A World Cup debut as Australia consider resting Shaun Tait for their match against Canada on Wednesday. However, no other changes are expected, with several batsmen still in need of time in the middle, although there could be a slight reworking of the batting order to give Steven Smith and Cameron White the chance to play a reasonable innings.
Australia have already qualified for the quarter-finals and the Canada game is one of three in the space of seven days, before they hit the knockout stage of the tournament. That might not be a heavy schedule by the standards of first-class cricket, but Tait no longer plays the long format and the Australians are loath to push his body too hard.
"Tait would be the obvious one, three games in a short period of time, he's probably the obvious one to give a break," Ponting said. "If he was to go, then Hastings would come in and then we look at what we do with the new ball, that would create some issues, but that would be the obvious change we'd look at."
Mitchell Johnson would be the logical candidate to share the new ball with Brett Lee if Tait doesn't play, but the Australians prefer to use Johnson as first-change. Whatever they do, they will be keen for a more convincing bowling performance than they served up against Kenya, who lost only three wickets to the attack on Sunday, along with three run-outs.
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