The Australian cricket team have dropped reigning male ODI player of the year, Marcus Stoinis, for the upcoming T20I series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Meanwhile, star batsmen David Warner and Steve Smith both mark their comeback to the 14-man Aussie squad.

The 14-man Australian squad will be led by skipper Aaron Finch. Australia is slated to face Sri Lanka and Pakistan in back-to-back three-matches T20 series, starting by the end of October 2019. Cricket Australia has scheduled this series keeping in mind next year's T20I World Cup that will be hosted by Australia.

While star seamers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins will lead the pace bowling attack, Leg-spinner Adam Zampa and left-arm tweaker Ashton Agar held their place in spin department. In-form senior spinner Nathan Lyon has been sidelined due to ankle injury, he sustained during Ashes 2019.

"It is almost a year to the day until Australia hosts the men's Twenty20 World Cup and we have selected this squad with that in mind. We have looked to put a squad together that we think can take us through to that tournament," cricket.com.au quoted national selector Trevor Hohns as saying in a statement.

Australia squad:

Aaron Finch (c), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Glenn Maxwell, Ben McDermott, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Billy Stanlake, Mitchell Starc, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, David Warner, Adam Zampa