Delhi Capitals’ leg-spinner Amit Mishra has been dominated out for the rest of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 with a finger damage in his bowling hand. “The 37-year-old sustained a flexor tendon damage to the ring finger of his bowling hand while trying to take a return catch off his bowling throughout Delhi Capitals’ match in opposition to the Kolkata Knight Riders,” Delhi Capitals stated in an announcement. The information comes hours earlier than DC’s sport in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore.
“Mishra will now seek the advice of with a specialist over the following few days to find out essentially the most acceptable course of administration for this unlucky damage,” the assertion additional learn.
Mishra suffered the damage when he dived to his proper to attempt to take a return catch to dismiss KKR’s Nitish Rana throughout DC’s 18-run win over them, whereas bowling his first over within the match.
He did bowl another over, dismissing an in-form Shubman Gill within the course of, however the physio needed to come out to are likely to him once more, and he didn’t bowl after that.
“Unlucky to lose Mishra within the center when he was spinning the ball very well,” DC captain Shreyas Iyer had stated after the sport.
“The worst half is that he was wanting in nice rhythm and was bowling very well. His expertise was one thing that was not simply serving to him within the center on these UAE wickets, but in addition the younger spinners within the group,” a DC official was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
Amit Mishra is the second-highest wicket taker in IPL historical past, with 160 scalps to his identify, and solely Sri Lanka pacer Lasith Malinga has extra wickets within the match.
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Delhi Capitals should now search for a substitute for the skilled spinner.
With inputs from ANI
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