The 30-year-old is the only player to pass 50 in all four Sheffield Shield innings this summer with a total of 239 runs at 119.50, which has led to talk the Tasmanian could be an option to face India in the four Test series which starts on December. It was an idea he was having none of on Wednesday.

“I think my Test career as a wicketkeeper-batsman is over and I still think I can play one-day cricket for Australia, but if the opportunity came to play as a batter for Australia, I’d take that as well,’’ he said.

“You’d have to be doing something extraordinary in my opinion to try to overtake those players if the players already in the team are doing reasonably well and there’s no-one setting the world alight, (so) I don’t think anyone should leapfrog a current player that is already in the squad.”

Despite the recent woes in the UAE, Wade, who said he still harboured desires to be Australia’s wicketkeeper at next year’s World Cup, did not believe there would be any significant change to batting line-up to face India.

“We went through the same thing before the Ashes (last summer) and personally I think there is a bit of beat-up about that there are a certain amount of players that are a chance to get picked,’’ he said.

“But people who score a couple of 50s and do alright in the first couple of Shield games aren’t just going to be picked in the Test team and, as I said, unless you are (Victoria’s) Marcus Harris getting 250 it is going to be hard to leapfrog those players in my opinion.

“That’s how it has always been and unless you can do it over a long period of time, because that’s how you get picked for Australia. There is a lot of talk after the first couple of Shield games leading into the Test series that there are positions available, but four digs shouldn’t really dictate your opinion of a player.”

Wade will get more of an opportunity with the bat against New South Wales next week, with Test skipper Tim Paine back in the Tigers’ side. Wade believed he’d bat “somewhere” in the middle order.

In the week that the Ethic Centre’s review into the culture of Australian cricket was released, Wade, known for his vocal work behind the stumps said personally things had calmed down for him.

“As an older player I’d probably say I have mellowed a bit,’’ he said. 

“The game has mellowed out, and not as fierce as a contest in terms of sledging and  the game has moved past that, with South Africa (ball-tampering) incident fast-tracking that in Australia.”

Tasmania will looking to bounce back from its seven-wicket, three-day loss to Western Australia when it faces the Blues at the SCG from Monday.

The Tigers sit in second spot, while the Blues are fifth.