Cummins to tweak action ahead of return

Injured quick Pat Cummins says he will look to tweak his bowling action when he returns to training later this summer after a long absence due to a serious back injury.

Cummins was ruled out of most the upcoming season late last month when it was revealed he had suffered a stress fracture in his back for the third time in his young career.

The 22-year-old is aiming to return to bowling early next year with a view to playing in the ICC World T20 in India in March and April.

And he says he will look to make some slight changes to his action once his long rehabilitation period is over.

"Someone like Binga (Brett Lee) says even when you're 35 or 36 you're still trying to work out your action and fine-tune it," Cummins told Wide World of Sports. "So I think that's something I'll definitely have to look at.

"Nothing too major. Looking at a couple of replays, (my action) wasn't too bad. There were just a couple of little things that may have been a little bit tighter.

"But when I start bowling in a few months that's something I'll look at." 

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Cummins has been plagued by serious injuries throughout his young career, including a back stress fracture that forced him out of the entire 2012-13 summer.

He returned to first-class cricket with Australia A in July 2013, but suffered a recurrence of the injury and missed the first half of the 2013-14 domestic season.

The right-armer then re-entered the domestic ranks with a re-modelled bowling action that was designed to put less stress on his growing body.

He'd been relatively injury free since then until this latest setback and was part of Australia's triumphant World Cup squad earlier this year.

He is hoping to return to cricket as a batsman only in Sydney grade cricket in coming months before ramping up his preparation for the World T20 in the subcontinent.

"It's a pretty long lay-off but kind of hoping for towards the end of the season," he said.

"The T20 World Cup over in India is the main goal for me.

"But at the moment it's all about rest and trying to see how it recovers and responds and work out a plan after that."

The NSW quick played his one and only Test to date in South Africa almost four years ago and appeared to be poised to return to the Test arena in the coming months.

He was part of Australia's squad during the Ashes campaign and was one of four frontline quicks named in the initial group for the now postponed tour of Bangladesh.