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‘Itni Khushi mujhe aaj tak nahi hui!’ - Fans go crazy as Josh Hazlewood along with Mitchell Starc will reportedly miss 1st Test against India

Here are the viral tweets from fans to the reports of Josh Hazlewood missing the first Test of the upcoming Border-Gavaskar trophy

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The Border-Gavaskar Trophy will begin on 9 February 2023 in Nagpur. India will look to avoid a series loss in order to strengthen their chance to get qualified for the final of the World Test Championship. However, reports have come out that Josh Hazlewood is going to miss the first Test against the Men in Blue. 

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According to the reports of Fox Sports, Hazlewood sustained an Achilles niggle in his left leg. Thus, he might find difficulties getting featured in the second Test also. He will join his teammate, Mitchell Starc on the sideline who is also going to miss the series opener due to a finger injury.  

“Not sure about the first Test.” - Josh Hazlewood

While speaking to Reporters, Josh Hazlewood said that the injury has been troubling him since the SCG Test against South Africa. He said: "It's still lingering from the Test match," Hazlewood said. "We obviously bowled after a lot of rain and the jump-offs were quite soft, where we were taking off from and they ended up replacing them as well. It sort of worked to a degree, but just that extra load jumping off a soft ground to bowl and again first Test match your body is not used to that sort of workload as well. I was bowling a fair bit leading into the tour at home and sort of just pushing up against it."

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"It probably wasn't recovering as well as I would have liked between each session. So thought we'd give it a few days here straight off the bat and try and get over the hump and have a bowl from Tuesday and hope it goes well," Hazlewood said. He also added: "Scotty has bowled plenty at the MCG when it was a flat wicket, it probably wasn't swinging or reverse swinging so he knows how to work hard for a long period of time."

"You've got Lance Morris who has worked hard on the reverse swing for the last month and then a nice lead in here with a few sessions. The guys are excited first of all to play in the subcontinent, they both haven't yet, but they're very well qualified to do so," Hazlewood concluded. Speaking about Josh Hazlewood, he had a decent home Test series against the Proteas. In that third Test against South Africa, he took five wickets. 

Here are some tweets shared by fans regarding the reports of Jason Hazlewood ahead of the first Test:

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