{"id":111852,"date":"2025-09-01T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111852\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:24:08","slug":"pat-cummins-back-issue-injury-updates-scans-australia-ashes-squad-video-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111852\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Cummins back issue, injury updates, scans, Australia Ashes squad, video, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Cummins is reportedly nursing a back issue that could force Cricket Australia to manage the Test captain\u2019s workloads ahead of the blockbuster Ashes series.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codesports.com.au\/cricket\/australian-teams\/pat-cummins-scan-results-reveal-worrying-back-issue-as-ashes-loom-large-for-australia\/news-story\/a0111e2e9d7eafca35cdbc6f90215813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CODE Sports<\/a>, the 32-year-old underwent scans on Monday that revealed evidence of a back issue, putting him under an injury cloud. Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/sore-australia-captain-pat-cummins-sweats-on-back-scans-before-ashes-20250901-p5mrla.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> reports that Cummins has been complaining of back soreness since the recent Test tour of the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>However, CA reportedly remains optimistic that he will be fit for the first Ashes Test against England in late November.<\/p>\n<p>Pending the severity of Cummins\u2019 back issue, which is yet to be determined, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/cricket\/pat-cummins-to-miss-aussie-tour-as-test-skipper-prepares-to-undergo-scans\/news-story\/5c12453db34b6e2711b456fed2e02481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">he may be required to skip Australia\u2019s upcoming white-ball series against India<\/a> and avoid Sheffield Shield matches for New South Wales. CA may also be forced to manage his workload during the Ashes, opening the door for Steve Smith to lead Australia at some stage during the marquee series.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cummins\u2019 setback will heap further pressure on fellow quicks Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland to stay for the entire Test summer.<\/p>\n<p>Australia vs South Africa T20I &amp; ODI Series | Watch every ball LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756769048_562_poster-fallback.png\"\/>Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland with the Frank Worrell Trophy. Picture \u2013 SuppliedSource: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Cummins played all five Tests of the triumphant Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India before missing Australia\u2019s Test tour of Sri Lanka and the Champions Trophy campaign in Pakistan due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>The right-armed quick returned for June\u2019s World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord\u2019s and played all three matches of Australia\u2019s Frank Worrell Trophy whitewash of the West Indies in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Fringe speedsters Lance Morris and Spencer Johnson are currently out of action due to injury, while Western Australia\u2019s Jhye Richardson is expected to miss the start of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s mounting injury concerns open the door for the likes of Sean Abbott, Xavier Bartlett and Brendan Doggett to make their Test debut during the Ashes, while Michael Neser could also come into contention should the hosts need reinforcements.<\/p>\n<p>The first Ashes Test between Australia and England gets underway at Perth Stadium on November 21.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Cummins is reportedly nursing a back issue that could force Cricket Australia to manage the Test captain\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-111852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}