Tanveer Sangha could be the wild-card World Cup bolter to make the difference for Australia

Australia have selected uncapped 21-year-old leg-spinner Tanveer Sangha in their provisional squad for the fifty-over World Cup in India later this year.

Sangha has been picked as one of three spinners in the squad. While Ashton Agar and Adam Zampa are both still ahead of him in the pecking order, in being selected Sangha has overtaken other spinners who have featured for Australia over the last 12 months. Mitchell Swepson and Matt Kuhnemann played ODIs in Asia last winter, but neither has made the World Cup squad. Kuhnemann, in particular, is a surprising omission behind Sangha. He took six wickets in four games in Sri Lanka and seemed very much in Australia’s plans. When you also consider Sangha has not played professional cricket for a year after suffering a stress fracture in

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