Australia will wait until a last inspection of the Brabourne Stadium pitch on Sunday before naming its side for the Champions Trophy final against the West Indies.

Spinner Brad Hogg is a possible inclusion after missing Australia's past three matches on harder, flatter batting wickets, Australia captain Ricky Ponting said.

"I've thought a lot about the team actually. We haven't finalised anything yet," Ponting said.

"We won't announced that until tomorrow (Sunday).

"I think these conditions here are probably more suited to spin than any of the other wickets we've played on in this tournament so far ... so that brings (spinners) Dan Cullen and Brad Hogg into consideration.

"I haven't had a chance to look at it and as we know it's going to be a lot different than what we've played on the last couple of weeks which has made training pretty important for us, just getting back into thinking about the conditions that we are going to be confronted with here."

Three-time world champion Australia has never claimed the Champions Trophy before while the Windies are the titleholders after their win in 2004.

Windies opener Chris Gayle looms as a major threat to Australia's hopes after blasting three centuries to be the tournament's leading scorer with 437 runs at 87.40.

Australia lost to the Windies in Mumbai on October 18 before cruising to easy victories against England in Jaipur and India in Mohali, also beating New Zealand in the first semi-final in Mohali.

The Windies came through the qualifiers into Group A, beating Australia and India and losing to England before crushing South Africa by six wickets in the second semi-final in Jaipur on Thursday, a day after Australia's semi-final against the Kiwis.

Brian Lara's side was unable to attend Friday night's ICC Awards dinner in Mumbai because of the late arrival of luggage from Jaipur, while the Australians had settled back into their Mumbai hotel on Thursday evening.

"The last three games we've played, I think we've improved every time," Ponting said.

"We're very prepared now. We've had a couple of days here to train at this ground on similar sort of wickets.

"The West Indies probably have had slightly less preparation than us leading into the final, so we're obviously very happy with where we are at."

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