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Saim Ayub in motion© AFP
Pakistan’s younger all-format 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 harm that he sustained in the course of the ongoing second Check in opposition to South Africa. He’ll take no additional half within the Check in opposition to the Proteas at Cape City. The Pakistan Cricket Board mentioned on Saturday that MRIs and different exams had 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 in opposition to South Africa on Friday.
“He has a right ankle fracture injury which will take at least six weeks to heal,” a board official mentioned.
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 residence in opposition to the West Indies later this month and likewise 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 might be changed by discarded opener Imam-ul-Haq for the Assessments 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 a whole lot on these excursions together with two within the 3-0 whitewash over South Africa within the ODI collection.
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