“There’s still a couple of weeks to the first Test, I’ll just concentrate on the next two games, but obviously it’s nice to see a wicket turning,” Connolly, who played his previous Test in Sri Lanka in early 2025, said after the first ODI where he was only given a single over. “It helps me, I guess, put my best foot forward to playing in that team. But we’ve still got two one-dayers to go.”