Australia players can benefit from more County Championship stints, admits Chris Rogers

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Australia's players must take advantage of all future opportunities to play in England following the success of Marnus Labuschagne, according to A assistant coach Chris Rogers.

Labuschagne scored 1,114 runs in 10 County Championship matches for Glamorgan last season, form which won him an Ashes berth and led to him being crowned the emerging player of the year.

Currently, overseas players must evade significant hurdles to obtain a visa to play in England with international status or recognition as "being at the highest level" key to a successful application.

The United Kingdom's departure from the European Union and the impact on the Kolpak rule is yet to be fully disclosed, but it could lead to an increase in the number of overseas players to two, across all formats.

Cricket Australia are keen to investigate how they can provide their players with more exposure to overseas competitions and Rogers - who improved his own Australia career with various spells in county cricket - wants to see every chance grabbed with both hands.

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"Knowing what goes on in the background, there is a lot of talk about how we can give them more international experience without a doubt, whether that be against the swinging ball in England or whether that's a turning ball in India," said Rogers, who played 25 Tests for Australia.

"For players to go up and play for Australia and be successful, they've got to be particularly well rounded, which sometimes you don't get just playing Shield cricket, because the pitches are pretty similar these days.

"So there's those kinds of thoughts that are going on. Marnus is a really good example, he went over and played county cricket last year and seemed to have turned a corner with the way he went about it, but that's natural development in players' games as well. 

"If we can find ways to give them the right opportunities at the right times, then I'm sure all the powers that be will be looking at that."

Rogers will help lead Australia A against England Lions in a four-day game in Melbourne starting on Saturday (February 22), a team which will include James Pattinson, Moises Henriques, Usman Khawaja, and Marcus Stoinis.

The truncated format of the Sheffield Shield, which sits around the Big Bash League, and the nature of Australian pitches means gaining momentum as a red-ball player can be troublesome.

^{Marnus Labuschagne forced his way into Australia's Ashes plans during last season's Championship}

After his Test debut in 2008, it took another five years during Rogers' fifth spell in England at Middlesex for him to return to the Australia fold.

"I played a lot of county cricket and sometimes it felt like you only played at 80%, but that could be good too because you're working on your game, you're making mistakes, and you're figuring things out with probably less repercussions," Rogers said. 

"Whereas I think in Shield cricket it feels like it's a big event every match and you work yourself up and sometimes that doesn't help. It can be hard when you feel like you're not playing as much and then to go with that there's a big break in the middle of the season, which almost feels like it's two distinct seasons.

"So it can be difficult, but that's just what cricket is these days and you've got to find the best way to do it. If it means you've got to go away and work harder and figure things out your own way that's up to you as well. 

"But from a personal point of view I liked to play quite a lot, I felt the best way to learn is out in the middle so it would be nice for a few of these guys to play a bit more and yeah there's probably something for us to think about."