Cummins To Take Rehab 'risks' To Be Fit For Ashes

Australia skipper Pat Cummins is consenting to beryllium "aggressive" and "take risks" pinch his rehabilitation from a backmost wounded successful bid to beryllium fresh for nan first Ashes Test against England this winter.

Cummins has been ruled out of Australia's upcoming white-ball bid against New Zealand and India aft scans revealed a lumbar bony accent successful his back.

The 32-year-old said it would beryllium "devastating" if he missed retired connected nan first Ashes Test, which starts connected 21 November successful Perth, Western Australia.

"I'm ne'er going to spell into a Test lucifer unless I deliberation I tin decorativeness nan Test match," Cummins said.

"But erstwhile you're 18 aliases 19, you're like, 'let's make judge this is nan cleanable rehab, whether it takes an other six months'. Whereas, I'm happy to beryllium a spot like, 'well, it's an Ashes series, immoderate it takes to play it'.

"Then, say, astatine nan end, if you're still not 100% and you request to person a spot of a break adjacent year, there's not different Ashes series."

Cummins has been restricted to ray gym activity since his past Test quality against West Indies successful July and is prepared to spell into nan Ashes without having played immoderate home cricket.

"You're consenting to return a fewer risks and beryllium a small spot fierce to effort and play arsenic galore Tests arsenic you can," he added.

"I'm beautiful assured moreover if I don't get a chance to play a [Sheffield] Shield game, I tin get up to velocity beautiful quickly.

"I'm still doing a spot of gym work, but nary existent running, nary bowling. Get that correct and past we'll build up to nan summer.

"We've sewage loads of time, there's astir 12 weeks until nan first Test. We'll spot really nan adjacent small spot pans out."

Cummins has a history of backmost injuries, pinch flare-ups successful 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2015-16 causing him to miss 3 Australian summers successful 4 years.

In 2018, he suffered a recurrence that ruled him retired of nan Indian Premier League successful April and an October circuit of Pakistan, though he has stayed comparatively free of wounded since then.

Australia drew 2-2 successful England to clasp nan Ashes successful 2023 and Cummins took 18 wickets during nan series.

Overall, he has taken 91 wickets against England successful 19 Tests astatine an mean of 24.10.