After opting out of the upcoming tours to the West Indies and Bangladesh, Australia\u2019s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch stated on Friday that some short-format players have a very realistic possibility of being overlooked for the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n
Seven cricketers who recently played in the IPL \u2014 David Warner, Pat Cummins, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, Marcus Stoinis, and Daniel Sams \u2014 have withdrawn from the twin tours, while Steve Smith has been rested to fully recover from an elbow injury that flared up during the BCCI\u2019s high-profile T20 tournament.\u00a0The absentees, according to Finch, are in real danger of missing the showcase event in October-November as others make their claims.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYeah, very realistic (to miss out of T20 World Cup). You have to go on current form, and you pick guys who are playing well. For guys to be on this tour, to get the first opportunity to really put their hand up and take a spot is what it\u2019s about,\u201d Finch said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s tough to ignore really good international performances. So yeah, absolutely, there\u2019s going to be opportunities for guys to put their hand up and take spots,\u201d he was quoted as saying by cricket.au.com.<\/p>\n Australia will depart for the Caribbean on Monday with an 18-man squad missing up to seven top T20I players for the July 10-25 tour.\u00a0All-format talents Warner and Cummins, who are also among Australia\u2019s highest-paid IPL players, would miss the 10 T20Is and three ODIs in the Caribbean and Bangladesh after that, according to Finch (pending confirmation).<\/span><\/p>\n However, he described Maxwell, Jhye, Stoinis, and Kane\u2019s absence as \u201csurprising.\u201d Trevor Hohns, the chairman of selectors, has intimated that some of the IPL returnees who have opted out of the squad for the white-ball tours of the West Indies and Bangladesh will not be guaranteed an automatic position in the T20 World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n Finch also revealed that he had \u201cblurry vision\u201d at last year\u2019s IPL in the UAE and that he had undergone surgery on his left eye.\u00a0The surgery has gone well thus far, but the 34-year-old believes the main test will come when Australia plays under lights, which they will do in all eight of their games in the Caribbean.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After opting out of the upcoming tours to the West Indies and Bangladesh, Australia\u2019s limited-overs captain Aaron Finch stated on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[356,427,995,597,389,242],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-aaron-finch","tag-bangladesh","tag-cricket-australia","tag-glenn-maxwell","tag-sports","tag-west-indies"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}