Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc was hospitalised on Thursday after sustaining an injury on his leg during a practice session in Sydney.
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Australia will hope Starc, who just made a return to global cricket in July after a long layoff due to an injury he sustained in November 2015 will be fit again for a long upcoming season.
The paceman, who was Player of the Series of the 2015 World Cup in Australia, sustained a cut while fielding in a training drill at the Hurstville Oval in the south of the metropolis when he dived to field a ball.
Mitchell Starc will spend the next few days in hospital, after a training-ground accident left him requiring 30 stitches in his left leg.
“Fortunately there were no bone fractures or tendon damage to his leg and he underwent surgery this afternoon to clean the wound and received approximately 30 stitches”, he was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo. Team doctor John Orchard, who was watching training, accompanied Starc in the ambulance.
In Australia’s recently conclude tour of Sri Lanka, Mitchell Starc was pick of the fast bowlers and he bowled brilliantly on slow, low and turning tracks in Sri Lanka.
Starc and other Australian cricketers are in Sydney for a series of fitness tests and pre-season briefings.
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Meanwhile, James Faulkner and Shaun Marsh have both been ruled out of Australia’s one-day tour of South Africa – a tour for which Starc was already being rested – due to injuries. Usman Khawaja has been drafted in as cover for Marsh, with no replacement named for Faulkner. “Unfortunately due to the fracture being in the joint of the finger we have chose to take a more conservative approach, therefore he will not be available for the ODI series in South Africa”.
