Yardy will step up his recovery today when he has a nets session with first-team colleagues and while unlikely to figure in the County Championship home game against Lancashire that starts on Tuesday, he could return to front line action at Hampshire next week.
That would represent the passing of a major milestone in the 30-year-old’s fight against depression that saw him return home just before England’s World Cup quarter-final last month and Robinson is certainly bullish about his skipper’s recovery.
“He is going well. Every week he has practised more. The first time he came in once and last week he came in three times and this week he was in every day, including Saturday, and so he is getting close,” Robinson told Telegraph Sport.
“I think this week will be too early. Whether he is in a situation to play the week after we will just have to wait and see. At the moment he hasn’t practised with the group but he is due to on Monday.
“We would love to have him back because he is a quality player and he gives character and backbone for a team that has that anyway but he has got experience and so we miss him, of course we do.
“But it is just like anybody being injured. You have to give them time to heal properly and what you don’t want to do is rush them back so that they have a recurrence of the injury. It’s the same for Yards.
“So we have just got to keep talking to him and keep giving him time. He is increasingly his workload and he is doing more and more as he feels stronger and more able to do it.”
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