England spinner Jack Leach will undergo knee surgery. cricket news

England spinner Jack Leach will undergo knee surgery to recover from the injury which has ruled him out of the last four Tests of England’s series against India in the subcontinent. Leach was part of England’s impressive 28-run win in Hyderabad and also took a wicket in the match. But he got injured in the match and in the second test, young player Shoaib Bashir was fielded in his place. Leach had to return home from the mid-series break in Abu Dhabi to continue his recovery. “I’m going to have an operation to take out the remaining swelling because it’s not healing,” Leach told BBC Radio 5 Live, as quoted by Sky Sports.

Leach revealed that he played the entire match with a knee problem.

“It was quite unfortunate. It was the second ball of the first innings on the ground so I was playing with this knee problem throughout the game. I obviously took a knee a few times during that game and it created a long period of Is.” To get well. “I need to get the operation done and then hopefully I can start playing cricket,” he said.

He concluded by saying, “I would love to play cricket and get back into rhythm and hopefully once I get this sorted out that can happen again.”

The 32-year-old has struggled with injuries and health issues since making his England debut in 2018. The first Test against India was his first Test appearance in several months after suffering a stress fracture in June last year.

England have not announced a replacement for Leach and without Leach’s experience, youngsters Tom Hartley (18 wickets in four matches), Rehan Ahmed (11 wickets in three matches), Shoaib Bashir (eight wickets) have performed well in the spin bowling. are doing. Two matches) Performing really well for the Three Lions. England have also been helped by the part-time spin bowling of Joe Root, who has taken seven wickets in four matches so far. All of them have defeated Indian spin superstars Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav.

India is leading 2-1 in the series.

Talking about the fourth test, the England team, which came to bat first, got bundled out for 353 runs in the first innings. India restricted England to 112/5, but Joe Root (122* from 274 balls, with 10 fours) returned to form with his 31st Test century. Apart from this, wicketkeeper-batsman Ben Fox (47 runs from 126 balls with the help of four fours and one six) and Ollie Robinson (58 runs from 96 balls with the help of nine fours and one six) also made useful contributions, both of them Made a century partnership with Root.

Ravindra Jadeja (4/67) was the best bowler for India, while debutant Akash Deep (3/83) won everyone’s heart with his opening spell. Mohammed Siraj (2/78) was good with the ball too.

In the second innings, Dhruv Jurel (30*) and Kuldeep Yadav (17*) helped India end the second day at 219/7. Yashasvi Jaiswal continued his excellent form by scoring 73 runs in 117 balls with the help of eight fours and one six. Shubman Gill also scored 38 runs in 65 balls with the help of six fours. Spinners Shoaib Bashir (4/84) and Tom Hartley (2/47) dominated Team India as the Three Lions took a lead of 134 runs.

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