Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis is “contact and go” for his or her World Cup opener towards India on the weekend after selecting up a hamstring drawback in a one-day worldwide towards the hosts final month, coach Andrew McDonald stated on Thursday.
The 34-year-old pulled up sore after Australia’s first sport of their 2-1 sequence defeat and missed two warm-up matches, with uncertainty over his health earlier than Sunday’s opener in Chennai.
“That occurred after the Mohali sport. He pulled up a bit of bit sore from that sport after which additional investigation clearly led to that being a slight hamstring after which he is simply rehabilitating,” McDonald informed Australian media.
“It’s going to be contact and go for sport one. He hasn’t actually been dominated out of that however we weren’t ready to danger him in these apply video games. So he is being in all probability sluggish performed a bit of bit with the view to those subsequent couple of days being actually necessary for him to press for choice for sport one. We’ll see the way it unfolds,” he stated.
Stoinis is one in every of 5 all-rounders within the Australia squad, with all of them anticipated to play necessary roles of their quest for a sixth World Cup title. McDonald stated their lone specialist spinner Adam Zampa’s workload was additionally being managed forward of the match. “He did pull up sore from the second sport within the ODI sequence however nothing vital,” McDonald stated.
Opening batsman Travis Head can be recovering from a fractured hand and McDonald stated he anticipated an official replace subsequent Wednesday or Thursday. “That may give us much more info as to the ultimate time frames and when he doubtlessly can be part of the group however till we get that then he’ll stay at dwelling coaching and prepping his physique as a lot as he can,” McDonald stated.
