Saim Ayub in Champions trophy wellness race in the wake of enduring lower leg break

Pakistan have experienced a critical blow after Saim Ayub was precluded for "as long as six weeks" with a right lower leg break, supported during the primary morning of the Test in Cape Town. The determination rules him out of Pakistan's two Test matches against the West Indies in the not so distant future, as well as a tri-series against South Africa and New Zealand at home in February. It likewise implies he is in a test of skill and endurance to be good for the Bosses Prize, which starts in Karachi in a little more than about a month and a half. The PCB said a X-ray check directed on Friday "affirmed the crack, which has been immobilized in a lower leg clinical moon boot". Ayub will stay with the group for the rest of the Test. Ayub must be stretchered off the contribute only the seventh over of the match, when Ryan Rickelton edged a conveyance through the slips, sending Ayub off on a pursuit to profound third close by Aamer Jamal. Jamal pulled it back in as Ayub stood ready to be the hand-off defender, yet lost his equilibrium and turned his lower leg. He went down right away and showed up in misery holding the lower part of his leg as the physio surged on. Notwithstanding delayed treatment outside the limit line, Ayub couldn't put any weight on his right lower leg, and gave off an impression of being in tears as he was put on to a cot and taken off. He was subsequently seen on supports in the clinical boot. The most recent couple of months have seen Ayub lay out him as an all-design star for Pakistan, assuming vital parts in ODI series wins away in Australia, Zimbabwe as well as here in South Africa, where two hundreds of every three matches saw him named the Player of the Series.