steven smith Will captain Australia in the ODI series against India Pat Cummins Has been at home since the death of his mother Maria last week.
Cummins left the tour Australia trailed the scoreline 2–1 after the Second Test in Delhi with Smith out.
The head coach said, “Our thoughts are with Pat and his family as they go through this sad process.” Andrew McDonald Said.
Cummins’ place will not be taken in the 15-man squad left for Australia to be selected for the three-match series starting in Mumbai on Friday. Nathan Ellis was previously called replaces jhye richardson Who had a recurrence of his hamstring injury.
Smith taking charge of the team means Australia will have four captains in the last five ODIs. Aaron Finch retired after the series against New Zealand in September and Cummins was named as his successor. However, when he was rested for the second match of the series against England in November, Josh Hazlewood took over the role.
Hazlewood was not an option On this occasion an Achilles injury forced him to return home from the Test series. Smith has previously captained Australia in 51 ODIs.
Apart from the absent fast bowlers, Australia have fielded their full-strength ODI squad for this series to cement plans for the World Cup to be held in India during October and November. He has more ODIs to play before he needs to select his World Cup squad against South Africa in August.
This is an all-rounder-heavy team, and even more so with Cummins out of place with them now, and Australia will continue to figure out how they can balance the side with him. On several occasions last year, he batted at number 8 alongside Cameron Green or Glenn Maxwell in a very deep batting order.
“We’ve had some conversations about the balance of the team we want to play,” McDonald said, adding, “We’ve gone with a structure with eight batsmen to go with a bit of batting depth, we’ve tried that.” As we move into the World Cup, there will be a mix of combinations. lots of all rounders [have been] Selected in the team and they all can play in one team. So we have to answer some of those questions.”
returning from maxwell badly broken leg He suffered a loss last November, though it is uncertain whether he will play all three games, with a cautious approach likely.
david warner fit again after breaking elbow That forced him to return home from the Test series after Delhi, while Mitchell Marsh is set to return from ankle surgery that disrupted his home season after the T20 World Cup.
Ashton Agar has also returned to India after falling sharply down the pecking order among Test spinners. He recently took 5 wickets for 64 runs for Western Australia. Marsh Cup Final,
Australia ODI Team Vs India David Warner, Travis Head, Steven Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Josh Inglis, Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa