AUS vs IND: David Warner suffered a groin injury during the ODI series against India.© AFP
Australian star batsman David Warner will miss the Boxing Day test against India after failing to shake off the groin injury that kept him out of the first match, Cricket Australia said on Wednesday. The governing body said that Warner and paceman Sean Abbott had also been excluded from the Australian team’s biosecurity bubble in Melbourne as a precautionary measure due to a Covid-19 outbreak in their hometown Sydney. “While none of the players have been to a specific access point as described by NSW Health, Cricket Australia’s biosecurity protocols do not allow them to rejoin the team in time for the Boxing Day trial,” he said.
The second test against India begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 26 and the teams have been training in biosecurity bubbles.
Warner and Abbott flew to Melbourne on Saturday in hopes of avoiding quarantine problems stemming from the Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney.
But the team’s Covid-19 protocols prevented them from joining the team in time for the Test, and Cricket Australia said Warner would not have recovered in time anyway.
Warner limped out of Australia’s second one-day international match against Tourists last month in agony after sustaining the injury.
New South Wales state authorities have been struggling to contain a cluster of viruses that emerged on Sydney’s northern beaches after a long period of no community transmission in Australia’s largest city.
The group is currently at just under 100, and the state government announced a second day of single-digit growth in cases on Wednesday and eased lockdown restrictions for Christmas.
It is unclear whether the outbreak will affect the third test against India, which will begin in Sydney on January 7.
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“I know Cricket Australia is doing everything in its power to have the Test Match in Sydney, but we will know more in a couple of days,” eccentric Nathan Lyon told reporters on Wednesday.
“Fingers crossed, he’s in Sydney, but more importantly, hopefully everyone is safe and can have a decent Christmas.”
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