England spinner Jack Leach to undergo knee surgery

Left-arm spinner Jack Leach is set to undergo knee surgery after being ruled out of England's ongoing tour of India.

Leach, who came into the India series as England’s most experienced spinner, took part in the first Test at Hyderabad, which the visitors won by 28 runs.

“It was quite an unfortunate one. It was the second ball of the first innings in the field so that whole game I was playing with this knee problem. I obviously knocked it a few times throughout that game and it has just created a long period of recovery,” he said.

“I need to get the operation done and then hopefully I can get back to playing cricket. I’d love to have a run of playing cricket and getting into a bit of a rhythm again and hopefully that can happen again once I’ve got this sorted.”

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The 32-year-old Leach suffered an injury while fielding which caused severe swelling, forcing him to remain absent, miss the second Test and subsequently return home.

“I’m going to have an operation to get the rest of the swelling out because it’s not budging,” Leach was quoted as saying by BBC.

Leach, who suffers from Crohn’s disease, had missed last year’s Ashes at home due to a stress fracture in his back.

On the tour of New Zealand five years ago in 2019, Leach had contracted sepsis.

After the tour of India, England’s next Test assignment will be the home series against West Indies from 10 July.

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