Delhi Capitals' Mitchell Marsh has picked up a hip flexor injury in the Australian camp ahead of their first ODI against Pakistan and remains in doubt for the IPL 2022
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Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has added to Delhi Capitals’ concern as he picked up a hip flexor injury in the national team camp ahead of their first ODI against Pakistan. Marsh was in line to miss the first three games for Delhi Capitals due to the ODIs and one-off T20 against Pakistan, starting from Tuesday in Lahore.
However, if Marsh fails to recover and join the Delhi Capitals camp, it will deplete their overseas players’ resources. The capital franchise has only seven overseas players for IPL 2022 with Marsh and Australia opener David Warner originally expected to join the squad from April 6.
Fast bowlers Lungi Ngidi and Mustafizur Rahman were unavailable for Delhi Capitals’ opener as they were serving the mandatory quarantine after featuring in the South Africa vs Bangladesh ODI series.
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Marsh underwent scans on Monday which revealed his left-hip injury, which he had sustained during fielding drills on Sunday. “Scans confirmed the injury was a low-grade hip flexor strain. Marsh will be managed clinically with a view to potentially returning to play later in the series,” a Cricket Australia statement said.
Australia limited-overs captain Aaron Finch said that Marsh’s availability for the entire ODI series against Pakistan looks in doubt due to the injury.
“He’s injured his hip-flexor, we think, at training. We are going to have to wait and see what that looks like but I don’t think he’ll be available for the series based on how he was feeling yesterday,” Finch told reporters on Monday morning.
“He sustained that in a fielding drill, it was a high intensity, lateral movement drill and he bent down to pick it up one-handed and went to throw and felt a twinge.”
The Australian has a history of missing out on IPL due to injury. He was ruled out of the entire season in IPL 2020 for Sunrisers Hyderabad after hurting his ankle in the first match while he didn’t participate in IPL 2021 due to bubble fatigue and was subsequently replaced by Jason Roy.
