Diamonds lose captain Natalie von Bertouch for entire series against England HEADING HOME: Diamonds skipper Natalie von Bertouch will fly back to Australia for treatment. AUSTRALIAN Diamonds captain Nat von Bertouch is to cut short the England tour to return to Adelaide for more surgery on her damaged finger. Von Bertouch is hoping to have the finger repaired this week in a bid to be available for the Adelaide Thunderbirds' ANZ Championship campaign starting in March. The set-back is a huge blow for the champion midcourter and continues a horror injury run. Von Bertouch aggravated the finger in a practise match against Northern Ireland last week, forcing her out of the three-test series against England. She had surgery on the finger following last year's ANZ Championship season. "It's completely devastating, we just can't take a trick since the two of us have been together, we haven't been able to have an uninterrupted series as coach and captain," Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander said. The South Australian has been sidelined for nine of the past 16 international Tests, including Sunday night's 58-53 loss to England in the series opener in Bath. "It's kind of a joke that it keeps happening, but having said that, the positive I can take from this is that I won't lose my fitness because I can still run and I can feel confident going into the ANZ Championship season," von Bertouch said. The aim is to have surgery on either Friday or Saturday, depending on when I can get home, but getting it done this week means that it happens a week earlier because we are under some time pressure with the season coming up.