Superstar returns for Australia's World Cup tilt

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Australia volition invited backmost skipper Meg Lanning for their T20 World Cup rubric defence, while spinner Georgia Wareham volition deterioration the greenish and golden for the archetypal clip successful much than a year.

The Victorian spinner tore her ACL successful 2021 and was connected the support for 15 months, and returns to the fold alongside Alyssa Healy and Jess Jonassen, who suffered calf and hamstring injuries respectively past month.

The squad volition instrumentality connected Pakistan successful 3 warm-up matches astatine the extremity of January earlier travelling to South Africa for the World Cup, which begins connected February 11 (AEDT).

"It's ever pugnacious to constrictive a squad down to conscionable 15 players, but we're assured we've picked a well-balanced broadside that's good placed for the bid against Pakistan and acceptable to situation for a 3rd consecutive T20 title," selector Shawn Flegler said.

"Seeing Meg and Georgia backmost successful enactment for Victoria has been exciting. Both bring a wealthiness of acquisition to the group, which is ever important during large tournaments.

"Georgia successful particular, has had a pugnacious tally of injuries, but she's shown a large woody of resilience and her instrumentality is simply a existent boost for the side."

Lanning took six months distant from the athletics aft Australia's Commonwealth Games success, returning precocious for Victoria.

Flegler said that some Healy and Jonassen were showing nary lingering signs of problems and that some would beryllium "expected to beryllium afloat acceptable and firing".

There were ever going to beryllium pugnacious decisions to beryllium made and Nicola Carey, Phoebe Litchfield, and Amanda-Jade Wellington person each been near out, but volition stay connected the standby list.

"Unfortunately, determination was nary country for Nicola, Phoebe oregon Amanda-Jade, but they're inactive good and genuinely successful our plans and are connected standby should they beryllium required," Flegler said.

Full squad: Meg Lanning (c), Alyssa Healy (vc), Darcie Brown, Ashleigh Gardner, Kim Garth, Heather Graham, Grace Harris, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham

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