Pat Cummins’ identification as a COVID-19 close contact is among the more outrageous swings of fortune in Ashes history | ANALYSIS
Stepped on a stray cricket ball, sacked by the Test and County Cricket Board, or vetoed over a year-old tabloid scandal:can be added to some of the more outrageous swings of fortune in Ashes history.
Until Warner slapped a Ben Stokes short ball to a disbelieving Stuart Broad, he and Labuschagne showed commendable restraint and judgment in a stand worth 172 runs and 56.5 overs. Warner’s reserve had, for the second Test match in a row, allowed him to play the traditional opening batter role he had seemed for so many years to be on this earth to subvert.
Of course the loss of Cummins from the match was not only that of a fast bowler, but a captain. He had already shown plenty of evidence that his combination of maturity, skill and perspective would not only mean the team performs, but that Cummins himself can handle the demands of the job while still bowling fast and hostile stuff.Changes in captaincy either immediately before or in the middle of an Ashes series can also have a dramatic effect upon proceedings.
That was also the first preference of the ECB’s newly appointed selection chair Ted Dexter and manager Micky Stewart, a year after Gatting had been sacked over a tabloid expose. But vetoed by Ossie Wheatley, then the chair of the Test and County Cricket Board’s Cricket Committee, they were left with David Gower.
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