Part-time wicketkeeper Peter Handscomb doesn't need to look far for advice on how best to prove he is ready to take the gloves at a World Cup.
Brad Haddin, who helped Handscomb take his glovework to another level in 2017, is on deck during Australia's current tour of India as fielding coach and has been working closely with the Victorian in recent days.
Selectors are currently weighing up how seriously to consider the left-field option that is Handscomb keeping ahead of Alex Carey at the World Cup, which would be an incredible U-turn given the 15-man squad must be submitted in approximately two months.
Handscomb, a shock selection as keeper ahead of Carey in Australia's tour-opening Twenty20 victory over India in Vizag, feels the idea could work provided he is able to show it doesn't affect his batting.
"I can keep and all that, I just need to make sure I'm fit enough and strong enough," he said.
"That if we keep first in a 50-over game, I can still go out there and bat at four or five and make sure I'm still running hard between the wickets.
"In India with a bit of heat and up to the stumps a lot more on spinning wickets, it can be tough, but it's something I am looking forward to having a crack at."
Australia and India meet in another T20, which begins in Bangalore at 1230am AEDT on Thursday, before starting a five-match ODI series on Saturday.
Justin Langer's team then travel to the UAE for another five-match ODI series, against Pakistan.
Assessing Handscomb's performance as a keeper-batsman at some point in that stretch of 10 ODIs will leave selectors better placed to make a final call on whether the experiment is worth persisting with.
Handscomb is relishing the counsel of Haddin, a three-time World Cup squad member who preformed the job of reserve keeper in Australia's 2007 triumph.
"Hadds is great. We actually did a bit of work together a couple of years ago that put me on the right path with my keeping," Handscomb said.
"We just found a little routine that I can do at training or before a game that just gets me going, gets me ready to keep. Whether I've been training a lot or I haven't been."
Those masterclasses came in 2017, when Handscomb kept in ODIs following Matthew Wade's back injury in New Zealand then again in India when the incumbent was dropped.
The second coming of Tim Paine and Carey's rapid rise had temporarily stopped discussions about Handscomb taking on the extra responsibility.
Handscomb didn't concede a single bye in what was his T20 debut but mucked up what should have been a regulation run out of MS Dhoni, who was reprieved on one and finished 29 not out.
"I went OK. Stopped a couple, stopped the important ones. That's the main thing," he said.
