Cricket Australia Announces 24-Member List Of Centrally Contracted Players; Todd Murphy And Lance Morris Receive Australia Central Contracts

Cricket Australia (CA) announced the 24-member list of men’s contracted players for 2023–24. The young spinner Todd Murphy and tearaway pacer Lance Morris received their maiden central contracts, while Marcus Harris is a surprise pick in the list, despite not having played a Test match since January 2022.

Todd Murphy made his Test debut against India in the recently concluded Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) series. The young off-spinner picked up seven wickets on his debut match in Nagpur and ended the series with 14 wickets at an average of 25.21. Morris was expected to make his Test debut but didn’t get a chance to play his first international match.

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Mitchell Swepson, Peter Handscomb, Matt Renshaw, and Aaron Finch are absent from Australia’s list of contracted players. Peter Handscomb returned to the Test team after four years with his impressive performance in the Sheffield Shield domestic first-class competition. Handscomb had a good series with the bat in the series in India.

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Michael Swepson was overlooked despite being the second-choice spinner behind Nathan Lyon before the start of the BGT series. Fast bowlers Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, and Sean Abbott have all been handed contracts. David Warner, who is in the last stages of his international career, made the list with the WTC final and ODI World Cup this year.

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We Will Need A Squad Mentality To Achieve Success – George Bailey

Chief selector George Bailey said that they have picked the players with the World Test Championship, the Ashes, and the ICC One-Day World Cup in mind.

“Two huge challenges in the test arena, in the World Test Championship and the Ashes are on our doorstep followed soon after by the ICC One-Day World Cup. We have chosen a group of players we expect will form the majority of those two campaigns and we know that we will need a squad mentality to achieve success,” chief selector George Bailey said.

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Australia Contracted Men’s Players 2023-24

Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Cameron Green, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, David Warner, Adam Zampa.

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