{"id":27152,"date":"2025-11-12T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:04:11","slug":"australias-hazlewood-gets-all-clear-after-ashes-scare-but-abbott-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27152","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Hazlewood gets all-clear after Ashes scare but Abbott ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pace spearhead Josh Hazlewood was cleared to continue his preparations for the first Ashes Test against England after sending a scare through the Australian camp on Wednesday when he went for a hamstring scan.<\/p>\n<p>Hazlewood and reserve Test quick Sean Abbott both left the Sydney Cricket Ground during New South Wales&#8217;s Sheffield Shield clash with Victoria for assessments.<\/p>\n<p>While Hazlewood was given the all-clear, Abbott, named in Australia&#8217;s 15-man squad, was ruled out of the opening Test in Perth starting on November 21.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hazlewood left the field late in Victoria&#8217;s innings at the SCG today reporting tightness in his right hamstring,&#8221; Cricket Australia said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He underwent precautionary scans which have cleared him of muscle strain. He will train as planned in the lead up to the first Test in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sean Abbott also left the field having reported left hamstring soreness. Scans confirmed a moderate grade hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will not be available for selection for the first Test match in Perth and his return to play plan will be developed over the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Australia are already without injured skipper Pat Cummins for at least the opening Test, so losing Hazlewood would have been a serious blow.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Boland is set to replace Cummins in the attack, which also contains left-armer Mitchell Starc.<\/p>\n<p>The uncapped Brendan Doggett is the other pace option in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Cummins told reporters in Sydney he was bowling at 90 percent after a back injury and building towards being fit for the second day-night Test in Brisbane on December 4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s still pretty aggressive, going from nothing to trying to get ready for a Test match in four weeks. But we&#8217;re going to give it a good shot,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pace spearhead Josh Hazlewood was cleared to continue his preparations for the first Ashes Test against England after sending a scare through the Australian camp on Wednesday when he went for a hamstring scan. Hazlewood and reserve Test quick Sean Abbott both left the Sydney Cricket Ground during New South Wales&#8217;s Sheffield Shield clash with [&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-27152","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\/27152","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=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}