Kingston, July 20 -- Young Australian opener Jake Fraser-McGurk has been included in the T20I playing XI for first match against West Indies, as Matt Short was ruled out of the series in Caribbean due to a "minor" side strain, reported cricket.com.au.

Short, who has scored 293 runs with a fifty and taken seven wickets in 14 T20Is for Australia so far, pulled up sore after training in Jamaica ahead of the first of the five T20Is against West Indies and has been sent back home. He had a fine Major League Cricket (MLC) stint with San Francisco Unicorns, having made 360 runs in eight matches with five fifties and taken six wickets, with his team crashing out in eliminator.

Fraser-McGurk, who had a mixed MLC season with 275 runs in 11 matche...