SYDNEY : Australia captain Pat Cummins wants to play international cricket for another five years but has already experienced one period of burnout which forced him to reassess the balance in his life. The 30-year-old paceman played his first test as a teenager in South Africa in 2011 but did not play his
SYDNEY : Australia captain Pat Cummins wants to play international cricket for another five years but has already experienced one period of burnout which forced him to reassess the balance in his life.
Once he did return to Australia's colours, however, he quickly discovered the almost unrelenting demands on the top modern players. "There's always a cricket game going on somewhere, and I played non-stop for a year or two. This is about four or five years ago, I kind of just came back from injuries. Cummins's last action came on Australia's tour of India earlier this year, which he left early to return home to be with his terminally ill mother.
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