Pat Cummins

In what should serve as a frightening wake-up call for cricket administrators, Australian Test captain Pat Cummins has reportedly been targeted by cashed-up ...

“In terms of mindset, I feel really fresh and ready to get stuck in, so it was a great break, a couple of the niggles are fine. “I think realistically more and more people are going to go down that route for a variety of reasons, so I think we have to be conscious of that,” he told News Corp reporters at Kayo’s summer of cricket launch at the SCG last week. “That World Cup is the time we want to be peaking so I think we’ll find that balance between making sure we’re ready but not overcooked going to the start of the World Cup. “We’ve got to make sure that it remains that way and that’s in scheduling and in payment and in vision of just what it means to be an Aussie cricketer. “I think it’s just us as a sport in Australia to make sure that we’ve got a really strong vision of what we want Australian cricket to look like for the next five, ten years. “We all want to keep Australian cricket as number one, so how can we manage all these different competing interests to try and keep it that way?