Northamptonshire have received a double blow with the news that David Sales and Rob Keogh will be occupying the sidelines for some time due to injury.
Sales suffered ankle-ligament damage after slipping on the greasy outfield during Northants Steelbacks’ abandoned NatWest T20 Blast fixture against Durham Jets at Wantage Road last Friday.
And to make matters worse for Northamptonshire, who are currently 68 points adrift at the bottom of LV= County Championship Division One, Keogh broke a finger at Lord’s on Sunday afternoon.
The 22-year-old suffered the injury attempting to catch Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan and is expected to be sidelined for at least four weeks.
Ripley on Sales injury - "David has a grade three tear of his ankle ligaments. He'll be out for a good while". pic.twitter.com/fHxgvTFgvC
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Northants head coach David Ripley told the club’s official website: “David’s injury has been scanned and is a grade-three tear of his ankle ligaments so that’s a good length of time on the sidelines.
“We really can’t be sure when he will be fit again but it will be a while.”
Ripley added: “Rob had a catch burst through his hands and he dislocated a finger, which has shown to be broken.
“At this stage it doesn’t look like an operation will be needed, but it’ll probably be at least four weeks before we can consider him again.”