{"id":20740,"date":"2025-12-09T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/australias-hazlewood-ruled-out-of-ashes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:59","slug":"australias-hazlewood-ruled-out-of-ashes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/australias-hazlewood-ruled-out-of-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Hazlewood ruled out of Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divRplyFwdMsg\">\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Australia fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the Ashes entirely after struggling with injuries, head coach Andrew McDonald said <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">this Tuesday<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>McDonald confirmed the first-choice quick would not play any part in the five-test series against England after already missing the opening matches in Perth and Brisbane.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Really flat for him,&#8221; McDonald said on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;A couple of setbacks that we didn&#8217;t see coming. We thought he&#8217;d play a huge part in the series. But really feel for him that he won&#8217;t get that opportunity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hazlewood suffered a hamstring strain before Perth and last week had a separate setback while working his way back.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s somewhere lower in the calf to Achilles region,\u201d McDonald said of the latest injury.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hazlewood&#8217;s Ashes blow came on the same day England confirmed fellow quick Mark Wood would not play another match in the series due to a knee injury.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>McDonald said regular captain and paceman Pat Cummins would be ready to return for Adelaide, where Australia can retain the urn with a draw.<\/div>\n<div>Australia, who hold the urn, lead the five-test series 2-0.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cummins also missed the opening tests while recovering from a lower back injury, but had proved his fitness with match simulation in Brisbane, McDonald said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He was out at Allan Border Field whilst everyone was at the Gabba. He simulated pretty much what a match will look like out there with multiple spells,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We feel as though the simulation in the nets has got him skill-ready. His body&#8217;s ready to go.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Barring anything else happening in the next week, I&#8217;d be expecting Pat to be tossing the coin and putting the blazer on.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Australia&#8217;s selectors sprung a surprise by dropping Nathan Lyon for his first home test since 2012 at Brisbane, triggering an emotional reaction from the 38-year-old spinner.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>McDonald, who sits on the selection panel, said Lyon had every right to be disappointed but he would have a &#8220;big part&#8221; to play in the rest of the series.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20741,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20740","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Hazlewood suffered a hamstring strain before Perth.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Hazlewood suffered a hamstring strain before Perth.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24674,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20740\/revisions\/24674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}