Pat Cummins Biography

Patrick James Cummins is an Australian international cricket player. He was born on May 8, 1993, and he is the captain of the Australian cricket team in both Test and ODI matches. He throws fastballs with his right arm and is thought to be one of the best bowlers in Test cricket right now. As of January 2023, the ICC test bowling ranks put Cummins as the best bowler in the world. Cummins was on the Australian team that won the Cricket World Cup in 2015 and the ICC T20 World Cup in 2021.

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He was also the winning captain of the ICC World Test Championship final in 2023. The second event will take place after the final of the 2021 ICC World Test Championship. Cummins played his first Test match when he was 18 years old, in 2011. Then, injuries kept him from playing cricket internationally until 2015 and in Tests until 2017. Cummins won both the Allan Border Medal for Best Australian Player of the Year and the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year awards after the 2019 cricket season ended.

Early life:

Cummins and his two brothers and two sisters grew up in Mount Riverview in the Blue Mountains. He went to St. Paul’s Grammar School in London. As a child, he looked up to Brett Lee, who he briefly played cricket with on a national and world level. Cummins lost the top of his middle finger on his right hand when he was three years old. His sister accidentally shut the door on it.

Cummins played junior cricket for the Blue Mountains’ Glenbrook-Blaxland Cricket Club before joining the Penrith District Cricket Club in 2010 to play first-grade cricket. In the same year, Cummins played for both the NSW Under-17 team and the NSW Under-19 team.

Early career of Pat Cummins

Cummins got 4 for 16 in the 2010–11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash quarter-final against Tasmania and was named Man of the Match. He took an equal number of wickets at the end of the event.

Cummins made his first-class debut in March 2011 against Tasmania. He was only 17 years old. He gave numbers of 2/80. Cummins played in the last three Sheffield Shield games of the 2010–11 season. In the final, he bowled 65 overs, which was the most of any player. He got hurt in the back and couldn’t go on the Australia A tour of Zimbabwe.

International career:

Early career difficulties and injuries

Cummins got a contract with Cricket Australia in June 2011. In October 2011, he played in two Twenty20 International (T20I) and three One Day International (ODI) matches for Australia against South Africa. He took ten wickets and was then put in the Australian Test squad to play South Africa.

Cummins was put on Australia’s draught team for the 2012 ICC Under-19 World Cup, which will be held in Queensland. After putting white ball cricket first in 2014, Cummins was picked for Australia’s winning World Cup team in 2015, where he played in four games. Cummins returned to domestic cricket in 2016, becoming a key part of the New South Wales one-day squad and the Sydney Thunder. He did this by staying in shape and playing 25 matches in just over 4 months.

Vice-captaincy of Australia

Cummins became one of Australia’s two test vice-captains in January 2019. The other is Travis Head. He played in both tests against the Sri Lankan team that was in Australia. In the first test at the Gabba, he took his first 10-wicket haul and helped Australia win by an innings. He had 14 wickets by the end of the series and was named the player of the series.

Australian leadership

Tim Paine quit as captain of the Australian Test cricket team on November 26, 2021. This made Cummins the 47th leader of the team. Steve Smith was named his vice-captain, which means that after the ball-tampering incident of 2018, Smith is back in a leadership role. Cummins was the first fast bowler in history to be the full-time captain of the Australian team.

After Aaron Finch quit ODI cricket, Cummins led Australia for the first time in an ODI on November 17, 2022. Cummins was in charge of Australia in the first two games of the 4-Game Border-Gavaskaer Trophy against India. Both games were lost by India. Cummins has to return back to Australia because his mother is sick. Steve Smith will take over as captain for the last two games and the next three ODIs.

Career in the Indian Premier League

Cummins played for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2014, which was the first year he played in the Indian Premier League. He returned to the team for IPL 2015. Pat didn’t take part in IPL 2016, but he did play in IPL 2017 for Delhi Daredevils. He didn’t play in IPL 2018 or IPL 2019.

From 2014 to 2021, Cummins played in 37 IPL games and took 38 wickets. In the IPL 2021, he took nine wickets and scored 93 runs in seven games. Cummins shared the record for the fastest half-century in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in April 2022, when he scored 50 runs against the Mumbai Indians in 14 balls.

Personal life:

Cummins went to the University of Technology, Sydney as part of its Elite Athlete Programme and got a Bachelor of Business from there in 2017.

Cummins got engaged to his long-time girlfriend Becky Boston in February 2020. They have a son together. On August 1, 2022, they got married. His mother, Maria Cummins, died on March 10, 2023, after being sick for a long time.

Batting Career of Pat Cummins:

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	200	50	4s	6s
Test	50	69	9	938	63	15.63	2288	41.0	0	0	2	94	20
ODI	75	47	15	324	36	10.12	438	73.97	0	0	0	23	5
T20I	50	23	11	116	21	9.67	94	123.4	0	0	0	6	6
IPL	42	31	11	379	66	18.95	249	152.21	0	0	3	24	26

Bowling Career of Pat Cummins:

	M	Inn	B	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Econ	Avg	SR	5W	10W
Test	50	92	10444	4805	221	6/23	10/62	2.76	21.74	47.26	8	1
ODI	75	75	3938	3424	124	5/70	5/70	5.22	27.61	31.76	1	0
T20I	50	50	1098	1350	55	3/15	3/15	7.38	24.55	19.96	0	0
IPL	42	42	953	1357	45	4/34	4/34	8.54	30.16	21.18	0	0