Ashes 2017/18: 5 players who could have been picked ahead of Shaun Marsh

Daniel Hughes

Hughes has been in sublime form for New South Wales

With Australia looking for options in the batting line-up, they needed players who were in form and could also fit in seamlessly. New South Wales' Daniel Hughes ticked all the boxes but still failed to get the nod from the selectors.

Two centuries and two fifties from six matches in the JLT One-Day Cup for New South Wales certainly gave the selectors something to think about ahead of the Shield season. The 28-year-old merely carried on that form into the Sheffield Shield, where he has scored 211 runs at an average of over 70 with two fifties in the three games that he has played this season.

If form was the only criteria, then no one else has made a better start to the domestic season than Daniel Hughes and the 28-year-old batsman will be bemoaning his bad luck as he failed to earn his maiden call-up.