India opener batsman Shubman Gill has sustained a serious shin injury which could keep him out of action for at least two months, a BCCI source said on Thursday.
It is all but certain that Gill is unlikely to feature in the upcoming five-Test series against England starting in Nottingham from August 4.
“Shubman has sustained a shin stress fracture, which will keep him out of action for minimum two months, which effectively rules him out of the first three Tests against England in August,” the source said. “It will be a race against time to get him fit for the final two Test matches in September after completing rehabilitation,” he added.
It is understood that the shin injury got aggravated during the recently-concluded World Test Championship final against New Zealand.
“Stress fractures in shin are not very threatening but time consuming in terms of rest and rehabilitation,” a former India pacer said.
“If it would have been shin fracture, then it could have taken more than three months but shin stress fracture injury normally takes anything between 8 to 10 weeks to heal.
“If Gill’s replacement, whether it’s Mayank (Agarwal) or (KL) Rahul, does well, he might have to sit out and I believe the team management also won’t show a lot of desperation in getting him fit for say, the fifth Test,” the bowler said.