The New Zealand cricket team on tour in India have enough players and support personnel to play a match among themselves, with sufficient leftovers to keep the scorebook, prepare the sandwiches and stir the tea.
Fifteen players are on duty for the three-match test series, starting here today, ahead of a revised squad being named for the following one-day series.
In addition, no fewer than 10 support staff have been assembled to meet the players' every need, ranging from a team doctor to a security manager.
The health and well being of the players is obviously extra important: in addition to team doctor Dave Ewen, there's fitness coach Bryan Stronach and physio Kate Stalker.
Trent Woodhill is here as a video analyst while Gary Aschenberger is the security manager, whose consultation skills are put to good use.
There is no question the Indians take the security issue seriously, given the huge number of uniformed police and apparently undercover security personnel filling the lobby and corridors of the team's 11-storey inner city hotel here which they share with the Indian team.
Security has tightened noticeably in recent days, with a baggage scanner greeting arrivals beside the reception area, while those using the hotel's fleet of private taxis have grown used to their cars being stopped by armed police at the property's entrance.
The cars are thoroughly inspected inside and out, both the boot and bonnet are lifted and hand held mirrors are used to check for any suspicious items under the vehicles.
Others on the payroll of New Zealand Cricket here include high performance director Roger Mortimer and cricket specific coaches, Mark Greatbatch for batting and Shane Jurgensen for bowling.
There is also a media manager, Ellery Tappin, a busy man who filters and facilitates the huge interest of the Indian broadcasting and print media. Overseeing the whole operation is manager Dave Currie.
The sheer scale of the ever expanding tour party dwarfs those sent abroad as recently as 15 years ago when New Zealand undertook an arduous nine-week tour of India under the guidance of a coach in Glenn Turner, manager Gren Alabaster and a physio.
The players of that recent generation, which included Greatbatch, never seemed to suffer any undue hardships that could be blamed on a lack of support.
Quite what Turner, now a national selector, thinks about the ballooning numbers of support staff is a moot point.
Through two terms as national coach in the 1980s and 1990s the former batting great consistently preached the need for players to be self sufficient and accept personal responsibility for their performances.
Times have changed, most certainly surrounding the security issue, but his point remains valid.
It might not be too long until the number of players sent on overseas assignments is matched on a 1:1 ratio by the hangers-on, leaving some players unable to fend for themselves.