Melbourne, March 28 -- Cricket Australia (CA) announced the names of the 23 players who earned the new central contracts on Thursday, with veteran all-rounder Marcus Stoinis being the biggest name missing from the list.

Stoinis has battled back injuries in recent times, but he was also part of Australia's winning ICC Men's Cricket World Cup winning squad last year and is an integral part of the short format team ahead of June's ICC Men's T20 World Cup in the West Indies and USA.

Stoinis is joined by fellow all-rounder Ashton Agar, opener Marcus Harris, pacer Michael Neser and recently retired star David Warner as players to miss out on fresh contracts, with CA instead opting to provide deals to a handful of new faces, as per the ICC.

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