Stuart Broad does not expect Kevin Pietersen to be flustered by Australia's decision to include a left-arm spinner in their Ashes line-up.

Pietersen has endured a rocky time for England over the last year and a half, conspicuously failing to live up to his phenomenal early successes, and much of his troubles have come at the hands of slow left-armers.

His struggles came into sharp focus on the trip to Bangladesh last winter, when Abdur Razzak and Shakib-al-Hasan frequently accounted for his wicket, and the glitch continued to rear its head over the course of the year - with Michael Beer and Steve O'Keefe both dismissing him in Ashes warm-ups this month.

Now Australia are seemingly ready to try their luck, with uncapped left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty called into the first Test squad in place of off-spinner Nathan Hauritz.

Broad is unsure about the selectors' motives in summoning Doherty but does not expect Pietersen to be overly concerned.

"It would certainly be a very hard call to pick a bowler just to get at one batsman in the opposition line-up - you need 20 wickets to win a game," the seamer, who is a spokesman for sports nutritionists Maximuscle, told Press Association Sport.

"I would be surprised if they'd picked someone just to remove one player, especially Kevin because he's a world-class batsman and we've all seen that.

"I don't think he'll be worried at all about facing a left-arm spinner because he's scored runs against world-class spinners.

"He's probably had a lean 18 months by his own standards but we're all very excited about seeing him because he's hitting it great in the nets and we know he likes to play Australia.

"He's certainly not panicking about left-arm spin and he's preparing just as much for the seamers."

Meanwhile, there have been whispers that a lively wicket and unpredictable weather conditions in Brisbane might tempt England skipper Andrew Strauss to take the bold step of inserting Australia should he win the toss on Thursday.

Nasser Hussain did that eight years ago and has yet to live down the first day total of 364 for two piled on by the hosts.

Broad, though, does not anticipate Strauss opting for a similar gamble.

"To be honest there's been a lot of hype about the wicket and conditions and I think it has been purely press talk," he said. "Looking at the wicket today it seems a good Test match pitch, maybe not as hard as people were expecting.

"It certainly doesn't have the look that it will seam all over the place. I'd say it's a good deck to bat on. But whatever we do at the toss is all about doing that skill better than the Australians."

Should England be put into the field first and wickets do start tumbling, Broad has not ruled out an outing the 'the sprinkler' - a dance move made famous among England fans via Graeme Swann's tour diary.

"I ran into a few of the Barmy Army the other day and they said they'd been practising the sprinkler dance for when we were getting a few boundaries or wickets," said Broad.

"Who knows, if we get two or three of them quickly we might give it a go."

:: Stuart Broad and England team-mate Steven Finn are sponsored by sports nutritionists Maximuscle. For more information please visit www.maximuscle.com.