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The surgeon treating Michael Vaughan has said that his knee injury is not career-threatening.
The Independent quotes Derek Bickerstaff, the Sheffield specialist who Vaughan will visit this afternoon, as saying that he would be "very surprised" if the injury turned out to be that serious. "From initial reports I have had from India there is nothing which particularly worries me that this is a career-threatening injury for him."
He continued: "It is an area which does not heal itself, so it is more of an issue of managing the problem because athletes do a lot more weight-bearing on the knee. Test cricketers never get any let-up at all and get a chance to rest it. I would be surprised if he needed more surgery but it is almost impossible to say when he will be back."
Bickerstaff is the surgeon who operated on Vaughan in December, and he also treated Simon Jones after he tore the cruciate ligament in his right knee at Brisbane in 2002-03.
Vaughan has already undergone three operations on his knee, and while Bickerstaff's prediction that he will not need more surgery is welcome, the revelation that the injury is unlikely to be able to stand up to the constant wear-and-tear of international cricket will raise serious concerns as to his long-term future.
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This is good news for Vaughan, but I wish he had come back for the second test, because even if India wins, the English can dismiss it by saying they didn't field their best side.