Recovering from a left wrist harm, Australia captain Pat Cummins on Tuesday mentioned he’s eyeing a return to worldwide cricket throughout his aspect’s three-match ODI collection towards India in late September, forward of the World Cup.
Cummins, who fractured his wrist through the fifth Ashes Test on the Oval (July 27-31), has been suggested relaxation for six weeks.
The tempo bowler is ready to overlook Australia’s five-match ODI collection towards South Africa between September 7 and 17. Australia will play ODIs towards India on September 22, 24 and 27.
“I’ll head over to South Africa on the back-end of that leg. But we’re most likely trying extra at these one-dayers (towards India) forward of the World Cup.
“It shouldn’t be too bad. Another few weeks and it’ll be right,” mentioned Cummins, sounding hopeful of him taking part in within the World Cup to be held in India from October 5 and November 19.
Cummins mentioned he would most likely assess his position as ODI captain after the World Cup.
“The captaincy for the ODIs, we’ve kind of shared around a little bit. We’ll get over there, and have a look at that,” he mentioned.
Cummins mentioned Mitchell Marsh, who has been appointed as Australia’s T20I captain, is the logical option to succeed him within the position of the ODI chief.
“The good thing is we have a few options. (Mitchell Marsh) is probably the most obvious one if he’s doing the T20s as well. Off the field, he’s just a great people-person. His energy’s infectious, he’s great to hang around with, always good fun.” Cummins had taken over as Australia’s 50-over format captain final 12 months from Aaron Finch however since then he had led solely in two of the six ODIs they performed.
He missed one match towards England as Josh Hazlewood stepped in.
Steve Smith led Australia in a three-match ODI collection towards India earlier this 12 months as Cummins returned house following the demise of his mom.
