Steve Waugh and Ashton Agar personify the radical shift in Australian cricket's attitude to playing in India over the last 40 years.
Waugh and Lisa Sthalekar were obvious invitations to Friday's big announcement at the MCG, where Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi announced closer sporting ties between their countries.
The centrepiece of the announcement is the season-opening BBL game between the Melbourne Renegades and Perth Scorchers, to be played on December 12 in Chennai.
Sthalekar, who is Indian-born, is an Australian great in the women's game. Among Waugh's many achievements was the Australian captain's readiness to embrace India as a culture.
"As a player and captain, Steve Waugh was famous from breaking free of the hotel bubble and getting out, and experiencing the real India," Albanese said.
"That won him so much respect and affection among the Indian people.
"Back then, Steve was an exception - not any more."
Indeed, when Waugh first toured India in 1986, things were markedly different.
"Times have changed ... it's amazing to think - back then, I never (would have) thought there would be a T20 game 40 years later," Waugh said.
"It's shifted a lot. It was a bit of an unknown when we first went to India, there weren't too many touring sides before us.
"We were a bit apprehensive and we probably had a bit of a siege mentality - we didn't understand the culture."
Contrast that with Agar, who has played in India many times and will be in the Scorchers line-up this December.
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"It's a beautiful experience, playing in India. You land, you get escorted to your hotel, you stay in beautiful hotels, everyone wants to say hello to you, everyone is respectful," he said.
"That's all just to do with their culture ... we get to feel the top level of that, as cricketers.
"It's busy, it's chaotic and that's the nature of the country as well.
"It's probably changed over the years, but every player who plays professional cricket in Australia wants to go and play there, because that feels like you're really in the mix."
Of course, all that ends when Indian great Jasprit Bumrah is at the top of his run-up.
"No-one wants to face Bumrah," Agar said.
