MELBOURNE — Australia cricket captain Steve Smith has pulled out of the Indian Premier League to head home for treatment on a wrist injury.
Cricket Australia said Smith had labored due to pain in his right wrist for the past week while playing for Pune in the Twenty20 tournament.
"From the information we have so far, this doesn't appear to be a serious injury but we are keen to give him the time to recover and rehabilitate before heading to the West Indies at the end of May," CA said in a statement on Monday.
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh was also pulled from the IPL to have treatment on a side strain, CA had said Sunday.
Australia will play a One-Day International tournament with West Indies and South Africa in June.
Kolkata beats Bangalore by 5 wickets
Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by five wickets in their Indian Premier League match in Bagalore Monday.
Sent into bat, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 185-7 in the stipulated 20 overs, and then saw Kolkata chase down the target of 186 with five balls to spare.
Brief scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 189 for 5 (Yusuf 60*, Russell 39, Chahal 2-27) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 185 for 7 (Rahul 52, Kohli 52, Morkel 2-28, Chawla 2-32) by five wickets.
Bailey joins Pune
Australian batsman Shaun Marsh has been ruled out of the rest of the Indian Premier League with an injury, while another Kangaroo player George Bailey made his season entry with Team Pune, Australia's cricket board said Monday.
Marsh picked up the injury during the game on April 19 against Kolkata Knight Riders and seemed to have carried the back niggle ever since, the Cricket Australia website said.
Meanwhile, Bailey signed up for the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led Pune to give some hope to the team's stuttering campaign, which was further hit by a string of injuries to its foreign recruits.
Voges out of hospital after freak accident
Australia's Adam Voges has been released from hospital after suffering a bizarre head injury captaining English county side Middlesex.
Voges was struck on the back of the head Sunday by a ball lobbed by sub fielder Ollie Rayner and missed by wicketkeeper John Simpson after a boundary hit by Hampshire's Michael Carberry at Southampton.
The batsman was taken to hospital and ruled out of the remainder of the four-day match under new England and Wales Cricket Board safety directives dealing with suspected concussion.
But an update on Middlesex's Twitter feed Monday said Voges, 36, was set to watch the remainder of the match at south coast county Hampshire's Ageas Bowl ground.
"Adam saw the doctor yesterday (Sunday), who discharged him from hospital. He is feeling better today but still has a headache.
"Adam will come over to see the rest of the team later today & we will continue to monitor him over the next few days."
Middlesex managing director of cricket Angus Fraser said Sunday: "The feeling from our physio was that he's got concussion. It's sad for Adam — and obviously disappointing for us, because we're not going to have any more use of him in this game."
The England selector and former Test bowler added: "It's a freak injury, as such, but when you see a cricket ball thrown around the field as much as you do, you wonder why it doesn't happen more often.
"They're hard things, cricket balls, and you're not always watching." — Agencies
