Prior to his hamstring injury, he was also left out of the Pakistan tour as his workload continued to be monitored due to his recent injury history.

Voges has spent the last few weeks in Perth helping Richardson and WA’s other Sri Lanka tourists prepare for the limited-overs, Test and A series that begin next week. The WA and Perth Scorchers coach believes Richardson will be stung into action after a frustrating summer.

“He’s going really well,” Voges told ESPNcricinfo. “He was clearly disappointed to miss out on his CA contract. But I think that’ll be a very temporary thing.

“I think once we get a fully fit Jhye Richardson up and about, we saw what he did in the four Shield games that he played for us last season. He had a huge impact. He took five wickets in the last Test match that he played for Australia so I think he’ll fight his way back into the Australian teams pretty quickly.

“It’s great that he’s part of the white-ball part of the Sri Lankan series and then the A series…I know that he is really disappointed about missing out but hopefully he’ll use that as a fairly big motivator to have a big 12 months coming up.”

“We think really highly of Aaron,” Voges said. “We think he’s a really talented young player who has performed well in the short exposure he’s had to first-class cricket.

“I was really pleased to see him do well in the Shield final. He had a frustrating season last year. He had elbow surgery right on the eve of the season starting which kept him out of bowling until right at the back end of the Big Bash. For him now, it’s just about a bit of consistency and continuity and being able to play games.

“As a young allrounder, the game demands a lot from you. There’ll probably be a few more of those niggles along the way but hopefully, he now can really start to put together a consistent 12 months of cricket and who knows where that’ll take him.

“I think it’s great reward for him to be picked in the A squad on the back of what he did at the back end of the season. The fact that we can open the bowling with him and he’s scoring 170 batting at seven, he’s a pretty handy addition.”