The bat-size brouhaha continues to bubble, but David Warner and Ricky Ponting have found common ground in suggesting new laws won't have a major impact on cricket.
Warner, Steve Smith and many Australia teammates will be forced to use smaller bats in October.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), custodians of the game's laws, announced the changes during the recent second Test between Australia and India.
The maximum dimensions of a cricket bat will be set at 108 millimetres for width, 67mm in depth and 40mm for the edges.
Warner, who wields an imposing piece of willow, had long been an ardent supporter of the status quo when it came to bat sizes.
The aggressive opener believes bowlers won't be any better off under new rules.
"We'll just have to adapt to the changes. The ball will still go the same distance, still go to the fence," Warner said.
"We'll still get our ones and twos. The odd nick might not carry sometimes."
Ponting, who sits on the MCC panel that agreed on the limitations, agreed the new rule would not revolutionise the sport.
"The viewer wants to see highly entertaining cricket and that will still happen. I don't think anything will really change," Ponting told New Zealand's RadioLIVE.
"It's not about winding the clock back, we are just worried about where it might have got too. The modern bats most of the guys use will probably fit in within the current limitations."
Warner isn't quite so sure, suggesting he will be affected "like every other cricketer around the world".
Warner and New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson visited their bat manufacturer's workshop late last year, with the former bringing in a handful of old and new bats.
None of them squeezed through the gauge with the new measurements.
The debate about bat sizes, and more broadly the increasing dominance of bat over ball, has grown louder in recent years.
It has proven divisive. Former New Zealand allrounder Scott Styris condemned the changes on Twitter, saying "the inmates have taken over the asylum".
"I'm not sure if Scott really thought much about what he has had to say," Ponting said.
"It is a ridiculous accusation.
"The overall feeling across the panel is that the balance has gone a little too far in favour of the batsmen."
