Bailey won't hesitate to use Wade on Vics

Tasmania captain George Bailey says he'll have no hesitation in using Matthew Wade as a bowler during his side's JLT Sheffield Shield clash against Victoria that commences Saturday.

With Test skipper Tim Paine taking the gloves, Bailey suggested Wade could have an important role to play with the ball against his former side.

While Wade made his name as a wicketkeeper for Victoria and Australia before moving home to Tasmania for family reasons, bowling right-arm pace isn't completely foreign to the 30-year-old.

Wade bowled one over for Australia in a Test match against Sri Lanka in Hobart in 2012, before more recently ditching the gloves and taking three wickets for Tasmania in a quickfire spell against Queensland earlier this year. 

He also dismissed Jason Sangha for 117 in Tasmania's most recent game against New South Wales, where he finished up with the tidy figures of 1-31 from eight overs with Paine looking on from behind the stumps, while in 2013 he removed former Test opener Joe Burns after taking the second new ball himself while captaining Victoria.

While Bailey predicted frontline seamers Jackson Bird, Gabe Bell and Riley Meredith would do the majority of the work against Victoria, he did suggest Wade could be used during the four-day contest in Hobart.

"Absolutely," Bailey declared on Friday when asked if Wade would be used with the ball.

"(When) bowling against a few of your ex-teammates there is always a bit of 'you don't want to get out to Wadey' at any stage.

"He got me out in the nets yesterday unfortunately, so I will have to put up with that for a few days."

Bailey said Wade was starting to take his bowling a lot more seriously and that he was often quicker through the air than many batters anticipated.

"He's bowling nicely, he's got a new run up and he's quite excited about that,” Bailey noted.

"He's got his new bowling spikes and he's quite excited about that too.

"There's a lot of those Victorian boys that won't want to get out to Wadey."

Bailey said Gurinder Sandhu was in the mix to play his first Shield game for Victoria, after he was called up to the 12-man squad to replace the injured Tom Rogers.

Sandhu has put together some excellent recent form in both the Toyota Futures League and for the Tigers in the JLT One-Day Cup.

The right-armer, who played two ODIs for Australia in 2015 before moving to the Apple Isle over the winter, took seven wickets in the one-day final against Victoria and Bailey says a Shield call-up would be well deserved.

"I think when anyone moves and is challenged that they won't be a walk-up start (it's tough)," Bailey said of Sandhu.

"But to see him respond the way he has - he's doing absolutely everything we've asked of him, which is fantastic."