Saha will undergo a shoulder operation in Manchester: BCCI | Cricket News

MUMBAI: Suffering from a serious shoulder injury, Indian goalkeeper Wriddhiman Saha will be operated in Manchester at the end of this month or early next, announced Saturday the BCCI on its website.

The National Cricket Academy (NCA), and in particular his physiotherapist Ashish Kaushik, have been under the spotlight since Saha suffers from a shoulder injury when it was revealed to him that he had fractured his thumb. l & # 39; IPL. Unnamed officials at the Council have accused the physio NCA of "gaffing" about Saha's recovery.

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However, on Saturday, the BCCI chose to set the record straight again by establishing a chronology of the injury Saha, while informing that "Saha has sustained a posterior superior tear of the labrum This injury will require surgery," says the BCCI, before detailing the nature of his injury and its schedule.

According to the chronology, "Saha reported to the NCA the South Africa tour on January 29 of this year with a complaint of proximal tendinopathy of the left hamstrings (pain in the hamstring). upper left leg) and complained of pain in the right shoulder.Afterwards, an MRI was performed in February, revealing a tear of Labral, and appropriate consultations were done with Srikanth Narayanaswamy, sports doctor who has then advised an ultrasound guided injection, which was duly performed.

The BCCI claims that after this treatment, Saha was recovered from his shoulder and hamstring injuries. "Following the injection, Saha underwent a rehabilitation process at the NCA, as advised by the doctors, and on March 19, he was released by the NCA, having fully recovered from his hamstring injuries and at the shoulder ".

However, Saha's injury broke out during IPL-11. Saha then went to play IPL with Sunrisers Hyderabad, on May 7, he fell twice on his shoulder and complained of pain and stiffness in the shoulder of his IPL physiotherapist. IPL, he was taken to a doctor in Delhi and a second ultrasound-guided injection was done according to the doctor's advice, "mentions the calendar, before explaining that Saha's shoulder seems healthy again, up to # 39 at a visit to the physiotherapist NCA by the & # 39; guardian revealed a different image.

"Subsequently, he was rested for five games in IPL, while he underwent rehabilitation under the responsibility of the franchise, which allowed him to play without pain towards the end of the season. During this period, May 15, Saha asked to visit Ashish Kaushik, chief physiotherapist of the NCA, so that he could also review his right shoulder, Ashish evaluated his right shoulder and concluded that his presentation was similar to late January / early February, Ashish informed the physiotherapist of Sunrisers, who then continued his rehabilitation program, and Team India physiotherapist (Nitin Patel) was informed of this sequence of events " he explains.

After this visit to the NCA, Saha fractured his thumb in a IPl game. "On May 25, he played the next IPL match but unfortunately Saha's injured his right thumb during that match with x-rays confirming that he had suffered a fracture. On May 28, he was accompanied by the physiotherapist from Team India to an appointment to visit Sudhir Warrier about a surgical opinion for his right thumb: Warrier's opinion was that the thumb injury did not require surgery, he was not complaining pain or stiffness in the shoulder, "he says.

At the beginning of July, Saha had recovered from his thumb wound, but his right shoulder was still hurting him. A new x-ray on July 2 revealed that the thumb had healed, and on July 3, he went to the ANC for re-education, and he again reported that he was feeling pain. the pain and a restriction of the movements of his right shoulder.On July 4, he underwent an MRI of his right shoulder which revealed that his labrum tear was aggravated compared to his previous scanner, "says the calendar .

At this point, it was discovered that Saha might need a shoulder surgery. On July 6, he was brought in to meet Dinshaw Pardiwala, an orthopedic surgeon, at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Mumbai, and Pardiwala felt that another injection of steroids would help Saha to recover. "

As Saha's shoulder was not cured, it became clear that he was excluded from the five-test series in England, which will start from 1 August.
"After the injection, after observation and re-education for five days, while his condition did not improve, he was declared unfit on July 13 and the direction of the Indian team was informed of the same, "says the BCCI newspaper. from following the action on the issue. "Saha has been advised of a surgical procedure that will take place at the end of July or the first week of August and will be performed by Dr. Lennard Funk in Manchester, UK." The Council said that the leadership of the Indian team (read coach Ravi Shastri and Captain Virat Kohli) was kept abad of the progress of Saha's injury status at any time. "The whole process of treatment and consultation that was conducted at the ANC was carried out in coordination with the management of the Indian team and the DG of Operations (Saba Karim)," concludes the BCCI.