Australia captain Pat Cummins expressed his interest in continuing as Australia's ODI captain following the ongoing World Cup. Initially appointed as the Test team captain, Cummins took over the ODI captaincy after Aaron Finch's abrupt retirement. With Australia reaching the World Cup semifinals with seven consecutive wins after two initial losses, Cummins has presented a compelling argument for an extension of his captaincy.
In response to inquiries about his future as ODI captain, the 30-year-old said, "Potentially, yeah. We'll chat about it. We've been pretty open, me and Andrew McDonald (head coach) and George Bailey (selector) around different times in the year you're going to have different priorities.”
"This is a bit of a one-off year where there's three or four big off-season events. After here the focus shifts back to Test cricket for a fair while. Probably like we've done in the past, at times white-ball cricket is going to have to shift (as a priority) so we fully focus on Test cricket. There's no end date in sight.”
"I feel like I've been managed really well and looked after in a really, really busy year where you don't really want to give up any cricket," said the fast bowler.
Cummins, who chose not to participate in the IPL 2023 to concentrate on international duties, will enter the auction for the 2024 edition. The IPL is scheduled before the T20 World Cup in the United States and the Caribbean, making it an ideal preparation for the global event.
Kolkata Knight Riders acquired Cummins for Rs 7.5 crore in the IPL auction of 2022.
"I feel like I haven’t played a heap of T20 cricket and in some ways, I feel like I haven’t played my best T20 cricket for a little while," he said.
"I'm really excited, I'm probably going to go into the IPL auction for next year to try to get some games before that World Cup and push a case to not only make the side but get back to how I feel like I can bowl in T20 cricket," he said.
Australia is anticipated to be led by Mitchell Marsh in the T20 World Cup.
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