Behrendorff’s T20 World Cup hopes dented after suffering broken leg in freak training accident

Australia’s T20I player of the year broke his left fibula, forcing him to miss the IPL and eight weeks of action. There was serious harm to Jason Behrendorff’s chances of reaching Australia’s T20 World Cup squad. His shattered leg from an odd training event last week forced him to miss the Indian Premier League.

A ball missed his pad and struck Behrendorff flush just above the left ankle last Thursday as he was batting in the nets at the WACA ground. Before leaving for India to play in the IPL with the Mumbai Indians. This resulted in a fractured left fibula.

He doesn’t need surgery, but it will take about eight weeks to recover, so he can’t play in the IPL. Luke Wood, an England left-arm fast, has taken his place in Mumbai’s lineup; however, Behrendorff’s injury is a serious blow to Mumbai’s bowling depth since he claimed 14 wickets in 12 matches the previous season.

Behrendorff, the current Australian T20I player of the year. After an outstanding previous twelve months,. He gets struck with a startling bit of bad luck. He got eight wickets at 16.50 with an economy rate of just 6.60 throughout his five matches for Australia during the 2023 tours of South Africa and India. Taking 1 for 12 from four overs with 17 dots in a contest where no other bowler surrendered less than eight runs per over and the two sides amassed 447 runs in 40 overs, he performed a spectacular performance in Guwahati that led to Australia’s lone victory in the five-match T20I series after the ODI World Cup.

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The Australian team for the most recent Twenty20 International Series in New Zealand did not include Behrendorff. Due to Mitchell Starc’s return after the team played the home series against the West Indies,. He had virtually no chance of making the final of the World Cup. Every player was in good shape. However, he was the first choice in the event that Starc suffered an injury during the IPL.

Behrendorff’s current goal is to heal in time to be available for the May 31–May 31 T20 Blast in England. He participated in the Blast for Middlesex in 2022 and Sussex in 2019.