Khawaja has not been selected even though he has been in superb form

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Australia batsmen Usman Khawaja and Joe Burns have been left out of the ODI squad for the upcoming tour of New Zealand.

Khawaja has been in red-hot form as of late and Burns has been in fairly good form, but the national selectors have opted not to change their batting line-up.

The only change the selectors decided to make was removing spinner Nathan Lyon and replacing him with the uncapped Adam Zampa.

“We have selected Adam Zampa as the spinning option for this tour in place of Nathan Lyon,” national selector Rod Marsh said. “We want Nathan to use the NSW versus West Australia Sheffield Shield match in New Zealand as preparation for the Test Series and this will give us a chance to have a good look at Adam ahead of the ICC World T20.

“Adam has certainly put forward a strong case for selection through good performances in the Big Bash as well as the Matador Cup earlier in the season and we think he has thoroughly earned this opportunity.”

Meanwhile, Marsh also admitted that the Baggy Greens’ biggest problems in New Zealand will be adapting to the conditions.

“We know one of the biggest challenges we will face in New Zealand is adapting to the change in conditions,” he said. “It has been well documented that this is something we have struggled with in recent times and a major focus for this squad will be to reverse that trend.

“The New Zealand side will be very tough to beat in their home conditions. We know we will need to be at the top of our game if we want to be competitive.”

Australia ODI Squad: Steve Smith (capt), David Warner, George Bailey, Scott Boland, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, Matthew Wade (wk), Adam Zampa