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    "excerpt": "Australian white-ball captain Aaron Finch has undergone successful knee surgery and is targeting a return for the Twenty20 World Cup, officials said on Friday. The 34-year-old opener aggravated his ri",
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    "editor1": "<p>Australian white-ball captain Aaron Finch has undergone successful knee surgery and is targeting a return for the Twenty20 World Cup, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The 34-year-old opener aggravated his right knee injury during a T20 clash in St Lucia last month and missed the team&#39;s subsequent ODIs against the West Indies and their tour of Bangladesh.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He went under the knife on Thursday, his first day out of a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine after returning from Barbados.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Cricket Australia said the operation to repair cartilage went well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;His recovery is expected to take eight-ten weeks, meaning he should be available for the opening games of the World Cup in mid-October,&quot; it added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The World Cup -&ndash; held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman after being shifted from India because of the pandemic -- is due to start with a group stage on October 17.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Australia&#39;s opening game is scheduled for a week later where Finch, if fit, will open with David Warner.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Finch&#39;s knee problems followed his eye surgery ahead of the West Indies tour after he complained of blurry vision.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Australia head into the World Cup on a miserable run of form. They lost their T20 series to the West Indies 4-1 and slumped by the same result against Bangladesh in a tour capped by the team being bowled out for 62 -- their lowest ever T20 score.<\/p>\r\n",
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