Pakistan’s younger opener Saim Ayub may miss subsequent month’s ICC Champions Trophy after being dominated out of aggressive cricket for six weeks due to an ankle damage that he sustained in the course of the ongoing second Check towards South Africa.
He’ll take no additional half within the Check towards the Proteas at Cape City.
The Pakistan Cricket Board stated on Saturday that MRIs and different checks have been carried out on him and the medical doctors have suggested Saim six weeks relaxation.
Saim had harm his ankle whereas fielding on the boundary on the primary day of the second Check towards South Africa on Friday.
“He has a proper ankle fracture damage which is able to take at the least six weeks to heal,” a board official stated.
Saim’s fractured ankle has been put in an Ankle Medical Moon Boot as a part of his rehabilitation course of.
Therefore, He’s additionally sure to overlook the two-Check collection at house towards the West Indies later this month and in addition the tri-series with South Africa and New Zealand in February earlier than the Champions Trophy, beginning throughout Pakistan and Dubai from February 19.
Saim may very well be changed by discarded opener Imam-ul-Haq for the Checks and Fakhar Zaman for the ODIs.
The 22-year left-hander has had a profitable tour of Australia, Zimbabwe and South Africa and scored three lots of on these excursions together with two within the 3-0 whitewash over South Africa within the ODI collection.