MELBOURNE, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Australia's Pat ‌Cummins will be kept on ice until a few games ‌into the Twenty20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka as ‌selectors take a cautious approach with the pace veteran's recovery from a lower back injury.

Cummins returned to action during the third Ashes test in Adelaide but missed the last two matches ‍against England and will skip Australia's T20 warm-up ‍matches against Pakistan.