"You must have by now. The eyes and ears of the cricketing world are zeroed in on a locus of around 10 inches of Pat Cummins' lumbar region. Hushed whispers about the Australia Test captain's stress injury after his side's tour of West Indies in July became a rumbling concern as the weeks passed and there was no reassuring statement from the Cummins camp."
"By contrast, earlier this week a more circumspect Cummins put his chances of playing at Perth in the first Test on 21 November as probably less likely than likely. Things may well change in the next six weeks but if they don't then it is a tremendous shame for him personally and for the wider cricketing public as the Ashes is shorn, to some degree, of one of the world's greatest ever fast bowlers."
Pat Cummins is carrying a stress injury in his lumbar region sustained after Australia's tour of the West Indies, and uncertainty surrounds his availability for the Ashes. Cummins described his chances of playing the Perth Test on 21 November as more unlikely than likely, leaving six weeks for recovery. His absence would deprive cricket of one of the world's premier fast bowlers and would alter the balance of the series. Cummins has 309 Test wickets from 71 matches at just over 22 runs per wicket and a strike rate of one wicket every 47 balls. England would face a significantly weakened Australian attack if he misses matches.
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