Cairns break rules him out for six weeks

Chris Cairns will be out for six weeks after breaking a bone in his left hand during the final day of Nottinghamshire's Frizzell County Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston on Saturday.

Cairns sustained the injury when he dropped a chance from Warwickshire's Dougie Brown at slip. "I can't find the words to describe just how massively disappointed I am to suffer this injury at a crucial time in the one-day season," Cairns said. "It's the first break I've suffered in a 15-year career as a cricketer and it's come as a huge blow to find out it's come now.

"It's the lesser of two evils with it being my left hand that's broken. But I'm still going to be out for six weeks, and that's hard to take."

Cairns has been dogged by injury over the last year, suffering injuries to his knee, side and shoulder.