There are five genuine seam-bowling allrounders who have represented Australia across all formats in the last 12 months.
There is a sixth who is quietly accumulating a list of individual domestic accolades and team trophies that is putting him in the conversation to be the next seam-bowling allrounder to represent his country.
Liam Scott, 25, has just added the Sheffield Shield Player of the Year award in 2025-26 to his Australian One-Day domestic Player of the Year award in 2024-25. It's come on the back of a breakout BBL for Adelaide Strikers, where he finished second in the Player of the Year award to Sam Harper by a solitary vote.
And this week he is hoping to add a second Shield title with South Australia, having also banked a One-Day trophy last year.
But even on the day he was announced Shield player of the year - following a home and away season where he scored 496 runs at 41.33 and took 23 wickets at 25.52 - Scott admitted he is far from the finished product as a cricketer despite taking a huge step forward this season.
"I still feel like I'm pretty young in my career," Scott told ESPNcricinfo. "I'm always trying to learn off peers, learn off coaches. I've been thrown into some new situations this year where I've been interacting with some new players through [Australia A] and now we are fortunate enough to rub shoulders with some guys that have played a lot of cricket."
The fact that Scott only scored his maiden first-class century this summer and took just his second five-wicket haul proves he was thrown in the deep end last winter. He was selected in two separate series for Australia A in 2025, playing three List A games and two first-class games against Sri Lanka A mid-year, before going to India in September to play one four-day game and three 50-over matches.
Scott thrived, scoring two of his three highest first-class scores to that point - 94 against Sri Lanka A in Darwin and 81 against India A in Lucknow. He claimed wickets in all bar two of the fixtures he bowled in across the two formats. But he took more from what he saw at the other end.
"Watching the way Matt Renshaw batted in one-day cricket in particular, he took the game on," Scott said. "He was able to hit 360. He's had a stellar career and is only getting better in white-ball cricket. But it just goes to show what that next level probably looked like. So, for me, it was going away and learning how I can get the ball into different pockets, especially against spin, which he dominated so well. So that was a massive learning."
Another lesson came from closer to home. His state captain and close friend Nathan McSweeney had been exposed to the toughest Test bowling anyone could face when he debuted against Jasprit Bumrah the previous summer. Spending time with McSweeney in the aftermath of that was illuminating.
"Going through his reflections on that next level and elements in which he can get better has definitely helped my game in the longer format," Scott said. "To understand mentally where you can improve, as well as physically, technically."
Bowling to the likes of B Sai Sudharsan, Shreyas Iyer, Dhruv Jurel, Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma, as well as facing Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh and Prasidh Krishna in India also did him no harm.
"The aura they carried when they walked to the crease or when they had the ball in their hand, it just sort of showed that they're the man," Scott said. "And almost that's what I've tried to instil in myself when I'm playing for SACA [South Australia Cricket Association] at the moment, whether it's with the ball or with the bat, how can I impact this game and try and put SACA in a position to win."
He has been successful in implementing it. In early December, South Australia's season was on the line, having won just one of their first five games. Scott stood tall to make his maiden first-class century, scoring 147 against Tasmania in between taking critical wickets in both innings to help secure a ten-wicket win.
Another must-win match beckoned against second-placed Queensland in early February. Scott took career-best figures of 5 for 33, including the scalp of Usman Khawaja, before walking in at 81 for 6 and making a crucial 32 in a 90-run stand on a difficult pitch with Jake Lehmann to steer SA to a first innings lead that secured victory.
His growth in first-class cricket has been impressive, given he is part of a generation of Australian cricketers who are learning the long-form game on the job, having been the first group to come through the Under-17 and Under-19 state pathways after red-ball cricket was removed from the National Championship programs.
Learning how to be a three-format allrounder is one of the toughest tasks in the game right now, but Scott is embracing the challenge.
"I'm probably almost still looking for the answers at times myself," he said. "I pride myself on working hard and training hard and being quite receptive to feedback and learning. So for me, it's about how can I continue to look to improve? And that comes with bowling balls at training, hitting balls at training, asking questions consistently of more experienced players, and I think just beginning to understand the game a lot more.
"I think in cricket, the tactical nous is so important, so the more you understand the game, the better your ability to adapt in certain situations and definitely put those skills into place."
Scott's career averages of 28.05 with the bat and 29.37 through 38 matches don't scream Test allrounder just yet. But it's worth noting that Beau Webster's record read 27.83 with the bat and 47.36 with the ball through 40 games at the same age. Scott may well time his run to perfection if his rapid year-on-year improvement continues, given Australia's team is on the cusp of transition.
He will only add to that experience when he heads to England in the winter to play two County Championship matches and the entire T20 Blast for Gloucestershire, having previously played league cricket in Surrey for Sunbury. Australia A also head back to India for another dual-format tour in September, which Scott could be part of again.
Away from the game, Scott is a rare member of his generation of professional players who is studying part-time, undertaking a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in corporate finance at Adelaide University.
But his immediate focus is another trophy for SA against Victoria at the Junction Oval on Thursday. The experience of last year's win is both calming and motivating for Scott.
"I think definitely playing in it last year has taken the edge off a little bit this year," Scott said. "You know what to expect. I reckon last year, personally, there were so many nerves going into it, and the adrenaline was pumping. So it's just nice to have been in that situation before, and not only that, to reflect on how fun it was when we did win only gives you that extra motivation to do it again."