Pat Cummins expressed his want to remain on as Australia’s ODI captain following the continued World Cup. Cummins, who was initially handed reins of the Take a look at group, was made ODI skipper following the sudden retirement of Aaron Finch final 12 months. Having guided Australia to the World Cup semifinals on the again of seven straight wins after opening two losses, Cummins has made a powerful case for captaincy extension. Requested about his future as ODI captain, the 30-year-old stated: “Probably, yeah. We’ll chat about it. We have been fairly open, me and Andrew (head coach) and George (selector) round completely different occasions within the 12 months you are going to have completely different priorities.
“This can be a little bit of a one-off 12 months the place there’s three or 4 huge low season occasions. After right here the main focus shifts again to Take a look at cricket for a good whereas. Most likely like we have carried out previously, at occasions white-ball cricket goes to should shift (as a precedence) so we absolutely give attention to Take a look at cricket. There is no finish date in sight.
“I really feel like I have been managed rather well and sorted in a extremely, actually busy 12 months the place you do not actually need to hand over any cricket,” stated the quick bowler.
Cummins to place his identify in IPL public sale
Cummins, who had opted out of the IPL 2023 to give attention to his worldwide commitments, will put his identify within the public sale forward of the 2024 version.
The IPL can be performed earlier than the T20 World Cup in america and the Caribbean, serving as perfect preparation for the worldwide occasion.
Kolkata Knight Riders had purchased Cummins for Rs 7.5 crore within the 2022 IPL public sale.
“I really feel like I have never performed a heap of T20 cricket and in some methods I really feel like I have never performed my greatest T20 cricket for a short time,” he stated.
“I am actually excited, I am in all probability going to enter the IPL public sale for subsequent 12 months to attempt to get some video games earlier than that World Cup and push a case to not solely make the aspect however get again to how I really feel like I can bowl in T20 cricket,” he stated.
Mitchell Marsh is predicted to guide Australia within the T20 World Cup.
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