Defending T20 World Cup champions Australia ring multiple changes to their squad for their remaining T20I matches before the T20 World Cup. Australia are set to play one more T20I against West Indies (in Brisbane on Friday) before playing a 3-match series against England from Sunday!
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Keeping the tight schedule in mind, Aussies are set to manage their players' workload which sounds like a rotation policy! Some changes might sound like a workload reduction and some are to manage their injured players!
2nd T20I vs West Indies:
All-rounder Mitch Marsh has been ruled out of the remaining 2nd and final T20I against West Indies which is to be played in Brisbane on Friday (Oct 07). He played in the first T20I against West Indies on Wednesday (Oct 05) as a pure batter only owing to his ankle injury concern. To give him an extended break, he has now traveled to Perth where the team will assemble for the T20I series against England.
1st T20I vs England:
Australia made a major announcement here by resting all their frontline bowlers from this T20I. Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, and Glenn Maxwell have all been rested for this first T20I. On the other hand, they have all-rounders Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Marsh, and Glenn Maxwell in their T20 World Cup squad out of which only Maxwell is fit and is currently bowling!
Mitchell Marsh and Marcus Stoinis (who is already in Perth) will return to the side for this first T20I against England. It is not yet known, at this moment, if these two all-rounders will bowl a few overs in this match! Ashton Agar, Kane Richardson, Nathan Ellis, and Mitchell Swepson were the other bowlers that are added to the Aussies squad for this first England T20I.
2nd and 3rd T20Is against England:
All Australia's five main bowlers who were rested for the first T20I will return to the squad - Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins, Zampa, and Maxwell. However, the board is yet to announce who will sit out from the squad for these T20I games!
Australia are currently in the middle of a 2-match T20I series against West Indies at home. They have won the first T20I courtesy of a fumble fielding from the Windies side in the 20th over when they needed 11 runs off the final over chasing 146 to win! Australia are leading the 2-match series by 1-0 with the 2nd and final T20I on Friday.
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