da 888casino： LONDON – England middle-order batsman Michael Vaughan is doubtful forthe first Ashes cricket Test against Australia starting next Thursdaybecause of a burst cyst on his knee
Reuters30-Jun-2001LONDON – England middle-order batsman Michael Vaughan is doubtful forthe first Ashes cricket Test against Australia starting next Thursdaybecause of a burst cyst on his knee.”He is 60-40 to play,” an England and Wales Cricket Board spokesman saidon Friday.Graham Thorpe, England’s leading batsman, is also struggling to recoverfrom a calf muscle injury in time for the opening game of the five-Testseries at Edgbaston in Birmingham.Thorpe, who missed the recent triangular one-day series againstAustralia and Pakistan, was ruled out of Surrey’s county championshipmatch against Lancashire this weekend.The spokesman said left-arm spinner Ashley Giles, who missed the recenttwo-Test series against Pakistan, was still suffering from a stiffAchilles’ tendon after bowling 70 overs for Warwickshire againstMiddlesex.