Test cricket will always be the 'premier' form of the game for Greg Chappell and that will be evident in how the former Test captain performs his new role as the head coach of Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence.
Chappell's appointment to the role for the next three years was announced on Wednesday afternoon after being headhunted by CA's general manager of cricket Michael Brown.
Chappell said the 'new era of cricket' which had seen growth of and the lucrative money on offer in Twenty20 cricket around the world, particularly in India, should never detract from the sanctity of Test cricket.
Chappell's beliefs will be music to the ears of the game's purists who have watched the advent of Twenty20 cricket with a mix of curiosity and trepidation.
While Test cricket continues to flourish in Australia, it has not enjoyed as a strong a run in nations such as South Africa and New Zealand and in the sub-continent where stands which are full for shorter versions of the game are generally bare for the five-day game.
"If you can play the long form of the game well you can play the short forms of the game well," he said.
"I'm not sure that it works in reverse to be honest."
"I think it's really important that we fit them for all forms and particularly the longer formats of the game."
Chappell, whose job as India coach ended following that nation's ill-fated 2007 World Cup campaign, said the sub-continent would play an important role in the evolution and development of Australian cricket.
He predicted there would be more tours to that region of the world and also more Twenty20 matches scheduled in future programs.
"How we adapt, we as in Australian cricket adapt to that, and we as Australian coaches and the players adapt to that will be very important to our future performance," he said.
CA chief executive James Sutherland said Chappell's appointment would help keep Australia as the top of the world's cricketing tree.
"We want to break the mould that sporting success might be cyclical," he said. "We want to prove that wrong."