Australia had been handled a significant blow as pacer Josh Hazlewood was dominated out of the primary Test towards India in Nagpur on Sunday. Hazlewood confirmed {that a} left achilles niggle sustained final month continues to be inflicting him points.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 5, 2023 10:53 IST
Hazlewood is going through a race towards time to get match for the second Test as properly (Courtesy: PTI)
By India Today Web Desk: Josh Hazlewood on Sunday confirmed that he’ll miss the primary Test towards India within the Border-Gavaskar trophy in Nagpur, beginning on ninth February.
Hazlewood has stated {that a} left achilles niggle that he had sustained final month continues to be inflicting him points and he would miss at the least the primary recreation of the sequence.
However, a brief turnaround time for the second Test may imply that right-arm pacer is racing towards time to be match for the sport in Delhi. Hazlewood joins Mitchell Starc within the casualty ward for the primary recreation in Nagpur.
This may imply that Scott Boland may get an opportunity to play within the first Test towards India. Speaking to Cricket.com.au, Hazlewood backed Boland to carry out properly if he will get the nod for the primary recreation.
“Scotty has bowled plenty at the MCG when it was a flat wicket, it probably wasn’t swinging or reverse swinging so he knows how to work hard for a long period of time,” Hazlewood stated of the Victorian with a Test bowling common of 12.21.
“You’ve got Lance Morris who has worked hard on reverse swing for the last month and then a nice lead-in here with a few sessions.
“The guys are excited to begin with to play within the subcontinent, they each haven’t but, however they’re very properly certified to take action.”
Hazlewood opened up about his injury and said that he has had the issue from the SCG Test against South Africa last month and it was caused by damp pitches in Sydney.
“It’s nonetheless lingering from the (Sydney) Test match,” Hazlewood said of his injury.
“We clearly bowled after numerous rain and the jump-offs had been fairly tender the place we had been taking off from, they usually ended up changing them as properly.
“It sort of worked to a degree, but just that extra load jumping off a soft ground to bowl and again first Test match (back from injury) your body is not used to that sort of workload as well.
“I used to be bowling a good bit main into the (India) tour at residence and kind of simply pushing up towards it. It in all probability wasn’t recovering in addition to I’d have favored between every 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 and hope it goes well.”
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Feb 5, 2023
