Pat Cummins

Patrick James Cummins (born 8 May 1993) is an Australian international cricketer who is currently the co-vice-captain of the Australia national team in all formats.[1] He made his Test debut at the age of 18 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales. Cummins is a fast bowler and a capable lower-order right-handed batsman.[3] In January 2020, Cummins was named as the Test Cricketer of the Year by the International Cricket Council (ICC).[4] In April 2020 he was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for his performances in the 2019 English season in the 2020 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[5]

For the Irish politician, see Patrick Cummins (politician).

Pat Cummins

Cummins in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Patrick James Cummins
Born	(1993-05-08) 8 May 1993 Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname	Cummo[1]
Height	1.92[2] m (6 ft 4 in)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	Australia (2011–present)
Test debut (cap 423)	17 November 2011 v South Africa
Last Test	3 January 2020 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 189)	19 October 2011 v South Africa
Last ODI	13 March 2020 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no.	30
T20I debut (cap 51)	13 October 2011 v South Africa
Last T20I	26 February 2020 v South Africa
T20I shirt no.	30
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2010/11–present	New South Wales
2012/13	Sydney Sixers
2013/14	Perth Scorchers
2014–2015	Kolkata Knight Riders
2014/15–2018/19	Sydney Thunder
2017	Delhi Daredevils
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 30 64 28 43 Runs scored 647 260 35 964 Batting average 17.02 9.62 5.00 20.95 100s/50s 0/2 0/0 0/0 0/5 Top score 63 36 13 82* Balls bowled 6,761 3,363 624 9,123 Wickets 143 105 36 187 Bowling average 21.82 27.55 19.86 22.79 5 wickets in innings 5 1 0 5 10 wickets in match 1 0 0 1 Best bowling 6/23 5/70 3/15 6/23 Catches/stumpings 13/– 16/– 7/– 18/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 13 March 2020

Domestic career

Cummins played junior cricket for the Glenbrook Blaxland Cricket Club in the Blue Mountains before playing first-grade cricket for Penrith in 2010.[6] In the preliminary final of the 2010–11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash against Tasmania, Cummins took 4 for 16 and was named Man of the Match.[3] He finished with Nathan Lyon as the leading wicket-taker in the tournament.[7] In March 2011, he made his first-class debut in a match against Tasmania.[1]

Cummins joined the Sydney Sixers franchise in 2011. He signed with the Perth Scorchers in 2012, but missed the 2012 season due to injury. He made his debut for the Scorchers when they beat the Adelaide Strikers in Perth on 16 January 2014.[8]

Cummins was selected in Australia's provisional team for the ICC Under-19 World Cup to be held in Queensland in August 2012.[9]

Indian Premier League

Cummins was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders of the Indian Premier League for the 2014 season.[10] In February 2017, he was bought by the Delhi Daredevils team for the 2017 Indian Premier League for 4.5 crores.[11] In the 2018 IPL auction, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians for a price of 5.4 crores.[12] Cummins was later ruled out of the entire tournament due to an injury.[13] In the 2020 IPL auction, he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for a price of 15.5 crores. He became the most expensive overseas player in IPL auction history.[14]

International career

2011 contract and South Africa

Cummins was granted a Cricket Australia contract in June 2011[15] and in October 2011, he played two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches for Australia against South Africa. On the basis of his performances in these games (he took 3/25 and 2/26), Cummins was selected in the Test squad to play South Africa.

Cummins made his Test debut at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg in November 2011, in what was only his fourth career first-class match,[16] becoming Australia's youngest Test cricketer since Ian Craig in 1953.[17] Cummins took 1/38 and 6/79, becoming the second youngest Test cricketer (behind Enamul Haque Jr.) to take six wickets in an innings.[18] He then scored 13 runs in the second innings, including a four to win the match and was presented with the Man of the Match award.[19]

Injuries and domestic return

Cummins' early cricketing career was plagued with injury, primarily a stress fracture in his back. He played his first game since October 2012 for the Northern Ireland Cricket Academy on 19 June 2013.[20]

2015 Ashes

Cummins was a late call-up for 2015 Ashes squad after the retirement of Ryan Harris, but he was not selected for a Test during the series. He was part of the One Day International (ODI) and T20I series in the same tour.

2017 Test cricket

After 1946 days (5 years, 3 months and 27 days, or exactly 278 weeks) of absence due to various injuries, Cummins returned to Test cricket on 17 March 2017. He was reselected due to Mitchell Starc's injury.

During the 2017–18 summer of cricket in Australia, Cummins established himself as a handy lower order batsman, scoring two scores in the 40s during The Ashes series. In a warm-up game against South Africa A, Cummins scored his 2nd first-class half century.

2018 South Africa

Cummins scored his first Test half-century in the fourth Test against South Africa during Australia's tour of South Africa in 2017–18.[21]

In April 2018, he was awarded a national contract by Cricket Australia for the 2018–19 season.[22][23]

He was named in the 2018 Test XI of the year by Cricbuzz as he took 44 wickets that year.[24]

Vice-captaincy

In January 2019, Cummins became one of Australia's two Test vice-captains, alongside Travis Head.[25] He also played in the two Tests of the 2018–19 Sri Lanka tour of Australia and was the chief architect of Australia's innings win over Sri Lanka in the 1st Test at The Gabba with his maiden 10-wicket haul. He finished the series with 14 wickets and was named as the man of the series.

In February 2019, he played in the T20Is against India in that he took 1-19(4) and 1-40(3). In ODIs he took 0-48 in the first ODI and 4-29 in the second but not successful with the bat and praised heep on teammate Marcus Stoinis for his performance.[26] He took 3-37 in the 3rd ODI. In the 4th ODI against India in Australia's tour of India, Cummins claimed his best bowling figures in an ODI with 5/70 that India had restricted to 358/9 but Peter Handscomb and Ashton Turner took Australia to largest ever run chase against India.[27]

In April 2019, he was named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup.[28][29] On 6 June 2019, in the match against the West Indies, Cummins played in his 50th ODI.[30] In July 2019, he was named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes series in England.[31][32] Cummins was the leading wicket-taker for the series, taking 29 across 5 matches, at an average of 19.62.[33][34] Cummins was awarded the Allan Border Medal in 2019.[35]

On 29 February 2020, Cummins took his 100th wicket in ODI cricket, in the first match against South Africa.[36] On 16 July 2020, Cummins was named in a 26-man preliminary squad of players to begin training ahead of a possible tour to England following the COVID-19 pandemic.[37][38] On 14 August 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed that the fixtures would be taking place, with Cummins included in the touring party. Cummins was also named as the sole vice-captain in limited-overs formats, with Alex Carey dropped as a co-vice-captain.[39][40]

Personal life

Cummins grew up in Mount Riverview, in the Blue Mountains with his two brothers and two sisters.[41] He attended St Paul's Grammar School[42] and is an Elite Athlete Program scholar and Bachelor of Business student at the University of Technology, Sydney.[43] As a child he idolised Brett Lee, with whom he later briefly played domestic and international cricket.[8][44]

In 2011, during an interview with cricket.com.au, Cummins revealed that, at the age of three, he lost the top of his middle finger on his right hand when his sister accidentally slammed the door on it.[45]

References

1. "Pat Cummins". Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
2. "Pat Cummins". www.cricket.com.au. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
3. "Patrick Cummins, David Warner blast Blues to final". Herald Sun. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
4. "Stokes wins Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
5. Lawrence Booth (ed.). "Wisden Cricketers of the Year". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2020 ed.). Wisden. p. 69.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
6. "Park cricket to Test squad in 12 months: the rise of Pat Cummins". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 October 2011.
7. "Cricket Records - Records - Twenty20 Big Bash, 2010/11 - - Most wickets - ESPNcricinfo". Retrieved 8 September 2018.
8. "Pat Cummins is tickled pink to be a sixer". Daily Telegraph. 16 July 2011.
9. "Cummins in Australia's U-19 World Cup squad". 18 June 2012.
10. "IPL 7 Auction: Pat Cummins sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 1 crore". Cricket Country. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
11. "List of players sold and unsold at IPL auction 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
12. "List of sold and unsold players". ESPN Cricinfo. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
13. Middleton, Dan (10 April 2018). "Cummins out of IPL with back injury". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
14. "IPL 2020 auction: Cummins goes for record sum, windfall for Aussies". Sportstar: The Hindu. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
15. Brettig, Daniel (7 June 2011). "Katich cut from contract list". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
16. "First class matches played by Pat Cummins". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
17. Baum, Greg (18 November 2011). "Young pacemaker in for historic Test debut". The Age. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
18. Baum, Greg (21 November 2011). "Postman Pat: he delivers". The Age. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
19. "2nd Test, Australia tour of South Africa at Johannesburg, Nov 17-21 2011 - Match Summary - ESPNCricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
20. Staff, CricketCountry (19 August 2013). "Pat Cummins breaks down again, to miss most of 2013-14 season". Retrieved 8 September 2018.
21. "RSA vs Aus - Scorecard - Cricbuzz". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
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25. Bailey, Scott (23 January 2019). "Pat Cummins and Travis Head named as Australian vice-captains for Sri Lanka Test series". Fox Sports.com.au. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
26. "Stoinis gave himself the best chance to win: Cummins". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
27. "Handscomb hundred, Turner blitz help Australia level series". SuperSport. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
28. "Smith and Warner make World Cup return; Handscomb and Hazlewood out". ESPN Cricinfo. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
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30. "ICC World Cup 2019: Match 10, Australia vs Windies, Preview – Caribbean flair locks horns with the Aussie spirit on a high-scoring ground". CricTracker. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
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34. "The Ashes, 2019 - Australia Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
35. "Cummins claims 2019 Allan Border Medal". cricket.com.au. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
36. "Pat Cummins completes 100 ODI wickets". Asian News International. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
37. "Usman Khawaja and Marcus Stoinis in expanded Australia training squad for possible England tour". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
38. "Aussies name huge 26-player group with eye on UK tour". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
39. "Riley Meredith, Josh Philippe and Daniel Sams included as Australia tour to England confirmed". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
40. "Uncapped trio make Australia's UK touring party". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
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42. "Patrick Cummins to make state debut at the under-17 national cricket championships". Retrieved 8 September 2018.
43. "UTS elite athlete Pat Cummins saves Australia - UTS News Room". newsroom.uts.edu.au. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
44. "Pat Cummins is world cricket's next big thing". Herald Sun. 18 November 2011.
45. "The unusual tale of Pat's short finger". cricket.com.au. Retrieved 18 March 2017.

External links

• Pat Cummins at ESPNcricinfo
• Pat Cummins at Cricket Australia
• Pat Cummins at Howstat

Awards
Preceded by Steve Smith	Allan Border Medal 2019	Succeeded by --