Australia tour of West Indies: Aaron Finch undergoes successful eye surgery to fix year-long ‘blood blurry’ vision: Australia’s skipper in the limited-overs format, Aaron Finch successfully underwent left-eye surgery to rectify his vision. The impeded vision problem dawned upon the Australian player in the 2020 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020). Despite the persisting problem, he played throughout the Australian summer and even played the T20I series against New Zealand in February-March earlier this year.
“I noticed it during the IPL. One day it just sort of changed, and it turned out to get a little bit worse,” Aaron Finch told to a reporter in Brisbane (as quoted by Firstpost) on how he was observing ‘halos around lights and bit of trail on the ball.’
“It was just bloody blurry, which isn’t ideal as a batsman in international cricket. I tried contact (lenses), and couldn’t get them right… they just wouldn’t sit right in my eye. After New Zealand, we thought that was the best time to be able to get it done. It was about a three-week process and it was really smooth,” he added.
Australia tour of West Indies: Aaron Finch is seeing the ball well now
Featuring in no cricketing action since the New Zealand series, the real Test to Aaron Finch’s surgery will only come when he would play some real-time cricket on the ground. As of now, he is seeing the ball very well.
“I’m seeing them (balls) pretty good now. I’ve only been hitting them indoors on hard wickets. I think the biggest test will come in night matches, that’s when I noticed the biggest difference in my eyesight,” Finch added.
Finch will lead his side in Australia’s tour of West Indies where they will clash with the Caribbeans in eight of their fixtures- St Lucia (five T20Is) and Barbados (three ODIs) from July 9-24.
The 34-year-old would further lead his team in October’s ICC T20 World Cup.
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