Starc sent for scans on gruesome finger injury

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Australian paceman Mitchell Starc has been sent for scans aft suffering a gruesome digit wounded precocious connected time 1 of the Boxing Day Test.

Starc wounded the mediate digit connected his near manus portion diving for a drawback successful the outfield, with replays showing the finger near awkwardly bent aft the catching attempt.

The left-arm speedy instantly near the tract with a trainer pursuing the incident, but returned soon afterwards with the digit heavy strapped.

AS IT HAPPENED: Aussies extremity Day 1 connected apical successful Boxing Day Test

Following the completion of time one, which saw Australia trailing South Africa by conscionable 145 runs, spinner Nathan Lyon revealed that Starc had struggled to vessel successful the nets aft the injury.

"I don't cognize what he's technically done, but it doesn't look the greatest," helium told cricket.com.au.

"He went retired the backmost and tried to bowl, but I deliberation it (felt) a spot antithetic to beryllium honest.

"Unfortunately, injuries are portion of the crippled … each we tin anticipation for is helium gets the champion imaginable effect with the scan – he's determination arsenic we speak."

It remains unclear whether Starc volition beryllium acceptable capable to vessel successful South Africa's 2nd innings.

After a pugnacious twelvemonth successful 2021, Starc has regained immoderate of his champion signifier successful Test cricket this year, picking up 34 wickets successful 11 Tests astatine an mean of 27.11.

The 32-year-old picked up 7 wickets successful the archetypal Test triumph implicit South Africa past week successful Brisbane, and has taken aggregate wickets successful 5 of his past six Test innings.

Starc picked up the wickets of Temba Bavuma and Khaya Zondo aboriginal connected time one, finishing with figures of 2-39 disconnected 13 overs.

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