{"id":501675,"date":"2026-03-29T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501675\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:25:14","slug":"sam-curran-england-all-rounder-unsure-of-return-date-after-groin-injury-forces-ipl-withdrawl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501675\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Curran: England all-rounder unsure of return date after groin injury forces IPL withdrawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England and Surrey all-rounder Sam Curran says there is no timeframe on his return from a groin injury that has ruled him out of the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curran was set to play for Rajasthan Royals in this year&#8217;s IPL but pulled out earlier this month, with the nature of his injury initially unspecified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old revealed he had been managing a groin problem throughout England&#8217;s run to the T20 World Cup semi-finals and scans have revealed damage that requires rest and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an injury that I&#8217;ve kind of been battling with a little bit,&#8221; Curran said. &#8220;It has gradually got fractionally worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I went for a couple of scans and it showed reasonable damage, so I had to make the tough decision. It was hindering me quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To miss the IPL was very disappointing, and now I guess I just have a rehab block of trying to get strong and fit for whenever it feels right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England and Surrey all-rounder Sam Curran says there is no timeframe on his return from a groin injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}