Ashes: The Australian captaincy arrives earlier than expected but Cummins learns quickly

Pat Cumminsen Rise to Australian captaincy coming sooner than expected, but the appointment is long overdue for the nation’s fastest pelota players.

Cummins is only the second pace to take over the Australian Test team after Ray Lindwall, who led a Test against India in the mid-1950s.

With names like Dennis Lillee and Glenn McGrath, Australia has produced some of the game’s most iconic speeds, and has boasted of their aggression and ability to take wickets. But that admiration doesn’t mean top-level leadership roles, rhythms left cold by the bias administrators.

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Despite Cummins ’excellent bowling record and excellent conduct, it took a very unusual situation for the 28-year-old to finish his senior job. Although the resignation of Tim Paine was echoed as a result of a “sexting” scandal, the seeds of Cummins’ captaincy were sown more than three years ago in a Newland ball handling scandal.

The fall of the saga deprived skipper Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner of their titles.

Warner, seen as the architect of the scandal, remains banned from a lifelong leadership role. Smith’s two-year leadership ban expired last year, but the black mark against his name almost certainly left him out of the top position and will be replaced by Cummins ’deputy as deputy captain.

There was no player as good as the other players who were raising their hands for the captaincy, 100-spin spinner Nathan Lyon said he would rather take the team’s victory song than the team.

THE BURDEN OF CAPITANITY

Cummins has a strong learning curve in a role named “the second highest office” in the country after the prime minister.

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His professional experience as a captain is a few days away as a one-day New South Wales skipper, so he plans to bow out a lot to Smith, who has been captain in 34 trials, 18 wins and 10 losses. managing the dynamics on the pitch is yet to be seen.

“He will have to tactically rely on Steve Smith,” Jordan Silk of the Cummins Sydney Sixers said.

“I know he’s the kind of guy (Cummins) who probably prefers someone else (bowling) to work for himself.

Being the best test bowler in the ICC, Cummins has rarely failed to inspire teammates. In his 18-year-old debut, he took a seven-round match to help Australia beat South Africa in the Newlands. Telegenic and popular with the public, it is a force to be reckoned with and a favorite of the market for clothing, watches and energy drinks, as the “posterboy” of Australian crickets.

His biggest challenge may be how he manages the work that requires results on the pitch, but it means “maintaining the highest standards” off the pitch, according to statements made by Cricket Australia following Paine’s resignation.

The captaincy has been a heavy burden for some fine Australian players, leading Kim Hughes to resign in the 1980s and Ricky Ponting left the bitterness a few months after losing the Ashes at home.

Cummins said he hoped the public would be a little sympathetic to the expectations of Australia and its players, saying they need to “grow” from failure. However, he can find little compassion if his team stumbles on the Ashes.