{"id":277454,"date":"2025-11-22T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277454\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:41:03","slug":"australia-captain-cummins-could-return-for-second-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277454\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia captain Cummins could return for second Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia captain Pat Cummins says he could be fit to return at the second Ashes Test next month.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old missed the first Test in Perth with a back injury but Australia still skittled England for just 172 and 164 in their two innings.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Starc took 10 wickets as Australia wrapped up a crushing win by eight wickets inside two days.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cummins, who was replaced as skipper by Steve Smith and as a fast bowler by Scott Boland for the Perth Test, suggested he might be ready to take back both roles for the day-night Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, which starts on 4 December.<\/p>\n

“It’s feeling good,” Cummins said on Fox Sports TV.<\/p>\n

“I had a couple of good sessions in Perth this week, so having a big day where I’d bowl around 10 overs then a couple of quieter days and then going again.<\/p>\n

“It’s on track and pulling up pretty well. [I’m] half a chance for the next game.<\/p>\n

“I’ll have a couple more bowls and then there could be about two weeks before the next one the way this one is going.<\/p>\n

“I’m pretty hopeful and it’s probably better than it was a few weeks ago.”<\/p>\n

While Cummins might be back for Brisbane, top order batsman Usman Khawaja must be a doubt for the second Test after injuring his back and failing to take up his opening spot in either innings in Perth.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately Uzzy is not moving too well. His back flared up again in the slips going for a jump above his head so he was unable to open,” Cummins added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia captain Pat Cummins says he could be fit to return at the second Ashes Test next month.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-277454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277454","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=277454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}