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Australia's large three, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, and Josh Hazlewood, volition miss the aboriginal stages of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, with young pacer Josh Ellis besides sidelined wholly from the tourney owed to injury.
The improvement was confirmed by cricket.com.au connected Friday (March 20, 2026).
However, it is understood nary of Australia's ace speedsters, Starc, Cummins, and Hazlewood volition beryllium disposable for their franchises erstwhile the IPL 2026 kickoff connected March 28.
Cricket Australia (CA) is taking a precautionary attack with their seasoned pacers arsenic they are acceptable to person a lengthy 12-month period, wherever they volition play up to 21 matches, including important tours of South Africa, India and England, earlier defending their ODI World Cup crown successful confederate Africa successful precocious 2027, the connection said.
The trio's availability volition beryllium connected advancement successful their instrumentality to play protocols implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.
Test skipper Cummins played 1 Test lucifer against England during the Ashes bid past twelvemonth owed to a backmost accent injury, portion Hazlewood was ruled retired of the full Ashes bid owed to hamstring and Achilles issues.The seasoned pacers besides missed the ICC Men's T20 World Cup successful India and Sri Lanka.
Starc, connected the different hand, played each 5 Ashes Tests and besides featured successful the Big Bash League. However, the left-arm pacer missed the T20 World Cup, having retired from T20Is precocious past year.Nathan Ellis has suffered a recurrence of the close hamstring wounded helium suffered successful the lead-up to the T20 World Cup.
The 31-year-old recovered to diagnostic successful each 4 of Australia's group-stage games, but Cricket Tasmania has confirmed helium reaggravated his hamstring during past week's One-Day Cup last successful Hobart.
Cummins is the skipper of Sunrisers Hyderabad, whereas Mitchell Starc is with Delhi Capitals, and five-time champions Chennai Super Kings bought Nathan Ellis for the Indian Premier League 2026 season.In spot of Cummins, the Hyderabad-based franchise has confirmed that India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan volition beryllium the stand-in skipper for the 2026 season.
Australia selector Tony Dodemaide had said that Cummins and Hazlewood’s availability for the IPL purely was a “timing issue”.
“If it was successful reverse, the IPL was archetypal and the World Cup was second, past they’d beryllium missing the IPL to play successful the World Cup,” said Dodemaide.
“It’s not going to beryllium frustrating for america astatine all. We cognize their committedness to privation to play and win for Australia.”
Jack Edwards ruled retired owed to ft injury
Australia all-rounder Jack Edwards has besides been ruled retired of the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 owed to a ft injury, according to ESPNcricinfo connected Friday.
The 25-year-old Edwards was signed by the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) for ₹3 crore during the IPL auction. The Australian all-rounder was the lone uncapped overseas subordinate to beryllium signed up astatine the 2025 auction.
Edwards made his T20I debut for Australia against Pakistan astatine Lahore successful January 2026. The all-rounder has played conscionable 1 lucifer till now, scoring 5 runs.
In T20s, the 25-year-old has played 77 matches and 57 innings, scoring 853 runs and picking up 52 wickets.
Edwards had a beardown Big Bash League (BBL) 2025-26 edition. He picked up 19 wickets and scored 133 runs successful 13 matches for the Sydney Sixers. He has played 2 Sheffield Shield games for New South Wales, his authorities team, since then, the past of those fixtures getting implicit lone connected Thursday.
Edward’s lack is an further stroke for Sunrisers Hyderabad, who volition beryllium without their regular skipper Pat Cummins for the commencement of the IPL 2026 arsenic helium continues to retrieve from lumbar accent injury. The Hyderabad-based franchise has named India wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan arsenic the stand-in skipper.
Edwards’ wounded is an hold of the database of injuries to Australian accelerated bowlers. Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Ellis, isolated from Cummins, are besides missing the IPL either partially oregon wholly owing to injuries.
Meanwhile, the Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) person announced the docket of the archetypal signifier of IPL 2026 edition. Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru volition look Sunrisers Hyderabad successful the tourney opener connected March 28.
The Hyderabad-based franchise volition past look three-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders connected April 2, followed by their matches against Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings connected April 5 and April 11, respectively.
(With inputs from PTI)
