Pat Cummins, Australia's captain, believes Sam Konstas' youthful naivety will be beneficial during his Test debut against India's Jasprit Bumrah.
Australia ’s captain Pat Cummins genuinely believes that the naivety of youth will help 19-year-old Sam Konstas on the biggest possible Test debut stage against India ’s spearhead Jasprit Bumrah on Boxing Day . He was the previous teenage Test debutant for the Australia n men’s team, in Johannesburg 13 years ago , and can remember hitting South Africa’s legendary fast man Dale Steyn back over his head with no worries about the consequences of a mistake.
in the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar series, Cummins spoke with firsthand knowledge of what it feels like to play as a teenager. “I spent a bit of time wondering why I was there, or how it happened so quickly,” Cummins said of 2011 at the Wanderers. “Similar to Sammy this week, there’s a level of naivety that you just want to go out and play like you do when you’re a kid in the backyard.“In my debut I remember trying to hit Dale Steyn over his head for runs and I just thought that made sense at the time, but now I look back and think, ‘Geez I would’ve been crucified if that didn’t come off’. “You just want to take the game on and have fun and not overthink it. That’s the message to Sam, and that’s definitely how I felt as an 18-year-old.” Similarly to how a very different selection panel pitched Cummins in to face South Africa back then, the current decision-makers have decided that a younger, less-known quantity in Konstas has as much chance of helping Australia’s top order at the MCG as anyone more seasoned. “I was saying to Sam the other day, I remember as an 18-year-old I was thinking I got a lot more leeway because I was young,” Cummins said. “I almost felt like if I didn’t have a great game, it wasn’t my fault, it was the selectors’ fault for picking me.“It was like, ‘Well they’re the idiots that picked an 18-year-old’. You’re so young starting your career, it’s Boxing Day, it doesn’t get any better than this, so just enjoy the moment. There’s a lot of good and sometimes some clutter as wel
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