started back in November and England clinched the Ashes series at the beginning of last month, and it has now finally finished.
Yes, most of the England players were still there until yesterday. You might not have noticed as the final one-day international (ODI) seemed a good deal like the other six which had gone before it.
Steven Finn started the winter as the great young hope of English bowling.
In four months, he has gone through the whole life cycle of an international fast bowler: leading wicket-taker, dropped, carried the drinks, picked again, survived.
Stuart Broad went out there with the original tour party, got the injured rib and the T-shirt from Bondi Beach, went home, and then went back again.
Jimmy Anderson bowled England to a position of power, went home for the birth of his baby, went back to Australia to win The Ashes, went home again, then went back to Australia for the finish of the one-day series.
And what do the players have to look forward to now it is all over? A well-earned break? Some time with the families to show off their Ashes winners medal? No - an interminable World Cup.
It will take more than a calendar month to even reach the quarter-finals, even though we already know more or less who those eight teams will be anyway, so why prolong it? When will the game's administrators realise that a quick one-day tournament is a good one-day tournament?
