I'm going to have to make a lot of runs to get back into the team, admits Marcus Harris

Marcus Harris, who earned a national team call-up after racking up 1,118 runs in a Sheffield Shield season, the highest in the last 4 years, now will have to do something heroic again to retain his place in the national team and he seems to admit the fact. 

"I'm going to have to make a lot of runs in the first four Shield rounds to keep my spot. I've been that situation before so it's nothing different for me. I'm just going to have to go out there and churn runs out. We've got four games, all on good grounds, so hopefully I can put myself in position (to be selected) for the first Test.” said the Victoria opener. 

Harris will be starting his Shield outing with the Victoria when they face South Australia in their first match of the season at Junction Oval. 

Re-living the English nightmare, Harris admits that the duo of Stuart Broad and Jofra Archer is the toughest challenge he has faced coupled with the Indian seamers. The duo prized his wicket five times out of six during the Ashes. 

"Just with the seam (movement) it was so difficult," Harris explained. "It was a great challenge … in English conditions those guys were very difficult. It was tough personally not to really get away at all. It was just conditions so different to what we play in with the ball seaming so much.” said Harris, who only scored 58 runs in 6 innings in the Ashes. 

"There wasn't too much swing, but it was more the seam that was a real challenge and the way that Broad and Archer bowled early on made it a great challenge. It wasn't a great series for us (openers)." Harris added before bowing out.