Brisbane [Australia], December 4 (ANI): George Bailey, who is the current Chair of the National Selection Panel for the Australian men's cricket team, has opened up on Nathan Lyon's exclusion from the Brisbane Test and also revealed how close Australia's captain Pat Cummins was to playing in the second Ashes Test of the five-match series.

Cummins missed the Ashes opener in Perth after he failed to recover from his back injury. The Australian captain was sidelined from the hosts' squad for the day-night Test in Brisbane against England.

The 32-year-old Cummins bowled this week as a part of his return from his lumbar stress injury. The right-arm pacer was seen bowling at the Gabba in nets on Thursday evening.

"He's going to bowl a certain amount of overs this week. So it's like, 'Well, if

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