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MELBOURNE, Sunday (Reuters) - Australia added leg-spinner Stuart MacGill to their squad on Sunday for the third cricket test against South Africa starting at Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday.

The Sydney Cricket Ground wicket is traditionally favourable to spin and Australia could opt to promote MacGill to the 11 on his home ground to bowl in tandem with fellow leg-spinner Shane Warne.

Warne has taken 11 wickets in the first two tests of the three-match series which Australia lead 2-0.

MacGill took five for 132 and four for 89 for New South Wales in the drawn tour match against South Africa at Sydney Cricket Ground last week.

MacGill took 16 wickets in four tests against West Indies in the 2000-01 season when Warne was injured.

MacGill was 12th man for the first test in Adelaide earlier this month when Warne took eight wickets for 170 to win the man of the match award.

Fast bowler Andrew Bichel replaced MacGill in the 12 for the second test in Melbourne which Australia won by nine wickets on Saturday to consolidate their position as the world's leading test playing nation.

Bichel was promoted to the 11 after Jason Gillespie broke down with a shoulder injury two days before the second test.

Brad Williams, included in the squad for the second test where he was 12th man, has been retained in the squad.

Australia (squad of 13): Steve Waugh (captain), Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Mark Waugh, Damien Martyn, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Andrew Bichel, Brad Williams, Stuart MacGill. 

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