Cricket

Fuller and Morgan sidelined by injury

Middlesex paceman James Fuller will be out for at least three weeks with the side strain injury picked up in Tuesday’s Royal London One-Day Cup game against Somerset.

Fuller was unable to bowl in the match and will now miss Middlesex’s last two Royal London One-Day Cup group games, their T20 Blast quarter-final and the County Championship matches with Surrey and Durham.

He would also be a doubt for the One-Day Cup quarter-finals and T20 Blast finals day, should his side qualify.

Batsman Eoin Morgan, meanwhile, chipped a bone in his finger in the same match at Taunton and will be sidelined for at least another week, ruling him out of the One-Day Cup group games and the Championship clash with Surrey.

He will be assessed ahead of the T20 quarter-finals, which are played in the week beginning 8 August.

Paul Stirling, whose shoulder injury kept him out of the T20 Blast defeat to Essex on Thursday, will be given a fitness test ahead of Sunday’s Royal London One-Day Cup clash against the same opponents.

Spinner Ravi Patel, though, is back to full fitness after six weeks out with a thigh strain.

Fast bowler Tom Helm, who tore ankle ligaments in the Royal London One-Day Cup match at Hove in mid-June, ruling him out of the rest of the campaign, is on schedule for a full recovery in October.

This post was last modified on 29/07/2016

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