Fresh from a Sheffield Shield century, Ben McDermott has been pulled from the match against Tasmania to parachute into the national ODI squad

Ben McDermott has been added to Australia’s one-day squad following a lower-grade hamstring injury to Matt Short.

McDermott was pulled out of Queensland’s ongoing Marsh Sheffield Shield match to make the trip to Canberra ahead of the third Dettol ODI against West Indies.

The 29-year-old scored a career-high 146 not out for the Bulls on Saturday and enjoyed a strong finish to KFC BBL|13 where he finished with 261 runs, ranked seventh in the competition.

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McDermott has 25 T20Is and six ODIs to his name after making his international debut back in 2018.

It’s an unfortunate turn for Short who is looking to establish himself in the ODI squad after being named the BBL’s player of the tournament for the second season running.

Short scored 41 off 55 balls batting at number six in the second ODI in Sydney on Sunday but pulled up with a tight hamstring, meaning he didn’t field in the evening session.

“I’m playing it pretty safe so will sit on the boundary for the fielding innings,” Short told Fox Cricket during the innings break.

The Victoria allrounder is also in the Australian T20 squad to face the West Indies in the series that immediately follows the one-day matches, but it remains to be seen if Short will be fit for those matches that take place on February 9, 11 and 13.

The most recent of McDermott’s ODIs came on Australia’s tour to Pakistan in March and April in 2022.

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It was during that series that McDemott scored his only international century to date, 104 off 108 in Lahore.