Australia’s Test captain, Pat Cummins, was immensely satisfied with his team’s historic Test series win in Pakistan, and now he is excited about another subcontinent tour of Sri Lanka in June and July 2022.
Australia clinched the three-match Test series 1-0 in Lahore by winning the third and final Test by 115 runs. With the remarkable Test series win, Cummins became only the third Australian captain, after Richie Benaud and Mark Taylor, to win a Test series in Pakistan.
The 28-year-old fast bowler is now unbeaten in his eight Tests as Australia's captain. He is excited about the Sri Lanka tour, where Australia will play an all-format series in June–July 2022.
Cummins told reporters: “It's one of just immense satisfaction for me. Everyone is just totally elated. Winning the Ashes series was huge but winning overseas doesn't happen very often. The Ashes went quickly and it was satisfying. But this was my first big tour where I wasn't a new captain anymore.”
He added, “We were playing overseas, foreign conditions... a group of 30-odd people here, players and staff on a mission to try and win the series. And as a captain, that's a big responsibility. So I think this one is just incredibly satisfying and has shown that our group here is a very good cricket team.”
Australia will play two Tests in Sri Lanka when they tour the island nation later this year for the first time since 2016 and then travel to India, Cummins is just excited for the Asian challenge.
He signed off by saying, “We won the Ashes but we haven't been really (in) Tests overseas. The amount of confidence we will get out of winning over here, not just as a team but every individual showed... their game can stand up to Asian conditions. It's huge for Sri Lanka later in the year, India next year. So yeah, that's awesome.”
(With Reuters Inputs)
