Australia’s wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade has said that he has made peace with the fact that every tour he travels with the Australian side could be his last opportunity in case of no performance.
Wade, a veteran of 94 ODIs, said that all along in his career at the highest level, it has always been a continuous audition process where he never felt like a player who has cemented his place in the side.
However, the left-handed wicketkeeper-batsman has now accepted that he has nothing to lose from here on and that he will try to cash in on every opportunity presented to him.
"Think every time you play for Australia is a bit of an audition, I've never really been a cemented player in the team so it'll be no different going into this tour. I've played 90-odd one-dayers and every tour I went on felt like I needed to perform or I wouldn't be on the next tour,” Wade said in St. Lucia.
"As I've spoken about before I'm in a different place with my life and my cricket, if I get opportunities to play games of cricket again for Australia whether that be one or two games here or 10 and the World Cup, whatever comes my way I'll take," said the batter with 3906 international runs under his bag across all formats.
Matthew Wade has travelled to West Indies where Australia are scheduled to play a five-match long T20 series and a three-match ODI series.