St Kitts, March 26 -- Annabel Sutherland's absence from Australia's Caribbean tour is to create competition for a promotion in the one-day side's middle-order, as they enter their new 50-over era under Sophie Molineux.
The three one-day internationals in St Kitts will be Australia's first since Alyssa Healy's retirement, as Molineux and deputies Ashleigh Gardner and Tahlia McGrath take charge of the one-day side.
One of the first selection calls will be to settle on a replacement for Sutherland - who is sitting out the whirlwind tour to freshen up for the T20 World Cup - at No.5, a position the Victorian has dominated across the past two years.
"We've got an opportunity," Australia coach Shelley Nitschke said in St Kitts on Wednesday.
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