Royal Challengers Bangalore quick bowler Josh Hazlewood is about to overlook the preliminary phases of the Indian Premier League starting in Ahmedabad on Friday. According to a report in cricket.com.au, Hazlewood is, nonetheless, hopeful of taking part in a component within the later phases of the T20 match. The 32-year-old is presently recovering from an Achilles downside which stored him out of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in India.

Hazlewood will seek the advice of Cricket Australia’s medical employees earlier than deciding on his participation within the IPL, the report stated.

In one other massive improvement, all-rounder Glenn Maxwell, who missed Australia’s last two ODIs in opposition to India earlier this month, can be uncertain for RCB’s opening sport in opposition to Mumbai Indians on April 2 in Bengaluru as he’s but to recuperate from a leg damage.

Australia nationwide selector George Bailey stated Maxwell, who broke his leg in a freak accident final November, discovered the comeback to ODI “more demanding than he had expected”.