Carse ready for his comeback as Riverside stages Glamor game
DURHAM ALL-ROUNDER POISED FOR FIRST-TEAM RETURN AFTER INJURY
BRYDON Carse is set to make his first-team return when Durham host Glamorgan in the LV= Insurance County Championship at the Riverside today (11am).
All-rounder Carse last featured for Durham in the County Championship in July 2021 at Edgbaston against Warwickshire – but was withdrawn after day two due to his England selection for their one-day series against Pakistan.
While on England Lions duty in Australia, Carse suffered torn cartilage in his right knee and has been in rehabilitation for five months.
Since his recovery the 26-year-old has played in the second team and for North East Premier League club Burnopfield and is now ready to return to first-team action.
Head coach James Franklin (right) has otherwise named the same squad which took on Worcestershire at New Road last week.
England captain Ben Stokes is included and is set to come face to face with Australia Test star Marnus Labuschagne and his fellow Aussie Michael
Neser.
Labuschagne has scored 329 runs uns so far for Glamorgan this term at t an average of 47, with a century and nd two fifties to his name. Durham drew at Worcester r despite making more than 600 runs in their innings as a flat, lifeless pitch offered little assistance to their bowlers. Franklin said: “Pitches this season have not offered as much as much for the bowlers.
“It is a bit of a U-turn on the last ast few years but in all honesty I think nk it is a positive for cricket.
“We have seen brilliant wickets and are seeing tougher cricket which will ill eventually evolve if the pitches stay this way into better cricketers ultimately for England – which I guess has got to be the overriding aim of it all.
“Our performance during the Worcestershire game was a heck of a lot better than it had been in the previous two matches.
“That is real progress for me. We took a step back in the previous two games but last week seemed like a positive step forward.” DURHAM SQUAD: