Australia's Jake Fraser-McGurk breaks silence over his T20 World Cup snub | IPL 2024, DC vs RR

Hard-hitting Australian batter Jake Fraser-McGurk, who took IPL 2024 by storm with his explosive shots while playing for thee Delhi Capitals, opened up on being left out of Australia's squad for T20 World Cup 2024.

"The communication was really good. There's two ways you can look at it. You can look at it through, 'this is what I've done to prove my case,' and then there's also, 'look, a month and a half ago I wasn't even in the picture.'" Fraser-McGurk said in the Willow Talk podcast.

"They probably had a good idea of what [the squad] was a month and a half ago, trying to build that and get the connection in the team. And it's also hard to fit in. You've got David Warner, our best opener ever in three formats. You've got Travis Head, who is lighting it up over here and has lit it up over the past 18 months. And then Mitch Marsh is the same and he's also the captain," The 22-year-old added.

"I can't really see myself batting five or six because we're pretty set there with Tim David, Cam Green and those sort of blokes. That's the way I think about it. That's fine. There's hopefully going to be more time for that," Fraser-McGurk said.

"If I do somehow get a travelling reserve [spot] then great, I can get a good experience there," he further added.

“It didn’t really bother me a hell of a lot because I wasn’t in this position to sort of .... feel like I’ve earned that yet. World Cup cricket is a lot different to IPL and franchise cricket," he concluded.

Australia's T20 World Cup Squad

Mitch Marsh (c), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa.