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Speedster Ishant Sharma will delay his ankle surgery until the termination of India's tour of Australia early next year.
Sharma was ruled out of the England-India ODI series after he continued a muscle injury to his left ankle during the third Test at Edgbaston.
"It [the tour of Australia] is a very main tour and nobody wants to miss it," Ishant told.
"So I'll get the surgery after completed the Australian tour. I am going to the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore, where I'll stay for a week or 10 days to suffer rehab and seek a proper schedule. At the moment, I've been told to do intensification exercises.
"I have a muscle tear in my left foot, and there is also a bone impingement in my left ankle. Surgery is the only way out. But if I feel that now, my foot will be in plaster for about three months and the treatment in all could take about 6-8 months," the 22-year old bowler added.
Once called by Steve Waugh as the "next big thing in Indian cricket", Ishant spearhead India's attack in England but his team failed to live up to the opportunity after his senior bowling partner Zaheer Khan was ruled out due to an injury.
"You can't say our confidence went down. We were always in the game. But if a bowler with 10 years of knowledge isn't there, it affects the performance. We had England on the ropes in the second innings at Lord's, and if Zaheer was there and had taken a couple of wickets, the result could have been dissimilar," Sharma reflect on the power Test series.
"Bowling in different venue in different conditions teaches you a lot. In India, you know that after the initial burst, you have to wait for the third or fourth day to get amazing like reverse swing. In England, if the sun is out and there is no dampness on the track, it gets really very flat and that makes it hard to bowl on," Sharma said.
However, Ishant's decision to delay his ankle surgery is certain to raise many eyebrows particularly after what happened with Zaheer Khan on the England tour.
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