{"id":329148,"date":"2025-12-05T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329148\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:47:09","slug":"the-ashes-2025-josh-hazelwood-injury-blow-achilles-soreness-cricket-australia-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329148\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ashes 2025 | Josh Hazelwood injury blow, Achilles soreness; Cricket Australia statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Hazlewood<\/a>‘s Ashes series could be in serious jeopardy with another injury setback hampering his rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia has confirmed the fast bowler had Achilles soreness during the week after The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> revealed the news.<\/p>\n

Hazlewood missed the first two Ashes Tests due to a hamstring injury from the final Sheffield Shield match before the series started.<\/p>\n

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“Josh Hazlewood reported achilles soreness this week during his rehabilitation from recent hamstring injury,” CA’s statement read.<\/p>\n

“It is a low-grade issue and he is expected to recommence running and bowling next week,” CA said.<\/p>\n

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Josh Hazlewood. \u00a0AP<\/p>\n

During the Perth Test there were fears Hazlewood would be ruled out for the series but coach Andrew McDonald quashed that in the aftermath of the first match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on SEN, former Australian fast bowler Damien Fleming predicted Hazlewood wouldn’t be back until Boxing Day.<\/p>\n

“That looks Melbourne Test match at best,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s more likely Sydney and you’re coming off no cricket. I feel for him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Hazlewood‘s Ashes series could be in serious jeopardy with another injury setback hampering his rehabilitation. Cricket Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-329148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329148","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=329148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}