Mount Riverview fast bowler Pat Cummins will have to bide his time for a Test recall after being overlooked for the final Ashes Test last week, but he is likely to play for Australia again in tomorrow's One Day International (ODI) against Ireland in Belfast.
Cummins, 22, also looks set to be a significant contributor in Australia's five-match ODI series against England that begins at Southampton on September 3.
The selection of Peter Siddle for the dead rubber final Test at The Oval proved a wise choice, with the Victorian veteran starving the English of runs while taking six wickets for the match that Australia won by an innings and 46 runs.
But the choice was not without controversy, with Australian legend Shane Warne calling Siddle's selection over Cummins a blunder and a lost opportunity.
"For me, they've got the selection wrong again and Rod Marsh [an Australian selector] has to be accountable for that," Warne said.
"What an opportunity to look at him [Cummins] in a Test match here - I just can't understand it."
Warne went further in an interview during the lunch break halfway through the Test, claiming "the captain and coach and everyone wanted Pat Cummins to play".
In the same interview on Channel Nine, Australian coach Darren Lehmann responded by saying "it's a tough one".
"Peter Siddle was picked on the tour before Patrick Cummins . . . you could easily go to Cummins as the next cab off the rank," Lehmann said.
"Rodney [Marsh] felt that we were going to go Peter Siddle and that's the way we go sometimes.
"There's arguments either way."
While Cummins may feel a little disappointed at being overlooked, he has a record of focusing on the positives and he did get to play in two of Australia's tour matches, scoring 82 not out and taking three wickets against Northamptonshire.
And he still has a strong chance of attaining his goal for 2015 - revealed after being involved in Australia's World Cup triumph in April - of bowling again for Australia in Test match cricket.
A new-look Australian team led by incoming captain Steve Smith will play its next Test on October 9, away against Bangladesh, and home tests against New Zealand and the West Indies await in summer.
Last week's selection controversy is unlikely to worry Cummins. He told the Gazette in early July before his long flight to Cardiff that he was just "happy to join the squad" for The Ashes.
"Hopefully I'll play a tour game and go from there," he'd said, adding "I've been itching to get back."
