New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- Australia all-rounder Aaron Hardie has been ruled out of the Australia A tour of India due to a shoulder injury, further depleting the team's pace-bowling options, as per ESPNcricinfo.

He will miss the four-day matches against India A, which start on September 16 in Lucknow, followed by the three one-dayers in Kanpur. Victorian all-rounder Will Sutherland, who was already part of the one-day squad, will replace Hardie for the second four-day game in Lucknow, while a replacement for the one-day team will be announced later.

Hardie featured in the recent T20I and ODI series against West Indies and South Africa, but he struggled against them and had not been selected for the New Zealand tour for three T20Is, instead ...