Cricket-Australia rest test players for short-format series against England

Cricket-Australia rest test players for short-format series against England

The Star Online - Sport·2026-11-02 11:00

SYDNEY, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Australia have ⁠rested most of their frontline test players for the home one-day ⁠international and Twenty20 series against England over the next month.

• Experienced all-rounder ‌Mitchell Marsh will captain both teams.

• Travis Head, Matthew Renshaw, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis and Cooper Connolly are the only players from the side that lost a test series in ​South Africa on Saturday to back up in ⁠the ODI team. None will play ⁠the T20s.

• Fast bowler Mahli Beardman, 21, returns to international cricket following an ⁠injury ‌layoff and is one of six players named in both squads.

• All-rounders Jack Edwards and Liam Scott were two others and are set ⁠to represent their country on home soil for the first ​time. Promising young batsman ‌Oliver Peake, 20, was named in the ODI squad.

• "We are in ⁠the middle of ​a highly demanding phase of our schedule," chief selector George Bailey said in a statement.

• "Our multi-format players are transitioning directly from the tour of South Africa into an ODI ⁠and T20 series, leaving a narrow window to ​ensure the squad is physically prepared and fresh for the upcoming New Zealand test series."

• The ODI series begins in Perth on November 13 with further matches in ⁠Adelaide and Hobart. There will be five T20 clashes in Melbourne, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra in late November and early December.

• Australia host New Zealand in four tests starting on December 9.

• ODI squad: Mitchell Marsh, Xavier Bartlett, ​Mahli Beardman, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Jack Edwards, Cameron ⁠Green, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Ollie Peake, Matthew Renshaw, Liam Scott, ​Adam Zampa

• T20 squad: Mitchell Marsh, Xavier Bartlett, Mahli ‌Beardman, Nikhil Chaudhary, Tim David, Joel Davies, ​Jack Edwards, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sam Harper, Spencer Johnson, Mitchell Owen, Lachlan Shaw, Adam Zampa

(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Peter Rutherford)

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