Australia pacer Mitchell Starc believes he has “still a good chance” to feature in the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series despite not being as close to full fitness as he would like.

Starc missed the series opener with a finger injury. “I’d like to be a little further down the road. Still, a good chance so it’ll come down to how it reacts by the end of [Wednesday], how the medical staff see it, how the selectors and Pat [Cummins] and Ronnie [coach Andrew McDonald] feel about it as well,” Starc told reporters in the national capital.