Knee Injury Frustrates Kabir Ali.

Knee Injury Frustrates Kabir Ali.

Lancashire will begin their pre-season tour of Dubai on Thursday, with a Twenty20 match versus Sussex. However, they have suffered an early set-back, after it was revealed that fast bowler, Kabir Ali, would not travel with the team, due to a knee injury he sustained whilst playing in the Bangladesh T20 Premier League.

The injury was sustained when the former England international jarred his knee bowling and as a result he will miss the start of the season. Coincidentally, he will miss the opening fixture of the County Championship, which would have seen him face his first county, Worcestershire.

Lancashire’s director of cricket, Mike Watkinson, has said that since the injury Ali has been “training indoors” but his knee “began to swell up”. He was quick to assert his, and the clubs concern, adding his hope that the injury “is nothing too serious”. This view will be shared by everyone at Lancashire, who will not only be frustrated by the rapidity of their first injury of the season, but also because the player sustaining the injury is one of their many winter signings.

Ahead of their first tour-match against Sussex, Lancashire are set to have a net session tomorrow and utilise many of the “brilliant facilities” that have been praised by the Lancashire coach, Peter Moores.

The coach stated that he is eager to “win all the practice games”, but believes that it is important to “give opportunities to as many people in our squad as we can do.” He finished by saying that “Whatever side we put out on the field is talented enough to win every game”, which will fill the team with confidence ahead of Thursday’s match.