Having already confirmed their place for the ICC World Test Championship Final with the 3-1 series win over India, that also brought the Border-Gavaskar back to their grasp after a decade, Australia could be missing the services of Pat Cummins for the upcoming two-Test tour of Sri Lanka due to personal reasons.
Australia skipper Pat Cummins has confirmed that fast-bowler Josh Hazlewood will be out of the remainder of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) series due to calf injury.
Cummins also reflected on the defeat but chose not to go into specifics of what went wrong.
There was a sense of self-motivation when Jasprit Bumrah came to address the pre-match presser ahead of the opening Test against Australia in Perth starting Friday.
Warner, who played his last Test match against Pakistan in Sydney in January has offered to come out of retirement to help the side if need be but Cummins indicated that the team has moved on.
Following Aaron Finch's retirement, the Australian team's captaincy position in One-Day Internationals (ODIs) is now open, and Warner is confident he can fill it.
It also said that Cummins has returned to his home in Australia for two weeks of rest and rehabilitation. The franchise further added that they have not sought a replacement for Cummins ahead of their match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday at the MCA Stadium in Pune.
Following the T20I series loss to Bangladesh, Langer has guided the Aaron Finch-led team to its maiden ICC T20 World Cup title in the UAE and the Ashes win.
Post-lunch period proved to be detrimental for India as they succumbed to the efforts of Australia bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood with the new ball.
Cheteshwar Pujara has been dismissed three out of four times by Cummins in the first two Tests of this year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
