{"id":72842,"date":"2019-10-21T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72842"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:41:37","slug":"australian-captain-aaron-finch-battling-to-be-fit-for-sri-lanka-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/australian-captain-aaron-finch-battling-to-be-fit-for-sri-lanka-t20\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian captain Aaron Finch battling to be fit for Sri Lanka T20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Limited-overs captain Aaron Finch is battling to be fit for Australia\u2019s opening Twenty20 against Sri Lanka after picking up a side strain. The top-order batsman is sitting out Victoria\u2019s ongoing Sheffield Shield clash against Western Australia in a bid to be ready for the first of three games against the Sri Lankans in Adelaide on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt started out as a little back niggle and it\u2019s just a little tear in my side. So hopefully not too long. It\u2019s been a week since I did it,\u201d Finch told Perth radio 6PR at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he hoped to play a one-day game for his state on Wednesday but \u201cif I can still feel it and it\u2019s a little niggle there, I think the medical staff will probably take the conservative route\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If fit, Finch is expected to open the Australian innings with David Warner, before Steve Smith comes in at first drop.After Adelaide, Australia face the Lasith Malinga-led Sri Lankans in Brisbane and Melbourne before Pakistan arrive for T20s in Sydney, Canberra and Perth.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limited-overs captain Aaron Finch is battling to be fit for Australia\u2019s opening Twenty20 against Sri Lanka after picking up a side strain. The top-order batsman is sitting out Victoria\u2019s ongoing Sheffield Shield clash against Western Australia in a bid to be ready for the first of three games against the Sri Lankans in Adelaide on [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72845,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72842\/revisions\/72845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}