Agency :
Opener David Warner is likely to miss the second Test between India and Australia starting December 26 at the MCG as he is yet to fully recover from the groin injury that kept him out of the 1st Test as well. Even though Cricket Australia has already flown Warner and pacer Sean Abbott from Sydney to Melbourne due to restrictions imposed by the New South Wales state government in the wake of another surge of Covid-19 cases, ESPNcricinfo reports, ‘despite intensive rehabilitation programme, which has including using an oxygen chamber, the time frame looks too tight for him to be available.’
Warner had limped out of Australia’s second one-day international against the tourists last month in agony after straining his groin and was hopeful of returning for the Boxing day Test. “I am (hopeful), that’s one that I never want to miss out on,” Warner had told Australian sports radio network SEN about the Melbourne Test.”
Opener David Warner is likely to miss the second Test between India and Australia starting December 26 at the MCG as he is yet to fully recover from the groin injury that kept him out of the 1st Test as well. Even though Cricket Australia has already flown Warner and pacer Sean Abbott from Sydney to Melbourne due to restrictions imposed by the New South Wales state government in the wake of another surge of Covid-19 cases, ESPNcricinfo reports, ‘despite intensive rehabilitation programme, which has including using an oxygen chamber, the time frame looks too tight for him to be available.’
Warner had limped out of Australia’s second one-day international against the tourists last month in agony after straining his groin and was hopeful of returning for the Boxing day Test. “I am (hopeful), that’s one that I never want to miss out on,” Warner had told Australian sports radio network SEN about the Melbourne Test.”
