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September 23, 2011
Stuart Broad admitted he is unlikely to play again this year while recovering from a shoulder injury took against India, but has said it will not require surgery.
Major had already been ruled out for the matches against the West Indies and return a series of days in India, but was given some hope of playing in the Twenty20 Kolkata, in late October. Now, however, this seems unlikely and objectives is visiting the United Arab Emirates in January, which includes three tests, four three Twenty20 ODIs.
"The shoulder is still pretty sore. This is a two-month injury, so I'm committed to making sure that I'm not in the best shape possible matches against Pakistan in January," Broad said PCA awards dinner where he was named in England ODI Player of the Year. "It is not 100% confirmed, I will not be playing in India but I will only play if rehabilitation goes fantastically well.
"It 'a good news that I do not need surgery. It' s always an additional risk of surgery so that everything would be fine. It 'a recovery time of two months though so I need to get this right and make sure it's all over, and has no side effects with it. "
Broad injury means he will lose his experience as a captain in the promotion Twenty20s against the West Indies and Graeme Swann next door in his absence. Missing the match against India next month, leaving only four or five games before the English title of the defense of the World Twenty20 Sri Lanka in September.
However, the season is over so much more positive than the width seemed likely at one point, after his place was under threat at the beginning of the test series against India. He said Man-of-the-Series displays, in which he took 25 wickets in the cover along with the vital 4-0 runs the Lord and Trent Bridge, the right side of the concrete.
"It 'was great to be paid to believe selectors, coach and captain," he said. "I was able to do so. Winning the man of the series showed the highest level I can do, and gives me some confidence to enter the future."
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