More than one Australian cricketer, former and present, has agreed that the men’s national team need to change their approach to the game, but Wade feels that moving away from what is their signature style and adopting the good-guy approach might not work for the team.

Soon after Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were handed bans by Cricket Australia (CA) in the wake of the ball-tampering incident in South Africa, and Darren Lehmann stepped down as the coach, Tim Paine, the new Test captain, had stressed on the need to “change the way we play”.

“You want to be playing for Australia, but there was certainly a part of me that was feeling a touch lucky I wasn’t there (in South Africa),” said Wade.

Wade, however, conceded that with times changing, he would also have to reconsider his approach, even though he isn’t in the Australian national team at the moment.

“When I came in, the game was a lot different. But now the game is moving in a different direction and certainly with the stuff that’s happened in South Africa I will look at the way I go about it,” he said.