Australia have confirmed three debutants for the opening T20I against South Africa in Durban with Spencer Johnson, Aaron Hardie and Matt Short all set to play their first international match under new captain Mitchell Marsh. Australia named their XI for the first of three T20Is on Wednesday with Johnson, Hardie and Short featuring a totally new-look side to the last T20I side that played for Australia in the home T20 World Cup in October last year. David Warner, Cameron Green and Josh Hazlewood, who all played in Australia's last T20I, are being refreshed in front of the ODI series while Steven Smith, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell are completely harmed in spite of the fact that Starc was dropped for the last match of last year's Reality Cup. Long-lasting T20 chief Aaron Finch has resigned significance Short will open the batting with Travis Head, having done so together momentarily at Adelaide Strikers in the BBL last season where Short was named player of the competition. Smith was set to open in the series before he was precluded with a wrist injury that he endured during the Cinders. Johnson is probably going to accept the new ball as he was named among a four-man assault highlighting long haul Australia students Sean Abbott and Nathan Ellis with Adam Zampa playing as the solitary spinner. Swamp said he had been "blown away" by Johnson's capacity in the short time frames he had seen him bowl. Hardie is scheduled to bat at No. 7 albeit the majority of his new accomplishment for Perth Scorchers has come at No. 3. He might get an open door at No.3 later in the series as Australia hope to utilize the games to explore different avenues regarding just shy of a year to go this year's T20 World Cup. He is one of four all-round choices Swamp needs to make up the overs of the fifth bowler close by himself, Marcus Stoinis and Short who can bowl convenient offspin and has experience bowling in the powerplay. Josh Inglis will bat at No. 4 and be the wicketkeeper after Matthew Swim was at first not chose for the visit despite the fact that he has flown in as cover for Maxwell. Swim stays in the choice casing for the following year's Reality Cup given his extraordinary group of work in T20 cricket throughout the course of recent years however the selectors considered this visit to be a chance for Inglis to take the gloves and bat in the center request given his ability against turn in front of a T20 World Cup in the Caribbean. The presentations of Johnson and Hardie specifically are a forerunner to Australia's preparing of the ODI series and the 50-over World Cup beginning in October. While the organizations are unique, Johnson and Hardie are additionally in Australia's crew for the ODIs in South Africa in front of the World Cup, with Short heading home after the T20Is. Australia have a long physical issue list right now with Cummins (wrist), Smith (wrist), Starc (crotch) and Maxwell (lower leg) all inaccessible for the South Africa ODI series. Every one of the four are supposed to be good for the India series that beginnings on September 22 yet mentor Andrew McDonald told SEN radio on Tuesday that Johnson and Hardie had a valuable chance to have a special interest in a compartment in Australia's last ODI World Cup 15 should any of those players neglect to recuperate. "I believe we're a long way from settled just with the injury room right now," McDonald said. "The data on every one of them is they will be ideal for the World Cup which is positive yet you never know clearly while you're falling off injury. On the off chance that there was a reoccurrence, that could move our reasoning a tad. "Is this a tryout possibly for spaces that might open up, in South Africa? There's no question about that. We feel like we make them invigorate ability coming through. You check out at Aaron Hardie in that all-rounder space, getting his chance. Spencer Johnson too, a left-arm quick bowler. We have a few new players coming through and we feel like it's the perfect opportunity for that too to mix that young with experience. "If anything somehow happened to move or move on us, we have that data from South Africa. "It's delinquent of me also Tanveer Sangha in that turning area. He's a youthful invigorating legspinner. If something somehow managed to happen to Adam Zampa we're wanting to get some game time into him in South Africa." McDonald added Maxwell's most recent misfortune with his leg was somewhat stressing given he has encountered comparable touchiness with his recently broken leg on his worldwide return in the ODI series in India back in Spring. "It's unsettling," McDonald said. "Furthermore, the motivation behind why it's disturbing is it's happened two or multiple times. Assuming you recall to the three-match series against India he played in the first and pulled up a piece weak from that and afterward coming into camp for this one has had another little mishap. There's no question on the rear of what was a terrible physical issue that he experienced there's continuously going to be a harmony between the heap that he can take on and sadly, he's had a little mishap here yet we're certain that he'll be ideal for the World Cup." McDonald isn't leaving for South Africa until Wednesday having taken some additional time at home with Colleague mentor Michael Di Venuto assuming responsibility for Australia's side for the T20 series. Australia's XI: Matt Short, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (capt), Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson