Josh Hazlewood says his availability for Brisbane Test depends on the ‘next 24 hours’ | Cricket News

Josh Hazlewood said he can return to the Australian squad for the third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test against India after bowling two training spells at full pace at the Adelaide Oval on Monday.
Hazlewood missed the pink-ball Test in Adelaide last week due to a side strain, but if his recovery stays on course, he could return to full fitness to play the next Test in Brisbane, starting Saturday.
“I think it’ll be how I pull up in the 24 hours following it really,” Hazelwood told a press conference, per Reuters.
“It’s just that repetitive (action) and obviously two spells makes a big difference. Cooling down pretty much fully and then going again in the same day, and the intensity has got to be right up there as well. So a few boxes to tick, but it’s probably the 24 hours that follow and pulling up again the next day and then thinking ‘yeah, I’d be right to go again if I had to’.”
After troubling the Indian top order in the first innings of the Perth Test, Hazlewood was replaced Scott Boland, who filled in admirably with match figures of 5/105 as Australia wrapped up a dominant win in just over two days.
However, Boland’s effectiveness may have been contingent on the pink ball, with which he could find seam and move the ball off the surface constantly to trouble the Indian batters.
So Hazlewood’s return with the red ball may end up being a boost. The 33-year-old said that he could have played in Adelaide too but did not want to take the risk.
“I think I would have been in a pretty bad state the end of the game – even though it was only a short game, it just wasn’t quite right,” he said, adding: “Obviously got Scotty there, who does a fantastic job every time he plays. Sometimes you’ve got to be pretty much 100% to play.”