Steve Smith, Moses Henriques and Glenn Maxwell battle out Test spot There's a lot of pressure on Glenn Maxwell after his head-spinning success in the IPL auction. YOUNG allrounders Steve Smith, Moises Henriques and Glenn Maxwell will battle each other in Australia's opening tour game in a bid to make the team for the first Test against India. They are attempting to make the team for the first Test against India. The uncapped duo of seamer Henriques and offspinner Maxwell would appear to have the early advantage over Smith, who played five Tests from 2010 to 2011. Legspinner Smith, 23, has been rarely sighted at the bowling crease for NSW in Shield cricket ranks this summer with figures of 1-71 from 15 overs. The 24-year-old Maxwell has claimed seven Shield wickets at 25.42 and the Victorian arrives in Chennai buoyed by last Sunday's million-dollar windfall at the IPL auction where he was snapped up by the Mumbai Indians for the April-May tournament. NSW's Henriques, who boasts limited-overs international experience as do Smith and Maxwell, is a strong contender for the allrounder's spot at No.7 in the batting order if selectors choose to play both frontline spinners Nathan Lyon and Xavier Doherty in Chennai on February 22. Acting head coach Steve Rixon says the talented Maxwell will be given every assistance to keep his feet on the ground after his head-spinning success in the IPL auction. Maxwell will find Indian fans and media are just as keen to talk about the lucrative IPL T20 competition as they are to discuss the battle for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Glenn is very, very delighted with his recent pick-up. It puts a lot of pressure on him so he knows he has to perform," Rixon told a media conference in Chennai on Saturday. He'll be coming over here with a lot of expectation from himself and also the public. We've got to make sure he stays calm and actually stays with the program we've set him. That is to continue to become a very good spinner, advance his batting which needs a little bit of curbing on different occasions and continue as arguably one of the best fielders in world cricket. So he just needs to keep his hat on the right way and I think everyone will get a good result out of it and maybe Mumbai will as well. Possible lineup for Australia's opening two-day tour match starting on Tuesday against Indian Board President's XI at Chennai's Guru Nanak College Ground: Ed Cowan, Matthew Wade, Usman Khawaja, Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques, Steve Smith, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon, Jackson Bird, Ashton Agar.