The injury, if serious, could be a major hurdle for South Africa if Duminy cannot bowl after the visitors opted for five pace bowlers, leaving leg-spinner Imran Tahir out of the starting XI. (AP Photo)
The left-hand batsman, who is in the side, because he can bowl controlled off-spin, injured his left knee in a warm-down training accident after South Africa dominated the opening day of the first Test against Australia on Friday.
The 28-year-old was kicking a rugby ball with teammates at the Gabba on Friday, after the South Africans had reached 255-2 at stumps on day one of the first Test.
South Africa's medical staff treated him on the ground before he was helped from the field. A team spokeswoman said he was taken to a nearby hospital for a scan.
The injury, if serious, could be a major hurdle for South Africa if Duminy cannot bowl after the visitors opted for five pace bowlers, leaving leg-spinner Imran Tahir out of the starting XI.
Duminy's injury though puts in focus the modern training methods that most cricket teams employ. Very rarely, do we see teams warm up for a cricket match or warm down after it by doing cricket-specific drills.
Often, it is volleyball, football, kho kho or rugby or even frisbee. Most of these sports are contact sports, which involve a different set of movements than cricket, and the players are simply not used to it.
Also, what happens is because the cricketers are generally competitive by nature, a fun-loving exercise can often get serious, leading to injury or a confrontation.
Younis Khan and Inzamam-ul-Haq got involved in a scuffle during a warm-up drill, which involved catching the person holding the ball at the 2003 World Cup in Centurion.
Yuvraj Singh injured his knee while playing kho kho prior to the 2006 Champions Trophy match against Australia at Mohali and had to miss three months of action and miss the South Africa tour.
How Rohit Sharma must have wished he wasn't playing football on the morning of the Test against South Africa, in Nagpur, in 2010. A Test debut was there for the taking when he twisted his ankle while playing football and saw the opportunity slip.
That opportunity went to Wriddhiman Saha, who despite being in the squad as a reserve 'keeper, ended up playing as a specialist batsman as there was no other batsman available.
On the eve of IPL matches and ODIs and T20s, one sees teams indulge in everything except cricket drills that last for a good 30 to 45 minutes. One needs to ask the question, do Manchester United or Barcelona players warm-up playing cricket or rugby or baseball? Do the All Blacks, play football before a rugby match? Does Roger Federer play ping-pong or indulge in Taekwondo before a game against Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal?
No. Man U or Barca improve their passing skills, or shooting skills or improve their defensive play by challenging the strikers? The All Blacks spend hours perfecting a try or a scrum.
Federer practices the drop volley or the slice down the line followed by the approach to the net. Hence, one rarely sees footballers, tennis players or rugby players get injured while trying to play other sports.
How many more serious injuries to key players will it take for the physios or the people who devise these drills in the name of team-bonding, to scrap them for good and incorporate simple cricket-specific warm-up drills?
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