Australia's list of injured players gets longer, star all-rounder ruled out of India series due to shoulder injury

Australia all-rounder Aaron Hardie will not be on the flight to India for A series due to shoulder injury. Hardie adds to the long list of Australia's injured players including Pat Cummins, Lance Morris and teenager Callum Vidler. 

Hardie has been replaced by another pace-bowling all-rounder Will Sutherland. The 25-year-old was already part of the One-Day squad. He will join the Australia A squad for the second four-day game in Lucknow. 

Australia A will be without the services of Hardie or Sutherland for the first game of the series which will begin on September 16. Sutherland will join before the second four-day game, commencing on September 23. 

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Meanwhile, Cricket Australia are yet to announce Hardie’s replacement for the One-Day series which will begin on September 30. 

However, Hardie is expected to return to action for Western Australia's Sheffield Shield campaign opener against New South Wales on October 4. It is yet to be seen whether Hardie makes it to Australia’s squad for white-ball series at home against India. Earlier this month, he did not make the cut for the T20I series against New Zealand. 

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Sutherland’s career statistics so far

Sutherland has played two ODIs so far. He made his ODI debut against West Indies last year, scored 18 runs and claimed two wickets.

In first-class cricket, he has 1,199 runs 74 innings at an average of 18.16, including one century and two fifties. With the ball, he has 159 wickets at an average of 24.07, including seven five-wicket hauls.

Australia A four-day squad: 

Xavier Bartlett, Cooper Connolly, Jack Edwards, Aaron Hardie, Campbell Kellaway, Sam Konstas, Nathan McSweeney, Todd Murphy, Fergus O'Neill, Oliver Peake, Josh Philippe, Corey Rocchiccioli, Liam Scott, Henry Thornton. Second match only: Will Sutherland.

Australia A one-day squad: 

Cooper Connolly, Harry Dixon, Jack Edwards, Sam Elliott, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Mackenzie Harvey, Todd Murphy, Tanveer Sangha, Liam Scott, Lachie Shaw, Tom Straker, Will Sutherland, Henry Thornton.

India A four-day squad: 

Shreyas Iyer (c), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Narayan Jagadeesan (wk), Sai Sudharsan, Dhruv Jurel (vc & wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Harsh Dubey, Ayush Badoni, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Gurnoor Brar, Khaleel Ahmed, Manav Suthar, Yash Thakur. Second match only: KL Rahul, Mohammed Siraj.