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Washington Sundar has been dominated out with a hamstring damage. © BCCI/IPL
Washington Sundar has been dominated out of the rest of IPL 2023 with a hamstring damage, his franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad revealed on Thursday (April 27).
Washington featured in every of the staff’s seven video games within the first half of the event and after going wicketless within the first six video games, he took three wickets in an over for returns of three for twenty-four within the staff’s most up-to-date fixture towards the Delhi Capitals. The 23-year-old additionally scored a brisk 15-ball 24* – his highest rating within the season – in that recreation in Hyderabad however was powerless in stopping his aspect’s third loss on the bounce.
The 2016 champions at present sit ninth within the standings with a 2-5 document. They face the Capitals once more within the return fixture on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on April 29 and must mount their comeback with out the all-round steadiness that Washington supplies them.
That is solely the most recent in a string of unlucky accidents for the Tamil Nadu cricketer. Most lately, he injured his left shoulder after touchdown closely on it whereas fielding in a Royal London One-Day Cup recreation for Lancashire and missed the tour of Zimbabwe. He additionally suffered an identical hamstring damage final February that compelled him to overlook T20Is at residence towards West Indies and subsequently missed a bunch of video games for SRH with a hand damage.
In 2021, proper after his exploits within the Gabba Check towards Australia and the Ahmedabad Check towards England, he suffered a finger damage whereas fielding for a County aspect in a warm-up recreation towards India at Chester le Avenue. It dominated him out of the Checks towards England, the second half of the IPL in addition to the T20 World Cup within the UAE.
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