Dillon Out, Cuffy Back for Bangladesh

Mon, Nov 25, '02

Pace spearhead Merv Dillon has suffered a tear to his right glute and will not make the trip to Bangladesh, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced Monday. Cameron Cuffy, who was dropped from the original tour party, will replace him.

Dillon tore the right glute during the fourth ODI against India at Ahmedabad and was ruled unfit. He will return to the Caribbean immediately to receive treatment, the board said.

The WICB said an MRI scan revealed that scar tissue from a similar injury suffered during the home series earlier this year had torn and it was decided to let him come home for sustained and concentrated rehabilitation of the injury..

Cuffy, himself coming off an injury, had a poor tour of India but Dillon's injury gives him a chance at redemption. Dillon becomes the third player to miss the Bangladesh tour through injury.

Captain Carl Hooperwill is due to undergo knee surgery knee in Australia in the coming weeks and all-rounder Ryan Hinds is back in the Caribbean nursing torn ligaments in his right knee.