Shaheen Afridi completes rehab for knee injury, to join Pakistan squad in Brisbane on October 15

Shaheen monarch Afridi has completed his rehabilitation, in London, once a knee injury, and is prepared to affix the West Pakistan squad in Brisbane on Oct fifteen previous the public toilet T20 World Cup, as regular.

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Oct nineteen [vs Afghanistan]. His match fitness are assessed then previous their gap World Cup match against Republic of India, on Oct twenty three in Melbourne.

"I am super excited at the prospect of rejoining the national aspect for the T20 World Cup and half in} my part within the campaign," Afridi same within the statement. "It has been a tough amount on behalf of me to be far from the sport and therefore the team i really like the foremost, and not be a part of some heavy and exciting matches.

"I are bowling six to eight overs untroubled for the past ten days with full run-up and pace. whereas I actually have enjoyed bowling and batting within the nets, nothing will replace the texture of match setting and that i cannot wait to be therein setting. "It has been a rigorous and difficult rehabilitation programme, however I actually have completely enjoyed it. To be honest, i'm feeling fitter than ever before and cannot wait to wear the enjoying kit."

Afridi has been out of action since a right knee ligament injury whereas fielding throughout the primary take a look at against Ceylon in Galle in Gregorian calendar month. He afterwards cosmopolitan with the team to Netherlands for a three-match ODI series in August, within the hope that that he would recover whereas travel rehab. that did not pan out needless to say, as swelling on his knee started got worse within the Netherlands and therefore the PCB proclaimed then that he would be out for four-to-six weeks.

But he was unbroken with the squad as they cosmopolitan to the UAE for the Asia Cup as another try was created to induce his rehab going. however medical scans and reports confirmed a posterior symmetric ligament injury and it had been eventually determined that he would jaunt the united kingdom for any rehab and work with doctors on the PCB medical panel, Zafar Iqbal and Imtiaz Ahmed.