Former Australian fast bowler Brett Lee shares a philosophy with the current crop of champion bowlers led by Pat Cummins who will spearhead the nation’s bid to wrest back the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India this summer.

While the injury to star all-rounder Cameron Green has forced a rethink when it comes to the Australian side, Lee is adamant there is no room for a rotation policy despite concerns about the nation’s fast bowling attack remaining fresh through a challenging series.

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Australia’s best chance of succeeding against India is to ensure Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Cummins play as many Tests as possible in the series beginning in Perth in one month’s time, Lee told Fox Cricket podcast The Follow On.

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“Australia are blessed with three amazing (fast) bowlers in Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummings and Josh Hazlewood (and) pending fitness, I think they will play all five Tests,” Lee said.

“It is such an important series, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Where it is at now, people want to be a part of it. I just really hope that (the selectors) don’t hedge their bets and say, ‘We have got to try to stop people getting injured’.

“I use the analogy that if you park your car in the garage, you don’t need to take it and get it serviced, because it is going to be nice and pristine. But you have got to get it out there. The body is meant to be running in and having a crack.

“Yes, we don’t want to see players get injured, and bowling is such an unnatural action, but that is what you sign up to do and playing Test cricket as a fast bowler is exactly where you want to be as a cricketer. I (hope) that they play all five Test matches.”

All three fast bowlers made clear last summer that they wanted to play every Test possible, though the nation has players the calibre of Scott Boland and Michael Neser in reserve, while Fergus O’Neill also impressed for Victoria on Sunday when removing Steve Smith.

Both Hazlewood and Cummins are likely to represent New South Wales in a one-day match against Victoria at the Junction Oval on Friday in their preparation for the summer ahead, while Starc bowled superbly during the Sheffield Shield game at the MCG.

After clinching the wicket of aspiring Test opener Marcus Harris in the first innings, the 34-year-old produced a venomous spell on Monday in a bid to bowl his state back into the match against the Victorians.

After removing Ash Chandrasinghe with his second ball, Starc again clinched Harris and Victorian No.3 Campbell Kellaway cheaply before snaring the wicket of Sam Elliott when play resumed on Tuesday.

Despite having at least four catches dropped off his bowling in the second innings, he finished with figures of 6-81, though he conceded runs late after Victorian tailenders O’Neill and Todd Murphy adopted aggressive tactics in a successful bit to make quick runs.

Smith, who was given out LBW for a fourth-ball duck when shouldering arms to Boland on Tuesday, noted Starc appeared even more dangerous now that he was experimenting with “wobbling the seam” and that he was in excellent form early in the summer.

“It was nice (to see). It looked like he had really good rhythm (and the) ball was coming through at a good pace. With that new ball in particular, it was coming on nice and he got it down a good pace and bowled some nasty, nasty balls,” he said on Sunday night.

“In the last couple of years, he’s obviously developed that (seaming) ball and … he can go inside the left-handers or outside the right-handers’ outside edge and wobble the ball across as well as bringing it back down the line, so it is a great skill. And then obviously … when he bowled fast and short, you know, he’s got all the weapons there.

“It’s just about putting them together at the right times, I suppose, and using them effectively, which he tends to do on quite a few occasions.”

O’Neill, who is on track for Man of the Match honours after taking 4-29 in NSW’s first innings and also adding 28 and 33 in dashing lower-order cameos in a match in which Victoria has dominated, said facing Starc at the pace he is bowling is not the easiest task.

“It is what we have come to expect with Mitch Starc’s name, so we were ready for that, but it is even faster when you are on the sideline,” he said.

Victoria set NSW a massive target of 383 to win with 4 ½ sessions remaining in the second round match at the MCG, with Boland immediately on song when removing Nic Maddinson for 15 and Australian No.4 Smith LBW for a duck.