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Marnus Labuschagne is facing the prospect of being frozen out of Australia\u2019s World Cup campaign while Travis Head is carried through the first half of the tournament, amid continuing uncertainty about the fitness of Ashton Agar.<\/p>\n

The national selectors were set to make their final call on the 15-player squad for the tournament following the third ODI against India in Rajkot overnight, with travelling reserves also likely to be called upon.<\/p>\n

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Marnus Labuschagne is bowled by Ravichandran Ashwin during the second one-day international between India and Australia in Indore.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n

Two of these roles may go to Matt Short and Tanveer Sangha. Doubts surrounding Agar, who has a calf injury and is still at home in Perth, may ultimately see Tanveer vaulted into the first-choice squad to partner fellow leg spinner Adam Zampa.<\/p>\n

Head is a little over a week into his recuperation from a fractured hand suffered in South Africa, but the 29-year-old is seen as so critical to the team\u2019s chances of contending for the World Cup that he is likely to be included in the Cup 15 and nursed along outside the playing 11 until he is fit about halfway through the tournament.<\/p>\n

That decision, driven in part by his rapid and prolific scoring for Australia over the past two years, has also been aided by the fact that his hand did not require surgery, meaning it will be healed in four to six weeks.<\/p>\n

Short\u2019s likely elevation to travelling reserve is an acknowledgement that he is the best like-for-like replacement for either Head or Glenn Maxwell, who has just returned to the team following a flare-up of his ankle in the latter stages of his recovery from a broken leg suffered in November last year.<\/p>\n

This is not only because of his explosive top-order batting for Victoria and the Adelaide Strikers but also because he has honed his off-breaks to a standard worthy of comparison to Maxwell and Head.<\/p>\n

However, it is a significant setback for Labuschagne, who responded to the cajoling of the selectors to improve his limited-overs batting after several lean years.<\/p>\n

Since his recall for the start of the South Africa series, Labuschagne has been Australia\u2019s leading scorer with 349 runs at 58.16 and a strike rate of 93.56. But he has been unable to shake the perception that he bats at too similar a tempo to the returning Steve Smith, and is no longer bowling his wrist spin as consistently as he once did.<\/p>\n

The early matches of the tournament, beginning with another meeting against India on October 8, will see the likes of Josh Inglis and Cameron Green jostling for the extra position in the batting line-up.<\/p>\n

Green, who has spent only a handful of days at home since the team\u2019s departure for the Test tour of India at the end of January after he attracted a $3 million price tag in the Indian Premier League for Mumbai, may yet find himself tried at the top of the order.<\/p>\n

However the selectors\u2019 other option is to partner David Warner with Mitchell Marsh, who excelled in an ODI series in India earlier this year, before batting Smith in his preferred spot at three.<\/p>\n

Whatever the balance of the side, the main priority for the Australians is to regain some cohesion and confidence ahead of the tournament opener, having dropped five games in a row entering the final game of the India series in Rajkot.<\/p>\n

A run of 11 games \u2013 three T20Is and five ODIs in South Africa, before three in India \u2013 has felt excessive to some close to the team, particularly as two warm-up games were already baked into the World Cup schedule.<\/p>\n

The captain, Pat Cummins, made a telling admission in this direction when he spoke about players resting at times during the India series. Cummins subsequently missed the second game in Indore, where India amassed 399, their highest score against Australia in 50-over matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to strike the balance between getting used to these conditions, hopefully winning some games, but we also don\u2019t want to get to that first game and already be cooked,\u201d Cummins said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt we\u2019ll be trying a few different combinations, a few different players will get a chance, but ideally we\u2019d like to structure up pretty closely to how we\u2019ll play in the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

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