Romeo
9 Jul 2006, 00:16
Hoggard injury scare for England
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Matthew Hoggard: two stitches in bowling hand © Getty Images
England's injury worries ahead of next week's first Test against Pakistan have just got worse, after Matthew Hoggard was taken to hospital for two stitches in his bowling hand after being injured before play on the third day of England A's warm-up match at Canterbury.
Hoggard, who has been ever-present in England's Test team since the tour to West Indies in March 2004, suffered the injury after being trodden on by his Yorkshire team-mate, Tim Bresnan. He returned to the ground within the first hour of play, but England's selector, Geoff Miller, admitted he was unlikely to bowl in the match.
The cuts were inflicted on the palm of Hoggard's hand below the thumb. It is not yet known whether they are serious enough to rule him out of the first Test next Thursday, but with England already missing Andrew Flintoff, Simon Jones and James Anderson through injury, the last thing they need is to lose their most senior and reliable fast bowler, who recently became the tenth Englishman to pass 200 Test wickets.
While Hoggard was being treated, Chris Read and Stuart Broad made merry in the morning sun, adding an unbeaten 127-run stand for the tenth wicket. Read swept Danish Kaneria for six to reach 150 not out, while Broad registered his maiden first-class fifty. England declared on 595 for 9, and by lunch the Pakistanis were 66 for 1 in reply, with Bresnan taking the only wicket to fall, that of Imran Farhat for 16.
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Matthew Hoggard: two stitches in bowling hand © Getty Images
England's injury worries ahead of next week's first Test against Pakistan have just got worse, after Matthew Hoggard was taken to hospital for two stitches in his bowling hand after being injured before play on the third day of England A's warm-up match at Canterbury.
Hoggard, who has been ever-present in England's Test team since the tour to West Indies in March 2004, suffered the injury after being trodden on by his Yorkshire team-mate, Tim Bresnan. He returned to the ground within the first hour of play, but England's selector, Geoff Miller, admitted he was unlikely to bowl in the match.
The cuts were inflicted on the palm of Hoggard's hand below the thumb. It is not yet known whether they are serious enough to rule him out of the first Test next Thursday, but with England already missing Andrew Flintoff, Simon Jones and James Anderson through injury, the last thing they need is to lose their most senior and reliable fast bowler, who recently became the tenth Englishman to pass 200 Test wickets.
While Hoggard was being treated, Chris Read and Stuart Broad made merry in the morning sun, adding an unbeaten 127-run stand for the tenth wicket. Read swept Danish Kaneria for six to reach 150 not out, while Broad registered his maiden first-class fifty. England declared on 595 for 9, and by lunch the Pakistanis were 66 for 1 in reply, with Bresnan taking the only wicket to fall, that of Imran Farhat for 16.