In-form Bangladesh batsman Nasir Hossain heaved a sigh of relief after he was told by a physician in South Africa on Tuesday that no surgery will be required in his injured shoulder.
Nasir met Joe de Beer, an internationally reputed orthopaedic surgeon in Cape Town to seek advice regarding the shoulder problem that prevented him from throwing properly while fielding.
The BCB sent him to Beer, the same surgeon who had earlier conducted a successful operation on the shoulder of paceman Rubel Hossain.
Initially it was feared that Nasir will require a similar surgery, which would have ruled him out of the forthcoming Dhaka Premier League and make him uncertain for the home series against New Zealand in October.
‘We received some good news from Nasir today,’ BCB physician Debashish Chowdhury told New Age. ‘He will not need any surgery and just a rehabilitation programme will do it for him.’
‘He will return home tomorrow (Wednesday). Once he returns, only then we can tell you the exact nature of his rehabilitation and how long it will take for him to recover completely,’ he said.
Nasir was accompanied by national team physio Vibhab Singh and paceman Rubel, who was scheduled to meet a biomechanics expert to include a sole for his injury-prone toe.
The trio went to South Africa from Zimbabwe, where Bangladesh drew the Test and Twenty20 series against the home side besides losing the one-day series.
-With New Age input
