Injured Australian players on track to play ICC World Cup 2011
With only weeks to go before the ICC World Cup 2011 begins in the subcontinent, the injured Australian cricketers ramp up their race to be completely fit for the mega event.
Ricky Ponting, who missed the ongoing seven-match one day series against England nursing his broken finger, was given a green signal by his doctor on Sunday and the injured Australian captain is all set to resume training in a bid to get
himself back into form ahead of the esteemed event.
Ponting will take nets on Wednesday, 2 February, 2011 at the Sydney Cricket Ground, same day when rest of the team takes on England in the sixth One Day International of the seven-match series which Aussies are leading convincingly by 4-1.
Ponting had his little finger of the left hand fractured in the third Test of the 2010-11 Ashes series. The 36-year-old, despite a soaring finger, played in the fourth Test and aggravated his injury which kept him out of the fifth and final
Ashes Test followed by the ongoing one-day series.
The Tasmanian underwent a finger surgery and has been nursing it since then but now he must be relieved after the doctor allowed him to start training.
It is highly improbable that he would be considered for the seventh ODI against England to be played in Perth next Sunday.
The injured off-spinner, Nathan Hauritz is also on the fast track to recovery to play in the quadrennial event after he opted to go for the controversial arthroscopic surgery. The treatment was used by the legendry leg-spinner Shane Warne
in 2003 and he resumed bowling in just 17 days.
“A radical treatment involving controversial blood injections may get injured spinner Hauritz to the World Cup,” Australian media reported on Sunday.
The off-spinner picked up the injury during the second ODI against England in Hobart. He was advised a long procedure to heal his torn joint of the bowling shoulder but he underwent an arthroscopic surgery on Sunday. He will now resort to
the controversial blood injection treatment for quick recovery- a method also used by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 captain Graeme Smith in the past.
Michael Hussey’s availability for the World Cup is still in tatters after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746’s key batsman underwent a surgery on his hamstring he had ripped off while batting in the first ODI against England.
Australia will be hoping that all of their injured players return to competitive cricket as soon as possible in order to boost their chances of defending their title in the mega event.
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