{"id":495917,"date":"2025-10-13T10:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:38:27","slug":"cummins-provides-update-on-sore-back-ahead-of-ashes-series-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495917\/","title":{"rendered":"Cummins provides update on sore back ahead of Ashes series | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cummins believes his back injury won&#8217;t be much of a concern in the long-term and he still plans to feature during as many Ashes Tests as possible and lead Australia at next year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/t20cricketworldcup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a back injury that I haven&#8217;t had for about seven or eight years, and I&#8217;ve played a lot of cricket between that,&#8221; Cummins said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So if anything looking back when I was, say, 20 years old and I had this injury, I was a bit worried about what my body could actually handle. But I know in myself that if I get it right, do it properly, when I come back I shouldn&#8217;t have to worry about it all. And hopefully I can play as much, even more cricket than I had previously in the last few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Test: 21-25 November, Perth<br \/>Second Test: 4-8 December, Brisbane<br \/>Third Test: 17-21 December, Adelaide<br \/>Fourth Test: 25-29 December, Melbourne<br \/>Fifth Test: 3-7 January 2026, Sydney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cummins believes his back injury won&#8217;t be much of a concern in the long-term and he still plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,79,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-495917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","13":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-cricket-results-today","18":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","19":"tag-cricket-series-updates","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","21":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","22":"tag-cricket-world-news","23":"tag-icc","24":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","25":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","26":"tag-international-cricket-news","27":"tag-latest-cricket-news","28":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","29":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","30":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","34":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","36":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}