Injured Bodi to miss out on West Indies tour

Gulam Bodi's trip to the West Indies is over before it started. The KwaZulu-Natal left-arm spinner fractured the little finger of his left hand over the weekend and he will not be travelling to the Caribbean as scheduled to replace Nicky Boje in the squad for the forthcoming one-day series against the West Indies.

Details of how Bodi injured himself were unclear on Sunday, but it is believed that the finger was broken while playing Lancashire League cricket on Saturday. It has been confirmed that instead of flying out of England for the West Indies, he will probably now return to South Africa.

The 22-year-old Bodi was named to replace Boje when the Test spinner withdrew from South Africa's West Indian tour to return home for surgery to injured tendons in his left shoulder.

No replacement for Bodi has been named yet, but an announcement in this regard might be made on Monday.