Watson back as first wave heads to India Australian Test vice captain Shane Watson. SHANE Watson will make his comeback to international cricket later this week as Cricket Australia aims to juggle competing interests at home and overseas. National selectors convened on Saturday and again on Sunday after the second match in Perth to finalise plans for the rest of the one-day international series and decide who in the 17-man touring party to India will leave early. Watson is expected to be named on Monday in Australia's squad for the final three matches against the West Indies and will not be in the group to leave this week for the subcontinent. Brad Haddin is also tipped to earn a recall for the remaining ODIs to deputise for Matthew Wade, who will be given time to acclimatise to the spin-friendly conditions in India. Shaun Marsh and Adam Voges, who were both part of Australia's Twenty20 campaign against Sri Lanka, are also likely to be considered after crunching match-winning centuries at the weekend for Western Australia. As many as 10 players, including incumbent ODI squad members Phillip Hughes, Usman Khawaja and Wade, could be sent to India early. Also likely to be sent are Ed Cowan, Nathan Lyon, Peter Siddle, Jackson Bird and James Pattinson, while Steve Smith and Moises Henriques appear set to join them. Impressive left-arm spinner Ashton Agar will spend up to a week in India as a net bowler after completing shield duties for Western Australia in Brisbane this week. The 19-year-old made his first-class debut just over a week ago but has received rave reviews from some astute judges. Australia begins its tour with a two-day game in Chennai against an Indian President's XI, which starts on Tuesday week, two days after the end of the five-game series against the West Indies. CA is striving to ensure Australia's Test preparations are not jeopardised but it also wants to avoid over-diluting the one-day side and risking defeat by the West Indies. CA's marketing interests will also need to be protected as it will not want to be seen to be devaluing the final matches of the international summer. The return of Watson's star power combined with the decision to leave skipper Michael Clarke in charge of the ODI side will not hurt box office appeal. Both players have toured India several times, reducing the need for them to spend time adjusting to the wickets. Others likely to be present for the remainder of the home summer are Xavier Doherty, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson, while David Warner's availability for the ODIs hinges on how he has recovered from his thumb fracture. Watson has not played for Australia since breaking down with a calf injury during the Boxing Day Test. The vice-captain, who has since decided to shelve his bowling indefinitely to focus on batting, has played at grade and domestic one-day level in his latest comeback from injury. His return will stiffen an Australian top order that has struggled for consistency in the 50-over format. The West Indies matches will be the 31-year-old's first in which he plays as a specialist batsman, but those matches clash with New South Wales" shield game against Tasmania, which starts on Wednesday. Although the spotlight will be on the Allan Border Medal in Melbourne, the development of the day will be the presentation that Pat Howard and John Inverarity make to the CA board on Monday afternoon. As revealed on Saturday, the off-field figureheads of CA's performance department will explain the merits of their controversial selection policy. The board is understood to be supportive of Howard and Inverarity's methods as they are in line with the recommendations made in Don Argus" review of the game in 2011.