Zampa and Inglis set to skip 1st ODI vs India as Philippe and Kuhnemann are called in as replacements for them.
Zampa and Inglis to miss Perth ODI against India, Kuhnemann, Philippe called up.
In the first ODI between Australia and India in Perth, Matthew Kuhnemann and Josh Philippe will be substituted for legspinner Adam Zampa and wicketkeeper Josh Inglis.
For paternity reasons, Zampa is absent, Inglis is still recovering from a calf strain, Philippe will play his debut ODI, and Alex Carey will play in a Sheffield Shield game as part of his Ashes preparation. Australia hopes Inglis will be well for the third match in Sydney on October 25. Inglis has also been ruled out of the second ODI in Adelaide next Thursday when Carey rejoins the team.
Since it’s difficult to get back to Perth quickly, Zampa has decided to stay at home in northern New South Wales while his wife, Harriet, is in the latter stages of her pregnancy with their second child, which is due soon.
Given how much quicker and easier it is to go home from Adelaide and Sydney, he is probably going to play the second and third games there. He is still scheduled to play in the ensuing five-match T20I series, which will all take place on the east coast.
After playing four matches in Sri Lanka in 2022, Kuhnemann has been called up for Sunday’s encounter in Perth and appears to be playing his first ODI on Australian soil in three years.
As a member of the squads for the World Test Championship final, the three-match Test tour and five-match T20I tour of the Caribbean, the three-match T20I and three-match ODI home series against South Africa, and the three-match T20I tour of New Zealand, he has been travelling nonstop with the Australian team throughout the winter. However, he only participated in one game during those visits, which was the second Twenty20 International against the West Indies in Jamaica in July.
Inglis, meanwhile, is still recuperating from the calf injury that prevented him from participating in the New Zealand tour. He strained it during a jogging workout in Perth just over four weeks ago, and he hasn’t fully recovered in time for Sunday’s opening ODI against India. It is unclear if he will be fit for the third ODI in Sydney.
As a specialist batsman, Carey is in Australia’s first-choice ODI XI and was included in the team for the matches against India. However, he will stay in Adelaide to play for South Australia against Queensland in a Sheffield Shield match that begins on Wednesday, so he won’t be in Perth.
Since playing as a specialist opening batsman under Carey’s captaincy during the three-match Caribbean tour in 2021, one year prior to Inglis’s debut for his country, Philippe has not participated in an ODI. Although Philippe hasn’t represented Australia in any format since 2023, he has been playing well for Australia A in red-ball cricket and has a strong domestic one-day record for Western Australia and New South Wales.