Disappointed that a serious calf injury will cost him a pot of gold from the Indian Premier League, international all-rounder James Hopes is more upset about the blow to his prospects of selection for the Twenty20 World Cup.
Hopes sustained a grade-one tear to his calf while batting on the second day of the Sheffield Shield Final against Victoria at the MCG.
It's an injury that will have significant professional and personal repercussions for the 31-year-old over the next six weeks.
In the immediate term, there's the hole his absence leaves in the Bulls' line-up for the Shield decider.
Then there's the significant matter of $300,000 he will forego if he's unable to fulfil his commitments with his IPL team, the Kings XI Punjab.
And beyond that, there's his candidacy for the Twenty20 World Cup at the end of next month.
"I was pushing to be in the Twenty20 World Cup squad, I would have thought," said Hopes, who missed last year's IPL because of knee tendonitis.
"If I could have gone (to India) and played some twenty20 games and done OK then my case may have been stronger to be included in that team."
"Now, I'm hoping to be included on the back of no twenty20 cricket which is a bit disappointing."
"I may be able to go the last couple of games over there, but we'll wait and see what my franchise says."
Asked whether he was considering retirement from first-class cricket to concentrate on the shorter forms of the game, Hopes said: "It's something that I'm sure will come up in the next few years."
"But I'm 31, turning 32 and with the young group we've got here (In Queensland) I would like to stick around for one more year at least in first class cricket."
"To stick around and help this group grow for another 12 months at least is my aim, but it is something I would think about, yeah."
Hopes revealed his sustained his injury setting off for his first run after coming to the crease with the Bulls a shaky 3-73 in their first innings on Thursday.
He thought initially that he'd strained an Achilles.
"I tried this morning to bowl and then we tried strapping it up a few different ways and we went to the nets and I was still struggling with it," said Hopes.
"It just got worse and worse the more I bowled."
"I went and got it scanned and the news wasn't what I was hoping it to be."
"I've done it pretty good so I'm looking at about four weeks, I think."
At stumps on day three Victoria holds a 321-run lead with eight wickets in hand, leaving
Queensland with a near-impossible task to get back into the contest.
But Hopes believes the Bulls are not out of it if they can hit back hard on Saturday morning.
"Cameron Boyce showed some good signs today and Luke Feldman bowled a very good last spell," he said.
"We just need a few things to go our way in the morning and hopefully we can give ourselves at least half-a-chance the last day and-a-half."