Three T20s after an epic test series and six one-day internationals? That's like melted ice-cream after a rack of lamb and potato salad.
It's also how India will end their tour, starting at the Wanderers today before a game in Centurion on Wednesday and then at Newlands on Saturday.
T20 struggles to be relevant at the best of times.
So what are we to think of these three sillinesses, especially after the tests and ODIs have given us so much to wonder at and treasure as memories? That they are stepping stones to bigger things.
Point taken, Mr Zondi
Or, as selection convenor Linda Zondi said, "The door is never closed, and Lungisani Ngidi is a prime example.
"We started him off in the T20s and then we worked him up into other formats."
Ngidi took six wickets in his first two games for South Africa, T20s against Sri Lanka, in January 2017.
A year later, after battling back from injuries and losing 8kg of fast-food weight, he claimed match figures of 7/90 on test debut against India in Centurion.
On Tuesday, against the Indians at St George's Park, he took 4/51 in his third ODI.
Point taken, Mr Zondi - who didn't have eyes only for Ngidi.
"Right now Christiaan Jonker is more of a T20 player, but the door is never closed."
The door to the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Zondi didn't have to say.
Uncapped Warriors middle order batsman Jonker, in South Africa's T20 squad, was fifth on the list of scorers in this season's T20 competition. That doesn't sound too flash, except that the men ahead of him have all played for South Africa.
At 31 he would be a late bloomer, but he will still be only 32 when the 2019 World Cup comes around.
And considering South Africa's shaky performance, particularly by their batsmen, in the ODIs against India, their World Cup squad must remain a work in progress.
"To lose a series like this gets your feet back on the ground," Hashim Amla said before Friday's match in Centurion.
"When you're playing well cracks can be covered. But when you lose in this manner, whatever adjustments need to be made, you focus on it more."
Jonker and others of his unheralded ilk could be among the adjustments South Africa will have to make if they want to go to the World Cup with a decent chance of finally winning the damned thing.
The open door that is the T20 series starting at the Wanderers today is part of that plan...