Naseem prone to miss total ODI World Cup with injured shoulder
Pakistan quick bowler Naseem Shah is prone to miss your complete World Cup after scans revealed an harm to his proper shoulder that’s worse than was initially suspected. The PCB is known to be looking for a second opinion, however scans from assessments in Dubai seem to point out the harm might rule him out for the remainder of 12 months.
Should secondary outcomes again up the preliminary ones, Naseem may very well be an extended layoff. His participation within the Test collection in Australia on the flip of the 12 months is doubtful, and he might additionally miss the subsequent Pakistan Super League in 2024.
Naseem walked off in the midst of the forty sixth over throughout Pakistan’s second sport against India on the Asia Cup final week on the reserve day organised for that sport, and was ruled out of the tournament quickly after. The PCB had, paradoxically, pushed for that reserve day for the sport towards India, as a hard-won concession after the video games weren’t moved to Hambantota, which was anticipated to be drier. It was on that reserve day that Naseem sustained the harm to a muscle slightly below his bowling shoulder, one which ESPNcricinfo understands will not be a recurrence of any earlier shoulder accidents.
Naseem’s absence from the World Cup, in addition to the following collection in Australia, will come as an enormous blow for Pakistan. Over the previous 12 months, Naseem has gone from a red-ball specialist to an all-format bowler for Pakistan, and on present type is one of the best of Pakistan’s much-vaunted triumvirate of Naseem, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf.
The PCB is predicted to make an official determination as soon as it has outcomes from his secondary scans in a couple of days. He was changed on the Asia Cup by Zaman Khan, whereas Mohammad Hasnain, one other attainable substitute, is presently additionally injured.
Naseem has had harm points in these early levels of his profession. A again harm he sustained one 12 months into his worldwide profession, when he was 17, saved him out of cricket for 14 months. Six weeks after his return, he was sidelined for a month with a shoulder harm he suffered on his debut within the County Championship with Gloucestershire.
In the 18 months since, his workload has elevated considerably. While he was solely a red-ball participant on the time, Naseem has grow to be an important bowler for Pakistan throughout all codecs. He is their most potent bowler since making his ODI debut, with 32 wickets in 14 matches whereas averaging slightly below 17.
But that workload, particularly with somebody as younger as Naseem, has constructed up fairly steeply. Since July 2022, solely eight quick bowlers have bowled extra worldwide deliveries than Naseem’s 2246, none of them practically as younger as Naseem. Afridi and Haris Rauf mixed have solely bowled 2732 balls. In addition, Naseem has additionally been in demand on the T20 circuit, lately coming off the LPL. On Friday he was included within the SA20 auction shortlist, a event he’s now nearly sure to overlook.