Silk's rough trot over

Jordan Silk has linked up with the National Performance Squad in Brisbane as the 22-year-old prepares to complete his comeback from a painful shin injury.

Silk was diagnosed with a stress injury to his right shin in January during the KFC T20 Big Bash League where he plays for the Sydney Sixers and spent several months out of action, missing the second half of the Bupa Sheffield Season with the Tasmanian Tigers.

Now fully recovered, he has joined his NPS teammates in Brisbane at the National Cricket Centre for the winter programme, and will be available for selection in the quadrangular series with the A teams of Australia, India and South Africa in Darwin next month.

Silk was named the Don Bradman Junior Cricketer of the Year at the Allan Border Medal awards night in Sydney in January.

Silk made his first-class debut towards the end of the 2012-13 summer and came to the notice of the cricket community with his calm, assured, seven-hour century in the Sheffield Shield final that helped carry Tasmania to the title.

He continued to impress in his second season, with centuries in the first rounds of the Shield against Queensland and South Australia, giving him an impressive tally of four hundreds from just 11 first-class appearances.

He set the cricket world alight with a jaw-dropping one-handed catch in a BBL match against the Brisbane Heat that caused a Twitter explosion and had West Indies legend Sir Viv Richards declaring it one of the best he had seen.