Cricket: Australia’s Pattinson set for spinal surgery
SYDNEY : Injury-prone Australia discerning bowler James Pattinson is set to have spinal medicine in a last-ditch bid to repair a repeated problem that has stubborn him for years.
A reduce behind highlight detonate kept a 27-year-old out of Australia’s new debate to Bangladesh and he will also skip a arriving Ashes array opposite England.
Cricket Australia’s sports scholarship arch Alex Kountouris pronounced they were articulate with several New Zealand specialists, including one who helped save paceman Shane Bond’s career.
“He’s got 4 highlight fractures that haven’t healed given his teenage years,” Kountouris told The Australian journal Wednesday of Pattinson.
“What he’s doing is removing bone highlight on a healthy partial of a bone. And that one partial of a bone keeps breaking.”
CA medical staff have nonetheless to pointer off on spinal medicine as a best option, though “we’re a prolonged approach down a lane of looking during it”.
“It doesn’t sound like there’s a lot to lose,” pronounced Kountouris.
“There’s apparently some complications that could presumably happen, there’s concerns with any arrange of surgery, though that’s substantially a approach we’re going to go.”
Injuries have singular Pattinson to 17 Tests given his 2011 entrance and he has not played given Jul 1 when he represented Nottinghamshire in a final of England’s one-day contest opposite Surrey during Lord’s.-AFP
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