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Australia wicketkeeper Brad\nHaddin's test career appeared to be drawing to a close on Monday\nwhen he was left out of the squad for the first match of next\nmonth's series against South Africa.\n The combative 35-year-old, who played his 43rd test in the\nlast match of Australia's 4-0 sweep of India in January, has\nbeen replaced by Matt Wade in the 12-man party for the Nov. 9-13\nmatch against the number one ranked Proteas in Brisbane. \n Haddin, whose batting average has slipped to 35.82 over the\nlast couple of years, gave way to 24-year-old Wade for the tour\nof West Indies earlier this year when he was forced to return\nhome to be with his seriously ill daughter.\n Wade, who was left out of a domestic match at the weekend\nbecause of an injured thumb, grabbed his chance with both hands\nin the Caribbean and boasts a batting average of 39.60 from his\nthree tests. \n \"It was a tough decision, there was a lot of talk about\nthat,\" skipper Michael Clarke, who sits on the selection panel,\ntold a news conference at the Sydney Cricket Ground. \n \"They're two very good wicketkeepers and whichever way we\nwent, the team was going to be fine. \n \"Our decision was Matthew Wade, I know he'll do a great job.\nHe's been a wonderful player for Australia in his brief career,\nhe scored a 100 in his last test match and he deserves this\nopportunity.\"\n Clarke said Haddin would remain in contention for the\nAustralia team.\n The squad was announced just hours after Haddin's inspired\ncaptaincy had helped the Sydney Sixers crushed the Highveld\nLions by 10 wickets to win the Champions League Twenty20 final\nin South Africa.\n The other notable omission was 19-year-old fast bowler Pat\nCummins, who took seven wickets in his only test against South\nAfrica in Johannesburg last year and also featured in the Sydney\nSixers' triumph.\n \"We didn't feel as though Pat Cummins was ready to play in a\ntest match,\" chief selector John Inverarity said.\n \"We're very keen for him to play a Sheffield Shield match\nsoon and he's likely to come onto the radar for perhaps the\nthird test in Perth.\"\n In his absence, quicks Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus, James\nPattinson and Mitchell Starc will compete for three spots in the\nteam - unless Clarke decides to go with a four-pronged pace\nattack.\n Clarke, whose instinct is always to include a spinner, said\nit would be \"silly\" to make a decision on the composition of the\nbowling unit before assessing the conditions at the Gabba. \n \"We are lucky to have four very good fast bowlers but we\nalso have a good spinner who's had a lot of success for\nAustralia,\" he said. \n Nathan Lyon, the latest in a string of players Australia\nhave tried out to replace Shane Warne since the spin-bowling\ngreat retired, made an impressive start to his test career last\nyear but has recently hit a run of poor form. \n \"We have been concerned about Nathan's form but he has\nperformed very well for Australia and we're hoping that in the\n10 or 11 days until the test, he recaptures his old form,\" said\nInverarity.\n The series begins at the Gabba on Friday week before tests\nat the Adelaide Oval (Nov. 22-26) and the WACA in Perth (Nov.\n30-Dec. 4).\n Squad: Michael Clarke (captain), David Warner, Ed Cowan,\nShane Watson, Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Matthew Wade, Peter\nSiddle, Ben Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson, Nathan\nLyon. \n\n (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Julian Linden)<\/pre>\n