Gillespie keen on national selector role

The 43-year-old led Yorkshire to back-to-back County Championship Division One crowns in 2014 and 2015, and spent two years with Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League in-between county gigs in England.

Gillespie has missed out on two of world cricket’s biggest jobs in recent years; firstly, the England job in 2015, which went to compatriot Trevor Bayliss, and more recently for the Australia coaching job, with former teammate Justin Langer appointed as Darren Lehmann’s successor earlier this year.

"I'd certainly love to be involved in selection at some point in the future," Gillespie told cricket.com.au. "It's certainly a challenging role and it's not to be underestimated how challenging it is.

"You only have to look at recent times, with the 50-over domestic one-day competition in Australia played very early in the season.

"And then players are being selected almost on the back of Big Bash form, because it's hard for the selectors to judge how a player is going in 50-over cricket when there hasn't been 50-over cricket played for four or five months.

"That's just one of many challenges that selectors have to go through."

Trevor Hohns, Greg Chappell and national coach Justin Langer currently sit on the Cricket Australia selection panel. Former batsman Mark Waugh resigned from his role in May.