JOHANNESBURG - Injuries this past weekend continued wrecking Zimbabwes prospects in the ongoing Cricket World Cup with the injury of batsman Sean Williams.Vusi Sibanda was approved as a replacement player for the injured Williams.
The confirmation was conveyed to Zimbabwe Cricket on behalf of the committee. Sibanda will replace Williams who fractured his right thumb while training on Thursday ahead of his side’s match against New Zealand at Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad, said ICC in a statement,
Any injury-based replacement requires a written submission to the event technical committee along with a diagnosis from a medical practitioner as to the extent of the injury. The replacement player is a permanent addition to the squad.
Evans is the fourth Zimbabwean player after Sean Ervine, Tinotenda Mawoyo and Edward Rainsford were forced to retire through injury.
His replacement, 27-year-old Sibanda, a right-handed batsman from Harare, has played in 85 ODIs in which he has scored 1 796 runs at an average of little under 22.
Williams is the 12th player to be replaced in the tournament after his compatriots and West Indies’s Dwayne Bravo, Adrian Barath and Carlton Baugh, Australia’s Nathan Hauritz and Michael Hussey, Praveen Kumar of India, England’s Eoin Morgan and Sohail Tanvir of Pakistan were earlier replaced.
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