Troubled Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds' playing career has once come under cloud after he was forced to remain off the field with a sore knee on the first day of the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and South Australia at Adelaide Oval yesterday.

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Symonds, who in his two over spell before lunch picked up the wicket of Michael Klinger for figures of 1/3, did not take the field after the interval.