Cameron Green would be available to bowl during the Ashes<\/a>, while the likes of Brendan Doggett, Sean Abbott, Michael Neser and Jhye Richardson will be pushing for spots in Australia\u2019s extended Test squad.<\/p>\nCummins is unlikely to play any Sheffield Shield or ODI cricket before the first Test against England in Perth, but suggested warm-up games weren\u2019t \u201cvital\u201d to his Ashes preparation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIdeally you\u2019re playing ODIs and then you\u2019re playing a Shield game, that\u2019s probably what the other boys are doing, and that was probably my original plan,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019d asked me ten years ago, I would have said I need to play (warm-up) games. Now in centre wickets, net sessions, I\u2019ll just bowl a lot more overs. I feel like I can get up to the Test level pretty quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll work out a program where I\u2019m ready to play. I won\u2019t go into a Test where I feel like I can break down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cummins also said it was \u201cpleasing\u201d to see teenage opener Sam Konstas and former Test No. 3 Marnus Labuschagne start their summer with hundreds in Australia A and the One-Day Cup respectively. <\/p>\n
Apart from Cummins\u2019 back, the biggest question mark in Australia\u2019s Test side ahead of the Ashes has been the struggling top order, with the identity of Usman Khawaja\u2019s opening partner still unknown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s super early. There are still four Shield rounds and loads of one-day cricket to come,\u201d Cummins said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year, you\u2019re going to have a few guys who really stand up and keep backing up with some big scores, but it\u2019s off to a good start.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cummins is a co-founder of Climate for Cricket, a non-for-profit organisation that delivers practical solar and battery projects for community cricket clubs nationwide, cutting energy costs and improving climate resilience.<\/p>\n
Last month, Cummins met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House to lobby for funding to help sporting clubs withstand the effects of climate change, with the Federal Government investing $50 million over four years to help ensure clubs remain sustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian captain Pat Cummins still aims to play all five Ashes Tests this summer despite his back complaint,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-153407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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