{"id":409653,"date":"2026-06-04T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=409653"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:00:44","slug":"cummins-keen-to-play-entirety-of-australias-unprecedented-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/cummins-keen-to-play-entirety-of-australias-unprecedented-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Cummins keen to play entirety of Australia’s ‘unprecedented’ run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pat Cummins\u00a0is holding out hope he can play the entirety of Australia’s busiest 12 months on record, but admits it would be “very surprising” if all of the big-three quicks managed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Test and ODI captain has pulled up well on return from the IPL, where he played his first competitive matches in four months after a back injury curtailed his Ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Body feels awesome,” Cummins said at a media event for Amazon Prime’s coverage of the women’s Twenty20 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I got a scan, all sweet, so now it’s the next step up, which is getting ready to bowl 20 overs in a day and wake up and do it again in a Test match.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cummins will gradually increase his bowling loads throughout June and July in preparation for a 12 month-period that will feature up to 21 Tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hectic chapter begins with two home matches against Bangladesh in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the following August, the Test side will have returned to South Africa for the first time since the 2018 Newlands ball-tampering saga, embarked upon a legacy-defining tour of India and fought to retain the Ashes in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will also play a home series against New Zealand, the 150th anniversary Test at the MCG and possibly the World Test Championship final at Lord’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The so-called “big-three” quicks of Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood typically plan to feature in every Test match of a home summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cummins acknowledged things might be different this time, but still hoped to be on deck for every Test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The lucky thing is I haven’t played much in the last year or so, so I’m actually coming in physically as good as I possibly could be,” Cummins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m kind of hoping that I play all of them, but I’m sure things will pop up along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’d be very surprising if the same three bowlers played in 21 of the Tests … there might be a little bit of chopping and changing. It’s kind of unprecedented.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back-up pacemen Scott Boland, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson and Brendan Doggett filled the void when injuries struck Hazlewood and Cummins over the 4-1 Ashes win last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cummins has acknowledged white-ball cricket will need to take a back seat in order to achieve his goal of playing every Test, with a BBL cameo this summer less likely than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s prioritising the Test matches and then outside of that, there won’t be too much,” Cummins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There’s some white-ball cricket but I think some of that might be how you pull up from the Test matches.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cummins also insisted ultra-accurate Hazlewood was still a realistic proposition for regular Test cricket after hamstring and Achilles tendon injuries sidelined him from the entire Ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 35-year-old has played only 10 of Australia’s last 20 Tests, but Cummins was pleased to see him back to help Royal Challengers Bengaluru win last month’s IPL final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Bowling seems a funny one, you can get on a bit of a roll and play a lot,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The hardest thing for someone like Josh is actually getting up and going again. He’s had a few little niggles as he’s been building back up, so it’s been great to see him play a lot of cricket.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat Cummins\u00a0is holding out hope he can play the entirety of Australia’s busiest 12 months on record, but admits it would be “very surprising” if all of the big-three quicks managed to. The Test and ODI captain has pulled up well on return from the IPL, where he played his first competitive matches in four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409655,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409653\/revisions\/409655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}