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England seamer Saqib Mahmood considered red-ball break after injury issues

Source: PA Archive

England seamer Saqib Mahmood has revealed he considered taking a break from red-ball cricket after a second stress fracture in as many years threatened to derail his career.

A serious back injury struck him down soon after a promising debut Test tour of the in March 2022 and hit again at the start of last summer, when the problem reoccurred just as he was hoping to put his name

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