Australia has learned over the past three years that Pat Cummins never ceases to surprise.
“Who’s your shirt by?” asked one of the designer set congregated around Australia’s cricket captain. “Good question,” he said, before hoicking up the Test-esque knitted number by the scruff of the neck so he could see the label. “I don’t think it’s expensive. Country Road. There you go.”
One might reasonably assume Cummins would enjoy pressing the flesh with a posse of Dior-clad influencers about as much as playing an Ashes Test at Headingley. But, as the country has learned over the past three years, the 31-year-old never ceases to surprise. “Yeah, I’ve spoken to him, poor Cam,” he said of Green, who will miss the summer’s Test series against India after opting to have back surgery. It looks like he’s going to miss a bit of cricket. He’s going to be a big loss if he does miss some games.”Credit:Nineteen-year-old Sam Konstas, meanwhile, “was good” in that Sheffield Shield match and “scoring two hundreds in the same game is not easy”. But “he’s young - I don’t think you need to rush anything”.
“And then the next day it’ll be some other breaking news. ‘Is that true? I don’t think that’s true.’ It’s like every day something changes.”This vacuum has recently been filled sans Cummins, who has not captained Australia’s one-day squad since winning the World Cup 12 months ago,. But he has well and truly relaxed into the role, and is now “probably more sure of myself in certain areas”.
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