Having taken his exceptional talent all the way from Yorkshire to Australia, Josh Inglis has ended up making his old home country suffer - leaving Steve Smith to laugh there's no way England are getting him back.
After the Perth batter's sublime unbeaten, matchwinning 120 steered Australia to the perfect flying start with a five-wicket win over England in their Champions Trophy opener in Lahore on Saturday, the subject of the 29-year-old's Leeds roots inevitably reared its head again.
While the likes of former England captains Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain had mused a mite wistfully in the commentary box about the one who got away, Aussie skipper Smith just wanted to make sure everyone knew the 29-year-old had green-and-gold running through him.