England’s plans for next week’s final Test against South Africa and for the Twenty20 World Cup that starts next month were thrown into disarray on Friday after Jonny Bairstow slipped while walking to a tee during a round of golf near his Yorkshire home and sustained a serious leg injury that is likely to rule him out of all cricket for the remainder of the year.
The precise nature of the injury, which occurred as Bairstow played at Pannal golf club just outside Harrogate, will become clear in the coming days, but the England camp fears that full scans will confirm a fracture when they are conducted early next week.
