Cummins injured
MELBOURNE
Selectors revealed Monday that Test and one-day skipper Pat Cummins had a fractured wrist, and Mitchell Marsh was named Australia’s new T20 captain for their tour of South Africa.
Marsh will take the armband for the first three T20 matches since Aaron Finch’s retirement, leading a squad missing Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Cameron Green and David Warner, who are all being rested.
The selectors added that while Cummins would be fit for the World Cup, he would be absent from the tour as he recovers from the injury sustained in the final Ashes Test in London.
However, all of them will join up for the one-day leg of the South African tour.
“He has an undisplaced fracture of his left radius which requires six weeks rehabilitation,” chairman of selectors George Bailey said of Cummins. “We expect him to join the squad during the South African ODI series. We view a period of enforced rest for Pat as a positive ahead of this important World Cup campaign. There are still a number of games he could play before the World Cup which is more than enough for him to have a strong preparation,” he added.
