The Australian selector's snub of three West Australian batsmen looms as a blessing in disguise for the Warriors.
Last year's Sheffield Shield runners-up have a tough travel schedule to start the 2015-16 season. They do not play at their home, the WACA, until   November 27 - the fourth round of fixtures - when they host Victoria. 
The Warriors could have their season well and truly set up by then, or they could be behind the eight ball and playing catch-up, but having Shaun Marsh and Cam Bancroft available can't hurt.
Adam Voges, Mitch Marsh and Mitch Johnson are all due to battle the Kiwis (in the first two Tests anyway) so to have lost any more to a national call-up would have been difficult for coach Justin Langer to cover.
Bowling trio Joel Paris, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Nathan Rimmington are all currently unavailable due to injuries also.
 After the initial troublesome fixtures though, WA will then play five of their final seven Shield games at home, including three of their last four.
Bancroft, Shaun Marsh and (you have to include) Michael Klinger were all overlooked for higher duties against New Zealand and are all available for WA this weekend. Klinger leads WA into battle against South Australia on Friday on the back of two unbeaten match-winning innings (202 and 50) against Tasmania last weekend.
That followed 1046 at an average of 58 last season, including four centuries. All four of those triple figure scores (and most of those other runs) were made when batting at the important number three position - and while he's 35 years old, he's nine months younger than recent national debutante and Warriors teammate (captain) Voges.
 Bancroft and Marsh have also been told they need to make more runs before they will be considered for a call-up.
That could spell trouble for the Redbacks this weekend and Victoria at the MCG the following week.
Bancroft scored only 25 runs in two innings against the Tigers last week, but his 898 runs in Shield competitions last year showed he has arrived - and he was duly selected for Australia's disastrous (abandoned) tour of Bangladesh.
While he struggled in Tasmania last week, it's not as if he isn't in good form, having scored 335 runs at an average of almost 56 in the recent Matador Cup - including 176 runs in the series opener against the Redbacks.
Marsh's runs in the domestic long-form of the game haven't exactly been flowing - he scored just 16 last weekend and batted once in last year's Shield final for only six runs.
 But like Bancroft, his recent domestic one-day form has been hot, scoring 390 runs at an average of 65 runs.
His drive for more runs and a Test recall is bad news for opposition bowling attacks.