Heat on Australian selectors to justify choices Luke Pomersbach in action for Brisbane Heat. FRUSTRATED coach Darren Lehmann will seek a phone hook-up with Australian selectors over the snubbing of Brisbane Heat players for next week's controversial T20 international at the Gabba. Despite the fact Australia will be fielding a second-string team, with top liners in India for the Test series, Big Bash champion Heat players were still overlooked at the selection table for the match against the West Indies. Fast bowler Ben Cutting is the only Heat player in Australia's 12-man squad, with Luke Pomersbach again overlooked despite being a star in the Big Bash. Dan Christian has also not been given a go. "I will be speaking to the Australian selectors about this," Lehmann told The Courier-Mail yesterday. I want to put our players' case. We never push any of our players at all - but things might have to change. The Brisbane Heat team managed to win the competition and to only get one player in this side is disappointing. Blokes like Luke Pomersbach and Daniel Christian played well for us. I'm very disappointed. It will be hardly surprising if Brisbane cricket fans, already furious at having a second-string team on deck for the match next Wednesday, vote with their feet and stay away en masse. With only one local player on show, earlier crowd estimates of 20,000 for the match might be over the mark and the Gabba could be more than half empty. Lehmann is seething but has to be careful what he says publicly because of a $3000 suspended fine hanging over his head from speaking out over the Marlon Samuels chucking affair. Heavy-handed CA officials would be far better off listening to Lehmann than trying to fine him - as it appears Australian selectors have almost totally forgotten about cricketers north of Tweed Heads. "I suppose our players have just got to keep making runs and hopefully they get selected next time," Lehmann said. The new faces in Australia's T20 squad are Brad Haddin, Ben Rohrer, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Clint McKay and Josh Hazlewood.