Matthew Renshaw knows what effect his blazing BBL knock has on his Test chances: bugger all.
"I don't feel like I could say they should pick me in the Test squad after making a 90 in a white-ball game," Renshaw said.
"It's completely different. But it's still runs and it's making me feel good about my cricket."
Brisbane Heat's Renshaw, with an amazing 90 not out from 50 balls on Sunday night against the Adelaide Strikers, altered long-held perceptions about his batting.
Having been typecast as a stodgy long-form opener, he has shown he can bash as big as the best of them.
"I have always felt like I have got a pretty decent Twenty20 game - it's just I never really had the opportunity with all the four-day stuff," he said.
"And I think you sort of get pigeon-holed in that red-ball category.
"I obviously want to play as much cricket as I can and Big Bash is just that new opportunity for me to try and express myself."
Renshaw said his BBL whirlwind was also evidence of a new-found maturity in dealing with missing Test selection.
The left-hander had been in Australia's Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka only for selectors to plump for fellow Queenslander Joe Burns.
"This is the best I have coped with it," Renshaw said.
"I obviously went into the Test squad and had a few conversations with a few of the coaches and a few of the selectors."
Their message? Score runs - anytime, anywhere, any coloured ball.
"Now I try to simplify my game quite a bit and try and just work on things that I could control, and that was my intent and my mentality when I'm batting," he said.
"You don't want to miss out on any side. It's just one of those things in cricket.
"You get dropped and you get picked and it will go in ebbs and flows throughout your whole career.
"And I think trying to deal with all that is something that we have got to deal with as cricketers nowadays."
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