Mitchell Owen Earns ODI Call-Up as Australia Name Squad for Proteas

New Delhi: Mitchell Owen’s rapid ascent has continued with him earning a maiden call-up to Australia’s ODI squad for the upcoming home series against South Africa in August.

Australia will be hosting South Africa for three ODIs and as many T20Is in Darwin, Cairns, and Townsville, with Owen included in both squads.

Owen recently played all five T20Is against West Indies and finished with a strike rate of 192.30, and is now very much in contention for a spot in the squad for next year’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.

Travis Head and Josh Hazelwood have made a return to both white-ball squads, so as Matt Short, who’s recovered from a minor side strain. In the absence of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Marsh will be the ODI squad captain, which also has Cameron Green, Xavier Bartlett and Lance Morris.

Morris returns to an Australian squad for the first time since his last game against Pakistan in Perth in November last year. Sean Abbott, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Tanveer Sangha, Cooper Connolly and Aaron Hardie are not part of the ODI squad.

Moreover, with the T20I squad reduced to 14 members, as well as Head and Hazelwood returning, Fraser-McGurk, Hardie, Connolly and Xavier Bartlett were not selected. Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc are not in both squads as they continue their build-up towards the home summer which has the all-important five-match Ashes. IANS

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