“Obviously (it was) good news after a chaotic couple of months,” McSweeney told reporters at Brisbane Airport. “It was a slightly better call than the last Test. I will learn a lot from my experiences in my first three Tests and hopefully if I get a chance to play there, I will play really well.”

McSweeney’s return to the team in Sri Lanka would require a reshuffle of the batting order, with Travis Head not an opening option, although there would be a desire to include subcontinental cricket in Konstas, but if he doesn’t It is remarkable that he has been recalled so quickly.

“I think it shows the character that we’ve seen and the kind of person he is, the way he’s responded and talked about it publicly so well that it’s happening,” Bailey said. Soon after he jumped straight back into performing for the Heat,” Bailey said.

McSweeney has previously traveled to the MRF Academy in India to further his education against spin and expects to use different skills compared to working for him in Australia if he gets the chance. .

“It’s a huge challenge, but I’ve planned for it and there’s no doubt about it,” he said. “Playing spin in Australia has to be very different from playing spin over in Sri Lanka. I have developed a method in Australia that has worked for me in my Shield career but definitely a new method to get better. Will have to. The players there.”

In the official release, Bailey spoke of the tour as an opportunity for the players to “raise their game in the subcontinent”, although later insisted that qualifying for the World Test Championship final, 3–1 with the The series difference against India did not change the selectors’ thinking about who went on the tour.

“I know there’s been a lot of speculation around it (WTC qualification), but we treat every Test tour and Test match as really important,” Bailey said. “So for us, it was around creating two or three different ways of what we thought the first XI could look like.”

While it is not a rubber stamp that Konstas retains his place as an opener, it would be a way to help accelerate his education at Test level with an eye on the 2027 Test tour of India for spin. Favorable conditions are likely.

“What we’ve seen is he’s a quick learner, absorbing a lot of information,” Bailey said. “So (we’re) expecting him to get a lot out of it. His spin game in Australia and the opportunities he’s played in different parts of the world, we think he has a game that is fit and has a technique that can stand up. That’s one of the interesting things about this tour is we’ll learn a bit more about his game that he’s just faced in Australia.”

Connolly, meanwhile, has been selected after just four first-class matches, scoring three half-centuries, including 90 on debut in last year’s Sheffield Shield final, and has yet to return to form with his left-arm spin. No wickets have been taken in the format. . However, the selectors have been encouraged by his great temperament which has seen him play four white balls already.

“Technically, we like it,” Bailey said. “On the first-class front, he doesn’t have a lot of game behind him, but he’s one that’s been around that one-day group. We’ve used it at different times in the past as a stepping stone to get to know a player a little bit more about how they play, he’s obviously someone we’ve had our eye on.