Jamie Overton has actually been ruled out of the remainder of the summer with one more stress fracture in his back, which he maintained in the very early component of the County Championship period.
Overton has actually been identified with a lower-back stress fracture, which he grabbed in Surrey’s Championship component versus Somerset last month. His accessibility last summer was restricted by one more stress fracture in his back, which ruled him inactive for the very early component of the residential period, and for the global summer.
Before his most recent injury, Overton was apparently in the competing a location in England’s T20 World Cup team, with Rob Key claiming the allrounder was “desperately unlucky” to lose out on the 15-player team. Overton played his only Test suit at Headingley in 2022 and was an extra team participant throughout England’s collection in Pakistan in December 2022.
A Surrey representative informed ESPNcricinfo that there is presently “no timeline” for Overton’s go back to activity.
With the news of James Anderson’s retired life adhering to the very first Test of the summer versus the West Indies and England encountering their very first home summer because Stuart Broad’s retired life, Overton’s injury is one more strike to their pace-bowling alternatives. Josh Tongue has actually currently been eliminated of the West Indies collection, while Jofra Archer will certainly not await Test suit activity up until at the very least following summer.
Matthew Potts and Saqib Mahmood have actually both included for their areas throughout the very first component of the period with Mahmood returning from a lengthy lack because of numerous stress cracks of his very own.
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