India, Feb. 27 -- Australia are without their first-choice pace battery of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc in the Champions Trophy. While Cummins and Hazlewood are both nursing injuries, Starc's absence was put down to "personal reasons" by Cricket Australia. The senior pacer has now revealed that it was "some personal views" and an ankle problem that led to him sitting out the tournament.

"There's a few different reasons, some personal views, and had a bit of ankle pain through the Test series [against Sri Lanka]," Starc told the Willow Talk podcast. "So just get that one right, obviously we've got the Test final coming up and a West Indies tour after that. There's some IPL cricket as well, but my main one top of my mind ...