Sami to undergo heel surgery

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Sami, who missed the last two one-dayers on the Indian tour due to a heel injury, would undergo surgery soon b...

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Sami, who missed the last two one-dayers on the Indian tour due to a heel injury, would undergo surgery soon but was expected to recover in time for the month-long tour of the West Indies starting in May.

Sami, who spearheaded Pakistan pace attack in the absence of Shoaib Akhtar in the just-concluded Test as well as one-day series, developed a corn in his right heel that forced him to skip the last two one-dayers.

Specialists believe hard grounds and landing areas on which he has recently played and bowled were the causes of the corn that is said to be about two inches in radius.

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“I will take the specialist’s final opinion later in the day and will make up my mind by tomorrow when I should get my heel operated. I have been told that I will recover in two weeks,” Sami, who has taken 102 one-day and 58 Test wickets, said today.

The Pakistan cricket team will leave for West Indies on May 7 during which it will play three one-dayers and two Tests.

“I might have started developing the corn on the Australian tour but I felt real pain during the second Test (at Kolkata). I managed somehow because we didn’t have the bowling attack but by the time I reached Ahmedabad (for the fourth one-dayer), it was unbearable,” Sami said.

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