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Starc confident of being fit for Perth Test
- Updated: October 20, 2016
Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc is confident he will be ready for the first Test against South Africa in Perth in November after declaring himself fit for a Sheffield Shield appearance next week.
Starc had surgery five weeks ago after a horror incident in which he suffering a deep laceration to his left shin when he slid into the metal plate at the base of a set of stumps during a training drill in Sydney.
He was already due to be rested from Australia’s ODI tour of South Africa and did not play at all during the Matador Cup, but is expected to take the field for New South Wales in their first match of the Sheffield Shield season against Queensland at the Gabba starting on Tuesday.
“I’m hopefully on that plane on Monday to Brisbane and [will] get some good bowling in and get back playing and ready to go for the first Test,” Starc told …
