Huge opening for young batsmen: Langer

New coach Justin Langer says young batsmen around the country should be 'licking their lips' at the vacancies that have opened up in Australia's batting order following the South African ball-tampering saga.

Langer will meet his new players for the first time on Saturday at a mini training camp in Brisbane ahead of next month's Qantas Tour of the UK and the subsequent T20 series in Zimbabwe.

The 47-year-old says he'll use the camp to lay down the law and outline his expectations following the Cape Town incident, which led to the departure of the team's coach, captain and vice-captain.

The absence of star batsmen Steve Smith and David Warner until March next year, and rookie opener Cameron Bancroft following his nine-month ban, means there are at least three batting vacancies in the Test side and two in the one-day team ahead of next year's Ashes and World Cup campaigns.

And Langer says the bans represent a great opportunity for the next level of batsmen to step up.

"If I was a young batter now, I'd be licking my lips," Langer told 5AA.

"Once upon a time it was so hard to get into the Australian cricket team. The standard then was ... if you don't perform at an elite level, you don't even get a look in.

"If you're a young batsman now and you've got a bit of professionalism and talent and you're ready to work at it, the opportunities are huge.

"We've got some holes to fill. There's always going to be some talent in Australian cricket, but certainly we'll miss some of that experience."

As a player, Langer was himself a victim of Australia's once-in-a-generation batting depth in the 1990s and it took him more than five-and-a-half years after his debut in 1993 to play his 10th Test.

He ultimately established himself as an opener in 2001 and played 105 times for his country, but the likes of Stuart Law, Brad Hodge, Matthew Elliott and Jamie Siddons weren't so lucky and played only a handful of Tests each (or none, in the case of Siddons) despite piling on the runs at Sheffield Shield level.

But such is the dearth of options at present, batsmen with records far inferior to those domestic standouts in the 90s will likely be given a chance at international level over the next 12 months.

Glenn Maxwell, Peter Handscomb, Matthew Renshaw, Hilton Cartwright and Joe Burns have all been tried in Tests in the past 12 months but not grabbed their chance, while the likes of uncapped duo Marcus Stoinis and Travis Head loom as potential Test options in the early stages of Langer's tenure.

Langer has already identified an upcoming Australia A tour of India as a batting audition for the subsequent Test series against Pakistan and Maxwell this week agreed the next six months could be career-defining.

"This is a big part of my career where there are some opportunities in all three teams to really solidify my position for hopefully the rest of my career and really make a stand to take a spot and make it my own," Maxwell told SEN.

"With the Test side, I’m looking at Dubai later in the year where I can really make one of those batting positions my own and (then) hopefully play my first Test on Australian soil and really hold my spot from there.

"There is obviously a bit of work to do in India for an A tournament in August which I’m hoping to be on and put some big numbers up while I’m there."

While the time for talk is almost over with the first match of the Langer era less than three weeks away, the coach says it's important for him to lay down some early ground rules.

"I'll probably lay out a bit of a vision of what's going forward and the expectations of being in the Australian cricket team," he said when asked how he'll address the players this weekend.

"I'll be pretty strong on it. No doubt there'll be some selective hearing there, so I'll laugh about that to myself.

"But I'll be very, very clear of what the expectations are of being an Australian cricketer. We'll get that from day one and then we'll roll up our sleeves and start living it."