Tour cut short for Wakely

Alex Wakely has been forced to fly home from Northamptonshire’s pre-season tour of Barbados with an Achilles injury.

The batsman suffered the injury in the club’s first game of the tour against an West Indies Universities XI on Saturday.

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Alex Wakely

He will be accompanied by physiotherapist Barry Goudriaan and will travel to London to seek a specialist’s opinion.

For more on this story see this week’s paper.

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