In a scene both normal and bizarre, there was Australia's premier spin bowler sitting in front of a cardboard box on Saturday at his Coogee flat as he gave away his cricket gear.
Just weeks ago he was lining up with his Test teammates at the Ashes squad announcement at the Opera House.
But as those former teammates were preparing for the third Test in Perth, Hauritz had a garage sale, selling unwanted bits and pieces - and handing out his old Test jumpers.
If it wasn't so out of context, it would have been a scene like countless others played out across Australia on any Saturday.
People wandered in and out looking at old video recorders, a couple of bookshelves and an array of cricket books, including a Viv Richards biography, some on cricket history, and a couple of Max Walker numbers.
Whether the 29-year-old Hauritz, who has played 17 Tests for 63 wickets at an average of 34.98, has resigned himself to not being picked for Australia again, no one can say. But those words: "I don't play for them anymore."
It was perhaps cathartic. The day after helping NSW to a big Sheffield Shield win over South Australia with three wickets and 148 runs, Hauritz appeared to be ridding himself of his old Test gear like it was unwanted debris.
Life for the Test discard is now much more mundane. West Australian Michael Beer now has the spotlight after Xavier Doherty replaced Hauritz in Brisbane and was then himself sacked after the Adelaide debacle.
Maybe Hauritz should show some enterprise and head up an ex-Test spinners' co-operative. There's enough merchandise to stock a department store and they could borrow a revolving door from the Australian selectors.
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