Josh Hazlewood is yet to recover from his injury but the 28-year-old paceman believes he will be ready in time to push his case for selection in Australia’s World Cup title defence. The right-arm pacer won’t be a part of the upcoming limited-overs tour of India (two T20Is & five ODIs) and UAE (five ODIs v Pakistan) after suffering a stress fracture in his back during the fourth Test against the Virat Kohli-led side.
Hazlewood is scheduled to have a follow-up scan on Friday and hoped that he will get ample time to prepare for the 2019 mega-event and Ashes.
“I think we’ll know a lot more after tomorrow, to be honest. Hopefully, in the coming weeks we’ll start working through it,” he said on Thursday (February 14).
“Hopefully it’s going along to plan. Everything feels fine so training’s coming along nicely, progressing every week. I think we’ll just work back from the World Cup really and make sure everything’s right for that, which gives me plenty of time.”
Australia will commence their 2019 World Cup campaign against Afghanistan on June 1 and before that will be involved in two official warm-up matches against England and Sri Lanka.
