Maxwell has scored three blazing half-centuries in his last three matches for Royal Challengers Bangalore, including two player of the match awards. Hazlewood has taken seven wickets in six games for the Chennai Super Kings, including a player of the match 3-24.

By contrast, both David Warner and Steve Smith have been dropped more than once by their IPL franchises and are currently not playing.

Finch said Warner would still open the batting with him, and Smith would be part of a flexible middle order.

“He [Warner] is one of the best players to ever play the game for Australia,” Finch said. “I’ve got no doubt he would love to be playing for Hyderabad but I know that he’s still training away. He’ll be good to go.”

Finch said Smith could bat anywhere from number three to six.

“What we’re going to do is be really flexible through that middle part of the game,” Finch said.

“We’ve got a lot of power there with Mitch Marsh, Maxwell, Smith, [Marcus] Stoinis, [Matthew] Wade.

“There’s a lot of ways that we can go about it. He [Smith] is a brilliant player of spin, he’s someone who can adapt to all situations of the game, so we see that as a real asset for us.”

Smith, Warner and Maxwell were among a number of players who skipped the white-ball tours of the West Indies and Bangladesh in July and August.

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As selection for the T20 World Cup has highlighted, they were good tours to miss given the poor quality of the pitches and the unimpressive performance by Australia’s second-string batters.

Mitch Marsh stood tall as an all-rounder batting at number three, and Josh Inglis was picked on his recent Big Bash results and strong performances in domestic T20 cricket in England.

His selection came ahead of three other wicketkeeper-batters who went on tour, Alex Carey, Josh Philippe and Ben McDermott.

Australia’s T20 World Cup squad: Aaron Finch (c), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins (vc), Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Swepson, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa. Travelling reserves: Dan Christian, Nathan Ellis, Daniel Sams

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