Worcs without Richardson again

By Paul Bolton

Worcestershire will again be without seamer Alan Richardson when they take on Somerset at New Road in the LV= County Championship tomorrow.

Richardson missed the draw with Sussex at New Road two weeks ago because of a shoulder muscle injury which he sustained in the second innings of the match against Surrey the week before.

Worcestershire were optimistic that Richardson might be fit to return to action against Somerset but he was ruled out after a fitness test this morning.

Australia batsman Phil Hughes will make his Championship debut for Worcestershire after he made a century against Middlesex in Sunday’s Clydesdale Bank 40 match in his first innings for the county.

Hughes’s arrival as Worcestershire’s overseas player was delayed because he was required to attend an Australia training camp even though he has been dropped from their Test squad and has not been included in the Australia A side that will tour England later in the summer.

Hughes, who has replaced compatriot Michael Klinger as Worcestershire’s overseas player for the remainder of the season, has recovered from the ankle injury he sustained in training on Friday and which hindered him slightly against Middlesex.

Slow left-armer Shaaiq Choudry has been added to the squad against Somerset for whom Nick Compton needs 59 runs over the first two days to become the first man since Worcestershire’s Graeme Hick in 1988 to reach 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May. Hick reached his landmark against the West Indies at New Road.
 


Date: 29/05/2012 21:14:52 by Paul Bolton
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