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UPDATE: TASMANIAN all-rounder James Faulkner will make his Test debut for Australia in the fifth and final Test at The Oval on Wednesday.
He is one of two changes, with Mitchell Starc also included while Jackson Bird and Usman Khawaja have been dropped.
Shane Watson will move up to bat at number three with wicket-keeper Brad Haddin moving to six and Faulkner slotting in at seven.
The 23-year-old will be the 17th player used on tour and the second debutant behind Ashton Agar as Australia attempts to avoid losing four Tests in England for the first time.
Agar, 19, has been suffering a virus for a week and is being sent home to rest ahead of preparing for the domestic season with Western Australia.
The son of former Tasmanian all-rounder Peter Faulkner, James is essentially a bowler in a team crying out for batsmen. He has not scored a first class century.
In 37 first class matches Faulkner has a top score of 89 and averages 30. He has claimed 132 wickets at 22.
A quirk of statistics gives him the best first class average on tour, a total of 82 runs for just once out in five innings with a top score of 48.
Faulkner has played eight one-day matches for Australia with a highest score of 54 not out, made against England in the Champions Trophy two months ago, and has a batting average of 37. He has 11 wickets at 30 and has also played three Twenty20 internationals.
Captain Michael Clarke described Faulkner as a "tough" competitor and admitted that "maybe" Australia had not been tough enough on this tour.
Faulkner was outstanding in last summer's Shield final, leading the way in Tasmania's victory with 46 and 89 and four wickets for the match.
Faulkner was a bowling sensation at the IPL and stood out with bat and ball in a losing Australian side in their Champions Trophy clash with England.
He has no shortage of confidence or aggression for someone new to international cricket, as Faulkner showed when he was fined for giving Chris Gayle a send-off after bowling the West Indian danger man during the one-day series in Australia last summer.
Usman Khawaja has been dropped. Source: AFP
Clarke claimed that Watson was fit enough to continue his role as an all-rounder but Faulkner was likely to do most of the bowling.
"It's an extra string to James's bow that he can bowl as many overs as possible," said Clarke.
"He's fit and strong and will play a big part with the ball so he adds that extra option to take 20 wickets.
"But I think it's the overall package that James brings, his toughness."
Clarke was unconcerned that the addition of Faulkner was likely to weaken Australia's batting, on paper at least.
Although, as Clarke pointed out, paper has not been a reliable guide on this tour.
"As we've seen so far in this series statistics, records, first class performances haven't meant that much. It's about finding a way over five days to have success," he said.
"I know James Faulkner has the strength to do that whether it be with the bat or the ball."
Faulkner won't need to bat with any great distinction to gain a better record than many of the batsmen on tour. Only Michael Clarke (49) and Chris Rogers (43) are averaging above 30 in this series.
"Like a lot of our young players he's a wonderful talent. I think he's got the toughness to mix it with any opposition at the highest level," Clarke said.
"He's a fighter, he's a competitor, he mightn't look the best all the time but he'll find a way to stay out there and help his partner go on to make a hundred or make sure he's batting with the tail and find a way to get them through. I think he's got that in him.
"With the ball he's extremely competitive and will find a way to take wickets as he's done so far on this tour and in the shorter forms of the game.
"Generally the better conditions are for batting, the better James is because he's at you all the time and he's extremely competitive."
Australian team: Chris Rogers, David Warner, Shane Watson, Michael Clarke (c), Steve Smith, Brad Haddin, James Faulkner, Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, Ryan Harris, Nathan Lyon.
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