Ordinarily, the temporary replacement of one strength and conditioning specialist - for family-related reasons - with another for a single tour by a national cricket team would be no big deal.
And maybe it isn't anyway.
Yet the "small print" at the bottom of a recent media release by Cricket South Africa, where they revealed that Adrian le Roux had stepped in for incumbent Tumi Masekela on the current trip to Pakistan, would hardly have escaped special notice by more veteran-leaning scribes and observers of the Proteas.