Melbourne, Feb. 5 -- Australian captain Pat Cummins is highly unlikely for the ICC Champions Trophy due to his ankle issue, with Steve Smith and Travis Head as big candidates for captaincy, revealed coach Andrew McDonald, according to a report by ESPNCricinfo.

Cummins missed the Sri Lanka Test tour because of the birth of his second child and has been nursing an ankle issue that was caused by a heavy workload during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, taking 25 wickets at an average of 21.36, bowling 167 overs, the most by a bowler in the series, as per ESPNCricinfo.

Australia's ODI players who are not playing the Sri Lanka Tests, will fly to the Island nation for the two ODIs on Thursday but coach McDonald revealed that Cummins is not among th...