There are plenty out there who say what they think. Nowhere near as many think what they say. Chappelli’s most under-discussed attribute is logic. Cricketing logic. So when he speaks of Glenn Maxwell and those infamous comments about Victorian teammate Matthew Wade, Chappell’s not really interested in buying into the controversy or inflaming it.

Chappelli said, "Really, to me it was a matter of 'shut up and let your bat do the talking'. Make some runs and then you can start saying a few things."

He’s right. We all know Maxy is capable of freakish acts in the field and with bat (he should let go of any all-rounder aspirations), but we also know he needs a robust, consistent first-class record and regardless of recent results he hasn’t yet acquired one.

Even in short-form cricket, Maxy sometimes has us wondering, for instance, at his selection of a reverse sweep straight to, say, the man at point when he could have driven it for four with an orthodox shot.

Being different, eccentric and occasionally a match-winner does not an international cricketer make. Certainly not a Test cricketer. Surely we’ve learned hard lessons of late hoping for potentially great cricketers to turn matches. It hasn’t been worth the wait.      

That Maxy can become a Test cricketer is something even a hard marker like Chappelli believes can happen. We all want it to happen. But that old cliché, applied in varying ways to different sportspeople all of whom have one thing in common – a tendency to say too much – certainly applies in this case: “Maxy, let your bat do the talking.”