{"id":18046,"date":"2025-09-02T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18046"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:04:06","slug":"australia-skipper-cummins-under-fitness-cloud-for-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18046","title":{"rendered":"Australia skipper Cummins under fitness cloud for Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Australia are sweating on the fitness of captain Pat Cummins ahead of the Ashes after he was ruled out Tuesday of series against New Zealand and India with a back complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old fast bowler was rested from the recent series against West Indies and South Africa and is still dealing with what Cricket Australia described as &#8220;lumbar bone stress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Test skipper Cummins has been struggling with the issue since the tour of the West Indies in July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite this planned (rest) period, Cummins has experienced some ongoing lower back pain following the West Indies Test tour,&#8221; Cricket Australia said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Further investigation has identified a level of lumbar bone stress that will require further management over the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No date was set for when Cummins may return to cricket.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a devastating blow for Australia if Cummins were unable to return for the start of the Ashes.<\/p>\n<p>The first Test against England begins on November 21 in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Cummins will definitely miss white-ball matches against New Zealand and India starting in October.<\/p>\n<p>Australia retained the Ashes in England in 2023, after the series ended in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Cummins took 18 wickets during that series, his second Ashes series as captain.<\/p>\n<p>Australia enjoyed a 4-0 sweep of England at home in 2021-22 and Cummins was the leading wicket-taker with 21 scalps at an average of 18.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia are sweating on the fitness of captain Pat Cummins ahead of the Ashes after he was ruled out Tuesday of series against New Zealand and India with a back complaint. The 32-year-old fast bowler was rested from the recent series against West Indies and South Africa and is still dealing with what Cricket Australia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}