Cricket Australia announce preliminary 26-man squad for England tour

Cricket Australia have named the preliminary 26-man squad to tour of England in September for a three-match ODI and T20 series.

Uncapped trio Daniel Sams, Riley Meredith and Josh Philippe are some of the prominent names in the squad for a potential late summer tour.

The left-handed batsman Usman Khawaja and all-rounder Marcus Stoinis have been included in the limited-overs squad despite dropped from the list of nationally contracted players in the winter.

The 5-time World Cup champions were initially scheduled to tour England for three one-day internationals and three T20Is in July but the series was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Australia’s squad: Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Michael Neser, Josh Philippe, Daniel Sams, D’Arcy Short, Kane Richardson, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa.

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