Doug Bollinger on ice for possible Test comeback Possible recall: NSW paceman Doug Bollinger hasn't donned the baggy green since the Adelaide Ashes Test in 2010. Photo: Mark Kolbe National priorities have prevailed in an arm wrestle for the services of Doug Bollinger with the resurgent left-armer to be rested from next week's Sheffield Shield clash against South Australia and to play club cricket instead this weekend. Cricket Australia confirmed on Wednesday night that Bollinger and Western Australia's Nathan Coulter-Nile had been placed on standby for the third Test in Perth next week. They stand to be brought into the Australian team should any of Ryan Harris, Mitchell Johnson and Peter Siddle be unable to back up from Adelaide, after which there is only three days" break before the Ashes series resumes. CA was keen, as a result, to keep the 32-year-old out of the Blues" next match, which runs from Sunday to Wednesday at the SCG, and he is instead in line to captain his Sydney grade side Fairfield-Liverpool in a two-day game against Campbelltown on Saturday and Sunday. "We hope the fitness and form of current squad members leads to us having the same 12 for the Perth Test," national selector John Inverarity said. However, to ensure we are well prepared, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Doug Bollinger have been placed on standby for the Perth Test which is to start on Friday 13 December. Nathan and Doug will not be available to play for Western Australia and NSW respectively in the upcoming round of Sheffield Shield fixtures, Sunday to Wednesday, 8 to 11 December. Nathan lives in Perth while Doug will head to Perth early next week to be ready should he be required for selection. Bollinger has been identified as a back-up option after starring in the early stages of the competition for the Blues and with the likes of James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Ben Hilfenhaus, Pat Cummins and Jackson Bird all unavailable. His chances of a first call-up in three years are magnified by the toil Harris, Johnson and Siddle could well be put through on a flat Adelaide wicket that promises not to be as friendly to fast bowling as the first Test venue the Gabba. Last summer, Siddle and Hilfenhaus were late withdrawals from the final Test against South Africa in Perth, victims of the short turnaround from Adelaide and the breakdown of Pattinson during the second Test which left Australia a bowler short. NSW, who lead the Shield competition after five rounds, were keen for Bollinger to play in the top-of-the-table game against with South Australia. However, they will have to do without him. There was discussion at Blues headquarters about the possibility of him appearing for the first two days of the game against the Redbacks and being withdrawn for the last two days. However, state coaches agreed following Ricky Ponting's replacement with an injury during a Shield game last year that the rules should not be stretched to allow players to be subbed in and out of four-day matches. Bollinger played the last of his 12 Tests in Adelaide against England three summers ago, and has been in superb form this season. He is the leading wicket-taker in the Shield among pacemen with 17 scalps and equal fourth overall.