Australia’s fast-bowling all-rounder Cameron Inexperienced may miss the all-important Border-Gavaskar Trophy in opposition to India, ranging from November 22 in Perth, on account of a again surgical procedure. Inexperienced was identified with a stress fracture in his decrease again which minimize brief his participation in Australia’s ODI collection in opposition to England. A report in cricket.com.au says the allrounder met with Australian workforce officers late on Thursday evening to debate his choices and has been introduced with a selection of surgical procedure or rehab after a number of days of consultations and evaluation.
“Inexperienced is predicted to determine inside the coming days whether or not to go in for the same medical process on his backbone to the one which speedsters James Pattinson, Jason Behrendorff and Ben Dwarshuis have all beforehand undergone.
“The operation, carried out by pioneering Christchurch surgeons Grahame Inglis and Rowan Schouten and which includes screws and titanium wire to bind vertebrae collectively, would rule Inexperienced out for months,” stated the report.
Inexperienced, who debuted in Take a look at cricket in 2020, was the participant of the match within the first Take a look at in opposition to New Zealand at Wellington in March after scoring a career-best knock of 174 not out. In 28 Assessments, Inexperienced has a batting common of 48.57, aside from choosing 35 wickets.
If Inexperienced decides to go for the surgical procedure, contemplating he has a earlier historical past of again stress fractures as a teen, Australia would wish a brand new quantity six batter and rejig their batting order for the highly-anticipated collection in opposition to India, in addition to for the tour for Sri Lanka.
In his absence, Mitchell Marsh could should shoulder bowling workload, whereas Steve Smith may very well be again to batting at quantity 4. Marcus Harris, Cameron Bancroft, Matthew Renshaw, Nic Maddinson or teenaged batting prodigy Sam Konstas additionally come into the combination for opening the batting alongside Usman Khawaja.
Australia have one other three Sheffield Protect matches and two ‘A’ workforce video games in opposition to India ‘A’ at Brisbane and Mackay earlier than the primary Border-Gavaskar Trophy Take a look at begins on November 22 at Perth Stadium.
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