SYDNEY :Australia's Josh Hazlewood went to hospital for scans on a possible hamstring injury during a domestic match at Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday but skipper Pat Cummins played down fears the paceman might miss next week's first Ashes test.

With Cummins already out of the series opener in Perth because of a back injury, Australia are expected to send out Hazlewood with Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland as their pace attack.

Both Hazlewood and Sean Abbott, who was named in the test squad as a back-up fast bowler, went to get scans on their hamstrings after bowling for New South Wales on the third day of a Sheffield Shield match against Victoria.

"Joshy was pretty chipper when he got out, so hopefully he should be fine," Cummins later told reporters at a Cricket Australia sponsorsh

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