Selectors to mull recall for Maxwell

Glenn Maxwell's time on the outer could end soon, with Australia searching for late-innings fireworks in the ongoing one-day international tri-series in the Caribbean.

Maxwell was left out of the XI for both games in St Kitts, including a four-wicket loss to West Indies on Tuesday (AEST).

The allrounder was dropped for George Bailey last week, when Australia managed just 103 runs from their final 15 overs but held on for a 36-run win against South Africa.

Selectors then opted to replace injured vice-captain David Warner with debutant Travis Head, who scored one as Australia added only 93 runs in their final 15 overs against the hosts.

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Australia had eight wickets in hand in both matches, the sort of platform Maxwell has often successfully launched from in the past.

"I'm sure he'll be talked about in Barbados," skipper Steve Smith said of Maxwell after the match.

"I guess he sort of lacked a little bit of consistency in the middle order in the last 10 or so one-dayers, so we left him out for these couple of games."

Maxwell, who was dumped after totalling nine runs from his previous five ODI knocks, hadn't been dropped from Australia's one-day side since November 2014.

"He took it pretty well," Warner said after Maxwell was dumped, less than five months after he was voted ODI player of the year at the Allan Border Medal.

"You've got to take what the selectors have told you on the chin, work on getting better in the areas you have to improve on.

"He's the type of quality player that will get himself back into this team by doing just that."

Smith lamented the fact his side weren't able to get on with it against West Indies.

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The classy right-hander felt he and Usman Khawaja, dismissed for 74 and 98 respectively, had a lot to answer for.

"It was hard to start but once you're in you have to cash in ... one of us (should have been able to) go on and get 120, 130," Smith said.

"That might have given us that extra 20 runs.

"We just couldn't hit the boundary as much as we would have liked (in the final 15 overs) and that was probably the difference in the end."