Pat Cummins | Unstoppable cricketer

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Pat Cummins: Born on 8 May 1993  Patrick James Cummins is the captain of the Australian men’s national cricket team in Test and One Day International matches and Pat Cummins is a well known lower order batsman and right arm fast bowler.

He was the successful captain of the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship and  He was vice captain of the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup winning team and a member of the Australian team that won the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.

In 2011  Cummins made his Test debut at the age of 18 and  He then suffered injuries that prevented him from playing international cricket until 2015 and Test cricket until 2018.

Pat Cummins

Cummins won the Allan Border Medal  which is given to the best performing Australian cricketer of the year  following the ending of the 2018–19 home cricket season in the Australian summer and  He was also nominated for the 2019 ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year.

He was named Australia’s Test team’s permanent captain in November 2021 and In 2023  the ICC presented him with the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.

Early life

The captain of the Australian men’s national cricket team in Test and One Day International matches is Patrick James Cummins, who was born on May 8, 1993. pat Cummins is right arm fast bowler, He is also known lower-order batsman.

Cummins and his two brothers and two sisters grew up Mount Riverview, in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.As a child he idolised Brett Lee, with whom he later briefly played domestic and international cricket.

he started playing first-grade cricket for Penrith District Cricket Club in 2010, Cummins was a youth cricket player for the Blue Mountains’ Glenbrook-Blaxland Cricket Club.Cummins played for both the NSW Under-19 team and the National Under-17 championships in the same year.

Early career

Cummins took 4 for 16 and was awarded Man of the Match in the 2010–11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash preliminary final against Tasmania.

In March 2011  Cummins made his first class debut against Tasmania at the age of 17 and  Cummins bowled 65 overs in the final Sheffield Shield match of the 2010–11 season and played in the final three games.

International career

Early career and injury struggles

After receiving a contract from Cricket Australia in June 2011, Cummins played in three One Day International (ODI) and two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches against South Africa in October 2011, taking ten wickets and selected  in the Australian Test team to travel to South Africa.

In just his fourth first class match of the season  Cummins made his Test match debut at Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium in November 2011 at the age of 18 years and 193 days  making him Australia’s youngest Test cricketer since Ian Craig in 1953.

taking 1/38 and 6/79, Cummins became the second-youngest Test cricketer to take six wickets in an innings, behind Enamul Haque Jr. After that, he won the game with 13 runs in the second inning, including a four, and he was Man of the Match.

After returning to domestic cricket in 2016, Cummins played 25 games in just over 4 months and established himself as a  key member of the Sydney Thunder and the NSW one-day team.

Return to Test cricket

On 2017, 7 March Cummins played in the Sheffield Shield for the first time in six years, his last match being the 2011 final against Tasmania, He took eight wickets in 36 overs of bowling.

Mitchell Starc was ruled out of the current Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and Cummins was chosen to replace him for the third Test match, even though NSW medical professionals advised a gradual and controlled comeback to red ball cricket.

Following a five-year, three-month, and twenty-seven-day injury layoff, Cummins made his comeback to test cricket on March 16, 2017. By bowling 79 overs in the final two Test matches, He alleviated any fears  over his injury history.

With 23 wickets, Cummins led the wicket-taking total and kept his place in the squad for the 2017–18 Ashes series. He also proved to be a useful lower-order batsman, making two  scores in the 40s during the seriesand Australia won the series 4-0.

In the fourth Test match against South Africa during Australia’s 2017–18 tour  Cummins scored his first Test half century.

He was then rested for the tour of the UAE vs Pakistan in 2018 as he managed a back injury and In a beaten Australian team, he returned for the 2018–19 Test series against India, taking 14 wickets in four Test matches.

Cummins became the first Australian since Glenn McGrath to be ranked as the top Test bowler in the world at the beginning of 2019.

Australia vice-captaincy

Along with Travis Head, Cummins was named one of Australia’s two vice-captains for the Test match in January 2019. he played in both Tests against the touring Sri Lankans and He was named the player of the series after finishing the series with 14 wickets.

In August of the same year  Cummins was chosen to be the vice captain of Australia’s 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup squad and  He played in every match and took five wickets at an economy rate of 7.37 to help Australia win the tournament for the first time.

Australian captaincy

On 26 November 2021 Cummins was appointed the 47th captain of the Australian Test cricket team after the resignation of Tim Paine and After the ball tampering scandal in 2018  Steve Smith was named his vice captain  resuming his leadership position.

The first fast bowler in history to hold the position of full time captain for Australia was Cummins and  He claimed seven wickets in his first Test match as captain in the first match of the 2021–22 Ashes series  including an incredible five wicket haul in the first innings for an Australian seam bowling captain and On  17 November  2022  Cummins made his debut as Australia’s captain following Aaron Finch’s retirement from ODI cricket.

In the four match Border Gavaskar series against India Cummins led Australia in the first two games but Australia lost both.

Australia defeated India 7–11 June 2023 in the ICC World Test Championship Final under Cummins’ leadership

Pat Cummins

Indian Premier League career

Cummins made his IPL debut in 2014 while playing for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League and Later  he rejoined the squad for the 2015 Indian Premier League.

He did not participate in the 2016 tournament but played for the Delhi Daredevils in the 2017 IPL and  He did not play in the Indian Premier League in 2018 or 2019 and  In the 2020 auction  Cummins  one of the most expensive foreign players in IPL auction history  was bought back by Knight Riders for ₹15.5 crore (A$2.9 million).

He stayed with Kolkata Knight Riders for IPL 2021 and played for them again in IPL 2022 after taking a huge pay cut by selling for ₹7.25 crore (A$1.4 million) and Between 2014 and 2021, Cummins participated in 37 IPL games and took 38 wickets.When Cummins scored 50 runs in 14 balls against the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier rivalry in 2022, he reached the record for the fastest half-century in the tournament.

At the 2024 IPL auction Sunrisers Hyderabad paid ₹20.5 crore (A$3.8 million) for Cummins.

Achievements

In 2019 the ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year
2019 Allan Border Medal
ICC Men’s Test Team of the Year (captain): 2019, 2022, and 2023

Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year: 2021
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy: 2023

Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatches’InningsRunsWktsBBIAveEconSR5w
Tests6712565972946/2322.432.9046.313
ODIs909041161435/7028.785.2732.71
T20Is57571556663/1523.577.4419.00
FC8115078513406/2323.092.9047.713
List A11611652181835/7028.515.2132.81
T20s15715747981764/1627.268.1520.00

Batting

FormatMatchInnsRunsHSAveSR50s6sCt
Tests6797145464*17.3046.0833133
ODIs90595373714.5176.3801224
T20Is57271582810.53118.790716
FC81114178882*19.2247.9363338
List A116757544915.3880.1201935
T20s1579190466*17.05135.9335340

T20 Stats

Bowling

TournamentMatchInnsRunsWktsBBMAveEconSR4w
Major League Cricket6621142/3552.759.1734.50
IPL58581923634/3430.528.7420.91
Big Bash League1616511172/630.058.7120.70
Champions League1414442154/4529.468.1821.61

Batting

TournamentMatchRunsHSAveSR50s6sCt
Major League Cricket6331311.00110.00031
IPL5851566*19.80149.7033415
Big Bash League161623927.00130.64086
Champions League143314*33.00117.85011

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