Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 23
Australia’s Pat Cummins said his T20 game is in the best spot it’s been in a decade and enters the T20 World Cup with his confidence high following a successful Indian Premier League.
The 31-year-old played every IPL match, took 18 wickets and guided Sunrisers Hyderabad to the final, leaving the fast bowler feeling extremely assured with how his short-form game is placed.
“Probably as well as I have for the last 10 years really,” Cummins told cricket.com.au of his T20 bowling on Monday.
“We played 17 games straight (at the IPL). For the most part, international T20s are after the Test series, and you’ve got to try and hit a yorker or a slower ball, and then go back to a Test series.
“So just getting the pace of the game and executing some of those balls that you need more in T20 cricket than in other formats, I feel really well placed,” he continued. “A lot of T20 bowling in particular is about thinking through your sequencing of which ball to bowl or when, and I think over the course of the season you get to learn pretty quickly what’s working and what isn’t,” he said.
Cummins was one of the final members of Australia’s 15-man squad to link up with the team, landing in Barbados in the early hours of Saturday morning, five days out from Australia’s first match against Oman.
Source: Agencies
