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Jonny Bairstow faces a race to be fit for England’s first Test in Sri Lanka after the ankle injury he sustained during the team’s regular pre-training football match last week was confirmed as ligament damage.
Bairstow missed the 18-run DLS victory on Saturday in Kandy – a result which secured a 3-0 lead in the one‑day series with one game to play – and has now, following a scan, been ruled out of the fifth ODI on Monday and the one-off Twenty20 international this weekend.
Written by Ali Martin in Colombo
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/21/england-jonny-bairstow-ligament-damage-sri-lanka under the title “England’s Jonny Bairstow struggling to make first Test with ligament damage”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
