On his 35th birthday, Adam Voges was uncapped in Test cricket and expected to stay that way. The last Australian batsman to debut at such an age – Ken Eastwood – did it so long ago that overs were still eight balls long. But on his 36th birthday, Voges will not only be in Bangladesh as part of Australia’s Test team, he will be just one Steven Smith injury or illness away from becoming Australia’s…

The injury is a major setback for Cummins, whose career has been plagued by back and foot problems since he made his Test debut in South Africa in 2011 at the age of 18. Cummins was Man of the Match in that game but at 22 he is yet to add to that one Test cap – in fact he has played only eight first-class matches in his career – and now faces another long…