{"id":527019,"date":"2025-10-25T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527019\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:01:16","slug":"pat-cummins-australia-captain-realistically-aiming-to-be-fit-for-second-ashes-test-says-nathan-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527019\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Cummins: Australia captain &#8216;realistically&#8217; aiming to be fit for second Ashes Test, says Nathan Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Australia spinner Nathan Lyon believes captain Pat Cummins will struggle to be fit for the Ashes opener in Perth but could &#8220;realistically&#8221; return for the second Test in Brisbane.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cummins, 32, is recovering from a back injury that had threatened to rule him out of the highly anticipated series against England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s chair of selectors George Bailey expects the fast bowler to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cm2lvejz9jxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">play a &#8220;major part&#8221;<\/a> in the five-match contest but Lyon thinks the first Test, which starts on 21 November, will come too soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Perth might be pretty difficult, if I&#8217;m being honest,&#8221; he told ABC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But realistically, I think there&#8217;s still a big goal to potentially play Brisbane [or] Adelaide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should he miss the first Test, Cummins would have another 13 days to prove his fitness before the day-night Test in Brisbane on 4 December and a further 13 beyond that until the Adelaide Test starts on 17 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia spinner Nathan Lyon believes captain Pat Cummins will struggle to be fit for the Ashes opener in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-527019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115434939067906179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527019","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=527019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}