Australian Captain Pat Cummins’ Statement Before WTC Final 2023

WTC Final 2023: Australian captain Pat Cummins’s statement before WTC Final 2023. Cummins further said that persuading players to prioritize national duty over franchise cricket in future will be a challenge.

Australian captain Pat Cummins has said in the interview:-

In an interview to the Sydney Morning Herald just before the start of the World Test Championship Final (WTC Final 2023), Australian captain Pat Cummins has said that the IPL has ended international cricket’s monopoly on players’ time.

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Pat Cummins said, “There is no monopoly on players’ time in international cricket, as it used to be in the past.

The IPL changed that a decade ago, but there is more and more content coming in, so I think we should be proactive about it.

Cummins further said, “We have taken India to the final of the first World Test Championship, which I think a lot of people have forgotten.”

Trent Boult’s decision to turn down New Zealand central contract:-

Pat agrees that Trent Boult’s decision to refuse New Zealand’s central contract for the lucrative T20 league around the world has been hanging fire since the IPL changed the complexion of the game a decade ago. Cummins, on the other hand, wants his teammates to consider national duty above anything else.

Cummins continued, “It has been coming for a while, but I think it is here now.” “We have to make playing for Australia as special as we can.

Every single player wants to play for Australia as much as they can while keeping a high performance. This will be a challenge.

I think it’s upon us now, and we’ve got to start thinking pretty deeply about it. I think the 12-month international calendar may look a little different after a few years.

The squad of both teams for WTC Final 2023:-

Indian team: 1. Rohit Sharma (captain), 2. Shubman Gill, 3. Cheteshwar Pujara, 4. Virat Kohli, 5. Ajinkya Rahane, 6. KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), 7. Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), 8. Ravichandran Ashwin, 9. Ravindra Jadeja, 10. Axsar Patel, 11. Shardul Thakur, 12. Mohammed Shami, 13. Mohammed Siraj, 14. Umesh Yadav, 15. Jaydev Unadkat.

Standby players: 1. Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2. Mukesh Kumar, 3. Suryakumar Yadav.

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Australia squad: 1. Pat Cummins (c), 2. Scott Boland, 3. Alex Carey (wk), 4. Cameron Green, 5. Marcus Harris, 6. Josh Hazlewood, 7. Travis Head, 8. Josh Ingles (wk), 9. Usman Khawaja, 10. Marnus Labuschagne, 11. Nathan Lyon, 12. Todd Murphy, 13. Steve Smith (Vice-Captain), 14. Mitchell Starc, 15. David Warner.