England batter Liam Livingstone is hoping to get health clearance from the ECB by weekend to participate within the Indian Premier League.
Livingstong has not performed aggressive cricket since struggling a knee harm on his Test debut in Pakistan 4 months in the past. He had additionally endured an ankle harm final 12 months and that flared up in current weeks to make his rehab more durable.
It is definite that he’ll miss Punjab Kings’ third sport of the season in opposition to Surnisers Hyderabad on April 9. It play performs its fourth sport at house on April 13.
“(I’m) getting there, finally,” Livingstone mentioned on LancsTV’s protection of Lancashire’s opening County Championship fixture in opposition to Surrey.
“It’s been a long road: three or four days a week at the gym over the last three or four months. Maybe towards the end of this week, or start of next week, I’ll fly out to India and get going again.
“Feeling much better. I had some injections midway last week. It’s settled it down a lot, finally been able to get outside and do some running and get back to proper cricket stuff. That’s probably been about four or five days now, so just trying to build back up to match fitness now.” Livingstone had recovered from the ankle harm to play within the T20 World Cup which England received.
“I got over my ankle to play in the World Cup, then my knee has been a bit of a niggly one. I finally sorted that out and my ankle flared up again. Hopefully they’re both under control now and it’ll be nice to get back playing finally,” he mentioned.
“It’s been a difficult couple of months, but finally now I’m like a little kid wanting to get back playing cricket again.
“Hopefully over the next couple of days, I’ll get the clearance to head out there. I’m really looking forward to getting back out, getting back playing, and hopefully over the next 48 hours or so I’ll finally get that,” he added.
Livingstone is a vital participant for Punjab Kings, who retained him on a contract value Rs 11.50 crore forward of the public sale final 12 months. He had hammered 437 runs final season at a strike fee of 182.08.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com