West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has expressed frustration over his latest injury setback.

The injury prone batsman, also Guyana's captain, sustained an ankle injury while warming up at the National Stadium ahead of his side's clash with Trinidad & Tobago, and is expected to be sidelined for six weeks.

 

Sarwan was expected to have an MRI scan done on Saturday night in Georgetown but he is almost certain to miss Guyana's KFC Cup semi-final in Barbados next week.

"I am very, very disappointed! I trained very hard for this tournament after being out for a while with the shoulder injury and I was hoping to make a big contribution towards Guyana retaining the title," the 27-year-old told CMC Sport.

"I don't think I will be able to play in the semi-finals and I am now hoping for some good news from the doctor regarding how soon I can resume training for the Zimbabwe and South Africa tours at year end."
He said getting injured so often was really frustrating mentally but added that he was a positive person and always believed there were reasons why these things occurred.

"In a game like cricket you expect to pick up an injury here and there but today (Saturday) I was not even playing a match ... just warming up with some touch rugby which is guess is just bad luck for me," Sarwan said.

A disappointed Guyana manager Carl Moore said the outlook for the star batsman was already bleak.

"We (Guyana) are scheduled to leave for Barbados on Tuesday and we will know not know the position with Sarwan until after the MRI scan is done," Moore said.

"It will be a major blow to the team if he is unavailable as both captain and batsman. However, judging from the way things looks it seems as if he will be out."

Sarwan has battled a number of injures since making his debut as the region's youngest first-class cricketer in 1996, the latest being a shoulder injury which curtailed his tour of England with the West Indies during the summer.

Guyana has already lost the service of dependable West Indies left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul who pulled out of the competition three days before the opening game due to 'tennis elbow' sustained during the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.