The heat never lets up when you're the Australian Test captain, but Pat Cummins has made the role his own by refusing to buckle under the pressure.
Pat Cummins has proven himself as a quality leader in the Australian team.abc.net.au/news/patrick-cummins-justin-langer-tim-paine-ashes/101336126The first thing you notice about Pat Cummins is that he is not the centre of his own universe, unlike so many in today's frenzy of self-obsessed, social media-inspired celebrity.
Despite not playing, Cummins counts the 2015 World Cup final as one of his greatest cricket memories. The scandal was made public by the woman involved, Renee Ferguson, who was facing court on theft charges from the time she worked at Cricket Tasmania, where she had met Paine. The court hearing is ongoing. She has pleaded not guilty.
"So, I hadn't seen him or Becky for a month. For those two weeks in quarantine she was going to join me. That was her 'this is going to get me through the month', and same for me, I was pumped."I landed and I thought this is going to be the best two weeks focused purely on Becky and Albie, and then literally [it was] day one that [the captaincy] gets dropped [on me]. It was wild.
"I'd been vice-captain for a few years, I thought it might be on the radar, but I really didn't have any experience captaining at all," Cummins says. It is a moment he had practised though, as the younger brother playing backyard cricket with his siblings, or long hours spent bowling in the hallway of the family home imagining the wickets, the cheers, the victories."I think the previous two or three years when I was vice-captain was probably the first time that I really kind of dialled up leadership and tried to learn about different styles. I tried to absorb as much as I could.
"You get lots of pieces of advice along the way. I think one that stood out to me was no matter what captain you start out as you always end up a better captain. So that for me was a huge pressure release.". Despite having won nearly everything as Australian coach, including the country's first men's T20 World Cup, Cricket Australia was not willing to offer Langer a new, multi-year contract to remain as national coach.
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