Experienced Australian bowlers Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, and Josh Hazlewood will not participate in the upcoming white-ball tour of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Fresh faces like Ollie Peake and Liam Scott have been called up for the matches against Pakistan starting on May 30. Mitchell Marsh will lead the team in these fixtures as part of the preparation for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup next year.
Riley Meredith and Billy Stanlake are among the players making a comeback for the Pakistan leg of the tour. Cummins, Hazlewood, and Starc, the ODI captains, will focus on their red-ball workloads for the upcoming Test series against Bangladesh in August. Players involved in the IPL playoffs will miss the ODI series in Pakistan, coinciding with the final stages of the IPL.
Travis Head, Cooper Connolly, Xavier Bartlett, and Ben Dwarshuis will join the squad for the Bangladesh series after completing their IPL commitments. The Australian squads for the ODI matches in Pakistan and Bangladesh have been finalized, with some players retained for specific legs of the tour.
