James Pattinson has retired from international cricket, but by the end of the summer, Australian fans might be wishing he hadn't.
Pattinson has been in fine form to start the new Sheffield Shield season, and while he might have been suspended for a match after an errant throw at Daniel Hughes, he has otherwise not put a foot wrong for the Victorians.
He might only be through two matches - both against New South Wales - but that in itself, playing two Shield matches in a row is a positive with Pattinson able to go without being injured.
His bowling has been something else though.
After taking figures of 2 for 24 and 1 for 67 in the first match of the new campaign, he has turned up the heat in the clash finishing on Tuesday at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
2 for 32 off 17.1 overs in the first innings, where the Blues scored 233 at almost four runs per over saw him as the pick of the bowlers by a considerable margin.
His ability to bowl with raw pace and in the right areas on a consistent basis was a major trouble for the Blues, and the ball which got rid of former Test wicket-keeper Peter Nevill was an absolute gem.
Seriously, if you haven't watched it yet, go and do so.
While rain, overcast conditions and a slightly green-tinged wicket made for perfect bowling conditions, no other quick - maybe apart from New South Wales' Chris Tremain - has been able to get anything near the return of Pattinson throughout the contest, which is ultimately set to bubble down to a draw.
But Pattinson was at his best on Tuesday in the blues' second innings, finishing up with 5 for 71 from 18 overs. The Blues had the foot down desperately trying to set up a result, but Pattinson ran through five of the top seven with a brutal mix of pace and accuracy.
He got rid of Daniel Hughes and Matthew Gilkes at the top of the order, then removed Moises Henriques, Jason Sangha and Nevill again, with four of those wickets caught and the final of Nevill bowled.
It wasn't just straight slogging buying the big Victorian quicks wickets though. Hughes snicked one to first slip on the second ball of the innings as Pattinson shaped one back into the left-hander, before aback of a length ball squared up a solid looking Gilkes who edged to the slips as well.
Henriques would depart in similar fashion to the first ball of Day 4 as a ball shaped away, before Sangha - who had moved himself into the 70s with a classy innings from a star of the future went to pull a well-directed short ball, only to get a top edge which would be caught.
The wicket of Nevill came as the Blues attempted to put the hammer down, but it was still an excellently executed yorker to send the former Test keeper on his way.
Regardless of Pattinson's past injury history, he has always had the talent to be this sort of bowler, and to do it on the international level.
It's a major shame to Australian cricket that he never got to do that on a consistent basis as injury after injury curtailed and stunted his career, to the point he announced his retirement from international cricket last month.
Despite that, he is still in the top five bowlers in the country. Pat Cummins, who is likely to take over from Tim Paine as national captain, is quite clearly the first picked, while Josh Hazlewood also needs to be there for his niggling line and length.
But the spot for the third quick is seemingly a lot less secure. Mitchell Starc might be the incumbent, but Jhye Richardson has been in fine form to start the Shield season too.
Richardson has played a handful of matches for Australia, and took match figures of 8 for 61 against Queensland last week, before grabbing 4 for 53 against the Tasmanian team in the first innings of the currently ongoing match in Hobart.
He will give Starc a red-hot run for his money in taking the final spot in the Australian XI for the first Test at the Gabba, but you have to wonder if Pattinson might have been in with a shout had he not been injured.
Pattinson has raw pace, can move the ball both ways and has the action and general tendency to cause a lot of problems at the Gabba.
Cricket Australia don't have him available this summer, but you just feel that with such a jam-packed schedule, the threat of injury and COVID, and injury-prone quicks otherwise, that he would have got a run at some point across the five Tests, because it's hard to make any sort of argument that he isn't in the best five pace bowlers in the country.
