da imperador bet： Less than 24 hours after Brian Lara passed a medical test and West Indieslooked set to take a full strength squad to Sri Lanka key middle orderbatsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been ruled out with a back injury
CricInfo23-Oct-2001Less than 24 hours after Brian Lara passed a medical test and West Indieslooked set to take a full strength squad to Sri Lanka key middle orderbatsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been ruled out with a back injury.Chanderpaul had been given the all clear earlier in the week after an MRIscan, but as the West Indies training camp in Jamaicia drew to a close, hesuffered from back spasms.Team manager Ricky Skerritt admitted to BBC Online that the left-handerwould be forced out of the seven-week long Asian tour.”He has been ruled out due to back spasms that have been bothering since hearrived here for the Red Stripe Bowl,” Skerritt said.No replacement has so far been named, but fellow left-hander, Wavell Hinds,who was drafted into the squad as cover for Lara, is expected to take hisplace.Chanderpaul, like Lara, has been dogged by injury for over a year, havingmissed four Tests in England last year with an elbow injury.He only played one Test match in Australia too after suffering a stressfracture of the right foot.The Sri Lanka tour begins on November 4 and the West Indies are scheduled toplay three Test matches against Sri Lanka and in a tri-nation one-daytournament against the host team and Zimbabwe in December.