Bangladesh pacer Nahid Rana is set to leave for Perth, Australia, tonight for a medical assessment after experiencing difficulties during his rehabilitation from injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no injury, but since he is a key player, we have opted to get a second opinion on his condition,\u201d a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) source said.<\/p>\n
Rana, who has missed the Australia Test series, the subsequent Asian Games, the one-off Test against Afghanistan and will also miss the upcoming UAE tri-series due to a side strain, complained of back pain a few days ago.<\/p>\n
It was learnt that the pacer had also experienced weakness around his hip, prompting the BCB to seek a second opinion from Australia.<\/p>\n
Rana had been bowling over the past few weeks as he worked to build his workload to the required level. However, he has suffered a setback, with sources indicating that he has yet to regain adequate strength despite beginning a strength-building programme after recovering from the side strain.<\/p>\n
Rana had previously suffered a shin sprain before sustaining the side strain during Bangladesh\u2019s tour of Zimbabwe in July.<\/p>\n
The latest setback has cast fresh doubt over his availability for the upcoming home two-match Test series against West Indies, which begins on October 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangladesh pacer Nahid Rana is set to leave for Perth, Australia, tonight for a medical assessment after experiencing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804113","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=804113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}