Paul Farbrace will jump at the chance to replace Australian Trevor Bayliss as England coach if it is offered next year - and has demonstrated once more he is prepared to make bold calls in office.
Farbrace's brief stint in sole charge, while Bayliss sits out the Twenty20 against Australia and three against India, will begin with a fresh beginning for Jos Buttler - as opener alongside Jason Roy at Edgbaston on Wednesday.
That call has been made in conjunction with Bayliss and England's selectors, but it takes effect nonetheless on Farbrace's watch.
As England seek to add Twenty 20 'Ashes' supremacy to their 5-0 one-day international whitewash of Australia, the deployment of Buttler and Roy together - with Alex Hales to bat at three - may soon bring further high-profile consequences.
Joe Root's continued first-choice Twenty20 involvement is one example - while Hales is perhaps no longer a certainty in the format which helped to make his name, once Ben Stokes returns from injury to put an extra squeeze on an already jam-packed line-up.
Farbrace's track record suggests he will not be afraid of those judgements, having promoted Stokes to number six in the Test line-up and overseen England's ODI revolution during his previous temporary tenure in 2015.
As for his readiness to replace Bayliss when the Australian steps aside in September next year, Farbrace is not dodging the most pertinent question.
"Of course," he said.
"If (England and Wales Cricket Board director Andrew) Strauss said we want to offer you the job, or split it (between formats) and me look after one of the teams, it would be so difficult to say no to that - it really would.
"If come next September ... I ended up being offered the position that would be great."
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