After 15 years and 249 matches, White Ferns veteran Suzie Bates obviously hadn't given too much thought to her looming milestone.
When the NZ women contest their T20 series decider against England on Friday morning (NZ time), the opening batter will bring up her 250th appearance for the national side.
But no-one thought to tell her of the impending celebration and she obviously isn't one to keep track of such statistics herself.
"That's actually the first I've known of that," Bates grins at the media question. "I guess, now that I think about it, that makes sense, but I think being out of the game with injury and coming back into the group, the first game almost felt like my debut again.
"Although I've played 250 matches, I'm feeling pretty refreshed. I'm a bit overwhelmed, because I didn't realise I'd played that many, so it will be a special day."
Since debuting as a teenager in 2006, Bates has amassed 125 one-day internationals and 124 T20 outings, so this next fixture will restore some symmetry to those figures.
That encounter will also give her the outright world record for most T20 internationals played - she currently shares that mark with West Indian allrounder Deandra Dottin.
Bates already sets the standard for most T20 fifties (22), most runs in a calendar year (670 in 2018) and most career catches (65), but missed last summer, after suffering a shoulder injury against Australia in October.
At the time, she speculated that might be the end of her bowling career and she hasn't been sighted with the ball so far during this England tour.
Since compiling 70 off 110 against England A in a 50-over warm-up, Bates was dismissed in the second over of the T20 opener, before partnering skipper Sophie Devine in a 31-run opening stand for victory in the second match.
Devine celebrated her 100th T20 international with a matchwinning 50 and 2/28 with the ball, so the Ferns will hope Bates' milestone can inspire similar success.
"We're really fizzed," she says. "We had a training under lights to prepare for tomorrow night and afterwards, Sophie had a talk to the group and mentioned we had nothing to lose, all the pressure's on England.
"Some people had expected us not to bounce back in that second game, so we're excited to have a chance to win a series, which we haven't done for 10 years, I think, against England in England."
Bates, Devine and fellow veteran Amy Satterthwaite have all been missing at different times over the past 18 months, so this tour has brought the band back together, with a World Cup looming on home soil next year.
Experiencing success is crucial towards building confidence, after struggling to compete with the world's top sides in recent years.
"No matter what format it its, when you beat the likes of England and Australia, who have won World Cups, it really sends a message - not only for ourselves, but for the rest of the world - that we're serious about competing with the top dogs," says Bates.
"We haven't quite done that consistently in the past, so to win a series would be huge for this group, especially with a World Cup coming around the corner, that we can win those big games."
