SOUTHAMPTON – England have suffered a major scare ahead of the World Cupafter Eoin Morgan, their captain, sustained a finger injury during theteam’s practice in Southampton.
The tournament hosts face a nervous wait on the results of an x-ray Morganunderwent on Friday after he took a blow on his left index finger whilepractising slip catching from a bowling machine at the Ageas Bowl.
England have described the scan as “precautionary” and are privatelyconfident that Morgan has not sustained serious injury. The fact he was notimmediately rushed to hospital and was seen in the team canteen lookingupbeat suggests there is no major issue. However, nothing will be known forcertain until England get the results of the x-ray back from medics.
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Even in a best-case scenario, it seems unlikely Morgan would be risked inSaturday’s World Cup warm-up match against Australia in Southampton.. Ifthat was the case he would, presumably, be fit for England’s opening matchof the tournament against South Africa at The Oval next Thursday. The worryis, though, that a fracture – which would take around four weeks to heal –would probably rule the 32-year-old out of the entire group stage of theWorld Cup.
