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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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David Charlesworth

Heather Knight to miss England’s Commonwealth Games opener with hip issue

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England captain Heather Knight has been ruled out of her side’s opener at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday evening because of a lingering hip injury.

Knight had an injection in a bid to soothe some irritation in her hip joint and feature at Edgbaston this weekend, having missed the final two Twenty20s of the multi-format series against South Africa.

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