{"id":411062,"date":"2026-02-06T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:18:09","slug":"josh-hazlewood-australia-fast-bowler-ruled-out-of-t20-world-cup-by-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411062\/","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":411063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-411062","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\/411062","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=411062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}