Cummins' future bright: Howard

Cricket Australia has little doubt Pat Cummins has a bright future in the Baggy Green despite the latest back stress fracture that will keep him sidelined for the 2015-16 summer.

CA's executive general manager of team performance Pat Howard said the organisation still had full faith in Cummins after the injury ruled him out of the Qantas Tour of Bangladesh.

At 22, Cummins has played 15 Twenty20 internationals and 18 ODIs – including being part of Australia's World Cup-winning squad this year – as well as his famous Test debut in 2011 as an 18-year old where he won man of the match.

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And, as Howard likes to point out, he's still younger than Glenn McGrath when he made his Australian debut (shortly before his 24th birthday in late 1993).

"We know players who are under 24, 25 (years old) are at risk (of back injuries)," Howard said as he hit the airwaves on Big Sports Breakfast and SEN today. "And the faster you are the higher the risk.

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Cummins in full flight // Getty

"If he ticked along at 130kph he'd be playing all the time, but he bowls a lot quicker than that and puts his body under some great stress to do so.

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"I have a massive amount of faith in this bloke being able to get back. His next goal is the World T20 in India at the back end of the summer."

Cummins burst on the scene four years ago, capturing Australia's imagination as a fresh-faced teenager with six second-innings wickets and hitting the winnings runs in a two-wicket Test victory against South Africa in Johannesburg.

It proved a blessing and a curse for the young speedster to be thrust firmly into the public spotlight. Three back stress fractures in the past four years have led some to worry he could be an injury prone bowler.

Injury forced Cummins out of the entire 2012-13 summer. A return to first-class cricket with Australia A in July 2013 resulted in a second stress fracture.

Cummins has long had his workload carefully managed by CA's team performance staff. He was restricted to white-ball cricket, returning to action in the later stages of the 2013-14 KFC Big Bash League and has been bowling injury free – and fast – ever since.

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He played a key role with the Kolkata Knight Riders in their charge to the 2014 IPL title, ruffled feathers of South Africa and India's young batsmen with Australia A in Darwin and set his sights on the World Cup.

Under the guidance of CA's staff, Cummins' strength and workloads were built up with the 50-over global showpiece in mind. He played two matches at the World Cup taking five wickets at 16 as Australia lifted the title, the country's fifth and a first on home soil.

"He's worked really hard, we kept him to white ball cricket, now he's played for a long time," said Howard.

"People easily forget he's been playing for so long. He was fantastic in that one-day series in England after the Ashes and has had a really good run with injury."

Howard pointed to the example of Mitchell Starc, who in the past 12 months has bowled 3,262 legal deliveries in international cricket (10 Tests, 27 ODIs and 2 T20 internationals).

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"Starc has bowled more than anyone in world in the past 12 months," Howard said. "He's had his issues in the past but he's hit that 25-year-old age barrier now."

Starc's durability, however, has not come without cost – the left-armer will eventually need surgery on an underlying ankle issue and revealed he needed cortisone injections to get through the Ashes series.