Fresh faces add new look to Aussie white-ball squads

Australia will unveil the fruits of their winter endeavours after selectors revealed fresh-faced white-ball squads to face England this month.

Up to eight new faces could play their first internationals on home soil as Australia host England for three ODIs and five T20Is starting November 13 in Perth.

Pace bowler Mahli Beardman, gun young batter Oliver Peake and allrounders Jack Edwards and Liam Scott were today all named in Australia's one-day squad.

Nikhil Chaudhary and Joel Davies join Beardman and Edwards in Australia's T20I set up while there is a debut in the offing for wicketkeepers Lachlan Shaw and Sam Harper.

Australia ODI squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Mahli Beardman, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Jack Edwards, Cameron Green, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Ollie Peake, Matthew Renshaw, Liam Scott, Adam Zampa.

 

Australia T20 squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Mahli Beardman, Nikhil Chaudhary, Tim David, Joel Davies, Jack Edwards, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sam Harper, Spencer Johnson, Mitch Owen, Lachlan Shaw, Adam Zampa

All of Beardman, Peake, Edwards, Chaudhary, Scott and Davies made their debuts in white-ball internationals during a winter that saw Australia play series in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Harper and Shaw are the two uncapped players. 

The new faces join the core of Australia's limited-overs sides under the captaincy of Mitchell Marsh, but the fast-bowling trio of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood have all been rested following their three-Test series in South Africa with a 10-Test block to come starting in December.

From Australia's chastening Test defeat in Cape Town, Travis Head, Matthew Renshaw, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis and Cooper Connolly have all been included in the ODI squad. However, none of that group will front up for the T20I leg, which wraps up in Canberra on December 2.

Australia face a four-match Test series against New Zealand, current leaders in the World Test Championship cycle, that begins in Perth on December 9 as Cummins' men seek to return to form on home soil having lost three of their past five Tests. That will be followed by a five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy tour of India before the 150th Anniversary Test celebration in Melbourne in March.

Beardman made his international debut last January in Lahore but pulled up sore in the warm-up for that series' second match and was diagnosed with a back stress fracture that cut short his season. After a winter of rehab he starred for Australia A in their limited-overs matches in India in October, taking 4-23 in six overs in Puducherry.

Selection panel chair George Bailey sayd Beardman was on their radar to "develop into an all-format play across the coming years'.

"Mahli Beardman's recent performances for Australia A were impressive and we are incredibly excited for his return to the national team across the ODI and T20 formats," Bailey added. 

Peake and Edwards made their ODI debuts in Rawalpindi and Durban respectively, while Beardman, Edwards (Lahore) and Chaudhary and Davies (Chattogram) were all capped in T20 Internationals this year.

Peake showed glimpses of why he's so highly rated by the Australian set-up, including a 24-run final over blitz in Zimbabwe in his middle-order role, and Edwards claimed a five-wicket haul in Johannesburg against the Proteas.

The T20 squad marks the return to international cricket for Jake Fraser-McGurk after an 18-month absence and Mitch Owen, with selection chief George Bailey impressed by their development. 

"Jake (Fraser-McGurk) and Mitch (Owen) return to the T20 side and we believe their ball-striking can be a point of difference in the shorter formats.    

"They are good examples of players who have had an opportunity at the international level and have continued working on their game from what they learnt from those experiences."   

With Inglis hitting a century in the third Test in Cape Town and in the mix for a spot in the side to face New Zealand, he has been rested from the T20I series opening the door for uncapped 'keeper-bats Shaw and Harper to vie for a debut. 

Shaw was named captain of NSW's One-Day Cup side this summer, and led the Sheffield Shield team in Nic Maddinson's absence, as well as having a strong Australia A series behind him. Harper has been in hot form since last summer when he was the BBL's player of the tournament, and was added to the Test squad in South Africa, but did not play. 

"Lachie Shaw is a highly talented cricketer we also think will develop quickly and has a powerful game that will impact in the T20 format," Bailey said. 

"Sam Harper has performed strongly in domestic cricket. He is in a great place with his game right now and is executing his style of cricket consistently, across all formats."

Nathan Ellis is still recovering from a side strain he picked up in the second ODI in South Africa in late September that has kept him out of the 50-over leg, but he will return for the T20I series.

Matt Short fell out of favour in the limited-overs set-up earlier this year and was not considered having undergone a hip procedure that will keep him sidelined for the next five weeks.

Australia v England ODI & T20I Series 2026

First ODI: November 13, Perth Stadium, 2:30pm AEDT (D/N)

Second ODI: November 15, Adelaide Oval, 2:30pm AEDT (D/N)

Third ODI: November 18, Bellerive Oval, Hobart, 2:30pm AEDT (D/N)

Australia squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Mahli Beardman, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Jack Edwards, Cameron Green, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Ollie Peake, Matthew Renshaw, Liam Scott, Adam Zampa.

England squad: Harry Brook (c), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Sonny Baker, Tom Banton, Jacob Bethell, Jordan Cox, Henry Crocombe, Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Josh Tongue

First T20I: November 21, MCG, 7:15pm AEDT

Second T20I: November 24, Gold Coast Stadium, 7:15pm AEDT

Third T20I: November 27, The Gabba, 7:15pm AEDT

Fourth T20I: November 29, SCG, 7:15pm AEDT

Fifth T20I: December 2, Manuka Oval, 7:15pm AEDT

Australia squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Mahli Beardman, Nikhil Chaudhary, Tim David, Joel Davies, Jack Edwards, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sam Harper, Spencer Johnson, Mitch Owen, Lachlan Shaw, Adam Zampa

England squad: Harry Brook (c), Tom Banton, Jacob Bethell, James Coles, Jordan Cox, Henry Crocombe, Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Aneurin Donald, Eddie Jack, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Thomas Rew, Phil Salt, Luke Wood.