Warner, Smith & Starc not included for Australia's 5 match ODI series vs Pakistan (UAE)

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Qantas Tour of the UAE Squad Announced
The National Selection Panel has announced an unchanged ODI squad of fifteen for the upcoming Qantas Tour of the UAE.

The Australian Men’s team will play five ODI matches against Pakistan starting in Sharjah on March 22.

Media Opportunities:

Chairman of Selectors Trevor Hohns will be available in Ranchi, India, today at 9:30am/3:00pm AEDT. A VNR will be sent out via the national distribution list.

Aaron Finch (c) (Victoria)
Usman Khawaja (Queensland)
Shaun Marsh (Western Australia)
Peter Handscomb (Victoria)
Glenn Maxwell (Victoria)
Ashton Turner (Western Australia)
Marcus Stoinis (Western Australia)
Alex Carey (vc) (South Australia)
Pat Cummins (vc) (New South Wales)
Nathan Coulter-Nile (Western Australia)
Jhye Richardson (Western Australia)
Kane Richardson (South Australia)
Jason Behrendorff (Western Australia)
Nathan Lyon (New South Wales)
Adam Zampa (South Australia)

Chairman of the National Selection Panel, Trevor Hohns, said:

“The National Selection Panel has named an unchanged squad for the upcoming tour against Pakistan in the UAE.

“The squad has started this tour well against a very good Indian side, they won the T20I Series and have pushed the hosts in the opening two matches of the ODI series in challenging sub-continent conditions.

“The squad is making pleasing progress ahead of the World Cup, and with three matches remaining in India and the five match series against Pakistan to come, we believe they will benefit further from the continuity of playing together.

“Despite returning to Australia last week, Kane Richardson has been included in the squad as we monitor his recovery from the left side strain injury. We are hopeful he will recover in time for the Pakistan series.

“Unfortunately, Mitchell Starc’s recovery from his left pectoral muscle strain has been set back by a slight recurrence as he commenced bowling. This has ruled him out of the Pakistan Series and while frustrating for all involved, our focus is to have Mitch ready for the World Cup.”

Hohns also clarified the rationale behind Steve Smith and David Warner’s non-selection for the final two matches of the Pakistan Series.

“After consultation with members of the National Selection Panel, Greg Chappell and Head Coach Justin Langer, Interim EGM Team Performance Belinda Clark, CA Medical Team and both players, it has been agreed Steve Smith and David Warner will not be available for selection for the final two matches of the series against Pakistan.”

“While their bans will be finished on March 28, Steve and David have been working through rehabilitation from elbow surgery and it has been agreed the best pathway for them to return to play is in the Indian Premier League, a strong competition which features some of the world’s best players.

“David will play with Sunrisers Hyderabad and Steve with Rajastan Royals. Cricket Australia will continue to liaise with both Steve, David and their IPL clubs to monitor progress as we build towards the ICC World Cup and the Ashes.”

Qantas Tour of the UAE Schedule:
First ODI – March 22
Pakistan v Australia
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
3:00pm Local Time

Second ODI – March 24
Pakistan v Australia
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
3:00pm Local Time

Third ODI – March 27
Pakistan v Australia
Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi
3:00pm Local Time

Fourth ODI – March 29
Pakistan v Australia
Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai
3:00pm Local Time

Fifth ODI – March 31
Pakistan v Australia
Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai
3:00pm Local Time

 

[Arham_PakFan]

No surprises there.

Still a decent Aussie squad, although batting seems a bit light.

 

[saeed5646]

Aus limited over squad minus warner/smith is shaping up very well.They have beaten india in t20 series and also fought hard in odis so far.They are by no mean a poor side and can surprise us in odi series.Tricky situation for pakistan management they should not rest too many key players

 

[a_tahir]

Aus limited over squad minus warner/smith is shaping up very well.They have beaten india in t20 series and also fought hard in odis so far.They are by no mean a poor side and can surprise us in odi series.Tricky situation for pakistan management they should not rest too many key players

But if u think about it, it is a prep for the WC. So we don't want any players getting injured. This is the best time to look at new players.

 

[saeed5646]

But if u think about it, it is a prep for the WC. So we don't want any players getting injured. This is the best time to look at new players.

For first 2 odis Bowlers and wk should be priority for resting .Shaheen,hasan ali ,fahim,sarfraz ahmed and shadab should be rested.While from batsmen only ask babar he want to play if he is not interested than he should be also rested

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Dont think Smith and Warner would play the world cup.

 

[Hasan123]

I thought Australia would try 1 or 2 new players. But add Smith ,Warner ,Starc ,and Hazelwood to these players I think it will be amongst these 19 for the WC.

 

[Justcrazy]

If they are in WC plans , they should have played.

 

[a_tahir]

If they are in WC plans , they should have played.

Their team is shaping up well. In 3 months, it'll be even better. Finch just needs to step up his game a bit
Warner wasn't performing after his ban

 

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Shane Warne has tipped suspended Australia batsman David Warner to be named Player of the Tournament at this year's World Cup.

Warner yesterday made a successful return from an elbow injury in Sydney's Premier Cricket competition, hitting 110 from 77 balls for Randwick-Petersham, and the opening batsman's 12-month international ban expires on March 28.

While he and Steve Smith both set to miss Australia's upcoming tour of the UAE for a five-match ODI series with Pakistan, the pair is expected to return to the top level domestic cricket via the Indian Premier League, which begins on March 23.

Warne, who was infamously suspended for 12 months for using banned diuretics in 2003, had said this week he expects both players to return to the game hungrier than ever – just as he did in 2004 and 2005, when he took 166 wickets at 22.89 in 27 Tests, including 40 in the epic '05 Ashes.

Speaking with the Telegraph in London, he pinpointed Warner as the man he expected to dominate this year's World Cup in England.

"All I can go on is experience having a year off myself," Warne said. "The next four years were the best I ever had.

"I was hungry for the game. My body and mind were fresh and it is amazing how excited you are to play again.

"The little things that used to make you say 'here we go again' don't matter anymore.

"You get excited just going to the nets again because you have taken it for granted in the past so I think they will come back better than they were.

"They are going to come out and destroy attacks and I back David Warner to be the player of the World Cup."

Warner, 32, has 14 ODI hundreds to his name – more than any other active Australian player – and 10 of those came in 2016-17, a period in which he established himself as one of the world's best in the 50-over format.

However, he is yet to register three figures in the UK (where he averages 31 from 10 ODIs, with two fifties) and will doubtless find himself the centre of attention in a country where he has a chequered past.

Australia's World Cup campaign begins on June 1 against Afghanistan in Bristol.

Australia's World Cup fixtures

May 25: (warm-up) England v Australia, Southampton

May 27: (warm-up) Australia v Sri Lanka, Southampton

June 1: Afghanistan v Australia, Bristol (D/N)

June 6: Australia v West Indies, Trent Bridge

June 9: India v Australia, The Oval

June 12: Australia v Pakistan, Taunton

June 15: Sri Lanka v Australia, The Oval

June 20: Australia v Bangladesh, Trent Bridge

June 25: England v Australia, Lord's

June 29: New Zealand v Australia, Lord's (D/N)

July 6: Australia v South Africa, Old Trafford (D/N)

July 9: Semi-Final 1, Old Trafford

July 11: Semi-Final 2, Edgbaston

July 14: Final, Lord's

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/sha...sman-david-warner-steve-smith-bans/2019-03-10

 

[The Viper]

Ian Healy questions decision to leave Steve Smith and David Warner out of UAE tour

Ian Healy has questioned the selectors’ decision to leave Steve Smith and David Warner out of the 15-man squad for the five-match series against Pakistan.

Smith and Warner will both be eligible to play as of March 29, following 12-month bans for their roles in Cape Town ball-tampering scandal. That date coincides with the fourth one-day international against Pakistan, with the fifth match taking place two days later.

However, with both men on the mend after elbow surgery, Cricket Australia has opted against selecting them; allowing them to regain their match fitness via the Indian Premier League. Given it is the final ODI series Australia will play before the World Cup, Healy has questioned the logic of that decision.

“I would have got them in for game time with the squad and get back on their feet at international level,” Healy said on Fox Cricket. “They’ve been pretty successful when they’ve played club level, they’re going to let them go to the IPL, so why don’t they get two internationals with a potential World Cup squad?”

Both Smith and Warner had elbow surgery in January, with the latter returning to the cricket field for grade side Randwick-Petersham on Saturday, and batting 110 off 77 balls. While Smith has not made his own return to playing duties, he was back in the nets last week.

Healy’s former teammate and captain Mark Taylor has backed the decision to leave the duo out in the United Arab Emirates, suggesting it would send the wrong message about the series against Pakistan

“I don’t think it would be right to send them over there... to then add two players for the last two games when that series could be up for grabs with two games to go,” Taylor said on Channel Nine’s Sports Sunday.

Taylor does not believe returning in the UAE would allow either Smith or Warner a less hostile welcome in England.

“”You know what it’s like when you go to England. They don’t care what’s happened in Dubai or Australia - it will be the English media and they’ll be all over us,” Taylor said.

“They’re going to have to deal with that. The players and obviously the staff around them are going to have to deal with that as soon as Australia get to England.”

Drawing on his own experience coming back from a 12-month ban, Shane Warne has backed both men to have an instant impact when they return, tipping Warner to be player of the tournament at the World Cup.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...r/news-story/5dcb4e8b5030c8f19903fdbc07486d26

 

[MenInG]

Justin Langer has indicated that if his current ODI squad maintains the results they achieved in their history making India campaign, it will be difficult for selectors to justify making significant changes for the upcoming ICC World Cup.

The national men's team coach lauded his group for securing a 3-2 series win against the world's second-ranked ODI outfit on their home turf and is now eyeing a similarly strong performance in the five-match series against Pakistan in the UAE beginning next week.

That will be the final competitive hit-out before the 10 competing teams must submit their 15-man World Cup squads to the ICC by April 23.

And Langer claims that if Australia continue their winning ways, that group is likely to differ little to the squad he will lead to the Emirates where the first match against Pakistan is scheduled for Sharjah on March 22.

"It's really hard to change winning combinations," Langer said in the wake of Australia's 35-run win in Delhi, to claim the trophy after losing the first two matches of the series.

"We've got a few selection headaches coming up obviously, but if we keep winning, the guys will be putting their best foot forward.

"I've said throughout, if we keep winning, selection usually looks after itself.

"It's been one of our philosophies."

The largest "headaches" that the selection panel – Langer, in conjunction with chair Trevor Hohns and Greg Chappell – will be the imminent availability of established internationals Steve Smith and David Warner (from suspension) and the expected return of injured fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.

Of that quartet, Hazlewood would appear the least likely to figure in upcoming discussions about the squad that Australia takes into its World Cup defence in the UK, which begins in late May.

Hazlewood has yet to resume bowling after being diagnosed with a back stress fracture earlier this year.

Langer attributes a significant portion of his current team's success in India to players' preparedness to shut out the impacts that individual efforts might have on their World Cup ambitions, and focus instead on the team's collective aspirations.

"It's a real danger time in Australian cricket for a lot of individuals because of World Cup selection," Langer said.

"The trap is – and it's really normal for humans to be thinking about getting picked – if you put the emphasis on yourself, you tend to put too much pressure on, and you don't go well and we (the team) don't go well.

"That's why I've been so pleased with this group of players, it's been about 'we' – we've talked about 'we'.

"We talk about what 'we're doing', not just what 'I'm doing', and that's really important."

However, there was a couple of stand-out individual efforts throughout the India tour that Langer acknowledged and indicated would hold Australia in good stead for the Pakistan series and into the World Cup.

He pointed to the batting returns of the ODI series' leading runs scorer Usman Khawaja, whose exhaustive fitness campaign before and after injuring his knee during last year's Test series against Pakistan in the UAE has transformed his game.

Langer noted that not only had the ODI opener been able to post two centuries plus another score in the 90s through his improved speed and stamina, he was able to back-up from those gruelling innings with impressive fielding efforts.

"What a credit it is to him, where he's come from to where he is now with the way he's transformed his body, and his running between wickets," Langer said.

"I daresay there's no way that 10-12 months ago, Usman Khawaja would have two hundreds and a 90 and still be fresh as a daisy in the field.

"I remember I was sitting in my driveway at home, probably a few days after I got appointed coach (last May) and he was one of the first people I spoke to. He wanted to know where he was at with white-ball cricket.

"I just said, 'The reality is I don't want you to get fit to tick a box or to please me, or (then Team Performance boss) Pat Howard, or Queensland Cricket or Cricket Australia. Do it so you can run harder between the wickets and field better, because we know you're talented.'

"He scores hundreds, and we've talked about having batsmen who can score hundreds in our top four.

"So he was rewarded for it, and he's paying us back in spades at the moment."

Langer also voiced praise for leg spinner Adam Zampa, who ended the five-match series as Australia's second-highest wicket-taker behind fast bowler Pat Cummins, who claimed 14 wickets from 15.71.

Zampa's 11 wickets (at 25.81) not only came with an economy rate of less than a run per ball, but also included the prized scalps of India skipper Virat Kohli (twice in five matches) and his captaincy predecessor MS Dhoni (twice in three).

Zampa had revealed prior to the current Australia season beginning that he had worked diligently on improving his wrong-un, to make it a more attacking option rather than simply a variation in the white-ball format.

But Langer said the 26-year-old has also improved his stock-ball leg break, which has further increased his potency as well as self-belief.

As a result, Zampa looms as potentially a similar World Cup threat to leading rival ODI wrist spinners such as Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Kuldeep Yadav (India) Adil Rashid (England) and Imran Tahir (South Africa).

"Confidence is an amazing thing," Langer said of Zampa's continued development since being omitted from Australia's white-ball squads last year.


"He's worked very hard with Sri (men's team consultant spin bowling coach Sridharan Sriram) and we talked about him developing a turning leg spinner as well because in T20 cricket, he tends to bowl top spinners or wrong-uns and attacks the stumps.

"We saw in probably his third or fourth-last ball (in last night's final match at Delhi), he bowled a ripping leg spinner and that's huge for him.

"Like all our players he's showing development and that's all we can ask for.

"We asked for improvement and we're seeing that. He's been rewarded, and we've been rewarded because of it."

Qantas Tour of India

First T20: Australia won by three wickets

Second T20: Australia won by seven wickets

First ODI: India won by six wickets

Second ODI: India won by eight runs

Third ODI: Australia won by 32 runs

Fourth ODI: Australia win by four wickets

Fifth ODI: Australia win by 35 runs

Qantas Tour of the UAE

First ODI: v Pakistan, March 22 in Sharjah

Second ODI: v Pakistan, March 24 in Sharjah

Third ODI: v Pakistan, March 27 in Abu Dhabi

Fourth ODI: v Pakistan, March 29 in Dubai

Fifth ODI: v Pakistan, March 31 in Dubai

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/jus...rld-cup-squad-changes-india-series/2019-03-14

 

[giri26]

Richardson returns to reignite Cup charge

Fast bowler Kane Richardson has reunited with Australia's one-day squad in Dubai after overcoming the side injury that curtailed his tour of India, eager to re-join a winning squad and restart his World Cup campaign.

Richardson was forced home early from the tour of India with side injury picked up after batting in the nets ahead of the opening T20 international in Vizag, while Nathan Coulter-Nile has also rejoined the team after he left India early for the birth of his daughter.

"I thought I was done for the season," Richardson said in Dubai overnight. "So it's always nice to get a positive and be able to come back and play some sort of cricket.

"It could have been a lot worse but also disappointing to miss the last tour.

"It was amazing waking up every morning to check the scores and see they did it again," he said of Australia's recovery from defeat in the first two ODIs to claim the series 3-2.

And while they will face a Pakistan side that has made eight changes from its regular ODI line-up, Richardson is adamant there will be no let-up or easing up in the five-match series that serves as Australia's final official hit-out before the World Cup.

"(We bring) massive momentum into this series, but you want to back it up," Richardson said. "It's professional sport, you want to win every game and this is a huge series going into the World Cup.

"We climbed the mountain of (beating) India now it's about backing it up against Pakistan who are another quality side."

Richardson admitted it was an "unknown" how the reintroduction of banned batters Steve Smith and David Warner was going to go, but any uncertainty quickly eased.

"Everyone in the end was just really glad to see them," Richardson said. "They've had a really tough 12 months. They've done their time. In 10 days they're back available so it will be nice to see them back playing cricket in the IPL as well."

With that process behind them, Australia's support staff took the opportunity to put the squad through an extensive battery of fitness testing drills that will be used to individually tailor training regimes to ensure players arrive at the World Cup training camp in early May in peak physical condition.

Head Coach Justin Langer's fanaticism about fitness is well known and the results of his punishing regime appears to have been reaping benefits which will be key for the Aussies ahead of a long winter with the Ashes to follow the World Cup.

Physical performance coach Aaron Kellett had the players running, sprinting, jumping, lifting and diving their way around the training ground for a treasure trove of data used to compare the players' physical condition now against what it was at the start of the Australian summer.

"We can get a snapshot on the cost of doing business of a long Australian summer – what I mean by that is what is the impact on the guys' physical qualities from playing a lot of cricket, with the view to use that info to tailor their training through the month of April, " Kellett said.

"The risk is that they've declined but the results indicate our speeds look really good – we've had guys run personal bests in the 2km time trial.

"The cost of doing business can sometimes be detrimental to physical development but I think it's shown these guys have been able to continue their work in and around games and has allowed them to maintain their physical qualities.

really important to each of the guys."

Australia's 15-man World Cup squad must be named by April 23, and the players will gather in Brisbane at the Bupa National Cricket Centre in the first week of May for a training camp that will include a series of one-day practice matches against the Black Caps.

That camp will also mark the full reintegration of Smith and Warner into the Australian squad.

Qantas Tour of the UAE

First ODI: v Pakistan, March 22 in Sharjah

Second ODI: v Pakistan, March 24 in Sharjah

Third ODI: v Pakistan, March 27 in Abu Dhabi

Fourth ODI: v Pakistan, March 29 in Dubai

Fifth ODI: v Pakistan, March 31 in Dubai

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/kan...australia-training-fitness-testing/2019-03-18

 

[giri26]

Jhye ready to jump in if Starc, Hoff stumble

Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc's injuries mean the World Cup carrot is now almost within reach of more Australian pacemen, with Jhye Richardson in the box seat to earn a call-up at age 22.

Hazlewood, Starc and Pat Cummins were part of the triumphant 2015 World Cup squad and the widespread expectation was they would spearhead Australia's defence in England later this year.

Hazlewood's place in the squad is now in immense doubt because of the back injury he suffered in January, while Starc is yet to resume bowling after a false start in his recovery from a torn pectoral muscle.

It's understood Jhye Richardson is tracking towards inclusion in the 15-man squad but nothing will be decided until selectors meet in early April.

Jason Behrendorff was tidy in India, yet his World Cup hopes could ultimately rest in the hands of fellow left-armer Starc.

Starc hopes to be fully fit in time for Australia's World Cup training camp in early May but another setback could ruin the reigning World Cup player of the tournament's hopes of defending his and Australia's crown.

Behrendorff, Jhye Richardson, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Kane Richardson are the fast bowlers currently preparing to face Pakistan in the UAE.

Cummins, who is expected to be rested at some point in the next fortnight as the tourists confront an imposing schedule of five ODIs in 10 days, recently praised Australia's "wealth of fast bowling stocks".

"It's really exciting," Cummins said. "Someone like Jhye ... still hasn't played a heap of ODI cricket.

"Dorff and Coults, I know they've had a few troubles with their injuries but every time they come in they seem to be bowling really well, now is no different.

"Kane Richardson had a great BBL as well, and we've also got two other big quicks to come back."

Coach Justin Langer highlighted the partnership of Cummins and Jhye Richardson after his team's landmark ODI series win over India.

"They're both great athletes. They bowl fast, they're brilliant in the field and they can bat as well," Langer said.

Australia start another five-match series in Sharjah on Friday.

The games against Pakistan will serve as Langer's final chance to assess his charges' form before the 15-man squad is named, due in by April 23.

Kane Richardson, who suffered a side injury in India but has rejoined the ODI squad in Dubai, is happy to be in the mix after what he feared was a more serious setback.

"It could have been a lot worse ... I thought I was done for the season," Richardson said.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/jhy...e-bowlers-world-cup-squad-pakistan/2019-03-19

 

[giri26]

Ricky Ponting: ‘X-factor’ Marsh can help Australia win the World Cup

Ricky Ponting has urged selectors not to put a line through Mitch Marsh when they make their World Cup selections next month, saying he’s the kind of player who could help win the tournament for Australia.
The 27-year-old hasn’t played an ODI since January 2018 and is considered to be the furthest away from national selection he has been in years.

Ponting, however, believes the all-rounder could be Australia’s “x-factor” at the showpiece event in just over two months’ time.

“I would love to see him in the World Cup squad,” Ponting told cricket.com.au. “There is that danger man, x-factor about someone like Mitchell Marsh with the way that he can strike the cricket ball and his bowling is a little bit underrated as well.

“They’re the guys that can win you a World Cup.”

Marsh has fallen on hard times over the summer, having been picked for Australia just once - the Boxing Day Test - across all formats.

And when selectors called up an all-rounder to the Test squad for the second match against Sri Lanka, it was Marcus Stoinis’ phone that rang, not Marsh’s.

He then averaged 24 in the Big Bash League, and is averaging 32.72 in the Sheffield Shield having not passed 50 once since the competition resumed last month.

Adding to his woes was a nasty blow during Western Australia training that had doctors fearing a ruptured testicle, before he went under the knife.

In his own words, “it’s been the toughest six months” of his career.

Ponting said he sympathises with the all-rounder, adding: “It does surprise me (his struggles). It actually saddens me a little bit as well because I love Mitch Marsh to death.”

The former Australia captain said he hopes Marsh realises his potential once again and finishes the domestic season strongly to throw his name back into the mix for national selection.

Australia must name its 15-man World Cup squad by April 23.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...p/news-story/b2119279ea70ca6f4de3c159b2849d2d

 

[Hasan123]

Mitch Marsh has a good ODI record. He has been harshly treated in this format. I think he should be selected over Stonis.

 

[nam]

This tour will be tough for both teams.. I cant wait to see some competitive cricket being played.. a series win for Pakistan will definitely give them a confidence boost ahead of the worldcup

 

[sindhiboy]

I thought Australia would try 1 or 2 new players. But add Smith ,Warner ,Starc ,and Hazelwood to these players I think it will be amongst these 19 for the WC.

I hope people will eventually realize that the current australian odi team is probably their best in 3 years. australia was losing every odi series when smith and warner were playing in the team. both of them average around 25 in their last 6 games. khawaja and handscomb have out performed them by quite a large margin. even the new bowlers have done way better then starc and hazlewood.

Maybe warner can replace finch. but don't see the rest coming back

 

[Hasan123]

I hope people will eventually realize that the current australian odi team is probably their best in 3 years. australia was losing every odi series when smith and warner were playing in the team. both of them average around 25 in their last 6 games. khawaja and handscomb have out performed them by quite a large margin. even the new bowlers have done way better then starc and hazlewood.

Maybe warner can replace finch. but don't see the rest coming back

I am 1 of the few on PP who has rated this Australian team. Adding Warner and Smith to the team will just make it stronger.

 

[giri26]

Cummins prepared for gruelling winter

Pat Cummins is optimistic he can safely negotiate the rigours of back-to-back World Cup and Ashes campaigns in what looms as the most physically testing few months of his career.

After more than two years free of serious injury, the star paceman has gone from being the expensive sports car confined to the garage to Australia's all-terrain four-wheel drive.

The possibility of Cummins playing 11 straight high-intensity one-dayers in the heat of a World Cup and then five Tests against Australia's biggest rivals in less than four months would once have been considered wishful thinking.

But since his injury-plagued six-year wait between his first and second Tests ended in March 2017, only two fast bowlers in the world (James Anderson and Kagiso Rabada) have bowled more overs across all formats than Cummins.

Having also taken more wickets than any of his teammates during that period, not to mention blossoming into an important lower-order batsman and being appointed a vice-captain, Cummins may be Australia's most important asset.

"The World Cup is really busy but it's about two games a week. Hopefully (I) can manage all that," Cummins told reporters in Abu Dhabi ahead of his possible return for the third ODI against Pakistan.

"You want to be playing all the games you can. I’m no different.

"It's quite a long tour so probably managing in between games and how you train, just trying to give yourself every chance to play."

Australia play each of the other nine World Cup competitors in the space of five weeks in June and early July, and their campaign will extend another week should they make it all the way to the final on July 14 at Lord's.

The opening Ashes Test begin two-and-a-half weeks later on August 1, the first of five matches against England.

With Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazelwood, who have sat out the ongoing ODI series against India and Paksitan, in a similar position as first-choice players across both Test and one-day sides, Cummins suggests Australia will need to make use of their entire squad for showpiece 50-over event.

"I got no idea how we're going to work out the World Cup schedule," said Cummins.

"I think it is going to be one of those World Cups where you do need a whole squad of 15 playing and firing because it's nine ODIs in (five) weeks.

"It's going to be quite a big ask for those guys."

While Cummins is under no illusions as to how gruelling the UK jaunt will be from a physical perspective, he's also wary of the contrasting requirements of long-form and limited-overs bowling.

The right-armer admits he developed technical flaws – jumping diagonally in his bowling load-up rather than directly towards the batter among them – in the pursuit of extra pace in limited-overs games and Tests on the subcontinent in his return two years ago.

With the input of Adam Griffith and Troy Cooley, this week appointed to bowling coach jobs for the World Cup and Ashes respectively, Cummins is confident he won't make the same mistakes.

"In 2017, I came in and played two tests in India, then lots of white ball (cricket), another couple of Tests in Bangladesh and then another few ODIs in India and I found a couple of bad habits crept in, more just from not having a swinging ball," he explained.

"I found in the last couple of years I've got a bit better at that, especially opening the bowling I’m always trying to swing the ball.

"When I’m swinging the ball, my action tends to be where I want it to be.

"I was jumping in a lot. Whether it's trying to bowl too fast and get a little more out of my action – I tend to jump in anyway but I was really jumping in (a lot) and my left leg was swinging all the way across and flicking around (my) body.

"It might get you an extra 'k' (kilometre of pace) or two but normally lose my seam and things like that. It's about trying to get a little bit straighter and stick my arm up nice and straight.

"That's going to be something I’m going to keep an eye on with the bowling coaches in England over the next few months."

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/pat...-pakistan-uae-odi-series-australia/2019-03-27

 

[Mp812]

Warner and Smith prefered IPL over this series , i guess

 

[Indiafan]

Warner and Smith prefered IPL over this series , i guess

Their international ban only ended today

 

[Hasan123]

Warner and Smith prefered IPL over this series , i guess

They didn't prefer anything. Cricket Australia chose not to play them lol. And their ban ended today so they couldn't have played in first 3 games.

 

[a_tahir]

Warner and Smith prefered IPL over this series , i guess

No.lol
They were only eligible to play the last 2 matches so there was no point.

 

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Star quick Pat Cummins will miss the remaining two ODIs against Pakistan and return home to rest ahead of the World Cup.

Cummins sat out the opening two matches of the series in the UAE and returned to the side in Wednesday’s third match, taking three wickets as Australia grabbed an unassailable 3-0 series lead.

With the series already secure and a World Cup and Ashes double beginning in a little more than two months, the Aussies are taking no risks with their star player and he will fly home tomorrow.

Cummins joins fellow quick Jhye Richardson in returning home from the UAE early after the WA quick injured his shoulder in Sharjah.

Australia will have just three frontline quicks to choose from for the final two matches of the series in Dubai; Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jason Behrendorff and Kane Richardson.

There is no suggestion Cummins is anything but fully fit, but selectors have decided to play it safe with a man who looms as critical to their chances of success in England later this year.

Australia have played just two frontline quicks in each of the first three matches alongside spinners Adam Zampa and Nathan Lyon, but the exit of Cummins gives Coulter-Nile, Behrendorff and Richardson a chance to impress ahead of the announcement of Australia’s World Cup squad next month.

Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, who missed the series due to injury, are both expected to be fit for the tournament, as is Richardson, who received good news on his injured shoulder on Thursday.

"Everyone in the Australian camp is hopeful, I'm hopeful and in high spirits," Richardson said yesterday after scans ruled out any bone damage.

"I'm not ruling out the World Cup at this stage, that's definitely not an option.

"It's all about getting the shoulder right at this stage.

"JL (Justin Langer) said he's pleased with how I've been going about my business, I was really satisfied with how I played in India and going into the Pakistan series as well I was happy with the way I was playing.

"The shoulder injury is unfortunate, but these things do happen and I'm eager to bounce back quickly."

Qantas Tour of the UAE

First ODI: Australia won by eight wickets

Second ODI: Australia won by eight wickets

Third ODI: Australia won by 80 runs

Fourth ODI: v Pakistan, March 29 in Dubai

Fifth ODI: v Pakistan, March 31 in Dubai

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/pat...one-day-series-uae-ashes-world-cup/2019-03-29