Wicketkeeper Tim Paine's career is in serious risk after South Australia's state coach Darren Berry exposed that he is far from playing first-class cricket due to his latest injury.
Berry said that he was "spread out at how bad the injury looked" when he met the national team back-up keeper during a Sheffield Shield game in Hobart.
"I could tell by surveillance him trying to make a fist he was a mile away from spirited cricket," Berry said.
Paine, who has played four Tests for Australia, busts the finger during a pre-season training session with Tasmania.
Originally expected to miss action for three months, he was lined out for the whole season last week.
The 27-year-old was urgent in office Brad Haddin hard for a usual berth in both the Test and ODI team until the setback.
Berry wrote in Fairfax's Sun-Herald newspaper that Haddin can ill-afford to take it easy with the likes of Matthew Wade, Chris Hartley and Peter Nevill mouthful of air down his neck.
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