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11th November 2021
10:05pm GMT

"He's absolutely gutted to be ruled out like this at this time," coach Gary Stead said.
"He's very remorseful with himself and feels as though he has let the team down. We know we'll miss him.
"It looked a pretty innocuous reactionary incident on the field, but the blow obviously caught the bat between the glove padding and while it's not the smartest thing he's done there's certainly an element of bad luck in the injury."
https://twitter.com/BLACKCAPS/status/1458860317681741824Conway - who has kept wicket in New Zealand's past five games - was stumped off Liam Livingstone for 46.
The wicketkeeper-batsman - who featured for Southern Brave in The Hundred - has scored 129 runs in six innings, scoring at an average of 32.25 in the World Cup.
In June, Conway scored a double ton in the first Test against England (200 from 357 balls) to become the seventh batsman and second New Zealander - after Matt Sinclair against West Indies in 1999 - to score a double ton in his first Test
His injury will also see him miss the two-Test series in India which begins on 25 November.
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