Ashley Giles facing another operation

Ashley Giles is facing another operation on his injured hip and is extremely unlikely to play in the forthcoming series against Sri Lanka.

An exclusive report in the Daily Telegraph stated that Giles is unable to bowl or run some four months after undergoing surgery on his troublesome right hip.

The initial prognosis was that he would be back in action after two or three months, but the latest news hints that this could be, as Giles himself has intimated, a career-ending injury.

The Telegraph article said that repair work was carried out on a damaged cartilage, a piece of bone was removed and the early signs of arthritis were detected in Giles' right hip at the time of the first operation.