Marnus Labuschagne has been drafted into Australia’s Cricket World Cup squad with spinner Ashton Agar unnoticed on Thursday after selecting up a calf damage. Labuschagne comes into the squad within the one change to the provisional 15-man group introduced by Australia earlier this month as Travis Head retains his place regardless of being dominated out for the beginning of the match after breaking his hand. Five-time champions Australia will head to India with only one specialist spinner in Adam Zampa. Fellow leg-spinner Tanveer Sangha will stick with the squad till not less than the tip of the warm-up matches together with all-rounder Matt Short.

Labuschagne is rewarded following his wealthy vein of kind within the current ODI collection towards South Africa and India, averaging 60 throughout eight innings whereas scoring a century and two fifties.

He offers Australia further batting cowl within the absence of Head, whose left hand is predicted to be in a solid for not less than 4 extra weeks.

“We have made the decision to carry Travis through the early stages with the aim of him being available around the mid-part of the tournament,” mentioned chief selector George Bailey.

“He has been a really important player in this ODI team and we are hopeful his return can provide a positive impetus as it gets to the business end of the tournament.”

Agar performed a key function within the first ODI towards South Africa earlier this month however was dominated out of the subsequent two matches with a calf damage earlier than returning dwelling for the start of his baby.

“This was a tough call but unfortunately, we couldn’t carry both Travis and Ashton into the tournament with the injuries they have,” mentioned Bailey.

Australia, who final received the title in 2015, play hosts India of their opening recreation in Chennai on October 8.

Squad:Pat Cummins (C), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, David Warner, Adam Zampa

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