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Maxwell and Stoinis, mainstays of Australia\u2019s T20 team for the past decade, were notably absent from the squad, along with champion batter Steve Smith. Each member of the trio featured in Australia\u2019s recent T20 World Cup squad, where the 2021 champions were eliminated during the group stage following embarrassing defeats to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
Ahead of a blockbuster summer that features 21 Tests across four continents, fast bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood were rested for the white-ball winter tours. <\/p>\n
Maxwell has only managed one half-century across his last 20 T20 knocks, averaging 14.93 in the format since November last year, while Stoinis struggled with the bat during the disastrous T20 World Cup campaign in the subcontinent.<\/p>\n
Smith, who has on multiple occasions expressed his desire to represent Australia at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, has not played a T20I in over two years despite his phenomenal Big Bash League form. The New South Welshman was called into Australia\u2019s T20 World Cup squad as an injury replacement, but didn\u2019t break into the starting XI.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell. Photo by Arun SANKAR \/ AFPSource: AFP<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Bailey declared it was \u201cnot the end of the road\u201d for the superstar trio, but admitted the time was right for Australia to start blooding the next generation ahead of the 2028 T20 World Cup on home soil. Maxwell, Stoinis and Smith \u2014 who are expected to play in the upcoming Major League Cricket campaign in the United States \u2014 will each be older than 39 when the next edition of the ICC event rolls around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call it dropped per se,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut certainly, just given where we are in the cycle of T20s and on the back of our World Cup result, it\u2019s a good opportunity to have a look at some different players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not taking away the fact that every time that we take a team or squad away, the expectation and our expectation is that we will win and those players will perform. So it\u2019s a really important period of time for that T20 group to actually start to develop some different players in different roles across that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not to say that it might be the last we\u2019ve seen of those three.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s T20 series against Bangladesh commences in Dhaka on June 9.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s T20 squad for Bangladesh tour<\/p>\n
Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Cooper Connolly, Tim David, Joel Davies, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Matthew Kuhnemann, Riley Meredith, Josh Philippe, Matthew Renshaw, Adam Zampa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief selector George Bailey has kept the door ajar for veteran all-rounders Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,85],"class_list":["post-665039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665039","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=665039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}