Car'n I've watched enough cricket over the last 40 or so years to really question your "decent, sometimes outstanding weather..." statement. Sounds like time to come home.
Steve
Couple of years ago I took the Family to the Beach , We Fried, as we watched the Snow on Mt Wellington melt.
We had been up there having snowball fights the previous weekend.
Yes it does rain here in the summer, but not all the time (though I have had one or two holidays ruined by constant rain). But if it doesn't we have droughts and water shortages as a result - too many people and not enough storage capacity. And a lot of test matches are held up North - Old Trafford (Manchester - known for being wet) and Headingly (Leeds), so are more likely to get rain in the summer.
Recently Global Warming means we seem to be getting more and more of the remnants of the big hurricanes that hit the Southern USA hard, then wheel their way across the Atlantic bringing high winds and rains.