Spencer Johnson provided an insightful update on the management of his toe injury which could potentially see him miss games, while Tom Curran appears to be out of Saturday’s game.
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The Brisbane Heat have named an unchanged 13-man squad to play the Sydney Sixers on Sunday, with Spencer Johnson holding his spot. Read more about Johnson’s toe issue below.
Heat squad: Munro (c), Banton, Bartlett, Bryant, Drew, Johnson, Kuhnemann, McSweeney, Peirson, Prestwidge, Renshaw, Swepson, Walter
The Sixers have named Jack Edwards in their 14-man squad despite an injury concern, while Sean Abbott hasn’t been released from the Test squad, so will miss.
On Edwards, Honeyball understands he only suffered hamstring tightness on Boxing Day, but pulled up OK and trained on Saturday.
Sixers squad: Henriques (c), Bird, Davies, Dwarshuis, Edwards, Hosein, Kerr, Murphy, Patterson, Perry, Philippe, Shaw, Silk, Vince
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Spencer Johnson has explained that he will need to “manage” the toe injury that kept him out of the Brisbane Heat’s opening 2 games but a standout 4fa in his return.
Johnson suffered the unique injury playing for SA in the Sheffield Shield on the eve of the BBL, before missing his side’s first 2 games.
“I snapped my tendon in a Shield game about a month ago, and to be honest, we still don’t really know how it’s happened, or why it’s happened,” Johnson said.
“It’s such a bizarre injury. Four surgeons have looked at it, four sports doctors have looked at it, and they’re all mind blown.
“I think we just manage it and look after it and hopefully it will be all good. We’ve come up with a decent method to strap it, and hopefully that should be right for the rest of the season.”
Brisbane lost to Perth on Boxing Day and will back up on Sunday against the Adelaide Strikers at the Gabba.
On the management of the injury, Johnson added: “It is such a bizarre thing, I could wake up tomorrow and it could be all right.
“It felt really good out there today, and we’re looking after it, we’ll manage it. I missed a couple of games, but hopefully it will be all right.”
Tom Curran will reportedly miss the Melbourne Stars’ second game of their Round 3 double due to a calf injury.
SEN’s Tom Morris is reporting that Curran suffered the calf injury at training on Friday, with the Stars applying to sign their 6th import this season, Dan Lawrence, as cover but that was rejected by the BBL.
Code Sports claims that Thunder spinner Tanveer Sangha is also in doubt for Saturday’s game due to a side issue.
There was also an injury update on Adelaide’s Thomas Kelly from the Strikers, who said: “Thomas sustained an injury to his thumb in the field in our last Shield game before the start of the BBL. He will progress through some rehabilitation over the next 3-4 weeks.”
