New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson is hopeful of making his Test debut soon having been a mainstay in the white-ball units and playing a key role in enabling national team's surge towards the World Cup final in UK. 

"I've been pretty vocal about Test cricket being the one I want to play," Ferguson told Stuff.co.nz. "My whole career, I absolutely love playing the longer format of the game."

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"A lot of cricketers say they don't really judge themselves until they've played Test cricket, and there's a big Test cricket season coming up."

Ferguson could be part of the scheme of things with New Zealand due to play Australia, England and India in Tests over the next few months. However, the 28-year-old pacer, currently on rehab from a fractured right thumb, wishes to mainly focus on the present. 

"I'm certainly not getting ahead of myself. There's a lot of cricket to be played. A lot of times in the past, I've focused a lot down the line, and it doesn't often help."

"I'll just keep working away game-by-game and those kind of things take care of themselves. It would be a dream come true for sure."

The Kiwis will be travelling across to Australia to renew the Trans-Tasman rivalry with a three-match Test series this winter. 

"I know I made my debut in one-dayers against Australia [in December 2016], and that in itself was a dream come true in a way, debuting at the SCG," Ferguson said. "Of course these games are going to be big games and the new pitch at Perth looks naughty, as it always is with the old WACA."