Saim Ayub out of Cape town test match due to suffering ankle injury


Pakistan should finish the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town without the administrations of their initial player Saim Ayub, who has been managed out of the rest of the match in the wake of experiencing a right lower leg injury. 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 transfer defender, however lost his equilibrium and turned his lower leg. He went down right away and showed up in pain 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, with the injury ruining procedures for Pakistan. Things possibly deteriorated a couple of overs some other time when his substitution, Abdullah Shafique, put down a basic opportunity Aiden Markram at cover. It wouldn't cost Pakistan much, however, with Markram tumbling to Khurram Shahzad two overs later. Ayub was shipped off emergency clinic not long after the episode, and not long after the end of play, the PCB affirmed he would have no further impact in the challenge. "Saim went through X-beams and X-ray tests this evening," the assertion read. "The reports have been shipped off experts in London for additional guidance on the treatment and time away from cutthroat cricket." Ayub has been a breakout star across designs throughout recent months, and was Player of the Series when Pakistan beat South Africa 3-0 in the ODI series last month, scoring two hundreds of every three games. He is one of a handful of the all-design regulars for Pakistan, and was supposed to be a critical figure for the side in the impending Bosses Prize that Pakistan will have, starting in February. That cooperation may now be in serious uncertainty. "It's a major blow, the sort of structure he's in," Salman Agha, Ayub's partner, said at the end of play. "He would have been an incredible resource on this wicket. I hope everything works out for him and ideally he'll be better soon."