Ten Australian players, including Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc and David Warner, have signed up for the Hundred but could miss part of it due to a one-day series in Zimbabwe.

The ECB is hoping that Cricket Australia will rest its star players for the Zimbabwe tour and use it to give experience to others, freeing up the bigger names to play in the Hundred.

The ECB has been in talks with Australia to allow Smith and Starc to play in the opening game even though it is one day after the final Australia ODI against England at Bristol, a day-nighter the other side of the country. The Hundred is due to run between July 17 and August 15.

Smith, Warner and Starc led a 10-strong Australian contingent that were picked up in the new competition's October draft, with Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Finch, D'Arcy Short, Chris Lynn, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Dan Christian and Adam Zampa also chosen.

Oval Invincibles are the only one of the eight teams not to have any Australian representation. Welsh Fire, the Cardiff-based side, are at the opposite end of the spectrum having used their two top £125,000 picks on Smith and Starc.

Meanwhile, families of four will be able to buy tickets for the Hundred from just £26 after the England & Wales Cricket Board released its pricing scale.