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Injured Riley Meredith was put on ice during the Hurricanes' BBL loss to the Strikers, but Matthew Wade is confident their fast bowler won't miss any action.
Speedster Riley Meredith has suffered a mystery injury which limited him to only one over in the Hobart Hurricanes' seven-wicket BBL loss to the Adelaide Strikers, short-changing his side's already threadbare attack.
The Hurricanes remained tight-lipped on the nature of Meredith's injury but remain hopeful he will be available for their next game against Brisbane Heat at the Gabba, scheduled for Saturday.
"I'm not going to reveal (what the injury was) because I don't know if I can," Hurricanes captain Matthew Wade said after Wednesday's match.
"He felt a little sore in the warm-up so we let him bowl one over to try to get the breakthroughs early in the first six overs.
"It didn't pan out that way, (and) he was going off.
"We don't think it's a long-term injury but if he pushed through and did something long-term, we're pretty thin on fast bowlers at the moment, so we took the cautionary role in this game.
"We're really hopeful he'll play the next game."
With Meredith placed on ice, Nathan Ellis out with a side strain injury and legspinner Will Parker subbed out of the match, Tom Rogers and Sandeep Lamichhane were the Hurricanes' only two specialist bowlers as the Strikers cruised home with ease at Adelaide Oval.
The Canes went into the match without England imports Harry Brooks and Jordan Thompson who were COVID-19 close contacts.
"We kind of looked after him (Meredith) and we ran out of bowlers to be honest in the end," Wade said.
"We only had two of our frontline bowlers and we were making the rest up with our allrounders.
"We're starting to get thin on players."
Wade revealed off-field restrictions have further tightened on BBL players this week.
"Restrictions are certainly tightening up within Cricket Australia," he said.
"They've hammered down on restrictions again over the last 24 hours.
"There's not going to be much to do outside the hotel again.
"The bigger issue at the moment is that we've got COVID within the teams and we've been playing each other.
"It's starting to get tricky, this tournament ... we'll try to keep the train on the tracks, but if it can't be done, it can't be done."