T20s not compromising Tests: CA

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Pat Cummins ... hasn't worn the Baggy Green in 12 months due to injury. Source: Gregg Porteous / News Limited

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland denies Australia's preparations for the upcoming Test series have been compromised by the rise of Twenty20 cricket, claiming the longest form of the game remained the most important.

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The assertion comes in the wake of news luckless fast bowling prodigy Pat Cummins is facing another summer without Test cricket after picking up an injury during the Sydney Sixers triumphant Champions League Twenty20 campaign - for which they won $2.5 million.

Cummins has not played a first class match since his Test debut in South Africa in November last year, featuring exclusively in T20 and one-day games in the ensuing 12 months.

But when asked if CA was being compromised by the lucrative Champions League and IPL tournaments, Sutherland told ABC Radio's Grandstand: "I can assure you that Test cricket is worth a lot more to us than $2.5 million.

"... Within (our strategy) is our ambitions to be No.1 in all three formats.

"But we actually take that a step further and we declare that Test cricket is the format that we really set our sights on as the primary format and the format that we'd most desire to be successful in."

Sutherland acknowledged that Australia's preparations for Friday's Gabba Test against South Africa haven't been faultless, with Ricky Ponting (hamstring) and Shane Watson (calf) both battling injury concerns.

But he says it is simply the way of the modern game.

"There's probably a number of players that you could highlight that perhaps haven't had an ideal preparation," he said.

"But I don't think our opponents for this first Test match are in any different boat. It's just the nature of cricket today.

"The reality is we're doing the best we can in the circumstances to prepare players to play Test cricket for Australia.

"It's not as if we're operating in our own little vacuum. Other countries face the same challenges and same problems.

"Let's see how well-prepared the South Africans are for Test cricket next week.

"... I'd suggest we'd need to be paying a significant premium to our players to say that we have them locked up exclusively."

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