.National selector George Bailey has actually revealed that Steve Johnson won't open up the batting versus India this summer yet failed to confirm whether he 'd return to the No. 4 position.Speaking to press reporters on Monday afternoon, Bailey affirmed that Smith had "shared a wish" to return down the purchase for the Border-Gavaskar Prize, unlocking for a specialist opener to join the Examination beginning XI.Last summer season, the New South Welshman changed themself as an opener following David Detector's retired life, dealing with the brand new ball in 4 Examinations versus the West Indies as well as New Zealand and also scoring 171 perform at 28.50. Nevertheless, after consulting train Andrew McDonald and also captain Dab Cummins, Johnson is actually assumed to come back to the middle purchase this summertime, likely switching out the injured Cameron Green at 2nd decrease." Pat (Cummins), Andrew (McDonald) and also Steve Johnson have actually been actually possessing ongoing discussions, separate to the inopportune trauma to Cameron in any case," Bailey clarified." Steve had expressed a desire to return down from that opening position, and Pat as well as Andrew have confirmed that he is going to be actually dropping back down the order for the summer months." Precisely our company've obtained a number 4 area to fill and also a position location to load." Watch every ball of Australia v Pakistan ODI Collection LIVE & exclusive to FOX CRICKET, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Obtain your very first month for just $1. Restricted time provide > Nonetheless, Bailey refused to validate whether Smith would certainly slot straight back right into the No. 4 position where he has previously baseball batted on 111 celebrations." Our experts've got another four full weeks till that Exam squad's announced, and also what exact order and also that is in it and also how they line up will certainly be actually established," Bailey carried on." As far as the (batting) purchase goes, you'll need to point that towards Pat and Andrew at the ideal opportunity." The choice for Steve to go to the best of the purchase (last summertime) was firmly along with an eye to finding a technique to obtain Web cam Environment-friendly back into the selection and also getting what we considered our greatest six batters in to the exact same selection." Like everything, that can easily readjust depending on what's readily available, your health conditions, who you are actually confronting also." Steve Johnson of Australia. Photo by Kai Schwoerer/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesBailey repeated that Australia will select the country's six ideal batters for the India series, which indicates Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Mitch Meadow bright are going to be counted on to hold the bowling tons for the five-Test initiative." We will skip Webcam, certainly about that," Bailey mentioned." At any time you have an accident to an important gamer, or even a gamer that remains in your first-choice XI, there is actually contingencies around that, as well as you readjust and proceed." With any luck Cam's surgical operation goes truly effectively."( Having an all-rounder) is a luxury. The 3 quicks that our company generally play in Examination cricket, they've played a great deal of Examination cricket with each other where they haven't had an all-rounder at the same time. It absolutely depends upon the personnel that are readily available at any once." You don't know how each Exam is mosting likely to play out in regards to the workload for the quicks, or the amount of of an effect Nathan Lyon's mosting likely to have across the summer season." Our company absolutely have actually been as well as are going to proceed prepping Mitch Marsh to become able to bowl some overs too, and also is actually belonged to his monitoring for the last number of months." Our experts have actually been a crew that has played without an all-rounder previously. There's greater than one technique to structure up a group." Australia's Cameron Eco-friendly. Picture by Marty MELVILLE/ AFPSource: AFPWest Australian opener Cameron Bancroft, who scratched a set throughout last week's Sheffield Guard suit against Queensland in Perth, looms as the top prospect to switch out Veggie in Australia's Examination XI.The 31-year-old has been the absolute most consistent opener in the Sheffield Defense over recent 24 months, assembling 1728 runs at 54.00 during that time period featuring 10 hundreds." He is actually surely got credit scores in the banking company," Bailey claimed." His congruity over an amount of years has been actually exceptional." A one-off activity like that had not been mosting likely to possess any type of influence." At the same time, Bailey also proposed that New South Wales hitting natural born player Sam Konstas, that scored twin centuries during the course of last week's Sheffield Cover match versus South Australia in Sydney, was "in the mix" for an Exam call-up. The 19-year-old was named in the Australia A team to deal with India An eventually this month, in addition to fellow openers Bancroft and Marcus Harris." If our experts select, it is actually given that our company think that gamer's all set to play," Bailey claimed. "( Konstas) has actually possessed a great start. He is actually five activities right into his top-notch career, and also he looks definitely arranged and made up at the fold. It's good acknowledgment that he is actually been given the opportunity to play Australia A, yet I do not believe it is actually to the impairment of how regular Bancroft as well as Marcus Harris have actually been." He remains in the mix, as are actually lots of others. I surely do not would like to solitary him out. "I do not believe there's any requirement at this stage to put any undue tension or assumption on Sam." There's no concern to acquire much younger gamers in. It is actually almost making an effort to acquire the most effective gamers our company can.".