IPL changed monopoly of international cricket on players’ time: Pat Cummins

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IPL changed monopoly of international cricket on players’ time: Pat Cummins (Wrong)​

Money changed monopoly of international cricket on players’ time (CORRECT)

 

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Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins said in a video posted by the SRH on their 'X' account:

"A bit of planning to go and then just want to get off to a really good start. T20s are hard. Kolkata's a good team, but I just want to see a really aggressive start to the season."

"I mean, the plans are, you know, I work really closely with the guys that I don't know too well…get to know them."

“Get to know what they need from me out in the middle. And then work with coaches and what they want to see out of me as well as a player.”

“I think we've got a great mix. We've got a couple more experienced guys like Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar). Obviously, Aiden Markram was captain last year. But we've got some exciting young talent."

"I'm super excited to see guys like Abhishek (Sharma), Umran Malik, these guys I've only seen a little bit of but super excited. So, I think fans should be pretty pumped for the season ahead.”

 

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T20 not taxing on body but travel during League is: Cummins​

Leading a T20 side for the first time, Australia's World Cup winning skipper Pat Cummins says the shortest format is not taxing on the body but the travel involved in the two-month long IPL and different-style preparations to face a variety of teams is certainly a huge challenge.

Cummins, who also led Australia to the World Test Championship triumph, has great responsibility to change the fortunes of Sunrisers Hyderabad, which finished last season.

“It’s a format I’ve never captained before. Tomorrow (Saturday) is going to be my first game. With a bit of preparation, I’m good to go,” Cummins said on the eve of their IPL opener against Kolkata Knight Riders here.” “It's got its challenges. You play 14 games in six-seven weeks, plus finals. I’m used to playing a lot of Test cricket, so four overs isn’t as taxing on your body. But it can be mentally taxing to travel, you’re playing a new team every few days you’ve got to prepare for.

“But it’s nothing new, we’ve done it before, so obviously the game days are the most important, that’s where we put most of our energies into. No team plays the same XI all 14 games.

Cummins, who is the second most expensive buy at this IPL auction, will not only have the burden of captaincy but will have the pressure to deliver with the bowl. He will have Bhuvneshwar Kumar as the only other experienced bowler in the line-up.

They also have the likes of T Natarajan and Jaydev Unadkat.

“We have got loads of experienced guys excited with the lineup. Bhuvi I will be leaning on a lot. We have got a lot of experience and young guys as well “It’s T20 cricket, you will be hit around, not worry about too much. So it will be up for the experienced guys to help the youngsters’ out.” Saturday’s match is being billed as Cummins vs Mitchell Starc clash and the Aussie skipper said: “Hopefully I don’t have to face starc. It’s funny beauty of the IPL. These guys playing Starcy for 15 years.

“I can’t remember when I played against him. It will be an interesting part of tomorrow. We are both bowlers so there won’t crossover too much,” he signed off.

T20 not taxing on body but travel during League is: Cummins

Leading a T20 side for the first time, Australia’s World Cup winning skipper Pat Cummins says the shortest format is not taxing on body but the travel involved in the two-month long IPL is.

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[FearlessRoar]

SRH were down and out at 136/8, seemingly heading for a sub-150 score. However, their skipper, Pat Cummins, stepped up with a blistering 35*(17) at a strike rate of 205.88, guiding them to 173/8 against MI in IPL 2024. I wonder why he was not appointed as captain for the ICC T20I World Cup 2024.

 

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Pat Cummins silences cricket critics after latest IPL triumph as captain​

Aussie captain Pat Cummins has silenced the critics that have previously doubted he is a captain having guided the Hyderabad Sunrisers to the IPL playoffs after a rained out match. Cummins entered the IPL draft having pulled out of last year's tournament due to the heavy workload of the international schedule.

In that time, Cummins won the ICC Champions Trophy, retained the Ashes in the UK and won the One Day International World Cup. He did all of this as captain of his country. During this time, Cummins came under plenty of scrutiny for his captaincy style. The quick was often labelled a defensive captain, especially during the Ashes, and he came under pressure.

Australia also started the ODI in horrible form having lost three games in a row. However, a winning streak saw them defeat the host's India in the final. And now, Cummins helped guide the Sunrisers to the IPL playoffs for the first time since 2020.

Travis Head and Cummins needed to defeat the Titans on Thursday. Although they didn't need to bowl a ball after a washout allowed the Aussie duo to advance with their team into the playoffs. Cummins was purchased for $3.67 million in the IPL draft and many felt his price tag a gamble.


Only fellow Aussie quick Mitchell Starc has ever gone for more money in the IPL. And Cummins has made sure to live up to the price tag having taken 14 wickets in 12 matches at an economy of 9.25. His economy is quite significant when looking at some of the record-breaking scores seen in the 2024 tournament.

Cummins continues to win over the cricket world with his captaincy and ability year-after-year. And he has also once again shown why he was awarded the International Cricketer of the Year after a stunning year in the game.

After Cummins' epic price tag, former Aussie bowler Jason Gillespie questioned whether Cummins was worth the enormous fee. "Pat's obviously a quality bowler and a quality leader, we've seen that ... I just don't think T20 is his best format," Gillespie told SEN Radio last year. "I think he's a Test bowler, personally. I think Test cricket is his absolute bread and butter.

"He's a good T20 bowler, make no mistake - but that's massive overs for me." Cummins' stats - before this tournament - in the IPL perhaps backed up Gillespie's concerns, with the Aussie skipper taking just seven wickets in five games for Kolkata in his last season in the competition in 2022 - having skipped the 2023 edition of the tournament. However, Sunrisers fans will now hit back at this criticism with the Aussie giving them IPL playoff cricket for the first time in four years.

'The main man': Pat Cummins feat silences critics after $3.67 IPL triumph

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Cummins calls for schedule streamlining to avoid clash between IPL and Test matches​

Australia skipper Pat Cummins feels that a more dedicated window for Tests is needed so that players can chalk their individual schedule and preparation, particularly by those cricketers who wish to play in franchise-based leagues such as the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The IPL now has a specific window every year across April and May, where not too many Test matches take place.

“Franchise cricket for some countries is more lucrative, more appealing than international cricket,” Cummins was quoted by Sydney Morning Herald, “If I went and played franchise cricket, I could probably be away for a half or a third of the amount we are for Australia.”

“In Australia, Test cricket is from November to January, and basically, no other cricket is going to get in the way of us playing Test cricket then. If we can have specific windows for IPL, but then also Test windows, that makes the decision-making for the players a lot easier,” Cummins said while speaking at the MCC World Cricket Connects 2024 at Lord’s.

In 2025, Australia could play the World Test Championship final in June, right after the conclusion of the IPL, followed by the tour to the West Indies, which includes two Tests, three ODIs and as many T20Is.

Additionally, Cricket Australia Chairman, Mike Bird called for the sustainability of playing Test cricket.

“Do you have a smaller amount of Test-playing nations that are sustainable, as opposed to trying to prop up a system with additional cost that is adding to the economic challenges of maintaining Test cricket?” he wondered.

Bird also called for ideas that would be sufficiently suited to playing the traditional format.

“We (Cricket Australia) don’t feel (we) should dictate to any country, but we’re open to ideas and proposals on how to support Test playing full stop.

“There’s a summer to fill, and white-ball cricket can play a role, but (Test cricket) still remains the dominant game in Australia. It is very clear Australia will support and invest and grow Test cricket opportunities as long as we possibly can,” Bird added.

Cummins calls for schedule streamlining to avoid clash between IPL and Test matches

In 2025, Australia could play the World Test Championship final in June, right after the conclusion of the Indian Premier League, followed by a tour to the West Indies.

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[U$ofA]

Test cricket has now become a three country sport. I doubt there is going to be any change in this. The rest of the boards are T20I focused.

There is no way that any of the other boards will see the kind of demand CA is seeing for the Border-Gavaskar trophy. The India tour is going to be a huge payday for CA. Likely, their biggest ever.

The only other time this happens is for the Ashes. But again, as I said, test is a three country sport.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Pat Cummins in an interview:

"It was like, 'do you want to come to the US for a few weeks in summer, be around a team where I'm good mates with a few of the guys, play a bit of golf and play a bit of cricket in a new country',"

"It's a space that I find super interesting, particularly the venture-capital world," Cummins says. "I potentially see that as something I'd like to do more of post-cricket, so [this is] a way to align with a few of those guys, learn off them over the next few years, be around some of those conversations."

"If it's something I do enjoy, hopefully I could dive a little bit deeper for the back-end of my career, and then maybe move into that space a bit more professionally after cricket."

"For the guys that play all three formats, you're always trying to make sure you're peaking for those major events - and it feels like there's been about ten major events in the last 18 months, so I haven't really taken much time to reinvest back in my body"

The intention is definitely to make this a long-term partnership. Obviously playing for Australia, it's going to clash at certain times. But outside of that, I want to make sure MLC is a real focus."

"I hadn't thought of the Hundred,"

"Everyone's a little bit more realistic about the schedules nowadays. We spend ten-plus months of the year away on the road, so some tours probably carry a little bit more importance than others. For the guys that play all three formats, you're always trying to make sure you're peaking for those major events - and it feels like there's been about ten major events in the last 18 months, so I haven't really taken much time to reinvest back in my body."

"That window has always been earmarked as a time to really give my body a rest and do close to a full pre-season. I should get six or eight weeks off bowling and then build up again. Once this MLC opportunity came up and we mapped out the plan, it didn't really change much.?

"I still get that same amount of break and then just probably start one or two weeks later heading into the summer… I'll get home, I'll have a good six or eight weeks off bowling where I'll get in the gym every day, do some running, and get some strength back into my body. And then we've got a big Test match series [against India] for our home summer, so that'll be the focus."

"It's a really high standard. The calibre of players is ridiculous and for a competition in its second season, it's super organised and super competitive… I couldn't speak highly enough of it."

"That Pakistan-India game looked insane… everyone talks about baseball, basketball and NFL, but there's hundreds of thousands of cricketers here going about their work quietly who are now starting to get a platform."

"Hopefully that will be ready to go in the next couple of years, and I'll be coming back to San Fran a lot,"

 

[jnaveen1980]

USA is a great place for outdoor activities and having fun. I am sure most of the superstars that play MLC enjoy that more than the cricket itself.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Pat Cummins did his best, but his team still lost against MI in IPL 2025