{"id":45477,"date":"2025-12-06T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/45477"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:39:51","slug":"pat-cummins-eyes-adelaide-test-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/45477","title":{"rendered":"Pat Cummins eyes Adelaide Test return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:300px\">\n<p><strong>Australia captain Pat Cummins will be ready to return from injury for the third Ashes test against England in Adelaide, the fast bowler said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cummins missed the series-opener in Perth and the ongoing day-night match in Brisbane while recovering from a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll have one more bowl tomorrow (in the nets) and then we\u2019ll go to Adelaide and have a bowl there. So barring any hiccups, I\u2019ll be good to go,\u201d Cummins told host broadcaster Fox Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe body feels great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Smith has led Australia in Cummins\u2019s absence, with Scott Boland replacing him in the pace unit since Perth.<\/p>\n<p>With fellow pacer Josh Hazlewood unlikely to be fit for Adelaide, Cummins will likely return at the expense of Brendan Doggett or Michael Neser.<\/p>\n<p>Cummins was omitted from the second test squad named a week before the Gabba test but confirmed media reports that selectors had seriously considered picking him before deciding it was too risky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just felt a bit too acute at the end and didn\u2019t really feel fair on the other bowlers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we thought it didn\u2019t feel like the right test match to take that risk \u2014 so kick it down the road for a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/pat-cummins-eyes-adelaide-test-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia captain Pat Cummins will be ready to return from injury for the third Ashes test against England in Adelaide, the fast bowler said on Saturday. Cummins missed the series-opener in Perth and the ongoing day-night match in Brisbane while recovering from a back injury. \u201cI\u2019ll have one more bowl tomorrow (in the nets) and then we\u2019ll go to Adelaide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1765013991_unnamed-file.jpg",750,369,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":2563,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":2563,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}