{"id":461831,"date":"2026-02-06T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:46:11","slug":"josh-hazlewood-australia-fast-bowler-ruled-out-of-t20-world-cup-by-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461831\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hazlewood: Australia fast bowler ruled out of T20 World Cup by injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia seamer Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the men’s T20 World Cup as he continues his recovery from injury.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old has not played since mid-November having missed the Ashes against England with a combination of hamstring and Achillies tendon problems.<\/p>\n

Australia had initially named him in their 15-man squad for the World Cup in the hope he would be available<\/a> midway through the tournament.<\/p>\n

However, Cricket Australia national selector Tony Dodemaide said that “trying to accelerate” Hazlewood’s recovery to get him fit to play a part in the latter stages would “carry too much of a risk”.<\/p>\n

“We were hopeful Josh would be back to match fitness by the Super 8s stage but the latest indications [are] he is still some time away,” Dodemaide said.<\/p>\n

Hazlewood joins fellow fast bowler Pat Cummins as an absentee for the tournament, which starts this weekend and is being co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Australia Test captain Cummins was recently ruled out<\/a> with a back injury having featured just once during the Ashes.<\/p>\n

Bowling all-rounder Sean Abbott had previously been added to Australia’s World Cup squad as a travelling reserve but Australia have not formally added him to their squad.<\/p>\n

“We will not be naming a replacement player immediately,” Dodemaide added.<\/p>\n

“We feel we are well covered for the initial games so will make any later decisions based on priority need at the time.”<\/p>\n

Australia’s first match is against Ireland in Colombo on 11 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia seamer Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the men’s T20 World Cup as he continues his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-461831","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\/461831","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=461831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}