Australia’s top white-ball players are poised to miss around half of England’s revolutionary Hundred tournament because of a one-day series against Zimbabwe in August.

While Cricket Australia is still yet to finalise details for the three-match series against the world’s 12th-ranked ODI side, cricket sources have told The Age and Sydney Morning Herald that players have been advised that if selected for the Zimbabwe series they will need to report to a training camp in Brisbane by August 4.

That will mean that the Aussie players involved in The Hundred and the Zimbabwe series will need to depart England by August 2 in order to be back for the camp.

The upshot is that assuming they are selected to play against Zimbabwe, a group of Australia’s leading players will need to depart England at the midway point of the flagship English white-ball competition, which begins this year and features various innovations, most notably that matches will be 100-balls per side.