Australia's top order for the Twenty20 World Cup in India will be strong enough to overcome their spinning woes, according to allrounder Glenn Maxwell.
Australia have won just one of their past eight series on turning Asian pitches, and were bounced out of the 2014 World T20 in Bangladesh in the group stages.
But Maxwell believes the likes of himself, Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja and David Warner can make for a different story this time around on the sub-continent.
"If you look at our batting order, it's suited to hopefully combat that," he said.
"We have excellent players of spin in our team and guys that have got international experience over in India as well.
"It's going to be pretty key for us to have those guys perform pretty well for us and combat the spin in the other teams."
Australia are hoping that South African curators will prepare dry pitches in their three-match T20 series, starting on Saturday, to help prepare both teams for a World Cup which is just over two weeks away.
At the top of the list of priorities for Australia's batsmen will be getting on top of South African legspinner Imran Tahir, who has taken 32 wickets at an average of 14.75 in 20 T20 internationals.
More importantly though, he should give the Australian top order a clear indication of the sharp turn they should expect in India.
"It's so much different to every other spin," Maxwell said.
"It's a tough start and if you've got a guy bowling really consistently and performing really consistently it's such a hard thing to stop.
"He seems to grab the momentum back for South Africa every time he comes on - he just finds a way of getting a wicket for his team."
Maxwell hinted that Australia weren't concerned by their recent 3-0 series loss to India - or the nine wickets they lost to spin - in Australia, given the number of top-line players who missed matches through the series.
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