.National selector George Bailey has unveiled that Steve Johnson will not open the hitting versus India this summer season yet failed to validate whether he would certainly come back to the No. 4 position.Speaking to press reporters on Monday mid-day, Bailey affirmed that Johnson had actually "shared a desire" to return down the purchase for the Border-Gavaskar Prize, opening the door for a specialist opener to participate in the Test starting XI.Last summer months, the New South Welshman changed themself as an opener adhering to David Warner's retired life, dealing with the brand new ball in four Tests versus the West Indies as well as New Zealand and scoring 171 go for 28.50. However, after consulting trainer Andrew McDonald and also captain Pat Cummins, Smith is actually anticipated to come back to the middle order this summertime, likely changing the hurt Cameron Environment-friendly at second decrease." Pat (Cummins), Andrew (McDonald) as well as Steve Johnson have actually been actually possessing on-going discussions, different to the unfortunate accident to Cameron anyhow," Bailey clarified." Steve had shown a desire to return down from that opening position, and also Pat and Andrew have actually affirmed that he will certainly be actually hanging back down the order for the summer." Plainly our experts have actually got a variety 4 location to fill and an opening location to fill." See every ball of Australia v Pakistan ODI Series LIVE & special to FOX CRICKET, offered on Kayo. New to Kayo? Obtain your initial month for simply $1. Restricted time provide > Nevertheless, Bailey declined to affirm whether Johnson would certainly port directly back in to the No. 4 setting where he has earlier baseball batted on 111 events." Our company've received another 4 full weeks up until that Exam squad's announced, and what specific order and also that is in it and also exactly how they line up are going to be actually determined," Bailey continued." As far as the (batting) order goes, you'll have to route that in the direction of Pat as well as Andrew at the ideal time." The choice for Steve to visit the best of the order (last summertime) was actually securely along with an eye to finding a technique to obtain Camera Veggie back right into the line-up as well as getting what our experts considered our ideal 6 batters right into the exact same line-up." Like everything, that can readjust depending upon what is actually accessible, your disorders, who you're confronting as well." Steve Johnson of Australia. Image by Kai Schwoerer/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesBailey said again that Australia would decide on the country's 6 best concoctions for the India series, which means Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon as well as Mitch Marsh will be actually anticipated to hold the bowling bunches for the five-Test initiative." Our experts will skip Webcam, no doubt regarding that," Bailey mentioned." Whenever you have an injury to a necessary gamer, or a gamer who remains in your first-choice XI, there is actually backups around that, and you change and carry on." Hopefully Camera's surgery goes actually well."( Having an all-rounder) is a deluxe. The 3 quicks that we typically play in Test cricket, they've played a ton of Examination cricket with each other where they haven't had an all-rounder as well. It definitely relies on the workers that are accessible at any type of one-time." You don't recognize just how each Examination is actually mosting likely to participate in out in relations to the amount of work for the quicks, or how much of an impact Nathan Lyon's mosting likely to possess across the summer." Our experts definitely have actually been as well as will definitely carry on readying Mitch Meadow bright to be capable to bowl some overs as well, and that is actually become part of his monitoring for the last couple of months." Our company have actually been actually a team that has played without an all-rounder previously. There's much more than one way to structure up a crew." Australia's Cameron Environment-friendly. Picture through Marty MELVILLE/ AFPSource: AFPWest Australian opener Cameron Bancroft, that notched a set in the course of recently's Sheffield Cover suit against Queensland in Perth, nears as the foremost applicant to change Eco-friendly in Australia's Examination XI.The 31-year-old has been the most consistent opener in the Sheffield Cover over recent 24 months, collecting 1728 runs at 54.00 throughout that period featuring 10 hundreds." He is actually certainly obtained credit scores in the financial institution," Bailey claimed." His uniformity over an amount of years has been actually incredible." A one-off activity like that wasn't visiting possess any type of effect." At the same time, Bailey additionally recommended that New South Wales hitting natural born player Sam Konstas, that scored paired centuries in the course of recently's Sheffield Shield suit against South Australia in Sydney, was actually "in the mix" for a Test call-up. The 19-year-old was called in the Australia A team to deal with India A later on this month, along with fellow openers Bancroft and also Marcus Harris." If we select, it's because our team presume that gamer's prepared to participate in," Bailey mentioned. "( Konstas) has had an excellent beginning. He's 5 activities into his first-class career, and also he looks really planned as well as comprised at the furrow. It's great awareness that he's been given the chance to participate in Australia A, yet I don't believe it is actually to the impairment of just how steady Bancroft and also Marcus Harris have been." He remains in the mix, as are actually plenty of others. I undoubtedly don't wish to singular him out. "I don't presume there is actually any kind of need at this stage to put any type of excessive pressure or even requirement on Sam." There's no concern to get much younger gamers in. It's pretty much attempting to get the greatest players our experts can.".