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Kemar Roach suffered a hamstring injury against Middlesex at Lord's Thomas Ridley

Is there an overseas bowler curse? Looking at the fortunes of signings from the last three years

Kemar Roach became the latest in a string of overseas bowler injuries as he departed the field at Lord's with a hamstring issue, but who are the others?

03.05.26, 11:01 Updated 03.05.26, 11:02

Thomas Ridley

Thomas Ridley

Somewhere in a dark corner a person is prodding a voodoo doll of every overseas bowler that signs for Durham.

Well that seems the be the case, as Kemar Roach found out at Lord’s when he had to depart the game with a hamstring injury.

That gave Luke Robinson a career first and a first of the injury replacement era, with a debutant coming into the game.

Back to the overseas bowler curse, let’s take us back to 2023 when this seemingly began with Matthew Kuhnemann, remember him?

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Thomas Ridley is a freelance journalist and editor of The Chester

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