The ICC T20 Men\u2019s World Cup 2026 takes place across Sri Lanka and India this February and March.<\/p>\n
Under the captaincy of Mitchell Marsh Australia is\u00a0looking to lift the T20 World Cup trophy for just the second time in its history.<\/p>\n
Hopes are high, but it\u2019s been a challenging and disrupted lead up to the tournament with\u00a0Australia humbled 3-0 in a recent warm up series against Pakistan.<\/p>\n
There have also been untimely injuries to several key players including hard-hitting batsman Tim David and fast bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.<\/p>\n
The Aussie selectors have been forced to make several late changes with\u00a0Ben Dwarshuis replacing Cummins and Matt Renshaw replacing Matthew Short.<\/p>\n
Fast bowler Sean Abbott has also been called into the World Cup squad as a reserve should Josh Hazlewood fail prove his fitness, while Steve Smith is understood to be on standby if required.<\/p>\n
Australian Squad for ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026Mitchell Marsh (c)Xavier BartlettCooper ConnollyPat CumminsTim DavidBen DwarshuisCameron GreenNathan EllisJosh HazlewoodTravis HeadJosh Inglis (wk)Matthew KuhnemannGlenn MaxwellMatt RenshawMatthew ShortMarcus StoinisAdam ZampaSean Abbott (reserve)Australia match schedule for ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026<\/p>\n
Australia has been drawn in Group B and will face co-hosts Sri Lanka together with Ireland, Zimbabwe and Oman in the group stages of the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All four of Australia\u2019s group matches will be played in Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Date<\/p>\n
Opponent<\/p>\n
Venue<\/p>\n
Time (AEDT)<\/p>\n
Wednesday, 11 February<\/p>\n
Ireland<\/p>\n
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
8.30pm<\/p>\n
Friday, 13 February<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe<\/p>\n
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
4.30pm<\/p>\n
Tuesday, 17 February<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
12.30am<\/p>\n
Saturday, 21 February<\/p>\n
Oman<\/p>\n
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
12.30am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ICC T20 Men\u2019s World Cup 2026 takes place across Sri Lanka and India this February and March.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-462930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}