It will be two years this month since Sam Curran played his last Test match, a small quirk of the not-that-new regime that a cricketer seemingly so suited to the brief is yet to get a hit under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.
In theory, Curran is about as Bazball a player as they come, a genuine match-winner, an attacking bowler with a cliched golden arm and an excellent white-ball hitter to boot. But circumstances have conspired against the all-rounder, who was on his way back from a stress fracture of the back when the revolution began last summer and has, understandably, not yet found a route back into a team on a roll.
