Josh Hazlewood to skip remainder of T20I series with India to prepare for upcoming Ashes: ‘I’ll have a week to prepare for the Shield game against Victoria’

The 34-year-old Hazlewood was the chief architect in bringing about India’s downfall at the MCG, taking 3 wickets for 13 runs in his allotted 4 overs. He snapped up Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma with India reeling at 32/4 inside the 5th over of the powerplay.

Hazlewood also opened up on if he tried anything different with his approach, saying that playing continuous cricket has helped.

“Not a lot different, really. My approach here and there, as always, everything’s improving. I think just playing continuous cricket has helped – we’ve been up north playing a few games, then over in New Zealand, now here, West Indies in the winter… I’ve just been going from one series to the next, playing most of the games, resting when needed. Everything feels in a good place and ready to go,” he said.

India and Australia will next play 3 more T20I matches at Hobart, Gold Coast and Brisbane with the hosts currently leading the series 1-0 after the 2nd T20I which they won by 4 wickets. The first match of the series in Canberra was called off due to inclement weather..