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Australia seamer Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the third and fourth Tests against India. (Pic Credit - X) Josh Hazlewood has spoken about the frustration he's facing after the latest injury setback which stopped him from bowling in the rain-affected third Test against Australia. More importantly, he has been ruled out for the remainder of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy due to the calf injury.
The Australian seamer was sent for scans after bowling just one over on Tuesday morning after hurting his right calf in the warm-up. Rohit Sharma press conference: On Ashwin, Gabba draw and his form Medical staff have said in the aftermath that it is only a strain, but serious enough to end his home Test summer early. The seamer had missed the second Test, at the Adelaide Oval, with a side strain.
Australia had won that contest by 10 wickets with Scott Boland coming in as his replacement. “Just frustrating really. Ticked every box heading into the Test, I could understand if it was my side again, but it was just a random calf strain,” he told 7NEWS in Australia.
“Obviously, do a deep dive into it and see what we can come up with ...
feels pretty random.” R Ashwin announces retirement from Test cricket Hazlewood has played the bulk of Australia’s Tests in the last year-and-half, but before that, between end of January 2021 and start of June 2023, he played just three Tests. “I’ve had a history of sides and calves, they’re probably the two things that have kept me out for the majority over the last four years,” he added.
“But yeah I sort of just keep adding another layer to the defence hopefully, get back into the gym, I’ve ticked a lot of boxes over the last 12 months.” Virat Kohli is one of the greatest players ever: Mitch Marsh But what upsets Hazlewood most is the timing of the setbacks. “It’s just the timing again, they are only little 2-3 week injuries, it’s just the timing of it and missing big games is the frustrating thing,” he said.
Hazlewood hopes to regain full fitness by the two-Test tour of Sri Lanka in late January and February. “That’s probably the goal, just take it as it comes over the next few weeks,” he said. “No rush to get anything in a hurry, it’s just getting everything right.
Probably take a few extra days here and there. “Ticking things off and getting everything right.” With Hazlewood out of the remaining two Tests, at Melbourne and Sydney, Boland is slated to come back into the lineup.
The fourth Test, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, gets underway on 26 December..
