Travis Head set to join Australia World Cup squad
Travis Head
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Australia batter Travis Head is set to join the World Cup squad as he is recovering better than expected from his injury.
Head, who was named in the 15-member World Cup squad despite copping a fracture to his left hand during the South Africa series, has recovered faster than expected.
The left-hander had the protective splint removed from his hand late last week and since then has been active in the nets.
"It's coming along well, and probably better than we hoped. When we decided not to go with surgery, which would have meant a ten-week recovery, we were told it would be a minimum six weeks with the splint before we could look at playing again," Head told cricket.com.au.
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Head will be unavailable for the upcoming match against Pakistan but could potentially return for the Netherlands game in Delhi on October 25.
"Going by that plan, the Netherlands game will be just under six weeks from impact which is a pretty aggressive date so everything would have to go perfectly from here to make that deadline.
"But we'll just see how it progresses over the next few days and I'm excited by the prospect of joining the boys over there later in the week," he added.
