Fit-again Australia players assemble for red-ball camp

David Warner, Mitchell Johnson, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Coulter-Nile will return to the Australian team fold at a Test team training camp in Hurstville, to Sydney's south, after being absent from the touring party for the postponed trip to Bangladesh.

Vice-captain Warner and the trio of fast men will join 15 others for two days of centre-wicket training and a range of other drills, devised to keep players of national interest in decent trim ahead of a looming Test assignment against New Zealand in November. James Faulkner has also been included in the group after he missed the ODIs in England as the penalty for a drink-driving offence incurred while playing for Lancashire during the northern summer.

"Spending some time in England with the moving ball over there in foreign conditions, hopefully can hold my game in good shape," Faulkner said. "I definitely learned a hell of a lot over there in those conditions. It's probably a bit different over here, there's not as much swing, or reverse swing, so we'll see how we go. I'll prepare like I normally do and try to get runs and wickets like every other player."

Johnson and Hazlewood had been scratched quite early from plans for Bangladesh as the national selectors and fitness staff had decided they needed something like a full pre-season ahead of the home summer, rather than being tided over from the Ashes to take part in Bangladesh.

They were joined on the sidelines by Warner and Coulter-Nile when the duo suffered injuries during Australia's successful ODI series in England that followed defeat in the Ashes.

The selectors and the captain Steven Smith have flagged that the selection for the first match against New Zealand at the Gabba - which starts from November 5 - is likely to result in a team some distance removed from the squad chosen for the subcontinent. However all members of the Bangladesh tour party have been included in the training group.

"Different conditions, you're not going to have two spinners at the Gabba," the selector Mark Waugh said after the tour was postponed. "So, there are some guys who were picked on that tour who are going to be shuffled down the order a little bit, but you can't do anything about it.

"At least their names are there ... they got picked on an Australian tour so they can take comfort from the fact that they're definitely in the reckoning. The real thing is it's going to be a different eleven for the first Test in Brisbane to what would have been picked in Bangladesh."

These players include Cameron Bancroft and Joe Burns, thought to be vying for the opening spot vacated by the retired Chris Rogers, plus Andrew Fekete, Steve O'Keefe and Usman Khawaja.

Red-ball camp squad: Steve Smith, David Warner, Cameron Bancroft, Joe Burns, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Andrew Fekete, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Johnson, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Nevill, Steve O'Keefe, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Adam Voges