Australian captain Meg Lanning has left the door open for a shock selection call on Ashes eve while contenders line up to fill a vacant top-order spot.
Elyse Villani and Georgia Redmayne are among the options for Thursday's Twenty20 series opener against England after Beth Mooney had surgery on a broken jaw on Tuesday.
Mooney's absence - potentially for the entire series - is a huge blow for the world champions given her eight half centuries in the format across the last two years is more than the rest of the team combined.
