Harbhajan had played with a ruptured ligament for months
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Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh will be out of cricket for five months after a much-delayed finger operation.
Harbhajan underwent surgery to repair a ruptured ligament in his bowling hand in Melbourne on Friday.
India physio Andrew Leipus said the player would be in plaster for two weeks and need at least three months rehabilitation before bowling.
If he had had the operation after the World Cup this year he would have recovered by now.
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I'm in good spirits. I can now look forward to recovery
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Instead, he spent months seeking cortisone injections and
physiotherapy on the injury to the knuckle of his middle
finger of his right hand.
"The finger was fine before he left India," Leipus
said.
"But it flared up again after the first Test."
Despite the need for surgery now, Leipus said the
decision to skip the operation in April was not necessarily the wrong
one.
"It was a choice of conservative treatment versus an
invasive surgical procedure with the associated risks," he
said.
Harbhajan remains optimistic.
MMIX
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