Australia’s limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch has undergone successful surgery on Thursday, 12 August, to repair cartilage on his right knee ahead of the T20 World Cup that begins in October.
He underwent the surgery as soon as he was out of the mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine after he returned from Barbados. Cricket Australia (CA) released a statement that the surgery was successful and the opener will take around 10 weeks to recover.
Finch will be seen in a race against time to get fit as a full 10 weeks will last up to 21 October and the T20 World Cup is set to begin on 17 October in UAE and Oman, after being shifted from India.
Australia’s T20 World Cup campaign starts from 24 October, in the super 12 stages. Australia has been grouped with England, West Indies, and South Africa along with two qualifiers from the qualifying round.
The Australian captain suffered the injury in St Lucia in July but lead his team against West Indies in the five-match T20I series. However, the injury was reaggravated in the final T20I.
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Finch sat out of the three-ODIs against West Indies at Barbados, and Alex Carey led the team to a 2-1 series win. Finch flew home via London while the rest of the Australian team toured Bangladesh.
"I had a little injury just doing a fielding session before I left – I've never had any knee problems – and it just started to get a bit sore. The more that we trained and played … stopping and starting, turning, that kind of thing was causing it some issues. So I had a couple of scans in the West Indies and there was a little bit of cartilage, a bit of meniscus damage,” Finch told SEN Radio recently.
(Cricket.com.au inputs)
