Australia drop Fraser-McGurk from the T20i side as Mitch Owen gets a first-time call up to the national side.
Australia drop out-of-form opener Jake Fraser-McGurk from the T20i side to face West Indies in July.
While Mitchell Owen’s star is still growing after receiving his first national call-up, Jake Fraser-McGurk’s international career has hit an early crossroads after he was left out of Australia’s T20I team to play the West Indies in a five-match series in the Caribbean in July.
Cameron Green has been added as a specialist batter even though he won’t be eligible to bowl until later in the season, while Marcus Stoinis and Xavier Bartlett have both been left out of the 16-man roster.
After Adam Zampa, Matthew Kuhnemann is expected to make his T20I debut as the team’s second specialist spinner. Another obvious indication of Australia’s preparation for additional spin options ahead of the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka early next year is the inclusion of Cooper Connolly and Glenn Maxwell. Because to another calf injury, Ashton Agar was not taken into consideration.
The only Australian three-format fast who won’t be rested for the series is Josh Hazlewood. Hazlewood will continue to play in the Twenty20 Internationals while Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc take a break, even though he was a member of the World Test Championship final squad and the West Indies Test squad.
The most notable absence from the group selected for the series against the West Indies, which begins in Jamaica on July 20 and comes right after the three-match Test series, was Fraser-McGurk, 23.
Despite playing in seven of Australia’s previous eight Twenty20 Internationals, he had only reached 20 once, in September of last year when he batted at No. 3 and struck 50 off 31 balls against England. Since then, he has amassed 290 runs at 15.26, hitting at 136.15, in 19 Twenty20 matches, including three Twenty20 Internationals against Pakistan. In the last game of the BBL season, he scored 95 off 46, one of two scores above 26 and one above 38. After scoring 1, 38, 0, 7, 0, and 9 during the IPL season, he was dropped by the Delhi Capitals.