Australia skipper Aaron Finch admitted they were taking a risk after not calling up another wicketkeeper for their Twenty20 World Cup defence starting on Saturday.
The hosts lost back-up keeper Josh Inglis in bizarre circumstances this week after he badly cut his hand when the golf club he was playing with snapped.
Australia replaced him in their squad with talented all-rounder Cameron Green, leaving them with no specialist replacement for first-choice gloveman Matthew Wade.
The skipper said that veteran David Warner would most likely step up and take the gloves if need be and had done a bit of practice on Thursday.
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“We’re taking the risk and not going with the extra keeper, which obviously has a degree of risk to it,”…
