Australia's T20I strengths and weaknesses

Billy Stanlake offers pace, bounce and unpredictability

Strength: Bowling Options

Australia's bowling line-up is very diverse, which is particularly useful in the T20 format where batsmen thrive on repetition.

Consider the two bowlers who opened up in the lone T20 against South Africa. Firstly, there is Billy Stanlake, who is 204 centimetres tall, and occasionally reaches over 150kph, but sometimes bowls a bit erratically. Then there is Jason Behrendorff, the left arm bowler who relies more on swing and accuracy than raw pace.

Nathan Coulter-Nile and Andrew Tye, whose variations make him diverse enough in his own right, make up the pace attack. But Australia's spin options are no less varied.

While Ashton Agar and Adam Zampa where both left out of the game against South Africa, they provide two drastically different spin options.

Zampa is an aggressive leg-spinner who searches for wickets, not dissimilar to Adil Rashid. While Agar provides a more conservative option with his left-arm orthodox.

Add in the part-time options of Glenn Maxwell, an off-spinner, and D'Arcy Short, a left-arm wrist-spin bowler, and Australia have all four types of spin covered.

These options not only mean that Finch can tailor his strategy to certain batters throughout a match, but also that the selectors have a range of options if the series starts poorly. This may indeed be needed, as, despite these options, not one of Australia's bowlers will feel they are guaranteed a place in the opening match, let alone in three.