Join now and get your first month for just $1 ><\/a>\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly exciting for Peakey, he\u2019s been great value around the group so far,\u201d Inglis said.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what\u2019s done over the last couple of years, and he really deserves to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt\u2019s a great story with Bill. He\u2019s not been around the group since 2019, so the resilience he\u2019s shown to get back on the park and put in some good performances last year, he really deserves to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ollie Peake of Australia. Photo by Johan Rynners-ICC\/ICC via Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Australia will be without multiple first-choice players for the three-match ODI series against Pakistan, with Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh missing the tour due to IPL commitments and injury.<\/p>\n
Marsh was ruled out of the series earlier this week due to an ankle injury he sustained in India.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s obviously disappointing to lose our skipper,\u201d Inglis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a big part of the group, and he\u2019s obviously a fantastic player as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate for Mitch to miss out on this tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inglis also brushed aside concerns about Australia\u2019s inexperienced pace attack \u2013 Nathan Ellis, Riley Meredith and Stanlake collectively have 25 ODI wickets under their belt, with the likes of Ben Dwarshuis, Xavier Bartlett and Lance Morris unavailable for selection.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of talent in our group,\u201d Inglis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cStanlake\u2019s come back into the squad after a long tine, and he bowls at a seriously high pace, Riley Meredith as well, to guys there that are really exciting.<\/p>\n
\u201cNathan Ellis is very experienced in the white-ball format now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first ODI between Pakistan and Australia commences at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Saturday at 9pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian teenager Ollie Peake will make his international debut this weekend, selected for Saturday\u2019s series opener against Pakistan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,85],"class_list":["post-703139","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\/703139","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=703139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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