Australia's Mitchell Marsh is ruled retired of the Champions Trophy. (AP)
Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh was connected Friday ruled retired of the ICC Champions Trophy ODI successful Pakistan and the UAE owed to a recurring backmost wounded that has troubled him done the season.
Marsh, dropped from Australia’s Test XI earlier the Sydney Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India, has lone played a solitary Big Bash League crippled this month.
“Mitchell Marsh has been ruled retired of the upcoming ICC Men’s Champion’s Trophy with ongoing little backmost symptom and dysfunction,” CA said successful a connection today.
“The National Selection Panel and Australian men’s aesculapian squad ruled Marsh retired of the tourney with the wounded which has not responded sufficiently to rehabilitation.
“His little backmost symptom flared successful caller weeks starring the NSP to marque the longer word determination for Marsh to implicit a much extended play of rehabilitation.
“Marsh volition present acquisition a play of further remainder and rehabilitation arsenic portion of his instrumentality to play plan.
Marsh was touted arsenic a imaginable campaigner to pb Australia successful Pakistan arsenic regular Pat Cummins is besides nursing an ankle wounded with his woman Becky owed to springiness commencement to the couple’s 2nd child. While it is unclear whether Cummins volition particpate connected the tournament, Australia could past sanction Steve Smith arsenic the skipper, who is presently starring the Test broadside successful Australia.
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The Aussies volition person to sanction a replacement for Marsh earlier the February 12 deadline. The defending satellite champions are slated to unfastened their run against England successful Lahore connected February earlier games against South Africa and Afghanistan.
Australia preliminary squad: Pat Cummins (c), Alex Carey, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Hardie, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Short, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa
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