"It was only one Shield game earlier that he got ruled out and apparently he wasn't ready to play Shield cricket for NSW," he said. "Now on the back of one Shield game he's ready to play a test series in India, that's their call. "This is his third comeback from these stress fractures and they've picked him against the plan which has been intricately devised by a number of people, both at Cricket NSW and Cricket Australia. "The plan was not for him to be playing in this test series -- it was for him to be playing Sheffield Shield cricket. From that point of view it's Cricket Australia going against its own plans -- we're just hoping it turns out well."

Source: The Star March 14, 2017 00:23 UTC