Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood has been dominated out of the upcoming first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Nagpur, leaving the door open for Scott Boland to make his debut in an abroad Test.
Hazlewood, who injured his left foot whereas bowling within the Sydney Test in opposition to South Africa final month, confirmed that he’s but to get well.
“Not positive concerning the first Test. It’s nonetheless a couple of days away, nevertheless it’s going up quick. The second is clearly straight after as effectively. So, we’ll play it by ear for the subsequent week and some days and hope Tuesday is nice.
“A little workload management at the moment. Just manage Achilles. I was bowling pretty well before the tour at home and was just pushing against it. Probably wasn’t recovering as I would have liked between each session so thought we’d give it a few days straight off the bat and try and get over the hump and have a bowl from Tuesday (at Nagpur) and hope it’s okay Happens,” he mentioned.
Meanwhile, Boland, who has performed solely six Tests thus far, could have an opportunity to make his debut within the subcontinent and share the brand new ball with Cummins.
He was additionally seen enjoying with the brand new ball throughout a match-simulation drill at Alur on Sunday.
“Scotty has bowled a lot at the MCG, when it was a flat wicket, it probably wasn’t swing or reverse swing, so he knows how to bowl hard for long periods of time,” Hazlewood mentioned of the Victorian with a Test bowling common. Is.” 12.21.
“You have Lance Morris who has labored exhausting on reverse swing within the final month after which an excellent lead-in right here with a couple of classes.
“The first guys to be excited to play in the subcontinent, they haven’t played either yet, but they are very well qualified to do so.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
