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Australia's star leg-spinner Adam Zampa has expressed his disappointment after not getting picked in the Test squad for upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting next month.
Zampa was conveyed that he is likely to be on the flight to India for the four-Test series as his style of bowling may suit the subcontinent pitches. However, he did not find a place in the squad that features four spinners including veteran Nathan Lyon, Ashton Agar and uncapped Todd Murphy.
"I'm very disappointed, I would loved to have been on it. I thought with the way that I've been going in international cricket in particular that this was going to be my opportunity (to play Test cricket)," Zampa was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
"And that was the messaging I got six weeks ago as well that this was going to be very good chance I could potentially be on it but now that I'm not, I'm very flat about it and it's time to just move on from it.
"I was really excited to potentially be on this tour … and the messaging was that my style of bowling might have been handy over there. But I think potentially last minute that was a change of mind," he added.
Yet to get his baggy green, the 30-year-old leggie is yet to take a call on his Test career as he is focused on ODI World Cup 2023 in India followed by T20 World Cup which will be hosted by the US and Caribbean Islands.
"I'm not going to close the door completely to red-ball cricket," the New South Wales-born cricketer said.
"But life is always about balance and I've got a family and these white-ball tours and World Cups that are coming up. So I've got to try and think about what's best for my body and myself and my family.
"It's two years until the next subcontinent tour, that's a long way away and I've got two white-ball World Cups to concentrate on before that."
Zampa has had a good record in India with 20 wickets in 11 ODIs and 11 wickets from as many T20Is. However, he has an unimpressive bowling average of 47.90 in First-Class cricket despite 108 wickets to his name from 39 games.
