{"id":112126,"date":"2025-09-03T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:29:20","slug":"australia-captain-pat-cummins-doing-everything-to-be-fit-for-ashes-opener-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112126\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia captain Pat Cummins \u2018doing everything\u2019 to be fit for Ashes opener &#8211; Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia captain Pat Cummins said he will be doing everything he can to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1939161\/australia-hopeful-on-cummins-fitness-for-ashes-despite-back-issue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fit for the first Ashes test<\/a> in late November, saying it would be \u201cdevastating\u201d to miss out on the Perth clash against England.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old pace bowler has been ruled out of upcoming white-ball series against New Zealand and India after scans revealed signs of lumbar bone stress in his back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(I\u2019m) confident we\u2019ll do the rehab right and give it a good crack,\u201d Cummins told reporters in Brisbane on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis far out it\u2019s hard to know, but we\u2019re trying to make sure we\u2019re doing everything right to be right for Perth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big Ashes series, it doesn\u2019t get much bigger, so you\u2019re willing to be aggressive and take a few risks to try to play as much of the tests as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cummins said he had been taking it easy since returning sore from Australia\u2019s 3-0 test triumph over West Indies in June and July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith bone injuries, you really just want to settle it down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still doing a bit of gym, but no real running, no bowling. Get that right and then we\u2019ll build up to the summer. We\u2019ve got loads of time, there\u2019s about 12 weeks until the first test. We\u2019ll see how the next little bit pans out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cummins said his experience should help him hit the ground running when he does get the okay from medical staff to return to bowling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this stage of my career I feel like I can probably get up to speed a bit quicker than when I was 18 or 19,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty confident even if I don\u2019t get a chance to play a (Sheffield) Shield game, I can get up to speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australia begin the defence of the Ashes at Perth Stadium on November 21 with further tests in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney in December and January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia captain Pat Cummins said he will be doing everything he can to be fit for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-112126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}