Meredith played for Somerset in white ball cricket during the English season. He took 14 wickets at 22.78 in the T20 Blast and six wickets in three one-day cup matches, including 4 for 27 against Middlesex at Lord’s, where Somerset reached the final. He has taken eight wickets in T20Is against New Zealand and West Indies in the last three years.
The pace attack for the Scotland series will now include Meredith, Xavier Bartlett, Sean Abbott and Nathan Ellis along with allrounders Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie and Marcus Stoinis and potential captain Mitchell Marsh. Adam Zampa and the uncapped Cooper Connolly will provide the spin.
Hazlewood was the only big three Australian act to be included in the original full UK tour. Mitchell Starc will feature in the ODIs against England while Pat Cummins has missed the entire tour to focus on strength and conditioning ahead of the domestic summer.
“What’s important right now is to finish some exercise and start reassessing in a few weeks the way forward,” Cummins said last week. “I’m just trying to fill the bucket again after two years of non-stop bowling. [Hoping] come that first Test [against India] as good a position as I’ve been in for a few years.”
Australia fly to Scotland on Monday for the first T20I in Edinburgh on September 4.
Australia T20 team vs Scotland
Mitchell Marsh (capt), Sean Abbott, Xavier Bartlett, Cooper Connolly, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Riley Meredith, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa
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