Australia cricket team is currently playing a 5-match test series against India at home. Amidst this series, big news related to a former Australian player has come to light. This player had retired from Australian cricket this year and had decided to play for another country. Now the team of another country has also made this player its captain. We are talking about Joe Burns, who has played for Australia in all three formats and now plays for a small country.

This player left Australia and became the captain of this team

Joe Burns had decided to leave Australia this year and play for Italy. He has also played 5 T20 matches for Italy so far. Now the Italy Cricket Board has also made Joe Burns the captain of the T20 team. Italy will participate in the T20 World Cup Qualifier in June next year. It will be interesting to see whether Burns will be able to take Italy to the T20 World Cup for the first time. Let us tell you, Burns was born in Brisbane, Queensland and he started his cricket career in Australia, he played for Australia from 2014 to 2020. But after this he moved to Italy, his mother is from Italy.

For this reason decided to play for Italy

Joe Burns' brother died in February this year. His brother Dominic used to play for Italy, so Joe Burns decided to go to Italy to pay tribute to his late brother Dominic. After the death of his brother, Joe Burns not only left his country Australia to play for Italy but he also broke his Queensland contract. Burns played cricket for Queensland in Australian domestic cricket. But, when it came time to extend it for the 2024-25 season, he refused.

Joe Burns played 23 Tests and 6 ODI matches for Australia. During this period, he scored 1588 runs with the help of 8 half-centuries and 4 centuries. At the same time, Burns has played 5 T20 matches for Italy so far. During this period, he has scored 211 runs with the help of 1 half-century and 1 century. He has also scored 3 half-centuries in 4 test matches against India. He also played his last Test against India in the year 2020, which was the Boxing Day Test match.