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It is not conscionable India who volition person to woody with the lack of injured Jasprit Bumrah astatine the Champions Trophy. With the tourney coming astatine the fag extremity of a agelong season, respective teams are missing retired connected cardinal players with satellite champions Australia being the worst affected. Here is simply a look astatine who are the players missing retired from the Champions Trophy which is scheduled to statesman connected February 19.
Soon aft they announced the provisional squad, they were facing plentifulness of wounded concerns. And each of it has travel existent with their full frontline gait battalion which includes their skipper Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood are ruled retired with injuries. And to marque it worse chap speedster Mitchell Starc has withdrawn from the tourney citing idiosyncratic reasons. It is simply a immense stroke for a squad that hasn’t won a lucifer successful the past 2 editions of the Champions Trophy with the past triumph being successful the last of the 2009 edition. Apart from the accelerated bowler, Australia are besides without their all-rounder Mitchell Marsh — who is besides injured and Marcus Stoinis who announced daze status past week.
In Cummins absence, Steve Smith has been named captain. Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Spencer Johnson and Tanveer Sangha person been included successful the reversed squad.
Full squad: Steve Smith (capt), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matthew Short, Adam Zampa.
South Africa
For a squad that ended up with 3 heartbreaks successful ICC events past year, the Champions Trophy provided a cleanable accidental to extremity the jinx. If they person to bash so, the Proteas volition person to marque bash without pacer Anrich Nortje and Gerald Coetzee who volition the tourney due to the fact that of injury. While Coetzee was injured earlier the provisional squad was announced, successful spot of Nortje South Africa person named 30-year-old seam bowling all-rounder Corbin Bosch.
Full squad: Temba Bavuma (capt), Corbin Bosch , Tony de Zorzi, Marco Jansen, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tristan Stubbs, Rassie van der Dussen.
Afghanistan
For Afghanistan, which made the semifinals of the T20 World Cup past year, the Champions Trophy volition beryllium their maiden outing. And placed successful the radical that includes England, Australia and South Africa, they volition miss the young rotation bowling sensation AM Ghazanfar due to the fact that of a fracture successful the L4 vertebra. The 18-year-old who bowls off-spin has been generating plentifulness of involvement from T20 franchises crossed the globe and was expected to signifier a lethal concern with Rashid Khan & Co.
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Full squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), Ibrahim Zadran, Ikram Alikhil (wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah (vice-capt), Azmatullah Omarzai, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Fareeh Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Nangeyalia Kharote, Naveed Zadran, Noor Ahmad.
In a spot of bother
Two different teams are besides sweating implicit the availability of 2 cardinal players. New Zealand are keeping a adjacent oculus connected opener Rachin Ravindra who was deed by the shot nether floodlights and needed stitches. He has been ruled retired of the ongoing tri-series successful Pakistan, but is expected to beryllium acceptable for the aboriginal stages of the Champions Trophy.
Pakistan, meanwhile, are keeping their fingers crossed implicit Haris Rauf. The pacer walked distant aft bowling conscionable 6.2 overs successful their opening lucifer against New Zealand, which they lost. Pakistan aren’t pressing for a replacement arsenic yet successful the anticipation helium volition regain fittingness by the clip the tourney commences.
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