Warwickshire first-team coach Ian Westwood says veteran seamer Chris Rushworth is determined to get back fit in time for the run-in to the County Championship season in September.
The 38-year-old pulled his hamstring after bowling three overs on the first morning of the Bears’ last red-ball match, against Sussex, which ended on Wednesday in a draw.
Rushworth will miss Warwickshire’s remaining Championship matches this month against Worcestershire at Edgbaston, starting on 22 July, and the trip to Essex which begins a week later.
The former Durham seamer, whose contract runs out at the end of the season, missed the start of the campaign with a calf injury and his latest setback came in just his second appearance of the summer.
“He’s obviously down,” Westwood told BBC Radio WM.
“He’s gone in his hammy, which is always disappointing, but when you do it early in a game particularly right at the start in that first innings, it’s a double whammy.”