Injured Shubman Gill may miss entire England series

"It will be a race against time to get him fit for the final two Test matches in September after completing rehabilitation," a BCCI official said.

London: India opener batsman Shubman Gill has sustained a serious shin injury which could keep him out of action for at least two months, a BCCI official said.

It is all but certain that Gill is unlikely to feature in the upcoming five-Test series against England starting in Nottingham from August 4.

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“Shubman has sustained a shin stress fracture, which will keep him out of action for minimum two months, which effectively rules him out of the first three Tests against England in August,” the official added.

“It will be a race against time to get him fit for the final two Test matches in September after completing rehabilitation,” he added.

It is understood that the shin injury got aggravated during the recently-concluded World Test Championship final against New Zealand in Southampton which India lost by 8 wickets.

Bengal’s Abhimanyu Easwaran is one of the openers on stand-by. The Indian team is a currently on a break and will regroup in mid-July for the England series.

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