Selected players from Australia’s Ashes squad – including stand-in captain Steve Smith – will play in the Big Bash from this weekend, but batter Travis Head will play no part. <\/p>\n
Smith, wicketkeeper Alex Carey and batters Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja are among the players that will return this weekend and be available for their sides final three group games and the play-offs. <\/p>\n
Bowlers Michael Neser and Mitchell Starc will be available for Brisbane Heat and Sydney Sixers from the 14 and 16 January respectively meaning they can play in two group matches. <\/p>\n
Head has been rested before February’s T20 World Cup, while pace bowler Scott Boland will also play no part.<\/p>\n
All-rounder Cameron Green will also not feature as he is not contracted to any side. <\/p>\n
Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon all miss out as they continue to recover from injuries. <\/p>\n
From Saturday, 10 January<\/p>\n
Brisbane Heat: Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne <\/p>\n
Melbourne Renegades: Brendan Doggett<\/p>\n
From Sunday, 11 January <\/p>\n
Sydney Sixers: Steve Smith, Todd Murphy <\/p>\n
Hobart Hurricanes: Jake Weatherald, Beau Webster <\/p>\n
Adelaide Strikers: Alex Carey (Adelaide Strikers)<\/p>\n
Perth Scorchers: Josh Inglis (Perth Scorchers)<\/p>\n
From Wednesday, 14 January <\/p>\n
Brisbane Heat: Michael Neser<\/p>\n
From Friday, 16 January:<\/p>\n
Sydney Sixers: Mitchell Starc<\/p>\n
Not available<\/p>\n
Nathan Lyon (hamstring injury), Scott Boland and Travis Head (both managed), Cameron Green (uncontracted)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selected players from Australia’s Ashes squad – including stand-in captain Steve Smith – will play in the Big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-361261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}