If for once we forget the Googly Guy, the player-coach rapport is hard to miss here in Malaysia. Be it the relaxed net session or Buchanan’s role as an official photographer at end-of-the-match award ceremonies, the bonhomie is striking.

Ask Buchanan how he will handle his life away from the Australian dressing room after the Caribbean World Cup next year and he watches his happy noisy bunch entering the team bus after a tough pre-final net session. “It is a great privilege. It is really something to be connected with a wonderful group of players. It has been part of my life for seven years and it is part of my family’s life too. We are very lucky people. I will be putting more time into my family next year,’’ he says.

What next? “I am looking to move to business coaching,’’ he says. What’s that? “I want to get into the corporate world and be with the captains of other industries,’’ he says. As usual, Buchanan sounds like he means business.