Matthew Renshaw to be recalled to Test side, Cameron Bancroft overlooked following David Warner’s retirement

The decision on who replaces David Warner at the top of the order of the Australian Test team has become a little less murkier, with Matthew Renshaw to be recalled.

Cameron Bancroft has missed out on a Test recall following David Warner’s exit. Picture: Getty Images

The decision on who replaces David Warner at the top of the order of the Australian Test team has become a little less murkier with national selectors understood to have picked Matthew Renshaw in the squad to take on the West Indies in Adelaide next week.

West Australian opener Cameron Bancroft has not been included in the squad which will be confirmed Wednesday.

Matthew Renshaw is set to return to the Australian Test side following David Warner’s retirement. Picture: Getty Images

It is still not clear who will be in the XI or who will open, but the selection will upset those who were pushing Bancroft and Victorian opener Marcus Harris’s case. There is still the potential for either incumbent No.4 Steve Smith or all-rounder Cameron Green to open the batting in the match.

Renshaw has been in and out of the side, most recently playing two Tests in India – including one as concussion substitute for Warner – before being dropped.

At 27 he is four years younger than the other two candidates.

The Queenslander hasn’t had a great Sheffield Shield summer, scoring 348 runs at 31.63 in six matches for the Bulls. His most recent scores in the competition have been 26, 3, 2, 3, 37 and 6.

The former opener has primarily served in the middle order for Queensland over the past 24 months and smacked an unbeaten 136 against Pakistan for the Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra, albeit on a batting-friendly deck.

In 14 Tests for Australia he has scored 645 runs at an average of 29 with a highest score of 184 opening with Warner against Pakistan at the SCG in 2017.

He has fared somewhat better for Australia A with 620 runs at 44 in seven matches but has eight innings in Asia, Renshaw has failed to pass fifty.

The West Australian Bancroft must consider himself unlucky to miss out. He is the leading run-scorer in the Sheffield Shield over the last two seasons, accumulating 1457 runs at 58.28.

Bancroft played ten Tests between 2017 and 2019, notching 446 runs at 26.23 and finishing the 2018 tour of South Africa as Australia’s leading run-scorer.