Key Highlights
- The 2021 tournament winners decided Thursday not to pick a left-arm paceman in the absence of the T20-retired Mitchell Starc.
- Cooper Connolly, who has not played in any of the Australians' past 12 T20 Internationals, was the surprise inclusion.
- Starc has missed just one of the past six ICC's T20 events but retired from the format at the international level late last year.
- Australia opens the tournament on Feb.
- 11 against Ireland in Colombo then plays Zimbabwe in Colombo on Feb.
