Patto's dream turns to Ashes It took all of James Pattinson's strength to hold himself together as he expressed the hope one day his body would be mature enough to cope with the stresses placed on Australia's bowlers in this most testing of Ashes series. The young fast bowler was emotional as he talked about his latest injury, a stress fracture of the back that has ended his Ashes dream and subjected him to several months of rehabilitation, with the aim of returning for the start of the Sheffield Shield season. "It's pretty shattering," the 23-year-old said. I had a pretty good lead-in. I left India pretty disappointed with how we went over there. I put my head down and worked pretty hard to achieve good things over here. It's been ripped away from me now. "It's pretty shattering": Australian pace bowler James Pattinson on being excluded from the remaining Ashes tour due to injury. Australia's bowlers had to back up quickly at Lord's because the team was bowled out for 128 within 55 overs in the first innings, then had to toil through 110 overs as England ensured the quicks would have to come back for multiple spells. It is a measure of the team's batting woes that Pattinson is leading Australia's batting averages, having held out until the end at both Trent Bridge and Lord's. "When you go out doing what I do it is hard on the body and you would like a bit more rest than that but you've got to put your body on the line," the Victorian fast bowler said. You are playing for your country and it's something you love doing. It's not ideal [to have so little rest], but hopefully once I get a bit more mature, I've said it a thousand times, I'll be able to back up for not just two Tests but five or more. I've been told and I think there's proof there's blokes who have played before me, Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath, who have setbacks before 23, I live in hope that that's the way it goes. I'm a pretty positive type of guy, so hopefully I can bounce back," said Pattinson, whose last two summers have been ended by foot and rib injuries. I'm going to stay on as well and support the guys because it's a long journey to get to where we are and then go home. It's a bit of a kick in the ass, so I'm going to stay around and do some stuff around the team. There are no immediate plans to call another fast bowler into the squad despite Pat Cummins, another supremely talented fast bowler with a history of injuries, taking four wickets for Australia A against a Zimbabwe XI last week. Mitchell Starc and Jackson Bird will fight for selection in the third Test. "Right now the James Pattinson issue in terms of replacing him they're not going to have a look at it, there's five bowlers here, there's plenty to pick from, so the selectors are very happy with the guys they've got," said team performance manager Pat Howard. There's guys who assess pitches so they're having a look well in advance at both Manchester and Durham, but at the moment it's not a necessity. Younger bowlers, faster bowlers you have to plan for possible injuries, and you have three of our six bowlers born in 1990, so we put plenty of planning into that, we expected that and while we don't want it to, we're realists and we understand it does.