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Australia announce Champions Trophy 2025 squad; Pat Cummins to lead, no Jake Fraser-McGurk

Australia named their 15-strong squad for the Champions Trophy 2025 led by Pat Cummins. Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Marsh, all of whom are not part of the Test tour to Sri Lanka have been included in the preliminary squad. Cummins played through an ankle injury during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy while Josh Hazlewood suffered a calf strain during the Brisbane Test and hence was ruled out of the action for a month while Marsh is going through a form slump, however, is expected to be a mainstay in the ODI side.

Sean Abbott is the only notable absentee from the squad that played the ODI World Cup in India in 2023 and recently in the series against Pakistan while Jake Fraser-McGurk, who hasn’t been able to pull his weight in the national setup thus far too was ignored as Matt Short and Aaron Hardie received their maiden ICC event call-ups for Australia.

Should Cummins not make it, Abbott is likely to get in, joining the likes of Mitchell Starc, Hazlewood and Nathan Ellis in the pace-bowling department with the all-rounders Marcus Stoinis and Aaron Hardie for support.

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