Pat Cummins has suffered another injury setback, ruling him out of Mumbai Indians’ campaign at IPL 2018 and, perhaps, for a while beyond that.
Cummins, 24, has a bone oedema in his vertebrae, which puts him out of action for the immediate future.
“Pat experienced some back soreness during the fourth Test in South Africa. Follow-up scans have confirmed that he has bone oedema in his vertebrae,” said David Beakley, the physiotherapist of the Australian team, on Tuesday, April 10.
Cummins didn’t take part in Mumbai Indians’ tournament opener, which they lost to Chennai Super Kings by one wicket.
On that occasion, Mumbai had a pace attack of Jasprit Bumrah, Mustafizur Rahman and Mitchell McClenaghan. Apart from them, and all-rounders Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard, Mumbai have in their ranks Australia’s Jason Behrendorff and Ben Cutting, and Pradeep Sangwan, the pacer from Delhi.
From Australia’s point of view, it’s important that Cummins – as well as Mitchell Starc, who is also out with an injury – return in time for the limited-overs tour of England in June this year.
