Josh Hazlewood ruled out of WTC final against India
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Speedster Josh Hazlewood was on Sunday ruled out of Australia’s World Test Championship squad which is set to take on India at the Oval from June 7-11, a Cricket Australia statement confirmed.
“Hazlewood has bowled at full tilt in recent training sessions in Formby and Beckenham in the lead-in to the Aussies’ six-Test tour of the UK but is still managing a left Achilles issue as well as a side injury that flared up during the recent Indian Premier League,” the statement revealede.
Michael Neser, who plies his trade for Glamorgan in county cricket, has been added as his replacement for the one-off Test.
A couple of days ago, Hazlewood had told ICC that his fitness was ‘pretty good.’
“My fitness is pretty good and it is just a matter of ticking off every session from here until tha...