Toss Australia chose to field vs Zimbabwe <\/p>\n
Zimbabwe<\/a> veteran Brendan Taylor<\/a> has been ruled out of the remainder of the T20 World Cup<\/a> with a hamstring injury, while Australia<\/a> have welcomed back Tim David<\/a> and Ben Dwarshuis<\/a> for the Australia vs Zimbabwe fixture in Colombo on Friday. Travis Head<\/a> won the toss and elected to field first.<\/p>\n Taylor, 40, retired hurt after suffering the injury while batting in the win over Oman. Tadiwanashe Marumani<\/a> will keep wicket in Taylor’s absence.<\/p>\n Allrounder Tony Munyonga<\/a> came into the side to replace Taylor. Meanwhile, Richard Ngarava has been rested for precautionary reasons and Graeme Cremer<\/a> has come back into the line-up.<\/p>\n Australia have made two changes from the side that beat Ireland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n David has been passed fit to play and is listed to bat at No. 4 with Cooper Connolly missing out. Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis will slide one spot. Dwarshuis has also come in for Xavier Bartlett after the latter was preferred against Ireland.<\/p>\n Head will captain again with Mitchell Marsh still unavailable due to his testicular injury.<\/p>\n Australia: 1 Travis Head (capt), 2 Josh Inglis (wk), 3 Cameron Green, 4 Tim David, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Glenn Maxwell, 7 Matthew Renshaw, 8 Ben Dwarshuis, 9 Nathan Ellis, 10 Matt Kuhnemann, 11 Adam Zampa<\/p>\n Zimbabwe: 1 Brian Bennett, 2 Tadiwanashe Marumani, 3 Dion Mayers, 4 Sikandar Raza (capt), 5 Ryan Burl, 6 Tony Munyonga, 7 Tashinga Musekiwa, 8 Brad Evans, 9 Wellington Masakadza, 10 Graeme Cremer, 11 Blessing Muzarabani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Australia chose to field vs Zimbabwe Zimbabwe veteran Brendan Taylor has been ruled out of the remainder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-476731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476731","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=476731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}