The Squad is out:
Looks good to me. It's a shame about JFM but with Stoinis hitting form it's hard to leave any of the top 7 out for him, and they may not rotate any of those 7 guys for the whole tournament so the keeper and bowling backups make sense.
Gutherson minor knee surgery out 4-5 weeks, misses the game against Brisbane next week
DCE judiciary tonight, if he loses he misses Manly vs Brisbane in magic round
Lots of talk about the pitches being more spin friendly and lower scoring so who knows. I don't think it should count against JFM because in a low scoring game he will likely put the team way in front if he faces 10-20 balls.
That's the top 3 I wanna see too. Harsh on Stoinis, particularly if he puts up a few more big scores, but JFM can face 15 balls and win the game.
Fox Sports' predicted squad has JFM missing out. But their squad includes 16 players instead of 15 so who knows if it's on the money or garbage:
David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (capt), Glenn Maxwell, Tim David, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Ashton Agar, Matthew Wade...
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