Australia coach Andrew McDonald is confident injured captain Pat Cummins will be fit to play a major role in the men's Ashes, even if he does not feature in all five matches of the series.

Cummins is recovering from a lower-back injury that has troubled him since Australia's tour of the West Indies earlier this year.

"We have got time. If it happened any closer (to the Ashes) then you would have to be making key decisions around what it all looks like," McDonald told the SEN radio station.

"But we have got time, a lot more information to come, and as I said, we're really hopeful that he will take a key part in the Ashes."

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