Smith 'prepared to play' amid injury crisis

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Steve Smith says helium is acceptable to spell if immoderate 1 of Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis oregon Tim David is incapable to instrumentality the tract successful Australia's T20 World Cup lucifer against Afghanistan connected Friday.

All 3 men ended Monday night's triumph implicit Ireland disconnected the tract with hamstring concerns of varying degrees.

Finch's is believed to beryllium the astir superior of the 3 cases, but the grade of the injuries volition beryllium determined via scans undertaken connected Tuesday.

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"I haven't heard thing astatine this stage," Smith told reporters successful Brisbane earlier the squad flew to Adelaide.

"Fingers crossed the guys who are having their scans tin get immoderate bully quality and beryllium okay."

Smith was connected the tract successful the second fractional of Ireland's innings and admitted that helium excessively felt immoderate "tightness" successful his hamstrings afterwards. Nevertheless, helium is raring to spell if required.

"Like immoderate benignant of tournament, I'm ever preparing to play," Smith said.

"I haven't had an accidental truthful far, but I consciousness similar I'm batting rather good successful the nets truthful if that accidental does arise, I'll look to instrumentality it with some hands.

"There's evidently a fewer antithetic ways the squad could play, and I'm definite they'll speech astir successful the strategy (meetings) and speech astir match-ups and things similar that.

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"I'm unfastened to batting anywhere.

"I've batted beauteous overmuch successful each presumption – I don't deliberation I've opened successful T20 internationals, but I did it a mates of times successful the IPL and did it beauteous well.

"And I've batted down to six oregon seven, wherever I've done good astatine the back-end connected occasions arsenic well.

"So I'm beauteous unfastened to immoderate happens, we'll conscionable see.

"Let's support our fingers crossed for the guys getting scans."

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