Australia bowler Pat Cummins likely to miss entire home summer following reoccurrence of back injury Cummins is still to add to his solitary Test. INJURY-PRONE Australia paceman Pat Cummins has suffered a reoccurrence of a back stress fracture and is likely to be out for the entire domestic summer. Cummins left the Australia A tour of South Africa early and after undergoing scans at home, it was revealed he'd suffered a "partial reoccurrence" of the injury originally suffered last year. "Pat returned home early from the Australia A tour of Africa with some side/back soreness and scans have shown a partial recurrence of his lower back bone stress injury suffered in October last year when he returned home from Champions League," Cricket Australia's Chief Medical Office Justin Paolini said in a statement. He will be closely monitored to determine his return to the playing field, but expect that he will miss most of the 2013-14 domestic cricket season. Cummins hasn't featured for Australia since bursting onto the Test scene with a man-of-the-match performance against South Africa in Johannesburg in November of 2011. He took seven wickets and hit the winning runs in his debut Test, and would have been a powerful addition to an Australia squad reeling from a horror showing in the Ashes. Cummins will now likely have to wait until 2017 for his first shot at an Ashes series. The 20-year-old had been ecstatic with his form prior to the latest setback. "I feel like I'm bowling just as well as I ever have in the two first-class games that we just had, which almost surprised myself," he told The Daily Telegraph earlier this month. Studies show if you're younger than 23-years-old that injuries just happen, so it's just about managing how much you play and trying to look after the little things that may contribute to them, like workload and action. But there's no guarantee that you're not going to get injured. How it's fallen into place this year is that there's more red ball cricket around the time that I've come back bowling. It's always been my aim to play Shield cricket and hopefully through that, work my way into the Test side.