The 34-year-old Australian left-hander has a tough selection fight on his hands with selectors naming a 13-man squad, bringing in leg-spinner Stuart MacGill and all-rounder Shane Watson to increase their selection options.

"You don't have to be blind Freddie to work out you've gotta get some runs, and I've certainly got to get some runs," Lehmann said Friday.

Lehmann said he had spoken with chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns after the Melbourne Test on Wednesday, but would not reveal what was said.

"They talked me through a lot of things," he said.

He accepts that he is fighting to hang on to his place for the last domestic Test of the season.

"I'm sort of borderline with the side they've picked. It depends on what the final makeup of the side is," he said.

"If they decide to play an extra spinner and they want to go to an all-rounder, then I'm probably under the pump.

"That's part of life. The selectors will make that call -- they get it pretty right all the time anyway."

Although he averaged better than 40 through this year, Lehmann's flow of runs has dried up in the past seven Tests with 249 runs scored at 24.

In the last two Tests he has twice fallen cheaply to Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar.

He walked across his stumps and was bowled in Perth and was brilliantly caught at short leg in Melbourne.

Lehmann does not accept that he is vulnerable to fast bowling, but added: "As you get older it probably does get a little bit harder. That's part of the age process."

Lehmann, who turns 35 in February, came close to quitting cricket when his friend and former Test batsman David Hookes died last January in an incident that is before the court.