Despite his coach opening the door to an unlikely Ashes recall, Mitch Marsh remains tight-lipped on his prospects of re-entering the Australian Test fold.

The 34-year-old has not played any red-ball cricket since being dropped during the Test series against India last summer.

But his resurgent batting form against the white ball has Australia coach Andrew McDonald contemplating Marsh as a potential Test match option against England.

“We would be comfortable picking someone, and if you want to put a name to it, Mitch Marsh, out of white ball cricket if we felt like that was going to benefit the Test team,” McDonald told reporters on Monday.

“We feel he’s batting as well as he has for a long period of time.

“We still haven’t given up on Mitch Marsh’s Test career. (Chief selector) George

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