Former England captain Michael Vaughan stated that Australian skipper Pat Cummins might be remembered as Australia’s best cricketer after batting nice Don Bradman due to his good numbers and performances. Cummins continued his red-hot type together with his third successive five-wicket haul throughout Australia’s third and last Test of the sequence in opposition to Pakistan at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). “I saw a bit of DK Lillee (Dennis Lillie), but I think Pat Cummins,” Vaughan stated on Fox Cricket.

Vaughan stated that Cummins has atleast 5 to seven extra years to play, with the skipper being simply 30 presently. He stated that after a number of years, Cummins might be simply behind Bradman as Australia’s best cricketer.

“I do not think he is ever going to surpass Sir Don, but I think Pat Cummins is going to be Australia’s greatest cricketer after Sir Don. I honestly think he is that good. His bowling. His captaincy. His numbers. He has five to seven years left to play.”

“I honestly think he is that good that we will be talking about him in a few years as being just behind Sir Don Bradman as the greatest Australian cricketer,” he concluded.

2023 might be remembered because the yr of skipper Pat Cummins, because the silent, smiling Australian murderer guided the multi-time World Cup-winning aspect to quite a few memorable championship title wins.

The yr was not the one to recollect for Cummins on a private entrance, as he misplaced his mom Maria to breast most cancers in March of this yr. But in what has been an inspiring story crammed with ardour for the game and nation, resilience, tonnes of psychological and bodily energy and willpower, the skipper led from the entrance and made the Men in Yellow, the cricketing fraternity and most significantly, his mom, proud.

Cummins retained the Ashes in UK as a captain following a 2-2 sequence draw, received the ICC World Test Championship and Australia’s sixth ICC Cricket World Cup as a captain final yr. He concluded the yr with an enormous win over Pakistan within the Boxing Day Test, through which he additionally took a ten-wicket haul, which included two five-wicket hauls in every innings.

In the IPL auctions lately held in Dubai, Pat Cummins secured a Rs 20.50 crore cope with Sunrisers Hyderabad, turning into the most costly IPL participant ever at one level earlier than his teammate Mitchell Starc beat him with a Rs 24.75 crore cope with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

Cummins ended the yr with 59 wickets in 24 matches, with the very best bowling figures of 6/91. 42 of those wickets got here in Tests, whereas 17 got here in ODIs.

Cummins additionally delivered some helpful performances with the bat through the Ashes and World Cup, scoring 422 runs in 28 innings this yr at a mean of 21.10. His 44* in opposition to England immediately traditional first Ashes Test and 12* in a double century stand with Glenn Maxwell in opposition to Afghanistan within the Cricket World Cup come to thoughts immediately.

In 196 worldwide video games, Cummins has 453 wickets at a mean of 24.45, with the very best figures of 6/23. The highest-wicket taker for Australia in worldwide cricket is known spinner Shane Warne, who ended up with 1,001 wickets. Cummins is the ninth-highest wicket-taker for Australia in worldwide cricket.

Cummins has taken 257 wickets in 58 Tests, 141 wickets in 88 ODIs and 55 wickets in 50 T20Is.

With 1,746 runs in 161 innings throughout all codecs at a mean of 14.79, together with two Test fifties, Cummins can also be a really succesful lower-order batter.

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