Australian paceman James Pattinson will play his first match for Victoria in more than two years when he lines up for the Bushrangers in the Sheffield Shield against Queensland beginning on Saturday.
Pattinson, 24, played the most recent of his 13 Tests against South Africa in March last year before succumbing to another back injury.
Victoria will take a strong pace attack into the game at the Gabba, with fellow international star Peter Siddle also included in the 12-man squad.
Marcus Stoinis returns after missing the T20 Big Bash League with a hand injury, as does Test opener Chris Rogers.
Stoinis, Peter Handscomb and Rob Quiney are all playing in the first two days of the Victorian 2nd XI match against NSW which began on Monday.
Out of the Bushrangers’ team are World Cup squad members Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch, injured batsman David Hussey and Chris Tremain.
Victoria sit atop the Sheffield Shield table, with Queensland in last place.
Vic: Matthew Wade (capt), Fawad Ahmed, Scott Boland, Dan Christian, Peter Handscomb, John Hastings, James Pattinson, Rob Quiney, Chris Rogers, Peter Siddle, Marcus Stoinis, Cameron White (12th man to be named).
jameswm
Guest
Yep not bad. Imagine though if NSW had everyone available. 1. Warner 2. Carters 3. Watson 4. Clarke (c) 5. Smith 6. Nevill/Henriques 7. Haddin 8. Starc 9. Sandhu 10. Lyon 11. Hazlewood No room for SOK even, or Moises, Patterson, Maddinson, Abbott, Sandhu, Bollinger
jammel
Guest
The Vics look pretty strong actually. Imagine if they had Finch, DHussey and Maxi around - not a bad best XI these days…. 1 Rogers 2 Finch 3 Quiney 4 WhiteC 5 DHussey/Stoinis 6 Wade+ 7 Maxwell 8 Hastings 9 Pattinson 10 Siddle 11 Fawad
Rellum
Roar Guru
QLD specials for this game :)
Ronan O'Connell
Expert
Really excited to see how Pattinson fares in the second half of Shield season. Hopefully after that good long layoff he is back bowling serious heat like he did in 2 years ago - consistently 145-153kmh, rather than the 135-143kmh stuff we saw from him in the 2013 Ashes and in South Africa 12 months ago.
jameswm
Guest
Does anyone know how good a keeper Handscomb is? Tough for him to get a chance to show his wares when Wade is captain. A bit like in NSW where there's Nevill and Carters - and youngster Doran.
Matt
Guest
In before a Victorian gets on here and talks about Test conspiracy to only pick NSW players.