He may be a member of Australia's vaunted fast bowling 'cartel', but even Josh Hazlewood believes batsmen are more suited to being captains as opposed to bowlers.
Following Australia's decision to appoint Pat Cummins as the sole Test vice-captain after he shared the role with Travis Head last summer, ex-skipper Mark Taylor suggested that fans should not assume Cummins would be the automatic successor to Tim Paine.
While Hazlewood believes that a bowler is capable of leading a Test team, he conceded that separating the bowler's hat and captain's hat could prove challenging.
"I see where (Taylor) is coming from in that sometimes you bowl 20 overs and you might not be thinking too clearly about the game situation or what is the best plan away from your bowling," he told Wide World of Sports.
"Sometimes you just want to get to fine leg and have a drink and get away from it.
"If you're not too emotional as a bowler, it's certainly an option that someone could do it, but it's probably a bit easier for a batter to have a general overlook in how things are going and not be invested in your actual skill which you are doing at that time."
While fast bowlers are usually deployed in the deep, Hazlewood believes that being forced to field inside the ring due to being the skipper would not be an issue for any of Australia's athletic quicks.
"Certainly in Test cricket you can field at mid-on or mid-off and you can get a good idea of how things are going," he said.
"The bowlers we have are good enough fielders that we could field anywhere to be honest, so that's probably not an issue."
The decision to drop Head from the vice-captaincy and retain Cummins raised eyebrows, particularly since Head has captaincy experience at the state level for South Australia.
Peter Nevill is currently the captain of Cummins' New South Wales side, but Hazlewood suggested that a stint as captain at the Shield level could prove beneficial for his fellow paceman.
"He hasn't captained in quite a while, if you look back he may have done it in junior cricket," he said.
"Any time you're put on the field in first class cricket if you get the opportunity to captain, he'd love that.
"Experience is experience and if he did happen to (captain NSW) in a Shield game then it would obviously help leading into the future."
Having recently returned to Australia after a stint in the IPL for the Chennai Super Kings, Hazlewood is one of a number of Aussies in hotel quarantine in Sydney ahead of the limited overs series against India.
Despite not having played in a Test since last December, Hazlewood is confident that the packed limited overs schedule will prove to be sufficient preparation.
"We were quite tight during the IPL as well so I'm sort of used to it now only being outside the hotel for cricket-related thing," he said.
"There's obviously a few challenges with playing all three formats, especially this year with the the time restrictions on tours.
"I think three one-dayers in a week is quite taxing, it's pretty close to a Test match in terms of having 150 overs in the field and 30 overs of bowling at that intensity.
"That's a pretty good indicator to see where you're at and we're going to have to try and replicate a few things during training in Adelaide leading into that first Test.
"The biggest thing is trying two or three spells in the day and getting the toll on the feet in the field, so we'll get a bit creative to try and replicate that.
"I think most of the guys will be fine because we do it all year around and we're always changing formats. We might be a little sore come the first Test, but we'll be okay."
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