AFP, Lahore :
Leg-spinner Adam Zampa admitted a depleted Australia face a “difficult challenge” in the One Day International (ODI) series against Pakistan starting on Tuesday.
Australia won the three-match Test series 1-0 after securing a well earned 115-run victory in the third match in Lahore on Friday.
But they will miss regulars like David Warner, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell — all not in the squad for multiple reasons– in the one-day series.
To add to their woes, senior batsman Steve Smith was also ruled out of the limited-overs series with a recurrence of an elbow injury.
But Zampa believes it’s an opportunity to build the squad.
“It’s going to be a difficult challenge,” Zampa said on Sunday. “The plus that comes from that, as it always does when these things happen, is you build depth.”
The new-look squad includes Sean Abbott and Ben McDermott, who have both played two ODIs, Cameron Green, who has played in one, and debutants Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Josh Inglis and Mitchell Swepson.
“We have seen, particularly in the last couple of years, that being a three- format player, it’s really hard sometimes. Players like Cummins, Warner and Smith, they need that break and that’s definitely understandable.
“When you have so much inexperience in one team it does make it really hard. It s definitely will be a challenge and hopefully we get through as these series are very important to us.
