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Allrounder Angelo Mathews and fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera will join Sri Lanka’s World Cup squad as travelling reserves.They are expected to link up with the team on Friday, ahead of Sri Lanka’s fourth league game against Netherlands in Lucknow on Saturday, but can only be drafted into the squad in case of an injury to a player. Fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana had missed their previous game because of a shoulder niggle.Sri Lanka are presently at the bottom of the points table, having lost their first three games against South Africa, Pakistan and Australia; they are the only side without a win in the tournament so far.Their captain Dasun Shanaka has already been ruled out of the tournament with a quadriceps tear, an injury that needs a recovery period of around three weeks, and he was replaced by allrounder Chamika Karunaratne. Kusal Mendis captained Sri Lanka against Australia in Shanaka’s absence.Chameera, 31, would have been a first-choice pick in Sri Lanka’s World Cup squad but was not fit enough for selection by the deadline. He last played for Sri Lanka in June against Afghanistan and in the warm-ups of the World Cup qualifier. After that, he was initially out with a torn pectoral muscle, which he suffered ahead of the World Cup qualifier in Zimbabwe. And, after recovering from that, he injured himself again in the Lanka Premier League in August.Mathews has not played an ODI since the first game of the home series against Afghanistan in June, and he last played for Sri Lanka in the Colombo Test against Pakistan in July. Sri Lanka are also without legspinner Wanindu Hasaranga, who was ruled out of the World Cup with an injury.

Not much fazes Alex Carey. But 2023 has tested his mild-mannered nature more than any other year.The Test tour of India was a series of ups and downs. He produced one of the best wicketkeeping performances by an Australian ever on an Indian Test tour. But he was bamboozled with the bat by Ravindra Jadeja and co which somewhat overshadowed his glovework.The subsequent England tour started spectacularly with a sensational performance with bat and gloves in the World Test Championship final. He also played brilliantly at Edgbaston to help put Australia 1-0 up in the Ashes.But Lord’s and that incident seemed to change the course of his year.Related

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Later at the ODI World Cup, having been a bedrock of Australia’s ODI side for four years and even captaining them in three matches in 2021, he was axed after one match. The axing was yet another thing to process in what has been a difficult year.”I was surprised,” Carey said on Monday. “Obviously really disappointed to lose my spot there. But, I guess once that news was delivered it was, I guess process it, try to learn from it and then go to work in the nets.”Returning home for a Test summer has offered a chance for a reset. There was some external noise about his Test place but he was never in any danger with coach Andrew McDonald confirming he is Australia’s No.1 Test wicketkeeper without doubt despite his ODI omission.”He’s our number one choice in Test cricket,” McDonald said on Sunday. “Our view on that hasn’t changed for a period of time and don’t see it changing in the immediate future.”The two formats and the roles he plays in each are not intertwined. His ODI axing was as much about the overall composition of Australia’s World Cup winning top seven as it was about Carey’s form. The dynamism and flexibility of Josh Inglis was a better fit to complement a middle order that ended up featuring two anchor-type players in Steven Smith and Marnus Labuschagne.Alex Carey remains Australia’s “number one choice” in Test cricket•ICC/Getty Images

Carey said the axing in India allowed him a chance to reset his goals and rebuild his game with the help of former Zimbabwe wicketkeeper batter Andy Flower and Australia’s batting coach Michael Di Venuto.”The silver lining is I had a mini pre-season over there as well,” Carey said. “Always being ready to play but I was able to, I guess pick my game apart and work with some new faces and with different minds in the game. Having Andy Flower over there was great as well.”Now he’s a fantastic bloke. And working alongside Michael Di Venuto was great. Different ways to look at the game. Certain areas to score.”It was nice just to get different opinions and talk to different people.”Carey was able to parlay that hard work into a well compiled 81 on return to Sheffield Shield cricket last week. He was pleased he was able to make an adjustment in-game after failing in the first innings.”It was nice to get back out in the middle and play and compete,” Carey said.”First innings to second innings, I probably a little bit of a tweak as well just in the mindset of playing again. It was good to get out and play a game after two or three months in the nets. It’s a little bit different out the middle.”Carey looked in good touch at WACA ground on Sunday in Australia’s first training session back together as a Test side. He worked one on one with Di Venuto in the nets looking to hit as straight as possible, a long-held batting philosophy on Perth’s bouncy pitches.He handled a very brisk spell from Lance Morris in a centre-wicket net and looked as comfortable as anyone against the high pace.While Carey’s batting returns in the Border-Gavaskar series and his diminishing returns in England were cause for alarm, it’s worth remembering that he made a century in his last Test innings in Australia against South Africa in Melbourne. He insisted his self-belief has not wavered.”My self-belief has always been really strong,” Carey said. “All I can do is sort of control what I can do and continue to prepare and find ways to get better. I’m excited to get out there and play.”

Former Australia batter Michael Klinger has been named as the new head coach of Gujarat Giants ahead of WPL 2024. Klinger replaces Rachael Haynes, the former Australia batter, in the role, and will now work alongside bowling coach Nooshin Al Khadeer and mentor Mithali Raj.”Working with Michael will help bring out the best in the Gujarat Giants players,” Raj said about the appointment. “His expertise with the bat is also well-known, and will surely benefit some of the younger members of our team. We look forward to having Klinger in the dressing room. We are sure of attaining success with him as head coach.”Since his retirement from the game, Klinger was head coach of the BBL side Melbourne Renegades for two seasons from 2019-20 onwards, and most recently was assistant coach at Sydney Thunder in the WBBL, where the side finished fourth. In a statement, Klinger said he hoped to take Giants to “the ultimate glory”.Related

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The announcement of Klinger as coach comes just over two weeks out from the start of the second season of WPL from February 23. Last season, Giants had lost six of their eight games with Haynes as coach, and had finished at the bottom among the five teams. They were also missing their designated captain Beth Mooney due to injury from very early in the competition.But Giants had a promising auction in the lead-up to the upcoming season of the WPL. They added multiple all-round options alongside a gun batter and an express fast bowler in Kashvee Gautam. Giants also opted for Phoebe Litchfield, someone who has worked closely with Klinger in the past. Opting for Scotland allrounder Kathryn Bryce, who comes from an Associate nation, also allows Giants to play five overseas players in their XI, while Veda Krishnamurthy’s return, a surprise, gives them experience in the middle order.Giants’ first game of WPL 2024 is on February 25 against Mumbai Indians.

Sensational defensive bowling from Chennai Super Kings did what might have seemed unthinkable: successfully defend a total in the night at Wankhede Stadium. And it was not a huge total: pushed just over 200 by a MS Dhoni cameo of 20 off the last four balls of the innings after Shivam Dube had continued his dream season with an unbeaten 66 off 38.For large parts it was a contest that fit the billing: between the two most successful teams in the IPL and two of the three most popular teams. For large parts, it seemed the defending champions CSK would be outgunned. Jasprit Bumrah restricted them with four overs for just 27 and the Mumbai innings looked like it was going smoothly, but Matheesha Pathirana started the comeback with two wickets in his first over.Still, Mumbai were favourites going into the last seven, needing 83 with eight wickets in hand, but their fast bowlers led by Pathirana executed their plans of making batters hit into the bigger part perfectly, eventually winning by 20 runs. Rohit Sharma scored a century but it was only to Mumbai’s detriment: he scored just 14 off 14 between overs 13 to 18 and then found another wind when the task had become mathematically impossible.1:38

Is Shivam Dube booking his ticket to the T20 World Cup?

Cat and mouse for startersThis match was also a tactical classic from both sides. CSK promoted Ajinkya Rahane to open because he was carrying a niggle and thought it was better if he just batted in the powerplay. In a way it worked tactically too: Ruturaj Gaikwad hasn’t been going at a million miles an hour in the powerplay and could also be there for when Bumrah bowled. Either way, Rahane didn’t last, and Gaikwad had to come out in the second over. Mumbai then started to bowl cheap overs of spin before Dube got a chance to bat.When Dube came in, that was it for spin, and Bumrah came back to bowl a second over inside the first ten for only the second time this IPL. Except that Mumbai did have to bowl overs of less-than-express pace. Dube took a toll of Hardik Pandya and Romario Shepherd as Gaikwad slowed down from his starts of 24 off 12 to offer a catch on 39 off 31. Rohit dropped him, and Gaikwad took 29 off nine before he got out.Bumrah stifles but Hardik blinksHardik started reining CSK back in with clever use of a wide slower ball to get Gaikwad. Then Bumrah just bowled two ruthless overs full of attempted yorkers. Only one boundary came off the 17th and 19th, leaving CSK at 180 for 3. The problem for Mumbai was, that they had to now go to Hardik, Shepherd or spin for the last over.The captain took the challenge on, but came a distant second to Dhoni, offering him the length to hit a hat-trick of sixes. Dhoni’s IPL this year: 25 balls, 59 runs, no dismissal.2:06

Was Pathirana’s spell among the best-ever at Wankhede?

Pathirana has to interveneYet again Mumbai started like they would make short work of a target around 200 after gunning RCB’s 196 down in 15.3 overs. Rohit and Ishan Kishan looked smooth and brutal. Seven overs, 70 runs, not a sweat broken.Enter Pathirana, coming back from an injury break. The first ball was a loose one on the pads, and Kishan found midwicket with precision. Six feet on either side and it would have left a hole in the boundary boards. However, following that lucky break, Pathirana was sensational. He welcomed Suryakumar Yadav with a 151.2kmph wide yorker and followed it up with a wide bouncer with the deep third placed fine just for the ramp. The assist came from Mustafizur Rahman, who took it overhead, flicked it back up, stepped outside, and came back to take the catch.The middle oversRavindra Jadeja bowled four overs on the trot for 37, which is commendable in dewy conditions on a Mumbai night. Rohit, though, seemed to have overcome his recent threat of left-arm spin by taking 22 off 13 Jadeja deliveries. Runs kept coming from the other end until Pathirana came back.2:54

Was Hardik Pandya’s decision to bowl the final over sound?

A defensive masterclassIt was all in Pathirana’s basket now. Three overs to bowl out of seven with Mumbai needing just 83 with all the firepower in the dugout. Pathirana began with a dot to push it over two a ball for the first time. Then a subtle slower ball got the fluent Tilak Varma out. Then both former and current captains of Mumbai froze.Shardul Thakur followed that over with wide-line slower balls. Both Rohit and Hardik faced three each for a single each. A frustrated Hardik even wasted a review on a wide. Tushar Deshpande followed it up with a boundary-less over and the wicket of Hardik. Rohit seemed to have run out of gas and timing.Tim David raised some hope with successive sixes off Mustafizur but he again went wide and out of David’s reach to get the wicket. Pathirana provided the finishing touch by rattling Shepherd’s stumps with a quick, straight delivery, the license for which he got because he had the bigger leg-side boundary to play with.However, it was the slower balls from the other end that complemented Pathirana. At one point, they had bowled 13 for just four runs. They ended up with 27 slower balls for 36 runs, which was still way better than Mumbai’s execution of the delivery.

Shakib Al Hasan is back in Bangladesh’s T20I side after almost a year. He has been named in the squad for the final two matches against Zimbabwe in Dhaka. Also returning are Soumya Sarkar and Mustafizur Rahman, as the home side look to continue their winning ways after taking a 3-0 lead in Chattogram.Related

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Those making way for this trio are Parvez Hossain Emon and Afif Hossain while fast bowler Shoriful Islam has been rested. Shoriful played the first two T20Is while Parvez and Afif missed all three games.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Shakib was Bangladesh’s captain when he last played T20Is, his last appearance a Player-of-the-Match performance against Afghanistan in Sylhet in July 2023. He was building the team towards this year’s T20 World Cup, but an eye condition and a finger injury restricted his appearances after the ODI World Cup in October-November 2023. Najmul Hossain Shanto has replaced him as captain in all formats this year.Mustafizur is back after a period of rest following his return from the IPL, where he was a solid performer with the ball for Chennai Super Kings. Soumya is returning from the knee injury he sustained during the third ODI against Sri Lanka on March 18.The final two T20Is could go some way towards helping the selectors finalise Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup squad, which according to reports is to be announced on May 13, the day after the last T20I in Dhaka.Bangladesh squad: Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), Litton Das, Tanzid Hasan, Shakib Al Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Soumya Sarkar, Tanvir Islam, Mohammad Saifuddin.

Gloucestershire registered the highest score in their 154-year first-class history before making substantial inroads into the Leicestershire reply on the second day of the Vitality Division Two championship match at the UptonSteel County Ground.Captain Graeme Van Buuren hit a century at better than a run a ball, becoming the third batter in his team to reach three figures after Cameron Bancroft and Ben Charlesworth had reached the landmark on day one, before declaring on 706 for 6 at tea.It was the first time Gloucestershire passed 700, surpassing the 695 for 9 made against Middlesex in 2004, and the fifth highest first-class score made against Leicestershire.Young leg-spinner Ed Middleton then won decisions off consecutive deliveries as Leicestershire were reduced to 133 for 5 at the close.A cloudy morning saw Gloucestershire made to work hard for their runs, at least for the first hour, so much so that they failed to pick up a fifth batting bonus point – a target that had looked well in reach when they began the day on 385 for 2, needing another 65 runs from 15.3 overs.The loss of Miles Hammond did not help, the left-hander bowled off the inside edge trying to drive a Scott Currie delivery. Ollie Price passed 50 for the third time this season before missing an attempted reverse sweep at Rehan Ahmed, but Van Buuren and James Bracey took Leicestershire’s tiring young attack apart during a partnership of 147 for the fifth wicket.It was a surprise when Bracey, having made 92, edged a drive at a wide delivery from Currie to Ben Cox behind the stumps, but Van Buuren went to his century, made from 90 balls, with a six off Louis Kimber.Needing 557 simply to avoid the follow on, Leicestershire made a poor start when Marcus Harris was given out leg before to Matt Taylor. The decision was a close one, the ball hitting the Australian well above the knee roll, and so too were the decisions which saw the demise of Louis Kimber and Lewis Hill.Kimber went back to a delivery from Middleton that skidded on and looked to be missing leg stump, and the next ball saw Hill given out caught off bat-pad when replays suggested the bat may not have been involved.There was little doubt however about the leg before decision given when Josh Shaw’s full delivery trapped Peter Hanscombe on the back foot, and none at all when Ahmed’s airy waft resulted in the young England all-rounder edging Beau Webster’s delivery to Bracey.

India

India topped Group D by beating South Africa, UAE and Scotland. In the Super Six round, they were bowled out for 87 by Australia but bounced back from that loss with a thumping win over Sri Lanka, thereby assuring themselves of a semi-final spot.Key players
Vice-captain Shweta Sehrawat and left-arm spinner Mannat Kashyap.Sehrawat has been quite the star for India with the bat. She has the second-most runs in the competition and has been unbeaten in three of her five innings – one of which came while batting down at No. 6 as opposed to the opening spot.Kashyap missed out on India’s opening clash but has picked up wickets in three of her four matches since. Kashyap and legspinner Parshavi Chopra are the only Indians with four-fors in the competition.Georgia Plimmer’s senior team experience could prove crucial for New Zealand•Getty Images

New Zealand

New Zealand won each of their Group C matches against Indonesia, Ireland and West Indies comprehensively to finish at the top. In the Super Sixes, they survived a scare against Rwanda before crushing Pakistan. They finished at second spot in the Super Six Group 2 by virtue of a lower net run rate than England.Related

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Key players
Georgia Plimmer and Anna Browning.Plimmer has put to use her 13-match international experience. She’s scored 120 runs – the second-most for New Zealand – at a strike rate of 157.89. She scored an unbeaten 22-ball 41 opening the batting against West Indies, and a half-century at one-drop against Pakistan.Browning leads the batting charts for them. She also has chipped in with her right-arm seam bowling, picking up four wickets at an economy of 2.64. She was part of the New Zealand Development side that toured India in December and picked up a three-for in the last game in Mumbai.Rhys McKenna, captain of Australia, talks to Grace Scrivens, captain of England•ICC via Getty Images

Australia

The inaugural Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup kicked off with an upset, as Australia went down to Bangladesh. Thereafter, Australia have been clinical enough to ensure there were no more hiccups heading into the semi-final. They showed off their wares in the match against India in particular, but finished second in Super Six Group 1 with India’s net run rate (2.844) being superior to theirs (2.210).Key players
Maggie Clark and Kate Pelle.Clark has made excellent use of her tall frame and has picked up nine wickets, the second-most in the tournament so far. She’s hit the deck hard and also managed to extract enough movement to have the batters on their toes. She dismissed Sonia Mendhiya and Richa Ghosh in the match against India and followed it with a three-wicket haul against UAE.Pelle has been a solid presence with the bat at the top. She has 130 runs in five outings including a half-century and has a strike rate of 130. She kept wicket in the first three games before handing the gloves over to Paris Hall. Tough to stop her if she gets going, as evidenced in Australia’s Under-19 Championships, where she scored the second-most runs for New South Wales.Will Sophia Smale’s experience at the Hundred come in handy in the semi-final?•Getty Images

England

England have been clinical in this tournament. They opened their campaign by bowling out Zimbabwe for 25, bowled out Rwanda for 45, and beat Pakistan in the interim. They bossed their two Super Six outings by routing Ireland and West Indies. As a result, they march into the semi-final with a net run rate of 5.088, easily the best among all teams.Key players
Grace Scrivens and Sophia Smale.Scrivens has taken the tournament by storm, scoring a chart-topping 269 runs at a strike rate of 137.94 including three half-centuries. In Liberty Heap, she has a dangerous opening partner – the pair has added two hundred-run stands. Scrivens also holds the record for the highest individual score (93) in the tournament.In Smale, England have a wily left-arm spinner that outfoxes the opponents game after game. Having gained experience by being part of the title-winning Oval Invincibles at the Hundred, Smale has returned eight wickets, the most for England. Seamer Ellie Anderson is to Smale what Heap is to Scrivens. Anderson has seven wickets and is one of only two bowlers to register a five-wicket haul in the competition.

Mukesh Kumar and Atit Sheth dismantled Madhya Pradesh’s middle order before Saurabh Kumar and Pulkit Narang ran through the tail to help Rest of India complete a 238-run win and lift the Irani Cup just before lunch on the final day in Gwalior. Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored 213 and 144 across the game, was named the Player of the Match.Even though Navdeep Saini took just one wicket, he was the one who started MP’s slump. Himanshu Mantri resumed his innings on 51 but Saini had him caught behind with the third ball of the day. Mantri, however, expressed his disappointment with the decision, had a chat with the umpires and took a while before dragging himself to the pavilion.Yash Dubey, fresh off a first-innings century, started positively with a couple of fours but had his off stump cartwheeled by Mukesh. Aman Solanki joined Harsh Gawli, who was looking solid, and the two put up a 49-run stand for the fifth wicket. Solanki punished the odd overpitched deliveries, and the tiring pacers were removed from the attack. Then he hit Saurabh and Sheth for three boundaries in the space of five balls but a couple of overs later, Sheth knocked him over. In his next over, Sheth nicked off Saransh Jain to make it 151 for 6.Gawli and Ankit Kushwah took the side to 188 before Narang trapped Gawli lbw with an offbreak that turned viciously and kept low. MP lost their last four wickets, all to Narang and Saurabh, in 19 balls for just ten runs to end the proceedings.

Ben Stokes insists that England fans have “nothing to worry about” as he continues to manage a chronic left knee issue ahead of the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston on June 16.Stokes became the first man in Test history to captain a side to victory without batting, bowling or keeping wicket in England’s 10-wicket victory over Ireland at Lord’s, and was in clear discomfort on the third afternoon in the field.He appeared to jar his left knee – which he has had to manage carefully for several years – when taking a catch at short fine leg to dismiss Curtis Campher, and was restricted in his movement in the field for the rest of Ireland’s second innings.Related

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“I actually didn’t pick it [the ball] up, and I actually landed quite awkwardly on it [my knee],” Stokes said at the post-match presentation, when asked about the catch. “My weight went on the inside of my knee, like I hyper-extended.”Stokes insisted on the eve of the Test that he was fit to bowl against Ireland, though he added that there should not be “doom and gloom” if he did not. He briefly bowled in the warm-ups on the third morning with bowling coach David Saker watching on, and said he was “really happy” with how it felt.”I bowled this morning – the first time I’d bowled since being back from India, so it would have been about four weeks actually,” he said. “I got through that and was really happy with where I was. So no, nothing [for England fans] to worry about.”He later suggested that his grimaces after completing the catch owed mainly to his age. “I was really happy with how I bowled [before play],” Stokes said. “I bowled for about 20 minutes and I got through that really well. Obviously I have got time to build up before I push back into flat out, but I just landed quite awkwardly when I took that catch.”I didn’t quite see it so had to adjust myself and landed on my left leg and it twisted in a really strange way. It was fine, I just don’t know what really happened. It was one of those things – but I am 32 tomorrow so that probably explains it.”Asked if he would consider leaving himself out of the starting XI at any stage of the Ashes – a policy that Eoin Morgan occasionally took during his tenure as white-ball captain, though never at a major tournament – Stokes’ response was blunt: “No, of course not. That’s not even something we’ve even spoken about because I’m fully prepared to be bowling at Edgbaston.”Speaking to the BBC’s , Stokes added that he was “taking the positives” and that he “wouldn’t have bowled in this match… unless everyone else went down”.Stokes was given plenty to think about in the field•Getty Images

England named an unchanged 16-man squad for the first two Ashes Tests on Saturday afternoon, which will report to Birmingham on June 12 before training on June 13, three days before the start of the Edgbaston Test.In the meantime, Stokes is among a number of players due to travel to Scotland to play golf next weekend, while Australia are playing India in the World Test Championship final at The Oval.”The new way is you get as ready as you possibly can and whatever you do, you just get yourself in the right frame of mind for the games you’ve got coming up,” Stokes said. “This was obviously a great opportunity for us to get back together as a group and we’ll be doing that again before the Ashes.”We’ll get together and spend some quality time together as a group and have some fun together before the big Ashes series starts. We’re really looking forward to it.”

A host of Australia’s white-ball stars are set to play in the next Sheffield Shield round with Matthew Wade, Spencer Johnson, Josh Inglis and Matthew Short all named for their respective states but Glenn Maxwell will not turn out for Victoria.Wade has been named to open the batting for ladder-leading Tasmania against Victoria while Short has been included in Victoria’s side on return from the New Zealand series.Related

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Johnson and Inglis will also play their first Shield matches of the season for South Australia and Western Australia respectively but Aaron Hardie has been ruled out with his ongoing calf trouble.Wade played two games for Tasmania earlier this season including making 105 in a record chase of 432 against Queensland, but has been unavailable since due to T20I commitments for Australia.He hasn’t opened the batting in a first-class since he was asked to do it four times in his last Test series against India in 2020-21. Wade will replace the struggling Tim Ward at the top of the order for Tasmania. Ward has been dropped after three consecutive ducks.Maxwell still has ambitions to play Test cricket again for Australia and remains on the radar for the tour of Sri Lanka next year but he will not play for Victoria this week. Maxwell has appeared in just two first-class matches since 2019 with both coming last year after returning from his broken leg. He hasn’t played a red-ball game since a one-off appearance for Warwickshire in July.Inglis will make his first Shield appearance the season for WA against Queensland at the WACA ground having missed the first seven due to international white-ball commitments. But Hardie has been ruled out with the calf issue he suffered in the last match against Tasmania. There was a hope he might be able to play as a batter only but was not passed fit after also being ruled out of the T20I tour of New Zealand and the Marsh Cup final.Johnson is in line to play his first match of the season and just his fifth first-class match overall after being included in South Australia’s 12-man squad to face New South Wales in Sydney. Johnson has not played a first-class game since Australia A’s tour of New Zealand last April. He took bags of six and seven in his first two Shield matches last summer.New South Wales have included uncapped legspinner Smit Raval, who moved to Australia from India in 2018, in their squad as they aim to push for spot in the final.Under-19 World Cup star Callum Vidler could make his debut debut. The fast bowler took 14 wickets at 11.71 during Australia’s recent success in South AfricaTasmania squad Jordan Silk (capt), Gabe Bell, Iain Carlisle, Jake Doran, Jarrod Freeman, Bradley Hope, Caleb Jewell, Riley Meredith, Billy Stanlake, Matthew Wade, Charlie Wakim, Beau WebsterVictoria squad Will Sutherland (capt), Xavier Crone, Peter Handscomb, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Campbell Kellaway, Nic Maddinson, Todd Murphy, Fergus O’Neill, Mitch Perry, Will Pucovski, Matt Short, Peter SiddleWestern Australia squad Sam Whiteman (capt), Cameron Bancroft, Hilton Cartwright, Keaton Critchell, Cameron Gannon, Jayden Goodwin, Liam Haskett, Josh Inglis, Joel Paris, Corey Rocchiccioli, D’Arcy Short, Charlie Stobo, Teague WyllieNew South Wales squad Ollie Davies, Jack Edwards, Matthew Gilkes, Chris Green, Ryan Hadley, Moises Henriques (capt) Daniel Hughes, Sam Konstas, Blake Nikitaras, Jack Nisbet, Smit Raval, Chris TremainQueensland squad Jimmy Peirson (capt), Xavier Bartlett, Max Bryant, Jack Clayton, Angus Lovell, Ben McDermott, Gurinder Sandhu, Mark Steketee, Bryce Street, Mitchell Swepson, Callum Vidler, Jack WildermuthSouth Australia squad Wes Agar, Kyle Brazell, Jordan Buckingham, Brendan Doggett, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Spencer Johnson, Thomas Kelly, Jake Lehmann (capt), Ben Manenti, Nathan McAndrew, Nathan McSweeney, Harry Nielsen