{"id":279047,"date":"2025-11-12T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279047\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:46:10","slug":"australia-suffers-ashes-scare-with-josh-hazlewood-and-sean-abbott-being-assessed-for-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/279047\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia suffers Ashes scare with Josh Hazlewood and Sean Abbott being assessed for injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australia has a double injury concern ahead of the first Ashes Test, with Josh Hazlewood and Sean Abbott both leaving the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) with injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hazlewood and Abbott were both spotted leaving the ground on day three of the Sheffield Shield game against Victoria and going to a nearby clinic to be assessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Neither Cricket Australia nor Cricket NSW could confirm details of the injury concerns on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Any injury to Hazlewood would be of significant concern with the first Test against England in Perth just nine days away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australia is already without their captain Pat Cummins for at least the series opener, with the quick expected to be replaced in the XI by Scott Boland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">If Hazlewood was also ruled out, Brendan Doggett would likely be called in to debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hazlewood missed three Tests last summer through injury as he battled side soreness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Abbott is the other back-up paceman in the Test squad. He took three wickets in six balls on Wednesday before leaving the SCG to be assessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/iview.abc.net.au\/show\/end-game-with-tony-armstrong\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"End Game banner\" width=\"2048\" height=\"256\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f699287f8e5041c0ab8b446474ab8c9f\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/image\/105900810\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has a double injury concern ahead of the first Ashes Test, with Josh Hazlewood and Sean Abbott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[5844,13285,64,63,740,1208,44227,22478,116221,588,85],"class_list":["post-279047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-abc-sport","tag-ashes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-josh-hazlewood","tag-sean-abbott","tag-sheffield-shield","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279047","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=279047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}