Sam Curran ruled out of English summer due to groin injury

England all-rounder Sam Curran has been ruled out for the rest of the summer due to a groin injury. A statement from Surrey confirmed that Curran has been assessed for the injury and will undergo groin surgery on Friday (August 21).

The latest setback stalls his bid for a comeback in Test cricket, a format he last featured in in 2021. Following Ben Stokes’s retirement, Curran was being considered as an option in the Joe Root-led team, with selector Marcus North saying the 28-year-old provided “a certain balance” to the team.

However, he had also pointed out that Curran has been carrying a couple of niggles due to his high workload and was consequently not chosen for the first two Pakistan Tests.

"I think [it would be] unfair to put him into these first two Tests,” North had said earlier this month. “He's someone our backroom staff and medical team will be working with in the coming weeks to make sure that he potentially becomes an option in the third Test. He's someone that we really value highly, and we see playing a role in the future for us as an allrounder."

Curran last featured in The Hundred, where he led MI London. Before that, he had featured in the home ODI series against India. Incidentally, he missed out on IPL 2026 due to a groin injury. In March, he had called it an injury he has been “battling with a little” and admitted it had “gradually got reasonably worse”.

Towards the end of IPL, Kumar Sangakkara, the Rajasthan Royals director of cricket, had questioned Curran’s absence from the league, calling it “disappointing” that he saw him playing matches for Surrey despite the IPL season-ending injury.

Jacks recovering from appendix removal

Alongside Curran, Will Jacks was also missing from Surrey’s squad for the resumption of the County Championship on Thursday (August 20). Jacks is currently recovering from an operation to remove his appendix. His recovery will be monitored, and a call will be taken on his availability ahead of the Sri Lanka series in September.

Surrey are currently seventh on the Division One County Championship points table. This week, they called up Mahipal Lomror to fill in the gap left by Jacks and Dan Lawrence, which has only widened now with Curran’s absence.