Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the second Test – a pink-ball, day-night fixture – against India in Adelaide from December 6, due to a ‘low grade left side injury’, Cricket Australia said. This will be Hazlewood’s first absence from a home Test against India. With this, for the first time since the Sydney Test of 2015, Australia will be without one of the four stalwarts – Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon – in a home BGT match. The quartet featured together in nine successive home Tests vs India.
Uncapped pacers Sean Abbott and Brendan Doggett have been added to the home team’s squad. Australia though, are likely to fill the Hazlewood void with the inclusion of Scott Boland, who was part of the original squad picked. Boland will be in action during the two-day warm-up game for the Prime Ministers XI, starting on November 30. His last Test appearance came in the Ashes Test in Leeds in 2023.
