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Australian selectors person named a spin-heavy squad for the defending champions for the forthcoming Twenty20 World Cup successful Sri Lanka and India.
The 2021 tourney winners decided Thursday not to prime a left-arm paceman successful the lack of the T20-retired Mitchell Starc. Cooper Connolly, who has not played successful immoderate of the Australians' past 12 T20 Internationals, was the astonishment inclusion.
Starc has missed conscionable 1 of the past six ICC's T20 events but retired from the format astatine the planetary level precocious past year.
Australia opens the tourney connected Feb. 11 against Ireland successful Colombo past plays Zimbabwe successful Colombo connected Feb. 13, followed by matches successful Kandy against Sri Lanka connected Feb. 16 and Oman connected Feb. 20.
A scan connected Pat Cummins' backmost aboriginal this period volition find whether helium volition play successful the tournament. Josh Hazlewood and Tim David are some connected the comeback way from hamstring injuries.
ICC rules licence squad changes until Jan. 31.
Australia volition play a three-match T20 bid against Pakistan opening aboriginal this month. Australia's group-stage matches are each being played successful Sri Lanka but the squad volition question to India for astatine slightest immoderate of their Super Eights games if they qualify.
___ Australia squad: Mitchell Marsh (captain), Xavier Bartlett, Cooper Connolly, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Cameron Green, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Short, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa. (AP) DDV
