Josh Hazlewood is confident one Sheffield Shield game will be enough for him and Mitchell Starc before the Ashes, with the quick likely to skip three T20Is against India to play for New South Wales.

Hazlewood and Starc were on Tuesday both named in Australia's squad to face India in three ODIs later this month, which kicks off the main part of the home summer.

Five T20Is then follow, and while Starc has retired from that format, Hazlewood has been listed in the squad for the first two of those games on October 29 and 31.

Australian officials are keeping an open mind to Ashes preparations, ahead of the first Test in Perth beginning on November 21.

But the most likely scenario remains having the duo play for NSW against Victoria in a Shield match from November 10, before a one-wee

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