As per the reports of Mumbai Mirror, the injured India Test wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha is expected to leave for England for his shoulder surgery on Sunday with the surgery set for the first week of August. He will be traveling to Manchester with his wife and Yogesh Parmar, an assistant physio at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore. The recovery time will see Saha out of cricket for six to eight months.

According to the report, the date of the surgery is yet to be finalized as Saha hasn’t met Dr. Lennard Funk in Manchester but the expected dates for the operation are August 6 or 7.

Earlier it was believed that it was a minor thumb injury, but the Indian wicketkeeper-batsman was actually nursing a career-threatening shoulder problem. He had injured his thumb while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad(SRH) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 Qualifier 2 against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on May 25 and because of that he had to miss out the historic Afghanistan Test and the upcoming England Test series as well.

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With this surgery, Wriddhiman will miss the Australia Test series end of the year as their a few chances that he will recovered before that series. The Bengal gloveman had a shoulder injury back from South Africa tour which was not fully recovered. His rehabilitation process at the NCA had not gone according to plan.

It was learned that BCCI had given Saha two locations for the surgery and he chose Manchester over Mumbai.

Earlier, some reports had claimed Saha’s injury got aggravated by a “bungled” rehabilitation programme at NCA. However, the BCCI had come out with a clarification that Saha had reported to the NCA with a complaint of a left proximal hamstring (sustained during India’s tour of South Africa), he also had complained of right shoulder pain.