Sam Curran out of IPL and T20 World Cup

England all-rounder Sam Curran is ruled out of the remainder of IPL 2021 and the upcoming edition of T20 World Cup owing to a lower-back injury. The England & Wales Cricket Board confirmed the statement on Tuesday, October 5.

Sam’s brother Tom Curran who was earlier in the travelling reserves – replaced Sam Curran in the England’s T20 World Cup squad. Left-arm pacer Reece Topley has been added as a travelling reserve now.

It was known that the 23-year-old left arm pacer, complained of back pain after the IPL fixture against Rajasthan Royals at Abu Dhabi (RR beat CSK by 7 wickets). Subsequent scans diagnosed the nature of injury ruling him out of 2 big tournaments.

ECB’s medical team will further assess the situation and come up with a full review later this week.

“He [Sam Curran] will fly back to the UK in the next couple of days and will have further scans and a full review later this week from the ECB’s medical team,” the release stated.

Sam Curran has featured in 9 IPL matches in IPL 2021 – picking 9 wickets at an average of 36.44 conceding 9.93 runs per over. He also scored 56 runs at a strike rate of 193.10 in the 4 innings he batted for the franchise.

Sam represented England in 16 T20 Internationals scoring 91 runs in 10 innings at an average of 18.20 powered by a strike rate of 159.64. He picked 16 wickets at an average of 22.81 with a best of 3-28 to his name.

England is a part of a group with Australia, South Africa, West Indies and 2 qualifying teams in the upcoming edition of T20 World Cup. They face India in a warm up match at Dubai on October 18. They begin their T20 World Cup campaign – facing the defending Champions West Indies on October 23.

England T20 World Cup Squad:

Eoin Morgan (captain), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Tom Curran (Sam Curran replacement), Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Tymal Mills, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood

Travelling Reserves: Liam Dawson, Reece Topley, James Vince