Mitchell Marsh is confident he will have no injury concerns heading into the one-day international tri-series against South Africa and the West Indies in the Caribbean.
Marsh was flown home from India with a side strain after just three IPL games last month, but he says he is now fully recovered ahead of a busy few months for the Australian cricket side.
"The body now is great," Marsh said.
"(With) a side strain you can turn a 10-day injury into a 10-week injury just like that.
"Whilst the IPL is a great tournament and I love playing in it, your country always comes first and the right decision was made for me to come home."
The setback was Marsh's first in more than 12 months, after he finally managed to beat recurring problems in both hamstrings that plagued the early stages of his career.
However those problems seem to be behind him after a year-and-a-half-long period in which the 24-year-old played 13 Tests, 18 ODIs and six Twenty20 internationals.
"As a young kid I didn't value fitness training and getting my body in peak condition," he admitted.
"But over the past two years I've really started to make a lot better choices off the field and I've seen the results and I've played a lot more cricket than what I have."
However the tour following the West Indies, a three-Test series in Sri Lanka, shapes as the most important of Marsh's career.
While he now averages 39.54 with the bat in ODIs, that figures slumps to 23 in the longer format - something he knows needs to change.
"In Test cricket the proof is in the pudding, I haven't been able to make as many runs as I would have liked for the team," he said.
"I haven't really put the runs on the board yet, so I can't really consider myself a genuine allrounder in a Test format.
"Hopefully over the next 12 months that will change and I will be cemented as the No.6 Test spot."
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