Australia captain Pat Cummins, who is recovering from a left wrist injury, is eyeing a return to international cricket during the ODI series against India next month.

The pacer fractured his wrist during the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval last month and has been advised rest for six weeks. He is set to miss Australia's five-match ODI series against South Africa between September 7 and 17.

Australia play India in three ODIs on September 22, 24 and 27.

“I’ll head over to South Africa at the back-end of that leg. But we’re probably looking more at those one-dayers (against India) ahead of the World Cup.

“It shouldn’t be too bad. Another few weeks and it’ll be right,” Cummins said on Tuesday, sounding hopeful about playing in the ODI World Cup to be held in India from October 5 and November 19.

Cummins said he would probably assess his role as ODI captain — a job he took over last year from Aaron Finch — after the World Cup.

“The captaincy for the ODIs, we’ve kind of shared around a little bit. We’ll get over there, and have a look at that,” he said, adding that Mitchell Marsh, who has been appointed as Australia’s T20I captain, is the logical choice to succeed him in this role.

“(Marsh) is probably the most obvious one if he’s doing the T20s as well. Off the field, he’s just a great people person. His energy’s infectious, he’s great to hang around with, always good fun."

PTI