Pat Cummins has revealed how two video games he didn’t play supplied Australia with the blueprint for World Cup glory in India.
After struggling a fractured wrist whereas fielding within the last Ashes Check on the Oval, Cummins was nonetheless recovering when he flew to South Africa to look at the ultimate two video games of an ODI collection towards the Proteas alongside head coach Andrew McDonald.
Pat Cummins with the World Cup trophy.Credit score: Getty
Over the video games in Centurion and Johannesburg, Cummins watched the likes of Josh Hazlewood, Marcus Stoinis and Adam Zampa get pummeled by Heinrich Klaasen and firm, and with McDonald talked via the plans they in the end used on the Cup.
Particularly, the attitude from on excessive, which Cummins likened to that of an AFL coaches’ field, satisfied him that making an attempt to nail yorkers within the demise overs was not a proportion transfer – the slower ball and bouncer plans that curtailed India within the Cup last in Ahmedabad had been born on the excessive veldt. Throughout the sport the place Travis Head broke his hand, no much less.