Cricket commentator Brendon Julian has called for Twenty20 to be limited to domestic tournaments and the T20 World Cup, and says that Pat Cummins must play in the upcoming day-night test in Brisbane.

The former Australian all-rounder says that international T20 matches serve little purpose other than to clog up an already packed schedule for the Australian cricket team, who are facing the prospect of needing to field a T20 side for an international against Sri Lanka while the Test side travels to India.

“I’ve been saying this for two years and I said it at the start of this season…in my opinion, I don’t believe we need T20 internationals,” Julian said on SEN Breakfast.

“I just think leave it with the Big Bash in the domestic game and the T20 World Cup.

“They’ve got to build up the one-day series and the Test series as well. If Cricket Australia take their eye off the ball with international cricket, they won’t get the rights fees that they’re expecting.

“They’ll push it all into Big Bash and at the end of the day, the Big Bash is domestic cricket. International cricket should always be our major product.”

Julian also considers that New South Wales fast bowler Pat Cummins should definitely play in the First Test against Pakistan, starting next Thursday at the Gabba in Brisbane.

Cummins has only played a single Test in his injury-plagued career, against South Africa in Johannesburg in 2011, where a six wicket haul in the second innings gave him man of the match honours as an 18-year-old.

The quick, now 23, has also not played a single Sheffield Shield match since 2011.

However Julian believes that Cummins should not only play his first test in five years next week, he shouldn’t have to miss Friday’s final ODI against New Zealand because of it.

“I’ll put him in the Gabba side right now,” he said.

“If he plays well in the first couple of games and you want to rest him, OK you can rest him for the third one but you don’t need to.

“The test match starts on the 15th, it’s a day-nighter against Pakistan. There’s not going to be a lot of overs, it’s not going to be hot. I reckon they’ll be getting him in there.

“Could you imagine him bowling against Pakistan in a day-nighter?”