How different the day-night Ashes Test could have been if one fast bowler didn't ghost two of his best mates.
Pat Cummins' failure to text back Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon over Wednesday night dinner plans will go down in folklore, but could well have shaped the Ashes.
Starc and Lyon's response to sit away from Cummins at an Adelaide restaurant saved them being classed as close contacts, and allowed them to play in the second Test.
And without Cummins and injured quick Josh Hazlewood, the pair stood up tremendously in the day-night Test.
So much so, it's hard to know how Australia would have fared without Starc and Lyon with the likes of Jhye Richardson leading the attack with two Tests to his name.
The last time Starc played without both fellow members of his fast-bowling cartel, he took just four wickets at 44.25 on a two-Test series against Pakistan in the UAE.
Granted, the Adelaide Oval with his favoured pink ball is far more friendly for Starc, but the past week has been close to his best in a Baggy Green.
The left-armer has had games where he has taken more wickets for Australia, but rarely has his role ever been so important.
In the first innings he was the man to help break England's back with his 4-37.
His effort to get rid of Dawid Malan for 80 stopped the tourists fighting back into the game after a wicketless first session on day three.
That scalp went with those of Rory Burns and Jos Buttler, after Starc toyed with the latter before nicking him off for a 15-ball duck.
"It was a little bit different for for Nathan and I," Starc admitted on Saturday.
"We probably searched a little bit for wickets (in the opening hours of day three).
"Nathan and I probably took it on a little bit on ourselves being the two experienced ones in the attack (to fix that)."
Then on Sunday night and Monday afternoon he landed the killer blows again, ridding of Joe Root in a brutal end to day four.
And when he got Ollie Pope in the third over of day five, England's resistance had well and truly crumbled.
While Starc's wickets were crucial, so too is the fact he has barely had a loose over in a game where there has been a responsibility to keep the pressure on.
Also of note is the fact that the majority of his wickets have also come during the day, not at night when the new pink ball is usually most dangerous.
Lyon meanwhile has also made an impact, getting the key wicket of Ben Stokes on the final day and making any England miracle of surviving the day to force a draw even more unlikely.
