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Cummins-led Australia right up there as one of the best teams: Hussey

  •   Mon, Jan 06 2025 11:24:41 AM

New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS): Former Australia batter Mike Hussey believes the Pat Cummins-led Test team is right up there as amongst the best sporting teams in the country. Beating India 3-1 to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a decade has meant Australia are in possession of every bilateral series win, including the 2023 World Test Championship mace.

“I think they have got to be right up there, because they’ve won pretty much everything. They’ve won the Ashes. They’ve won World Cups. I know Test cricket is different to white-ball cricket, but in Pat Cummins’ reign, this is the one they didn’t have, beating India.

“They’ve been able to keep this core group together for a long, long, long period of time. We’ve highlighted the bowling group and the amount of wickets they’ve got together. It’s been incredible.

“Only history will judge it, I guess. I’m not very good at judging different eras, because it’s hard to do, but I think they’re going to be right up there for sure,” said Hussey to Fox Sports on Monday.

Cummins was entrusted with Australia’s Test captaincy ahead of 2021/22 Ashes after Tim Paine exited due to an off-field issue, and since then, he has been at the helm of the side winning big in bilateral Test series, apart from an ODI World Cup triumph in India in 2023.

As Australia’s Test skipper, Cummins has picked 130 Test wickets at an average of 23.50, while also winning Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, given to the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year, in 2023.

Former Australia spinner Kerry O’Keeffe stated Cummins has led the Test side superbly during his tenure, considering many saying they are an ageing side. “It means a lot because this is a side that, if they do lose, the age of the team will be questioned. The legacy is that age is just a number and we keep winning.

“They are an aging team, but they’ll say age is just a number if they keep winning series and big, big Tests. If you look at last year, there were chances where they could have not won. Even in New Zealand, they were lucky to get over the line. And Pakistan, if they hadn’t muffed their chances, could easily have won. The legacy of this side is that they are an old team, but they’re a very good team," he said.

 

 
  

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  • Joe Britto, Nakre/Bangalore

    Mon, Jan 06 2025

    Pat Cummins has been a phenomenal Leader -Leading from the front . He is gutsy and takes bold decisions. The vital thing in his gamer is the tremendous improvement in his Batting figures especially in the current series which actually made alll the difference He is also a shrewd thinker and has not hesitated to pick up in form Batsmen or bowlers and this has paid rich dividents as can be seen in the case of Constas and Boland and others . The Indians will not only find it hard to win the BGT Trophy but will need to field their BEST playing Eleven if they aim to have a shot at the World Cups and Trophies in At present the selaction of the team is rather skewed and one can say even chaotic and sometomes idiotic. Those at the helm do not take blame for poor pefforfmances and only come out when trophies are won and hide behind the senior Cricketing Brains like Gavaskar et all who do all the Blame Tactics. Imagine a Captain who opts to bat on a Rain Soaked wicket in Bangalore in Bangalore wnd losing the Test to a Weak New Zealand Team and even lost 3 nil to them! India have been white washed by Strong Teams like the West Indies & Eng but never to the weaker one and still Rohit Sharma is able to get away !

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