Gambhir injures forearm

India opener Gautam Gambhir suffered a left forearm injury when he was hit by a rising Morne Morkel delivery in the fourth over of the Indian innings on the second day of the second cricket Test against South Africa on Monday.

India opener Gautam Gambhir suffered a left forearm injury when he was hit by a rising Morne Morkel delivery in the fourth over of the Indian innings on the second day of the second cricket Test against South Africa on Monday.

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Gambhir took a single but signalled to the dressing room and the physio Nitin Patel attended to him.

After his dismissal, Gambhir was taken to a local X-ray clinic "as a preventuve measure", team sources told IANS. Though there was swelling, the X-ray did not reveal any bone damage.

In the afternoon, Gambhir returned to the dressing room with a bandage on the left arm.