Australian selectors must overcome their NSW bias and pick Queenslander Chris Hartley if they need another Test wicketkeeper, Bulls coach Stuart Law says.

With the extent of Test incumbent Brad Haddin’s shoulder injury unclear, Law urged selectors to reward Hartley’s decade of excellence.

Hartley, NSW gloveman Peter Nevill, Victoria’s Matthew Wade and Tasmanian Tim Paine are contenders should Haddin’s injury sideline him from the Test series against India starting December 4.

Hartley on Saturday struck his highest first-class score, an unbeaten 142 against South Australia in the Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide.

And while Nevill kept for Australia A recently, Law says Hartley’s claims should be irresistible to selectors – if they can broaden their outlook beyond the NSW Blues.

“We understand that to live outside of the Blue colours, you need to be performing a hell of a lot better and more consistently,” Law said on Saturday.

Hartley has made a stunning 640 runs at an average of 80 in all cricket for the Bulls this season.

The 32-year-old’s scoring spree included being the equal second highest run-maker in the domestic one-day series – yet Wade, 37th on that list, was favoured as Haddin’s replacement for looming one-dayers against South Africa.

“Harts can probably feel a little aggrieved that he missed the Australian one-day slot,” Law said.

“As a kid you dream of playing for Australia and when you see opportunities get given elsewhere when you have been probably the better performed player, it hurts.

“And that just drives you on to be bigger and better and that is what has happened to Harts over the last couple of years.

“I understand why he has got the s****, any normal man would. Most blokes would throw in the towel and start crying but he just feeds off it, it fuels him, and he goes out and proves people wrong.”

Hartley had made a concerted bid to change his perception outside of Queensland, Law said.

“We had a chat before the one-day series … if we keep going about our cricket the same way, we might keep getting the same results,” he said.

“You have got to try and change the way you go about it.

“And he all of a sudden went from an accumulator of runs to a guy smashing the ball out of the park. He can adapt, he can change.

“That is the one thing we have tried to change, the way he is perceived around Australia, and to be the team man that he has always been.

“We know what he’s like but it’s trying to portray that message outwards and for other people to buy in.”