Australia captain Pat Cummins remains hopeful of recovering in time for the opening Test of the upcoming Ashes series against England, despite continuing to battle a back injury that has kept him away from bowling at training. Cummins is already out of the brief limited overs series against India, that precedes the Ashes.

The series opener, also part of the ICC World Test Championship, begins in Perth on November 21 and while Cummins admits the race against time is tight, he hasn’t ruled himself out just yet.

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“I’d say probably less likely than likely, but we’ve still got a bit of time,” Cummins said in Sydney on Monday.

“I’m running today and running kind of every second day, and each run’s a little bit longer, and then we get into bowling prep next week. So I’m probably

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