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Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood training for NSW on November 25.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cNo I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll take part in the series now,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cYou can go with that one. It\u2019s a totally separate injury, it\u2019s somewhere lower in the calf to Achilles region.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will be out of the series and his preparation will then shift towards the [T20] World Cup, which is an incredibly important campaign for us, but unfortunately Josh won\u2019t be a part of the Ashes and [we\u2019re] really flat for him.<\/p>\n
\u201c[He had] a couple of setbacks we didn\u2019t see coming. We thought he\u2019d play a huge part in the series, but really feel for him that he won\u2019t get that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
McDonald also flagged that Pat Cummins will be back in the team as captain for the Adelaide Test next week, having completed a series of \u201cmatch simulation\u201d bowling spells at Allan Border Field while the Brisbane Test was playing out.<\/p>\n
\u201cPat will be back in the squad, he will be available, and that creates a different balance to our attack,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cBarring anything else happening in the next week, we\u2019ll be expecting Pat to be tossing the coin and putting the blazer on.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere won\u2019t be any match opportunities for Pat. This is something we\u2019ve done with Pat before, off longish lay-offs, where we\u2019ve put in some time to rebuilding his body. He was out at Allan Border Field while everyone else was at the Gabba, so he\u2019s simulated pretty much what a match will look like out there with multiple spells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Hazlewood is out of the Ashes series following confirmation of an Achilles issue in his recovery from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-336142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336142","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=336142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}