Kevin Pietersen will not be flying out to India to join Sunrisers Hyderabad after suffering an achilles injury that will keep him from competing in the IPL.
Hot on the heels of Andrew Strauss’s decision to rule him out of England duty, the Surrey batsman had been due to travel to Hyderabad on Friday, but a calf scan on Wednesday afternoon on a suspected calf problem revealed an achilles injury that will keep him out of action for two weeks, and means he will not be fit for the latter stages of the IPL.
His time off the field for treatment meant that Pietersen was barred from batting lower than No7 against Leicestershire on Wednesday, but Steven Davies’s 115 not out meant that he was not needed as Surrey were victorious.
