Injured Daniel Flynn ruled out of second Test – Cricket News Update
New Zealand opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, due to be played at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica from August 2 to 6, after sustaining a right adductor muscle injury.
“Daniel has been carrying the grade one injury since the last day of the first Test but had responded positively to treatment,” confirmed Paul Close, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 physio. “We felt there was a reasonable chance he would be fit to play but his progress over
the past 24 hours plateaued.”
“He was still experiencing pain during the team training session today with a subsequent fitness test ruling him out,” Close added. “We are confident he will be fully fit in time for the upcoming tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.”
Flynn has been attempting to cement his place in the national squad since having made his debut in a T20I played in February 2008, against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at Christchurch. His career spans 18 Tests (799 runs), 20 ODIs (228 runs), and 5 T20Is (59 runs), and he has
been in and out of the national squad.
He featured as the number 3 batsman during the limited-overs leg of the Kiwis’ ongoing tour of the Caribbean, but failed to register any remarkable performances, racking up individual scores of 12, 21, 28, and 0. He was drafted into the Test XI to open alongside
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Guptill-c1980, but continued his mediocre run, contributing scores of 20 and 45 during the first Test match, played at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua from July 25 to 29.
The first match of the extended-overs leg of the tour saw the visitors carrying their dismal ODI form into the Test series. Guptill and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BB-McCullum-c1129 remained the only batsmen who managed to score half-centuries, while the remainder of the batsmen struggled
to pick mystery spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KAJ-Roach-c1758.
In addition to the absence of Flynn in the XI for the second Test, the Black Caps have been dealt a considerable blow by the loss of veteran spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DL-Vettori-c1384 (to a groin strain), who claimed just one wicket during the previous Test, but was highly
efficient at restricting the run flow. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tarun-Nethula-c2647 seems the most likely replacement for Vettori.
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