Shoulder injury puts Kumble out of county

Indian leg spinner Anil Kumble is nursing a shoulder injury and has curtailed his stint with English county Surrey, the club said on Wednesday.

Indian leg spinner Anil Kumble is nursing a shoulder injury and has curtailed his stint with English county Surrey, the club said on Wednesday.

India’s most successful Test and one-day bowler has been diagnosed with tendonitis in his right shoulder, which can only recover with rest, and so he will fly home this Friday, just five weeks after he arrived in Kennington. The 35-year-old Kumble underwent surgery on the same bowling shoulder in 2001 to recover from a career-threatening injury.

He is supposed to rest for recovery and could possibly get a berth straight into the Champions Trophy squad. However, the Indian think-tank had assumed that Kumble would have, by then, got enough practice at his county club. If this injury makes him doubtful of the Kuala Lumpur meet that precedes the Champions Trophy, things could get sticky for the bowler. His brief Surrey stint included a match-winning haul of 11 for 183 against Northamptonshire at The Oval.

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“It is disappointing that my shoulder injury has prevented me from taking part in the rest of Surrey’s season,” Kumble said. The Karnataka bowler, is aiming for a one-day comeback after a year. He has been included in the provisional squad for the ICC Champions Trophy.

Surrey’s cricket manager Alan Butcher was understandably disappointed to be losing Kumble. “From my point of view it was a pleasure working with him,” he said. “I would love the opportunity to do so again in the future.”

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