Fractured finger rules http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 tour – Cricket News Update
Left-handed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nasir-c78728 Jamshaid, has been ruled out of the upcoming crucial tour of Sri Lanka with a fractured finger, which may take up to six weeks to heal.
The 22-year-old top-order batsman, who had made a comeback to the national set-up in March this year after an absence of almost three years, injured his left index finger during a practice session.
The left-handed opening batsman, who has played 16 One Day Internationals for Pakistan since making his international debut in 2008, had been a key batsman in Pakistan’s successful Asia Cup campaign in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 earlier this year. Donning Pakistan colours
after a gap of three years during the quadrangular one-day tournament, the left-hander compiled 193 runs from four innings, including a maiden century in a crunch game against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
Following his impressive performance in the regional tournament, the selectors included him in the ODI and T20 squads of next month’s tour of Sri Lanka. However, an untimely finger injury sidelined him for six weeks, making it improbable that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jamshed-c66276 will
return to the field at some stage during the limited-overs series against the islanders, featuring five One Day Internationals and two T20 Internationals.
Pakistan cricket team is scheduled to leave for Sri Lanka on May 29 and will kick start the tour on June 1 with a T20 International at Hambantota. The tour will also feature a three-Test series against the hosts.
Meanwhile, the Men in Green will be without a specialist bowling coach during the crucial tour as the Pakistan Cricket Board is still contemplating over suitable options for the position that has been vacant since http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aaqib-Javed-c41431 departed in February, accepting
a three-year deal with the Emirates Cricket Board to be head coach of the UAE team.
"We aren't able to find a suitable coach so far," the PCB chairman Zaka http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashraf-c46397 told the media reporters on Wednesday. "We have to reopen the process for more applicants," he added further.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Intikhab-Alam-c64380, who heads the coaches' committee in the PCB, had also said that bowling coach is an important position and board does not want to make a hasty decision.
"We don't want to make any hasty decision and rush into the appointment of the new bowling coach. This is an important position and we want to make the right choice keeping in mind the new policies in the team," he said.
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