Ollie Robinson is ready to endure a scan on a sore left ankle on Monday because the seamer turned the newest harm fear for England forward of a Test towards Ireland and the Ashes this summer season.
Concerns had been raised when Robinson remained off the sphere as Sussex took the second new ball on day three of their County Championship Division Two match towards Glamorgan at Hove.
Robinson headed for the pavilion earlier than lunch, having bowled an eight-over spell within the morning session – regardless of already feeling some discomfort on the base of his decrease leg the earlier night.
Sussex head coach Paul Farbrace revealed that they had been co-ordinating with England to make use of Robinson for one stint on Saturday morning earlier than withdrawing him as a preventative measure for the remainder of the day.
The former England assistant coach stated: “Ollie has a sore left ankle and he will be scanned on Monday to see how bad he is. We knew it was sore on Friday.
“We acquired one spell out of him this morning and he tried his hardest. It was an extended spell and he acquired caught in. He knew it will be one spell and one spell solely after which he was off, that was it for the day.
“It was precautionary. There was no point in making it worse. It’s walking more than the running in. He was all right running in down the slope. It’s a joint decision between the Sussex medical team and the England medical team.
“As a lot as we would like him on the market bowling and taking wickets it isn’t truthful on him to make the harm worse, so there was good dialog final night time and once more this morning.”
Robinson, who revealed he had a pain-killing injection in his back before the start of the domestic campaign, took career-best match figures of 14 for 117 for Sussex at Worcestershire this month.
The 29-year-old was included in England’s 15-strong squad to face Ireland at Lord’s from June 1-4 but is now a doubt for the one-off Test and, more worryingly, for the five-match series against Australia.
Jofra Archer was this week ruled out for the summer because of a recurrence of a stress fracture in his right elbow while fellow quick Olly Stone is currently sidelined with a hamstring problem.
James Anderson’s minor groin pressure appears to be like set to maintain him out of the Ireland conflict in a bid to be match for the Ashes, with England captain Ben Stokes wanting at the least eight match quick bowlers to name upon, all of whom could be rotated to share the burden with 5 Tests within the area of six-and-a-half weeks.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
