Saqib Mahmood will certainly play his first County Championship game considering that May 2023 for Lancashire today (May 10-13), having actually invested a prolonged time on the sidelines with a stress fracture.
The right-arm fast is just one of a variety of young England seamers that have actually dealt with injuries in the very early component of their job. Mahmood made his white-ball worldwide launching in 2019 in a T20I in New Zealand, with his ODI launching coming the following February versusSouth Africa He was provided a rate growth agreement by the ECB in 2020 and made his Test launching in 2022 in theWest Indies He played the 2nd and 3rd suits in the collection and took 6 gates in total amount.
Following his Test launching, he was eliminated of activity for the entire of the 2022 summer season after he was detected with a back stress fracture. He made his affordable return for the England Lions in very early 2023, taking 3-27 in an ODI versusSri Lanka A Mahmood played 2 County Championship suits and 2 Blast ready Lancashire in 2023 prior to he was once more eliminated of activity. He was detected with a reappearance of his stress fracture which placed him out of affordable activity for the following year.
Mahmood exposed previously this year that he had actually thought about relaxing from superior cricket following his 2nd back fracture. “It’s quite overwhelming to think that two years of my career have just sort of gone. I don’t want to have a third year like that,” he stated. “Initially I didn’t want to play any red ball cricket at the start of this season. At the back end of last summer I had a chat to the guys here because I was nervous about my body.”
Mahmood will certainly align for Lancashire versus Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge today, with Lancashire choosing to bat first on Day One.
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