AB to miss Australia ODIs
Proteas captain AB de Villiers is set to go under the knife and will miss the ODI series against Australia.
De Villiers has been struggling with an elbow injury for the past few months and has finally been ordered to undergo an operation to fix the problem.
According to team manager Dr Mohamed Moosajee, De Villiers has not responded to treatment and failed a fitness test this morning. The next course of action is an operation, which will be carried out next week.
“AB de Villiers is still symptomatic and has not recovered from his elbow impingement injury which makes surgery the only long-term solution. We have tried the conservative management of rest, physio, rehab and cortisone infiltration into the elbow, but that has not yielded the results that we would have liked,” Moosajee said.
“He will have surgery to the elbow early next week and the target is to hopefully have him back for the Sri Lankan home series over the Christmas period.”
Rilee Roussouw will stay with the Proteas for the five ODI series against Australia.
The first match gets underway on Friday at Supersport Park in Centurion.
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