Pat Cummins

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Pat Cummins
Personal information
Full name Patrick James Cummins
Born (1993-05-08) 8 May 1993
Westmead, Sydney, Australia
Nickname Cummo[1]
Height 192cm[2]
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Role Bowler
International information
National side
  • Australia
Only Test (cap 423) 17 November 2011 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 189) 19 October 2011 v South Africa
Last ODI 29 June 2012 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2011– New South Wales
2011–2012 Sydney Sixers
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 1 5 4 8
Runs scored 15 21 25 23
Batting average 15.00 21.00 8.33 11.50
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Top score 13* 11* 13* 11*
Balls bowled 264 216 1,080 324
Wickets 7 7 16 10
Bowling average 16.71 30.57 33.37 30.30
5 wickets in innings 1 0 1 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 6/79 3/28 6/79 3/26
Catches/stumpings 1/– 0/– 1/– 2/–
Source: Cricinfo, 2 November 2012

Patrick James Cummins (born 8 May 1993[1]) is an Australian cricketer. A fast bowler, he made his Test debut at age 18 and plays domestic cricket for New South Wales. Cummins is a fast bowler who regularly bowls faster than 145 km/h.[3]

Career

Domestic

Cummins played junior cricket at Glenbrook Blaxland Cricket Club in the Blue Mountains before playing first-grade cricket for Penrith in 2010.[4] In the preliminary final of the 2010–11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash against Tasmania Cummins took 4 for 16 and was named man of the match.[3] He finished with Nathan Lyon as the leading wicket-taker in the tournament.[5] In March 2011 he made his first-class debut.

He joined the Sydney Sixers franchise in 2011. In 2012 he signed with the Perth Scorchers, but missed the 2012 season due to injury. He made his debut for the Scorchers when they beat the Adelaide Strikers in Perth on 16 January 2014. .[6]

International

Cummins was granted a Cricket Australia contract in June 2011,[7] and in October 2011 he played two Twenty20 matches for Australia against South Africa. On the basis of his performances in these games (he took 3/25 and 2/26), Cummins was selected for Test squad to play South Africa, in what was described as a "meteoric rise".

Cummins made his Test debut at the The Wanderers ground in Johannesburg in November 2011, becoming Australia's youngest test cricketer since Ian Craig in 1953.[8] Cummins took 1/38 and 6/79, becoming the second youngest test cricketer (behind Enamul Haque Jr) to take six wickets in an innings.[9] He then scored 13 runs in the second innings, including a four to win the match, and was presented with the Man of the Match award.

Cummins was selected in Australia's provisional team for the ICC Under-19 World Cup to be held in Queensland in August 2012.[10]

Unfortunately, Cummins' early cricketing career has been plagued with injury, primarily a stress fracture in his back. Cummins played his first game since October 2012 for the Northern Ireland Cricket Academy on 19 June 2013.

Personal life

Cummins grew up at Mount Riverview in the Blue Mountains with his two brothers and two sisters.[11] He attended St Paul's Grammar School,[12] and is an Elite Athlete Program scholar and Bachelor of Business student at the University of Technology, Sydney.[13] As a child he idolised Brett Lee, with whom he later briefly played domestic and international cricket.[6][14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Patrick Cummins on Cricinfo
  2. ↑ "Patrick Cummins". cricket.com.au. Cricket Australia. Retrieved 15 January 2014. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Patrick Cummins, David Warner blast Blues to final". Herald Sun. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Park cricket to Test squad in 12 months: the rise of Pat Cummins". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 October 2011. 
  5. ↑ Most wickets
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Pat Cummins is tickled pink to be a sixer". Daily Telegraph. 16 July 2011. 
  7. ↑ Brettig, Daniel (7 June 2011). "Katich cut from contract list". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 17 October 2011. 
  8. ↑ Baum, Greg (18 November 2011). "Young pacemaker in for historic Test debut". The Age. Retrieved 18 November 2011. 
  9. ↑ Baum, Greg (21 November 2011). "Postman Pat: he delivers". The Age. Retrieved 21 November 2011. 
  10. ↑ "Cummins in Australia's U-19 World Cup squad". 18 June 2012. 
  11. ↑ Dream Test debut for Pat Cummins
  12. ↑ Patrick Cummins to make state debut at the under-17 national cricket championships
  13. ↑ UTS elite athlete Pat Cummins saves Australia
  14. ↑ "Pat Cummins is world cricket's next big thing". Herald Sun. 18 November 2011. 

External links

Australian national cricket team – current squad
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Australia squad – 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Semi-Finalists
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New South Wales – current squad
Perth Scorchers – current squad
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