Muttiah Muralitharan had also guided Australia regarding spin in the series against Pakistan.
Fawad Ahmed has played three ODIs and two T20s for Australia.
The young leggie has impressed the talent managers of Cricket Australia.
Fawad Ahmed has admitted that his bowling was affected by talk that he was in Ashes contention.
Pakistan-born cricketer Fawad Ahmed has been named Australia's Muslim sportsperson of the year, beating code-hopping rugby league superstar Sonny Bill Williams.
Leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed kept himself in the forefront of Australian selectors' minds with six wickets for Victoria in their Sheffield Shield match in Melbourne on Thursday.
Kevin Pietersen took to Twitter to question England footballer Jack Wilshere's belief that only English players should represent the national side.
With a poor loss to England in the Ashes 2013, Australia’s obsession and effort to reclaim it later in the year is set to soar to never-seen-before heights. Even as most cricketers in the country are striving hard to make it to the Test squad, George Bailey — Australia’s stand-in One-Day Internationals (ODI) skipper for the India series — has what it takes for Australia’s revival and ascent in ODIs. Prakash Govindasreenivasan has more.
There has been some furore over the selection of Fawad Ahmed in the Australian cricket team, and his subsequent refusal to bare an alcohol company’s logo on the uniform.
Hoping that he will recover from his back problem in time, Australia on Thursday named Michael Clarke as captain for the one-day series against India but made it clear that his selection in the playing XI would be subject to fitness.