The Australia captain Pat Cummins has been ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes 2025/26 to recover from his lumbar stress reaction injury.
Australia head coach Andrew McDonald confirmed his exclusion during the Australia squad announcement for the Boxing Day test.
On this occasion, there are certain conditions regarding his availability for the T20 World Cup 2026 in February.
The fast bowler has been diagnosed with lumbar stress reaction after the West Indies tour, and has been in rehabilitation from a back stress injury before playing in the third Ashes test.
He took six wickets in the Adelaide Test, where Australia won the game by 82 runs. Earlier on Tuesday morning, head coach Andrew McDonald confirmed his injury omission for the rest of the Ashes series.
Speaking on Pat Cummins, Australia head coach Andrew McDonald confirmed his injury omission for the rest of the Ashes series.
“He won’t play any part in the rest of the series. That was a discussion that we had a long time ago about his return. Yeah, we were taking on some risk. We’ve now won the series, and that was the goal.
To position him for further risk and jeopardise him long term is not something that we want to do,” McDonald told reporters.
“Pat’s really comfortable with that. If he had any setback in the build-in as well, we would have shut him down straight away.”
“Everything went really smoothly, and full credit to him, the medical team, and to navigate through that risk profile, to get him back and take six wickets in that game and nail the Ashes series was incredibly pleasing for everyone associated with that,” he added.
It remains to be seen if Pat Cummins to be available for the T20 World Cup 2026. “I can’t really say at the moment, we are hopeful,” said McDonald.
Speaking on Pat Cummins’ T20 World Cup chances, McDonald said, “That’ll be an assessment. I’m assuming he’ll have a check-in scan at some point and gather more information around where his back is at… looking forward to the World Cup, whether he’ll be there or not. I can’t really say. It’s quite grey at the moment. We’re hopeful.”
Australia will play their opener match of the T20 World Cup against Ireland on February 11 at R. Premadasa StadiumColombo.
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