Cricket news 2025, Steve Smith retirement: Australia's predicted ODI squad for next World Cup in 2027 including Travis Head, Cooper Connolly and Liam Scott

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The ODI World Cup defending champions

This was the Australian team that won the 2023 ODI World Cup.

From left to right, the players pictured are Travis Head, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Sean Abbott, Mitch Marsh, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey, Steve Smith, Pat Cummins, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis.

Of those players, Warner, Smith and Stoinis have retired from ODIs and several others are getting towards the end of their careers.

So how many of them will survive to defend the title in 2027 and who will come into that squad for the tournament to be played in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia?

Scroll on as Wide World of Sports breaks it down.

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