Australia have drafted Mitchell Starc into the squad for the third and final T♈20I of the ongoing seri🌜es against India as a replacement for the injured Billy Stanlake.
Stanlake suffered a moderate꧃ grade ankle sprain during a catching drill ahead of the washed-out second T20I in Melbourne. He was replaced by Nathan Coulter-Nile for the game and has now been ruled out of the final game in Sydney🅺 with Starc taking his place in the 13-man squad.
Starc last played a T20 international in September 2016, with his last home game in the format coming further back in 2014. The l🍨eft-arm pacer, who was originally rested for the ongoing three-match T20I series against India, turned out for his st✨ate side New South Wales in the last round of Sheffield Shield fixtures against Queensland.
He was expected to sit out the next round of the first class competition in 🎃a bid to prepare for the upcoming four-match Test series against India starting from December 6.
This is what Australia captain Aaron Finch said about the speedster, “Starc has got so much experience in the limited-overs games as well and we’ve seen how dominant he can be when he gets it right with the ball.”
Australia leads the series 1-0 after winning the first match of the seriꦯes by 4 runs (DLS) at the Gabba in Brisbane on𓃲 Wednesday.
Australia’s revised squad:
Aaron Finch(𒅌c), Alex Carey, Ashton Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Ben McDermott, D Arcy Short, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa, ♏Mitchell Starc
