MELBOURNE: Australia’s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch on Friday said many short-format players have a “very realistic” chance of being overlooked for T20 World Cup selection after being ruled out of the upcoming tours of West Indies and Bangladesh. .
Seven cricketers – David Warner, Pat Cummins, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, Marcus Stoinis and Daniel Sams – who have played in the recent IPL have withdrawn from the twin tours, while Steve Smith complained of an elbow. Rest has been given for complete recovery. Which erupted during BCCI’s high-profile T20 tournament.
Finch said absentees are at real risk of missing out on showpiece events in October-November as others make their claims. “Yeah, very realistic (to be out of the T20 World Cup). You have to go to the current form and you pick people who are playing well. For people to be on this tour, to really raise their hand and get their first chance to take a spot,” Finch said.
“It is hard to ignore really good international performances. So yes, absolutely, there are going to be opportunities for people to put their hands up and take spots,” he was quoted as saying by cricket.com. Australia will fly to the Caribbean on Monday, July 10-25. 18 Touring with a one-man squad that lacks seven frontline T20I players.
Finch said last week that it was a “long-term plan” for all-format stars Warner and Cummins, among Australia’s highest-paid IPL players, to miss 10 T20Is and three ODIs in the Caribbean and Bangladesh after that. for (pending confirmation) but he termed the absence of Maxwell, Jhye, Stoinis and Kane as ‘surprising’.
Chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns had also indicated that there was no guarantee that some of the IPL men who were left out of the squad for white-ball tours of West Indies and Bangladesh will get an automatic spot in the T20 World Cup. Finch also said that he experienced “blurry vision” during last year’s IPL in the UAE and had recently undergone surgery on his left eye.
So far, the surgery has been successful, yet the 34-year-old believes the right signal will come when playing under lights, which Australia are set to do in all their eight matches in the Caribbean. “I saw it during the IPL. One day it all changed… it was just bloody haze. In the day it was not as noticeable, at night it was more noticeable, especially playing in Dubai where the lighting is not as good as what we have got in Australia.
“I just saw more of it,[my vision]wasn’t very sharp, and there was a little halo around the lights and a little bit of a mark on the ball.” “I tried contacts (lenses), and couldn’t get them. Well, they won’t fit in my eye properly.” He said that he underwent surgery after returning from the New Zealand tour (in March).
“We thought this was the best time to be able to get it done. It was about a three-week process and it was really effortless.” With most of Australia’s upcoming cricket being played at night, Finch said his surgery would yield true results. “I’ve been watching them very well (a now). I’m hitting them indoors only on tough wickets. Now everything is clear, it feels really good.
“I think the biggest test will be in the night matches, that’s when I saw the biggest difference in my vision.”
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