Jesse Ryder, the New Zealand opening batsman, will be sidelined for three months after suffering a hand injury in a barroom incident on Sunday

Ryder will miss the Test series with England after he injured the thumb and index finger on his right hand when he broke a window at a bar in the South Island city of Christchurch around 5:30 a.m.

New Zealand Cricket said Ryder, who had been celebrating New Zealand's win over England in a limited-over series, was trying to gain access to a closed toilet area when the incident occurred.

The 23-year-old batsman was expected to undergo a reconstruction to the exterior tendon on his index finger, a flap reconstruction and a skin graft on Monday, and faces a break of six weeks from all cricket before resuming light training.

"We recognize the pressure Jesse has been under through his success in the England series and he has suddenly become a high profile international player," Lindsay Crocker, New Zealand's team manager, said

"However, this is unacceptable and we will have a serious discussion with him to ensure situations like this do not occur in the future."

Ryder, who was man of the match in only his second one-day international against England at Hamilton, has a history of run-ins with authority.

Last year, he refused to play for New Zealand A and also failed to turn up for a World Cup training camp, but his performances during the recent one-day series had looked set to earn him a Test call-up and a possible place on the tour to England in April.

Crocker added: "We have team behavioural protocols which are monitored by the group as a whole and this system has served us well for the past four years.

"The incident will be worked through when we next assemble to see whether there is anything which should be improved.

"Ryder will pay for the damage and apologise to the bar owner. No further disciplinary action will be taken as Jesse's injuries should serve as enough of a lesson on this occasion."