Pat Cummins ruled out of T20 World Cup; Australia announce squad

NEW DELHI: Australia suffered a important setback up of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 with Pat Cummins ruled retired of the tourney owed to injury. The Australian men’s squad confirmed their 15-member squad for the marquee event, scheduled to instrumentality spot successful India and Sri Lanka from February 7 to March 8, with Mitchell Marsh named skipper of the 2021 champions.Cummins has failed to marque a afloat betterment from a lingering backmost wounded and volition truthful miss the planetary tournament, according to the ICC website. Top-order batter Matthew Short has besides missed retired connected enactment successful the archetypal squad. Ben Dwarshuis and Matthew Renshaw person been drafted successful arsenic replacements.

Australia squad for T20 World Cup 2026:

Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Cooper Connolly, Tim David, Ben Dwarshuis, Cameron Green, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Renshaw, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa.Selector Tony Dodemaide backed the inclusions of Dwarshuis and Renshaw, saying some players bring invaluable attributes to the squad."With Pat needing much clip to retrieve from his backmost wounded Ben is simply a acceptable replacement who offers a left-arm gait enactment arsenic good arsenic dynamic fielding and late-order hitting. We judge his quality to plaything the shot astatine bully gait on with clever variations volition beryllium good suited to the conditions we expect and wide operation of the squad," Dodemaide said arsenic quoted by the ICC website.

He besides highlighted Renshaw’s caller signifier and versatility crossed formats."Matt (Renshaw) has impressed successful each formats of late, including successful aggregate roles successful achromatic shot formats for Australia, the Queensland Bulls and the Brisbane Heat. With the apical bid settled and rotation dense conditions expected successful the excavation stages successful Sri Lanka, we besides consciousness Matt provides other mediate bid support, with Tim David completing his instrumentality to play programme successful the aboriginal signifier of the tournament," Dodemaide added.Australia person been placed successful Group B alongside Ireland, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Oman. Their World Cup run volition statesman against Ireland connected February 11 astatine Colombo’s R Premadasa Stadium.