Recovering from a left wrist damage, Australia captain Pat Cummins on Tuesday stated he’s eyeing a return to worldwide cricket throughout his facet’s three-match ODI sequence in opposition to India in late September, forward of the ODI World Cup.
Cummins, who fractured his wrist through the fifth Ashes Test on the Oval (July 27-31), has been suggested relaxation for six weeks.
The tempo bowler is ready to overlook Australia’s five-match ODI sequence in opposition to South Africa between September 7 and 17. Australia will play ODIs in opposition to India on September 22, 24 and 27.
“I’ll head over to South Africa at the back-end of that leg. But we’re probably looking more at those one-dayers (against India) ahead of the World Cup.
“It shouldn’t be too bad. Another few weeks and it’ll be right,” stated Cummins, sounding hopeful of him taking part in within the World Cup to be held in India from October 5 and November 19.
Cummins stated he would in all probability assess his position as ODI captain after the World Cup.
“The captaincy for the ODIs, we’ve kind of shared around a little bit. We’ll get over there, and have a look at that,” he stated.
Cummins stated Mitchell Marsh, who has been appointed as Australia’s T20I captain, is the logical option to succeed him within the position of the ODI chief.
“The good thing is we have a few options. (Mitchell Marsh) is probably the most obvious one if he’s doing the T20s as well. Off the field, he’s just a great people-person. His energy’s infectious, he’s great to hang around with, always good fun.”
Cummins had taken over as Australia’s 50-over format captain final 12 months from Aaron Finch however since then he has led solely in two of the six ODIs they’ve performed.
He missed one match in opposition to England as Josh Hazlewood stepped in.
Steve Smith led Australia in a three-match ODI sequence in opposition to India earlier this 12 months as Cummins returned residence following the demise of his mom.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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