{"id":95451,"date":"2025-12-27T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=95451"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:09:07","slug":"davids-hamstring-injury-a-concern-for-australias-t20-world-cup-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/davids-hamstring-injury-a-concern-for-australias-t20-world-cup-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"David’s hamstring injury a concern for Australia’s T20 World Cup hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

PERTH: Australia batter Tim David<\/a> is facing a race against time to prove his fitness for the T20 World Cup after suffering a hamstring injury that left his Hobart Hurricanes captain feeling “shattered”.<\/p>\n

David injured his hamstring while running between the wickets during the Hurricanes’ four-wicket win over the Perth Scorchers at Perth Stadium on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old immediately cut a frustrated figure, and he retired hurt on 42 off 28 balls on the advice of medical staff. It is his second hamstring injury this year after he suffered a significant strain during the IPL that saw him miss RCB’s successful run through the playoffs.<\/p>\n

He missed two months of cricket and was carefully managed back into Australia’s T20I series against West Indies where he only play three of the five matches.<\/p>\n

The shortened BBL season runs until January 25, leaving David with little wriggle room to make it back in time for the Hurricanes’ title defence.<\/p>\n

More importantly, the 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka begins on February 7 and runs through to March 8. David is one of the most destructive short-form batters in the world, and he looms as a crucial figure in Australia’s bid to win the World Cup.<\/p>\n

“I just felt a little bit of something when I was trying to come back for two,” David told Channel 7. “It’s not ideal, but I didn’t want to make it worse and had full faith in the boys to get us home. We’ll wait and see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PERTH: Australia batter Tim David is facing a race against time to prove his fitness for the T20 World Cup after suffering a hamstring injury that left his Hobart Hurricanes captain feeling “shattered”. David injured his hamstring while running between the wickets during the Hurricanes’ four-wicket win over the Perth Scorchers at Perth Stadium on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":95452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33301],"class_list":["post-95451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-davids-hamstring-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95453,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95451\/revisions\/95453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}