With less than a week left for the Border Gavaskar Trophy to begin, Australia endured a huge blow as Josh Hazlewood is set to miss the first Test, which is scheduled to start from February 9 in Nagpur. The report further states that he is doubtful for the second Test too.
Scott Boland is in contention to replace him, who could also be making maiden appearance in an overseas Test.
“Not sure about the first Test. It’s still a few days away but it’s sneaking up pretty quickly. Second one is obviously straight after as well. So, we’ll play it by ear over the next week and next few days and hopefully Tuesday goes well,” Hazlewood was quoted as saying on Sunday by Cricbuzz.
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“Just a bit of workload management at the moment. Just managing the Achilles. I was bowling a fair bit leading into the tour at home and sort of just pushing up against it. Probably wasn’t recovering as well as I would have liked between each session so thought we’d give it a few days here straight of the bat and try and get over the hump and have a bowl from Tuesday on (in Nagpur) and hope it goes well,” he added.
Earlier Mitchell Starc was ruled out from the first Test due to his finger injury.