Last Wednesday, Brendan Doggett was shivering in a freezing cold Bellerive dressing room in Hobart with his pads on when Travis Head leaned in and said something that sent his mind racing.

Doggett was nervously waiting to bat. South Australia were 40 runs from victory against Tasmania with only three wickets in hand, one of which was Doggett.

Head decided that was the perfect moment to inform Doggett that Josh Hazlewood had injured his hamstring in Sydney and that he'd "better get ready for the first Test in Perth".

"He was winding me up a bit," Doggett told reporters in Perth on Monday. "It's not really what I needed at the time."

"When Heady told me, of course your brain's going a million miles an hour, and you're sort of thinking what might happen."

It hasn't been confirmed t

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