There are no plans to rest Australia's pace aces Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood for the final two Tests of the summer despite their heavy workloads in Brisbane.
Cricket Australia are supremely confident Starc and Hazlewood will line up on Boxing Day at the MCG and the pair will be given every chance to back up the following week in Sydney if they pull through the second Test unscathed.
That will be music to the ears of many former fast bowlers who have heavily criticised Cricket Australia for their reliance on sports science to determine the availability of bowlers.
While Hazlewood played through the entire Test summer 12 months ago, it will be the first time Starc plays all six Tests if he gets the green light for Melbourne and Sydney.
Hazlewood and Starc will undergo routine fitness and strength testing on Thursday when Australia's 13-man squad arrive in Melbourne where they will be assessed after bowling more than 400 balls during training and match days at the Gabba.
It's considered rare that a player breaks the 400 mark during a week-long period though the pair have now done that twice this summer. The previous occasion came in Perth, where Australia's feeble first-innings collapse led to their pacemen bowling on each of the first four days of the Test.
Australia's two best quicks then played again the following week in Hobart, bowling with distinction despite being unable to bowl the side back into the contest.
Former pace spearhead Peter Siddle was forced out of the deciding Test against South Africa four years ago after running out of petrol in Adelaide. On that occasion Siddle, who also had a hamstring niggle, bowled 63.5 overs and had three days between games as opposed to Starc and Hazlewood's 56 overs and six days off.
"We're confident, absolutely. If you could predict absolutely when someone would get injured you'd be a genius," CA's sports science and sports medicine manager Alex Kountouris said.
"We try to put all these things together. If they were struggling, sore, had a niggle or a sore hammy and that could go badly that's when we worry.
"They'll be sore, for sure, but it depends on how significant those little things are and the risks associated with it. In general terms we think they'll get through but we won't know until we assess and see how they go in the next couple of days.
"If they play on Boxing Day we'll be very confident they get through otherwise we wouldn't play them."
Kountouris is expecting Starc and Hazlewood to be available for the Sydney Tests but that may change depending on circumstances.
"We want them to play in Sydney, we're planning for them to play but until they get through this game and see what they've done - we'll decide that after Melbourne," Kountouris said.
"We don't know how much they will bowl, the weather, how they will pull up - there's too many variables. It's hard enough deciding how they pull up this week. What if the game finishes in three days?"
Another scenario, not mentioned by Kountouris, would be if Australia was to wrap up the series with victory in Melbourne, turning the third Test into a dead rubber.
CA worked a minor miracle three years ago when the injury-prone quick Ryan Harris was nursed through the entire Ashes though he was a Test specialist, unlike Hazlewood and Starc, who are also in Australia's best one-day international team.
"If they're Tests only, it takes care of itself, we need to manage them the whole year," Kountouris said. "It's very hard to do that right in the middle of the season."
Starc has stunned condition staff with his ability to bounce back after a nasty gash to his knee which hampered his Test preparations.
"He is genuinely a very fit person, one of the fittest going around," Kountouris said. "That injury he had in October set us back but it's testament to his fitness and how he's looked after himself that he's managed to bounce back from that."