T20 World Cup: Aaron Finch, Tim David nursing hamstring injuries ahead of do-or-die clash vs Afghanistan

T20 World Cup: Australia will be up against Afghanistan in their final Super-12 match of the tournament. It will be a do-or-die clash for the Aaron Finch side.

File photo Aaron Finch. (Courtesy: AP)

By India Today Web Desk: Australia are suffering fitness concerns going into the final Super-12 game of the T20 World Cup. The Aaron Finch-led team are already in a precarious position with a poor run-rate in their group, and have to play a do-or-die game against Afghanistan on Friday, 4 November.

Captain Aaron Finch and Tim David are the two members of the Australian team who have to go through medical tests before getting a look into the final playing XI. Speaking ahead of the game, Finch said that he was 70 per cent fit to play at the moment but needed to go through the tests to be sure if he would be able to play Australia’s next game.

“I’m maybe 70-30,” Finch was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo on Thursday. “But I’ll test it out properly this afternoon to make sure that I’m not hindering the side at all leading into the game. That’s the worst possible scenario, that you leave the guys short out there with one player fewer.”

“It won’t make it harder one bit,” Finch said. “If I feel like it 1% would be compromising the side’s performance, I won’t play.

“If I don’t feel confident in my hamstring, then I won’t play and that might be in the first effort that I do today, it might be in the last one. If I feel any pain or anything like that I won’t play.”

David, who has become one of the key members in the Australia lower-middle order is suffering the same issue, Finch revealed. The duo picked it up during their win against Ireland.

“I think the scan results showed a very similar thing,” Finch said. “He’s in exactly the same boat, he’ll get worked out today.

“We’ll know more during training, the likelihood of both of us playing, one of us playing, neither of us, whatever that looks like, it’s exactly the same. You don’t want to compromise the team’s performance by having a guy go down who comes in with a niggle. That will be one of the things we go through as well and make sure it’s all ticked off this afternoon,” the batter concluded.