James Faulkner, like Boof, happy rotation policy has been made to sit it out under new regime James Faulkner is having to bide his time due to a winning team and injury issues. NO fan of the rotation policy, injured Australian all-rounder James Faulkner is content to bide his time on the pine waiting for an opportunity. Faulkner hasn't been able to realise his Ashes dream after fracturing his thumb during batting practice ahead of the third Test in Perth, where Australia sealed the series win over England. An unchanged line-up for the past three Tests also hasn't given Faulkner a chance to consolidate his form heading into the series. In the build-up, the 23-year-old starred in Australia's tour of India, smashing 230 runs at 115 in the seven-match one-day international series, and also picking up seven wickets. In his debut Test match, the Tasmanian quick snared six wickets in the drawn fifth Test of Australia's 3-0 Ashes loss in England in August. Current coach Darren Lehmann doesn't buy into the rotation policy controversially employed by his predecessor Mickey Arthur, limiting the chances for fringe players like Faulkner to get a start. But that was fine by Faulkner. "I support Boof (Lehmann) in that as well," he said. You don't give games away playing for your country, so you need to earn it. As long we're winning, I think everyone's happy around the group. Everyone wants to play but there's only 11 spots and at the moment I'm sitting on the pine and trying to do my job for the team. Faulkner still isn't back into full training and says he has no set date for his return. It's improving every day so fingers crossed it will be ready sooner rather than later. Steve Smith and George Bailey have plenty to smile about, having helped secure the Ashes. Australian batsman George Bailey won't need the plane ticket he bought himself a month ago so he could be a spectator at the Boxing Day Test. Bailey is still trying to comprehend his rapid rise from one-day wonder to Ashes hero in a matter of weeks. "A month ago I bought two flights over for dad and I to go and watch the Boxing Day Test and now I'm going to be out there playing it," Bailey said. That's been a pretty crazy month. If I look back it's been a pretty crazy 18 months really. That's the period the 31-year-old went from respected Tasmanian and Australian Twenty20 captain to the country's best 50-over bat and unlikely Ashes winner. Bailey headed straight to Melbourne following the washout of the Hurricanes' opening match against the Adelaide Strikers to prepare for his first Boxing Day in the baggy green. But after Ashes contributions that included a half-century and a furious 28-run assault on a single James Anderson over, he said the pressure remained despite Australia's unassailable 3-0 lead in the series. "I'm still playing for my position," he said. It's not about winning one series and it's not about beating England, it's about being the best team in the world in all formats in every game we play. Individually there's a lot of guys that will have a lot to play for in this Test. Going forward there's a lot of competition for spots in the team. I think you'd be a foolish player to rock up not ready to play. Bailey, meanwhile, expressed surprise about the sudden retirement of England spinner Graeme Swann. "He's an opposition player whose company I've always enjoyed in the brief period I've got to know (him) and one of the good fellas of international cricket," Bailey said. It looked like he had a lot of good cricket ahead of him still.