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Selection chairman Rod Marsh has said Test-capped batsman Joe Burns will have front running as the interim replacement for injured ODI opener Aaron Finch in the limited-overs series that will follow the current Ashes campaign.

Burns, who played two Tests against India during the previous home summer and who is currently in India with the Australia A team, was among the 15-man squad named for the two T20 Internationals and five ODIs that will complete Australia’s Qantas Tour of the British Isles.

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The squad contains just five of the XI who triumphed over New Zealand in the ICC World Cup final at the MCG last March.

Captain Michael Clarke and ‘keeper Brad Haddin have both retired from limited-overs cricket, fast bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood will return to Australia following the final Ashes Test to prepare for coming Test matches, and allrounder James Faulkner has been suspended for disciplinary reasons.

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In addition, opener and Australia’s recently appointed T20 skipper Finch was not considered after suffering a fractured foot while playing for Yorkshire in the UK county competition.

And Marsh indicated that Burns would likely fill Finch’s role as David Warner’s opening partner in the first matches of next month’s ODI tournament ahead of uncapped Victorian batsman Marcus Stoinis and veteran Shane Watson.

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“I think Joe will certainly get the first couple of games and let's hope it means he gets all of them because it'll mean he's done very well,” Marsh said today.

“I think it's quite a talented squad, full of youth and experience, which is what we were always going to do after the World Cup.

“We have to introduce some other players because we've got retirements and there's a few guys who, if we were choosing our best side and it was a World Cup final tomorrow, would probably have been in there.

“But they're not 100 per cent (fit) and they need to regenerate for what just seems to be an endless stream of cricket.

“So we've got to plan it pretty carefully.”

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With Haddin’s retirement from the white ball game preceding his exclusion from the Test team in favour of Peter Nevill, Australia has embraced a return to the philosophy of separate ‘keepers for the contrasting formats, at least for the immediate future.

Former Test ‘keeper Matthew Wade, who filled in for Haddin during last year’s ODI Series against South Africa that followed hard on the heels of a Test campaign in the UAE, will take the gloves in the UK, and today demonstrated his batting credentials with a century for Australia A against South Africa A in India.

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But Marsh claimed it would be premature to suppose that Wade will be Australia’s preferred limited-overs ‘keeper now that Haddin has stepped aside.

“We'll wait and see how it all goes,” Marsh said. “I don't think we can be as definite of that just yet.

“We want to see a little bit more of both of them (Nevill and Wade) at international level.

“We've seen Wadey in the West Indies (where he made his Test debut in 2012), we've only seen Nev (Nevill) play international cricket in England.

“I don't think we can say right now that in five or six years' time that'll be the case (that Wade will be preferred as a one-day ‘keeper).

“You've got to remember we've got a number of wicketkeepers who are pretty handy back at home so we'll wait and see how it all pans out.”

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However, Marsh was more definitive about Australia’s fast-bowling stocks as they begin their build-up to their World Cup defence that will be held in the UK in 2019.

The inclusion of impressive young fast bowlers Mitchell Starc (man of the tournament in this year’s World Cup), Pat Cummins and James Pattinson along with highly-rated West Australian Nathan Coulter-Nile in this squad forms part of the selectors plans to build a 10-man fast bowling battery over coming years.

Allrounders Mitchell Marsh, Faulkner and Ben Cutting also fall under that umbrella while the likes of Gurinder Sandhu, Kane Richardson and Jason Behrendorff are among those who seem set to figure in ODI calculations over coming years.

It fits with coach Darren Lehmann’s philosophy that velocity – bowlers who can regularly push the speed gun around 140kph – is a decisive factor in international cricket.

“You're always happy when you've got young fast bowlers that bowl fast,” Marsh said today.

“I've always said for years and years and years, you need a battery of fast bowlers and a minimum of 10.

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“That's what you need and I reckon we're not far away from that – 10 quality bowlers that you can call on to play at any given time.

“Under any conditions.

“And that's important too, because we probably learned on this (Ashes) trip that sometimes you've got to bowl a little bit differently.

“For example, I think it's very important with this (English manufactured) Duke ball – you noticed their (England’s) fast bowlers swung the ball both ways.

“Our blokes, predominantly ‘lefties’ (left-armers Starc and Johnson) swung it in and Josh (Hazlewood) swung it out.

“Which sounds good in theory and works pretty well in Australia.

“But over here (in the UK) I think it's pretty obvious we've got to get the ball swinging both ways.”