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Monday, July 14, 2025

Aussies touch down for white-ball series

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Sports Desk
1476 days ago
20210629
Australia squad board the team bus after arriving in St Lucia.

Australia squad board the team bus after arriving in St Lucia.

CMC

CAS­TRIES – Aus­tralia ar­rived in St Lu­cia late Mon­day for their eight-match white-ball se­ries against West In­dies, mark­ing their first tour of the Caribbean in six years and their first bi-lat­er­al lim­it­ed overs se­ries against the home side in near­ly a decade.

The 18-man squad touched down at Hewanor­ra In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in the south of the is­land fol­low­ing a near 17-hour di­rect flight from Bris­bane, and are now set to un­der­go quar­an­tine at their ho­tel be­fore be­gin­ning train­ing lat­er in the week.

Aus­tralia will face West In­dies in five Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­als from Ju­ly 9-16 be­fore trav­el­ling to Bar­ba­dos for three One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als from Ju­ly 20-24.

Most of the squad par­tic­i­pat­ed in a plan­ning camp on the Gold Coast last week­end and cap­tain Aaron Finch said Aus­tralia were con­sid­er­ing em­ploy­ing a three-pronged spin at­tack in the five-match se­ries, es­pe­cial­ly with the Daren Sam­my Na­tion­al Sta­di­um hav­ing seen its fair share of crick­et re­cent­ly.

“If you look at the scores, it’s not a high-scor­ing ground, it’s gen­er­al­ly a bit slow­er and spins a lit­tle bit,” said Finch.

“So we’ll look at those op­tions once we get on the ground …”

He added: “It’s al­so an op­por­tu­ni­ty for us to tin­ker around a lit­tle bit, and prob­a­bly play a few dif­fer­ent struc­tures of team, that will give us an op­por­tu­ni­ty to gath­er some more in­for­ma­tion lead­ing in­to the World Cup.”

Leg-spin­ners Adam Zam­pa and Mitchell Swep­son, along with left-arm spin­ner Ash­ton Agar, are the slow bowlers in the squad.

Aus­tralia were hit with sev­er­al late with­drawals, how­ev­er, as the likes of Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richard­son, David Warn­er, Pat Cum­mins, Steve Smith, Mar­cus Stoi­nis, Jhye Richard­son and Daniel Sams all pulled out for vary­ing rea­sons.

On their last T20 tour of the Caribbean, Aus­tralia won the first match St Lu­cia by eight wick­ets but lost the sec­ond in Bar­ba­dos by 14 runs.

SQUAD – Aaron Finch (c), Ash­ton Agar, Wes Agar, Ja­son Behren­dorff, Alex Carey, Dan Chris­t­ian, Josh Ha­zle­wood, Moi­ses Hen­riques, Mitchell Marsh, Ben Mc­Der­mott, Ri­ley Mered­ith, Josh Philippe, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swep­son, Ash­ton Turn­er, An­drew Tye, Matthew Wade, Adam Zam­pa.

Re­serves: Nathan Ellils, Tan­veer Sang­ha.

CMC


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