Pace bowlers Kyle Jamieson and Matt Henry have been dominated out of New Zealand’s first cricket Test towards England.
Jamieson has suffered a suspected stress fracture of the again, the identical damage he has spent the previous eight months recovering from.
Henry, in the meantime, stays in Christchurch awaiting the beginning of his first youngster and has not travelled to Mount Maunganui.
The Black Caps, who’re already with out main seamer Trent Boult attributable to franchise commitments, have referred to as up uncapped pair Jacob Duffy and Scott Kuggeleijn as replacements for the sequence opener beginning Thursday.
Head coach Gary Stead confirmed Jamieson’s newest setback, which got here to mild after he took half in final week’s warm-up recreation towards England in Hamilton.
“It’s really gutting for Kyle to have this happen after he’d put so much hard work in to getting himself back on the park,” Stead mentioned.
“Since the injury in June we’ve certainly taken a cautious approach to managing his return with regular monitoring by our medical staff which has included scans.
“While Kyle’s not feeling any ache, the proof is fairly clear he has a stress-fracture and so he’ll return to Christchurch right this moment and have a CT scan on Friday earlier than we determine on the subsequent steps.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
