Indian paceman S Sreesanth has been ruled out of the second Test against West Indies, starting on Saturday at the Beausejour Stadium, with a heel injury.
Team physio John Gloster told the media on Thursday that the bowler will take three to five days to recover.
"Sreesanth pulled up sore in the left heel at the end of the last Test match," Gloster said. "He has got an inflamed bursar at the back of the heel. We saw a specialist, and he gave him an injection in that heel. The specialist is confident it will settle down reasonably quickly, but at this stage, we are going to give him three to five days of rest.
"We will then work him back to full fitness after this." Sreesanth was in the thick of things, when he bowled the final over of the opening Test at the Antigua Recreation Ground on Tuesday. Batting bunny Corey Collymore survived the six deliveries to earn West Indies a morale-boosting draw in the four-Test series."
Gloster denied that it was a recurrence of a similar injury Sreesanth suffered earlier when he missed the first two matches of the ODI series in the West Indies.
"This came on during the last match, so it's a little bit unfortunate for Sree," he said. "We are pretty confident the injection he took will get on top of the injury, and we will see how he goes over the next three to five days."
