Veteran pacer Tim Southee has been cleared by doctors to join the New Zealand World Cup squad later this week as he continues to recover from the surgery on his right fractured thumb. Southee will fly to India on Saturday, September 30 and will hope to be available for the side’s first games of the World Cup against the Jos Buttler-led England on October 5 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
As a precautionary measure, the right-arm tall pacer Kyle Jamieson will also join the World Cup squad as the cover for Southee but will not officially be associated with the squad. It means that Jamieson will neither feature in the first World Cup warm-up fixture against Pakistan on Friday nor on Monday against South Africa.
New Zealand’s World Cup squad:
Kane Williamson (c), Trent Boult, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Mitch Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Will Young