Australia are set to face England in a three-match ODI series that kicks off on Thursday in Adelaide (2.20pm AEDT).
Captain Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bowl at the Adelaide Oval against Jos Buttler’s newly-crowned T20 world champions.
Australia has left out Josh Hazlewood and Mitch Marsh with Ashton Agar and Cameron Green picked for the hosts. The two-spin approach goes against the make-up of recent Australian sides and is a clear sign of plans being put in place for the ODI World Cup in India next year.
Meanwhile, Travis Head will open alongside David Warner with Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne making up the top-order. Marcus Stoinis is in the middle-order with Alex Carey, who wears the gloves, while Cummins, Adam Zampa and Mitchell Starc complete Australia’s bowling options.
In total, there are five changes from Australia’s last match at the T20 World Cup. Glenn Maxwell (broken leg), Kane Richardson (omitted), Aaron Finch (retired), Hazlewood (omitted) and Marsh (omitted) are the changes.
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TEAMS:
Australia: David Warner, Travis Head, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey (wk), Cameron Green, Marcus Stoinis, Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa
England: Jason Roy, Phil Salt, Dawid Malan, James Vince, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler (c, wk), Liam Dawson, Chris Jordan, David Willey, Luke Wood, Olly Stone
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Australia were unable to make the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup on home soil only two weeks ago and pundits were heavily critical of their performance.
England were crowned T20 champions after a resounding victory over Pakistan at the MCG and cricketing legend Kerry O’Keeffe believes Australia must follow their rivals blueprint.
The champions picked a specialist T20 bowling attack, alongside the countries’ most destructive batsmen.
Meanwhile, coach Andrew McDonald utilised the same pace attack used in Test cricket — Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood — instead of selecting specialist players.
O’Keeffe also believes Australia must separate their coaching structure with different coaches for the varying formats.
“Australia picked the best bowlers and England picked the right bowlers,” O’Keeffe said.
“Sam Curran, who probably won’t play Test cricket again, but he is the smartest T20 bowler in the world.
“He bowls Yorkers angled across the right-hander, he bowls the in-swinger when he wants it, they have separated Brendon McCollum and Matthew Mott and I think that’s the template that to be adopted.
“Andrew McDonald perhaps for Test cricket and bring in a short-form coach, I think three formats for the one person is far too many.”
While the one-day game is different beast to the T20 format, O’Keeffe still believes Australia must specialise their teams.
“We are going to see a big transition, the T20 team that Australia have put out will not be the team in 12 months time” O’Keeffe said.
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“There will be different bowlers, the Nathan Ellis’ will come in our the Ben Dwarshius’s, there will be a turnover of bowlers and the Test attack, who served us grandly by the way, Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood.
“Not particularly suited to, particularly Pat, to T20 cricket, those three are our best bowlers, but let’s keep them for Tests and one-dayers.”
Test skipper Pat Cummins will captain the side after Aaron Finch retired from one-day cricket.
Meanwhile, Travis Head will return to the side to partner David Warner at the top of the order.
Men’s Dettol ODI Series v England
Thursday Nov 17: Adelaide Oval, 1:50pm
Saturday Nov 19: SCG, 2:20pm
Tuesday Nov 22: MCG, 2:20pm
