KP injury could open door for Marsh
Expected calf injury Notices for Mitchell Marsh at recall Pietersen out for two weeks as Pune skipper Dhoni put
Kevin Pietersen is expected that "a few weeks", but its crippling calf injury are urged last night Indian Premier League match on the sidelines, the door for Australia's Mitchell Marsh could open. Early in the Rising run chase 'Pune Giants against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, Pietersen dabbed his first delivery to the sidelines and took off for a quick single, as he has done countless times before in his career. But this time the 35-year-old calf muscle is was not willing to help him the space to fall. It tore - the severity of which is not yet known - and KP quickly turned and limped back to his crease.
Attended to by the medical staff Pune, Pietersen first limped toward the sideline before they carried back to the locker room. Pietersen had to retire increasingly a top-order collapse to Pune, get the ball, after South Australian Kane Richardson South Africa opener Faf du Plessis away. Steve Smith was from Virat Kohli the next over and Pune were suddenly 3-18 in the third over and facing an impossible task after Kohli (80) and AB de Villiers (83) run out Banglaore had inspired to 3-185. In response to a tweet by former South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher that KP was "getting old", he replied that he would be out of the golf course "for a few weeks now"
Pietersen wrote later a picture of himself in a wheelchair in the Pune locker rooms with a bandage on his right calf and entitled "Urgh". Pune eventually fell short by 13 runs and assuming Pietersen injury enforced absence of India's fairways and greens in his time correlated by the cricket field away, Pune is a change.Skipper MS Dhoni said after the match Pietersen from the equation must make, which if could be their choice XI "blessing in disguise". "We are playing with six bowlers, but our death bowling is not great," Dhoni said. "KP injury can be a blessing." Maybe we can bring to looking at Albie Morkel or Mitch Marsh in the next game. "With the kind of players we have, it is always difficult to make someone fall. We need to strengthen our bowling line a little," he said.
Marsh has already played two games this season, and while he did not hit his straps with the bat, he presented his ever better bowling with two wickets in 15.5 and a very decent economy rate in T20 relation to 6.2. Morkel has yet to feature for Pune in this year's IPL, although the South African has played 89 matches over his eight-year career IPL. Marsh, who was sold for $ 1,000,000 in the IPL auction in February to Pune, looking forward to the opportunity to mingle with some of the game modern sizes for the first time in three seasons.
"That's the one thing about world cricket these days is great - there are so many T20 competitions, the international players play with each other all over the world", the all-rounder said cricket.com.au this month. "You get people to understand. Your thoughts of them on the field are not necessarily what they are like off the court." We have a great relationship was with all the boys go and we have many international players got in our side and we are all together beautifully gelling. "
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