Freak injury rules Jonny Bairstow out of SA series and T20 World Cup

Inform England batter Jonny Bairstow on Friday was ruled out of English summer and Mens T20 World Cup after suffering a freak lower limb injury while playing golfBairstow the leading runscorer in Test cricket this year with 1061 runs in 13 innings at an average of 6631 including six centuries and a fifty had been earlier on Friday named in Englands squad for Mens T20 World Cup in Australia in OctoberNovemberBairstows injury comes as a huge blow to Englands chances of sealing the Test series against South Africa when the third Test takes place at The Oval starting from September 8 and their quest to claim a Mens T20 World Cup title to be the first mens team to hold 20over and 50over World Cup trophies at the same timeBairstow sustained a lower limb injury in a freak accident whilst playing golf on Friday in Leeds He will see a specialist next week to ascertain the full extent of the injury A further announcement will be made in due course on who will replace Bairstow in Englands ICC Mens T20 World Cup squad said the England and Wales Cricket Board ECB on their websiteIn his Instagram story Bairstow revealed he will need an operation for the lower limb injury which happened after slipping on a golf course earlier in the day Unfortunately I am going to be unavailable for all games tours in the immediate future The reason being is that I have injured my lower leg in a freak accident and it shall need an operationAlso Read Jason Roy hit a bad patch of form at the worst time England director Rob KeyThe injury came when I slipped on the golf course this morning I am gutted and want to wish everyone for this week at The Oval all the best firstly and the boys that are going to Australia for the T20 World Cup Absolutely gutted I will be backECB also informed that Nottinghamshire batter Ben Duckett who played four Tests for England in 2016 has been added to the Test squad for the third Test at The Oval which sets up as a series decider between the hosts and Proteas with a scoreline at 11England mens managing director Rob Key had said that Bairstow would open the batting in T20 World Cup alongside Jos Buttler after designated opener Jason Roy was dropped due to poor form in English summerThe latest we could announce the World Cup squad was the 16th So it wasnt like we could use Pakistan Wed be taking a gamble on him Roy finding form in that time So we felt with the abundance of openers we had and we felt Jonny Bairstow is one of the best openers in T20 cricket in the world hes done it in the IPL but been very good in the middle order as well we felt the best combination at this time was Jonny and Jos and we worked back from that pointThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever