{"id":300621,"date":"2025-12-05T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300621\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:17:14","slug":"australia-dealt-major-ashes-injury-blow-as-star-bowler-suffers-setback-with-statement-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300621\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia dealt major Ashes injury blow as star bowler suffers setback with statement released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia have been dealt an injury blow ahead of the third Ashes Test with Josh Hazlewood suffering a setback.<\/p>\n

The fast bowler has missed the first two Tests of the series due to a hamstring issue, but this is a different problem.<\/p>\n

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Hazlewood has been a huge player for Australia for yearsCredit: Getty Images – Getty<\/p>\n

He has now suffered soreness in his Achilles, which is set to delay his return to bowling.<\/p>\n

He is currently joined on the sidelines<\/a> by the Aussie Test captain, Pat Cummins.<\/p>\n

The fast bowler has been dealing with a back problem for quite some time now, but he has returned to the nets.<\/p>\n

However, his partner in crime, Hazlewood, won’t be joining him just yet, and with a short turnaround until the third Test<\/a>, he is a major doubt for that one now.<\/p>\n

Read more on The Ashes<\/p>\n

But Cummins is expected back, and England<\/a> will be hoping it’s 1-1 and not 2-0.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Cricket Australia said: “Josh Hazlewood reported achilles soreness this week during his rehabilitation from recent hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

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

And former Aussie fast bowler Damien Fleming believes that Hazlewood won’t see any Ashes action now until the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground<\/a> [MCG] at the earliest.<\/p>\n

He said: “That looks Melbourne Test match at best.<\/p>\n

“It’s more likely Sydney and you’re coming off no cricket. I feel for him.”<\/p>\n

\"Josh<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hazlewood was expected to be able to take part in the third Test, but as it stands, that looks unlikelyCredit: Getty\"Mitchell<\/a><\/p>\n

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In their absence, Mitchell Starc has taken on full responsibilityCredit: GettyStarc stands up<\/p>\n

With Cummins and Hazlewood out, Mitchell Starc has had to take on even more responsibility than normal.<\/p>\n

He has more than responded as well, claiming three wickets inside the opening over of each of England’s innings so far.<\/p>\n

He has 16 wickets in the series overall, which is the most by any player at this stage of an Ashes since Mitchell Johnson in 2014\/14, who had 17.<\/p>\n

But he still has another innings to come and is the only Aussie fast bowler who is providing consistent threat.<\/p>\n

He claimed six scalps in the first innings, and in Perth, he grabbed his best-ever Test figures of 7-56<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And at The Gabba, he moved himself into GOAT territory.<\/p>\n

This is because he surpassed Wasim Akram<\/a> as the left-arm fast bowler with the most Test wickets, though he was having none of being classed as better.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the immediate aftermath of day one, he said: “I’ll reflect on it later, Wasim’s still a far better bowler than I am. <\/p>\n

Read More on talkSPORT<\/p>\n

“So as far as I’m concerned, he’s still the pinnacle of left-armers and certainly right up there with bowlers to ever play the game. <\/p>\n

“So, it’s nice to be spoken of up around that, but I’ll just try and keep churning a few out.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia have been dealt an injury blow ahead of the third Ashes Test with Josh Hazlewood suffering a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[428,1721,309,59381,120813,120815,120814,1619,8106,101,26317,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-300621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-josh-hazlewood","tag-josh-hazlewood-injury","tag-josh-hazlewood-injury-latest","tag-josh-hazlewood-injury-news","tag-mitchell-starc","tag-pat-cummins","tag-sports","tag-the-ashes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300621","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=300621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}