Jess Jonassen has been ignored of Australia’s squad for the Twenty20 World Cup, with the 105-match veteran neglected for fellow spinner Sophie Molineux.
Jonassen is the highest-profile identify lacking from Australia’s 15-woman squad introduced on Monday, with the defending champions at full power for the UAE event.
Alyssa Healy will captain Australia to a World Cup for the primary time, whereas Molineux and fast Tayla Vlaeminck are each in after quite a few injury-ravaged years.
Australia will take three spinners, with well-established gamers Georgia Wareham and Ashleigh Gardner additionally picked.
Younger batter Phoebe Litchfield will play in her first World Cup, whereas Vlaeminck is joined by Darcie Brown as the 2 out-and-out quicks within the squad.
Jonassen was ignored of Australia’s white-ball tour to Bangladesh earlier this 12 months, however had made a powerful case for a recall in franchise cricket since then.
She’s going to miss out on a T20 World Cup for the primary time since her debut in 2012, having featured in 5 event wins since then.
“Jess Jonassen is once more unfortunate to overlook out,” chief selector Shawn Flegler mentioned.
“However we have been impressed with the best way she’s bounced again, and we’ll proceed to observe her kind forward of the house summer time.
“That is the primary time in a very long time we have had our complete contract listing out there for choice forward of a World Cup and it is resulted in a extremely secure and balanced squad.”
The identical squad will face New Zealand within the three-match T20 collection in Queensland subsequent month, earlier than their World Cup opener towards Sri Lanka on October 4.
The event was scheduled to happen in Bangladesh, however violence related to political instability led to the event being moved by the ICC.
Australia has received six of the eight editions of the Girls’s T20 World Cups, together with all the final three.
The final time Australia didn’t declare victory in an ICC event was on the 2017 50-over World Cup when it misplaced to overwhelmed finalists India within the semifinal.
The one time Australia has not reached the ultimate of a T20 World Cup was within the first version of the event in 2009.
Australia’s T20 World Cup squad
Alyssa Healy (captain), Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, Tayla Vlaeminck.
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