Adelaide: Crisis-hit Australia included English-born opener Matt Renshaw among six changes to their revamped Test squad Sunday for this week's crucial third day-night Test against South Africa in Adelaide.
Selectors named the 20-year-old Queensland opener Renshaw alongside two other batting debutants, Peter Handscomb and Nic Maddinson, in a 12-man squad.
Pacemen Chadd Sayers and Jackson Bird return to the national side, and Matthew Wade comes in as wicketkeeper after Peter Nevill was axed.
Australia last made as many as six changes in 1984, when they faced the then formidable West Indies.
Joe Burns, Adam Voges, Callum Ferguson, Nevill and Joe Mennie paid the price for Australia's wretched innings and 80-run defeat to South Africa in last week's second Hobart Test.
Interim chief selector Trevor Hohns, who stepped in after Rod Marsh stood down on Wednesday, said that Voges, all-rounder Mitch Marsh and spinner Steve O'Keefe were not considered because of injury.
The dramatic team overhaul follows Australia's heavy defeat to the Proteas in Hobart to give the tourists an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
South Africa could inflict the first home series whitewash in Australia's history if they win the pink ball final Test at the Adelaide Oval, starting on Thursday.
Renshaw was born in Yorkshire and lived in England before coming to Australia at the age of 10.
The left-hander has scored 1,021 runs from just 12 first-class games at 44.39, with three centuries -- the latest coming this week in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia.
Australia: Steve Smith (capt), Jackson Bird, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Nic Maddinson, Matt Renshaw, Chadd Sayers, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner.