Steve Smith can become one of the first players to complete cricket's triple crown, and even he doesn't know how significant playing in the Test format's grand final will feel.
Smith is part of a veteran Australian quartet, alongside David Warner, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins, who can become the first players to be crowned world champions in one-day, Twenty20 and Test cricket if they beat India at The Oval this week.
Australia's players are adamant the World Test Championship final, starting on Wednesday, matters.
They have spoken at length about the pain of missing the inaugural final in 2021 courtesy of an over-rates penalty.
But at the same time, the lead up to cricket's biggest Test series in the Ashes continues to lurk in the background.
Organisers will not use the centre pitch for Test cricket's grand final, rolling out one further to the side of the square, with the main wicket likely to be kept for next month's Ashes fixture.
And most Australian interviews and press conferences in the lead-up to Wednesday have routinely veered towards England and 'Bazball'.
"It's really important," Smith said of the final.
"The World Test Championship now, having the two best teams playing the final is great. It adds a little bit more relevance, I suppose, to Test cricket.
"We'll get through this game and then we'll start focusing on England after that."
Smith has played in ODI and T20 World Cup finals, winning the 50-over tournament in 2015 at home and the shortest format in 2021 in the United Arab Emirates.
But there remains an entirely different feel to this match, which is not at the end of a long tournament but rather the start of an Ashes campaign after a two-month international break.
Smith said he was unsure how this final would compare to one in the other two formats.
"I haven't thought too much about that aspect. It's been a good couple of years of Tests," Smith said.
"Until we go out there and get started I don't know how I'll feel."
For others, the India clash represents a shot at a maiden world title.
"That's why we have spoken about it so much over the two years," Travis Head, who has never played in a World Cup, told AAP.
"Because some blokes have had World Cup success and some haven't. Every time we walk into a meeting the first thing we talk about is where we are sitting (in the standings)."
But like Smith, Head is unsure what a win at The Oval will feel like with England looming.
"I'm not sure what that looks like if we win, because we have two days and into the Ashes," Head said.
"It's not like we are coming here for one tour match and five Test matches. We know we have six very important Test matches.
"It's a bit different though, because in your mind you're in England.
"Your mind does take you to watching them play Ireland up the road. All the chat around who is fit, who is not. What the team looks like."
