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Melbourne: Australia’s selection chairman Rod Marsh has issued a blunt message to axed one-day allrounder Glenn Maxwell – if you can show us you’re capable of consistently making runs and taking wickets there is a place for you in our best white ball XI.
Maxwell, Australian cricket’s reigning ODI Player of the Year, was the headline omission from the 15-man squad named today for the five one-day internationals that will follow the current three-Test series as part of the Qantas Tour of Sri Lanka.
Since scoring 96 from 83 balls to steer Australia to victory over India in an ODI at the MCG last January, Maxwell has compiled just 59 runs from 54 balls faced in seven innings (including one unbeaten) at an average of 9.83.
He was dropped from the starting XI during the recent ODI tri-series featuring the West Indies and South Africa in the Caribbean, but returned to the team to steer Australia home with an unbeaten 46 in the penultimate game to earn them a place in the final.
Australia ODI squad for the Qantas Tour of Sri Lanka: Steve Smith (c), David Warner (vc), George Bailey, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa
In: Moises Henriques, Shaun Marsh
Out: Scott Boland, Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell
