By Richard Edwards
Mighty blow: Sussex’s Phil Salt faces a three-week lay-off through injury
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BY and large, it has been a good week for Sussex but a freak injury to the in-form Phil Salt has thrown a spanner in the works.
The opener has been in sparkling form so far this season, particularly in the Championship where the 22-year-old has racked up two hundreds and a fifty in his past five innings.
Now, though, he’s going to have to take a backseat for more than three weeks after tearing the webbing between his thumb and index finger, with surgery required ...