South Australia are sure Shaun Tait will play Shield cricket again despite reports that he wants to focus on the shorter versions.

Tait, who was given an 11th-hour contract offer from Cricket Australia today after Andrew Symonds was cut from the list, will be looking to play a lot more one-day and Twenty20 cricket in the upcoming domestic season after an injury-ravaged 2008-09 campaign.

Tait has said the financial rewards of the IPL had him contemplating tailoring his talents towards the abbreviated forms of cricket, but SACA high performance manager Jamie Cox believes there is every chance the 26-year-old will be back playing four-day cricket in the future.

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"Shaun has made it very clear that he wants to play cricket, he wants to play all forms of cricket at whatever level that's at," Cox said.

"Shaun is coming back from a fairly long-term and serious injury; his re-entry to cricket for South Australia is most likely going to be one-day cricket and probably Twenty20 cricket.

"If and when his body gets to a stage where we believe and he believes and he trusts that he can still be a really effective force in four-day cricket, then that will be another box to tick along the way.

"He just loves playing cricket with his mates in South Australia. Whether it be four-day, one-day, Twenty20 cricket, he's fully on board."