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- Updated: January 5, 2017
Andre Russell’s problematic Big Bash League campaign has been ended by a combination of hamstring and knee injuries, with the Sydney Thunder calling up his West Indies T20 team-mate Carlos Brathwaite to replace him.
Having entered the tournament still waiting on a verdict from the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission over allegations of missing drug tests, Russell was visibly hampered by a knee problem which compounded when he tore his left hamstring during the Thunder’s last-gasp win over the Melbourne Stars on Wednesday night.
“Andre has been playing with long standing tendinitis of the right knee, that flared up in the opening rounds for the BBL,” the Thunder physio Murray Ryan said. “This was investigated via MRI following the …
