Head hopeful of joining World Cup squad in India on Thursday

Travis Head has returned to the nets for the first time since he suffered a fractured hand in South Africa and is hopeful of being able to fly out to join the World Cup squad in India on Thursday.

Head had the cast taken out toward the end of last week and is currently confronting throwdowns. Filters have shown the crack, incurred by quick bowler Gerald Coetzee at Centurion, is recuperating great despite the fact that he actually needs a last close down prior to joining the Australia team.

The earliest conceivable return for Head would seem, by all accounts, to be the Netherlands match on October 25 albeit that might in any case be cutting things fine.

"It's showing up well, and most likely better than we trusted," Head told cricket.com.au. "At the point when we chose not to go with a medical procedure, which would have implied a ten-week recuperation, we were told it would be least a month and a half with the brace before we could take a gander at playing once more.

"Going by that arrangement, the Netherlands game will be just shy of about a month and a half from influence which is a really forceful date so everything would need to go impeccably from here to make that cutoff time.

"Yet, we'll simply perceive how it advances throughout the following couple of days and I'm energized by the possibility of joining the young men around there later in the week."

Go to's Australia's arrangements was underscored when the selectors picked to just have 14 accessible players for the initial segment of the competition and really saw them supplant Ashton Agar with an expert hitter in Marnus Labuschagne to help cover for Head's nonattendance.

He had been having a grand run the ODI side, averaging 60.84 with a strike pace of 119.84 since his return in 2022. Previous Australia skipper Aaron Finch said the effect of his nonattendance had been clear during the group's initial battles.

"Some of the time it's not how much runs he gets yet the tension he puts on the resistance since they know he will come hard, they can overreact and get a piece cautious in their outlook and afterward [David] Warner moves away, and on the off chance that [Mitchell] Swamp comes in, he moves away too," Finch told.

Australia are yet to score 50 years in the competition and have been bowled out for 199 and 177 in their two games. In any case, it will request a great deal from Head to come in and perform immediately.

While the selectors have taken tremendous confidence in what Head is prepared to do, there stays a chance they actually pick to supplant him and the opportunity of that could increment assuming that Australia can't win against Sri Lanka on Monday, which would pass on them a mountain to move to arrive at the semi-finals.

"There's as yet a couple of obstacles we want to clear, and everything needs to get sorted out from my end and according to the group's perspective around there before a ultimate choice is made," Head said.