Boom Tasmania batsman Ben McDermott will head on his first international T20 tour with some priceless wisdom gleaned from perhaps Australia's greatest batter in the game's shortest format, David Warner.

McDermott played alongside and under Warner during his stint with the Winnipeg Hawks in the Global T20 Canada competition based in Toronto in July.

Warner, who is serving a 12-month suspension from international and Australian domestic cricket for his involvement in the Cape Town ball-tampering scandal, captained the Hawks in the latter stages of the tournament and made a huge impression on youngster McDermott.

"Exceptional, he was awesome," McDermott told cricket.com.au at the start of the summer when asked what it was like playing with Warner.

"Couldn't have been better. He was really helpful and just a really good guy to be around as a young player looking up to him throughout my whole career.

"It was good to just be around him, let alone playing with him."

There is perhaps no batsman in the country in better form than McDermott, who in five one-day innings this summer has posted scores of 56, 117, 28, 102no and 76 for Tasmania in the JLT One-Day Cup.

That sparkling form has seen him picked as part of Australia's 14-man T20 squad for the three-match series against Pakistan that follows two Test matches.

While he hasn't played a top-flight 20-over match since Canada, the 23-year-old will travel to the UAE with some tactical tips from Warner, Australia's leading T20 international run-scorer.

"He didn't change anything technically in such a short space of time, he didn't want to say anything there," he said with regards to advice offered from the experienced left-hander.

"More tactical stuff around T20 cricket and how to go about different scenarios.

"I batted with him once and (we) just (spoke) tactical stuff with my batting."

Along with his suspension, Warner can no longer hold a leadership position in Australian cricket.

But in foreign competitions the dynamic left-hander is free to lead, and his captaincy nous is highly regarded around the world.

"He's had a lot of success with (Indian Premier League franchise) Sunrisers Hyderabad," McDermott said of Warner, who won the 2016 IPL title with Hyderabad as skipper, having also won eight from nine matches in charge of the Australian T20 team.

"Everyone's ears prick up when he speaks.

"He does talk a lot about cricket and you can just tell everyone listens when he does speak and it's all really good stuff when he does."