{"id":223205,"date":"2025-10-18T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223205\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:21:12","slug":"australia-chief-selector-announces-replacement-captain-for-the-ashes-if-pat-cummins-fails-to-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223205\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia chief selector announces replacement captain for The Ashes if Pat Cummins fails to make it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The cricketing fraternity is getting ready for one of its biggest rivalries. Australia and England are getting ready to face each other in the upcoming Ashes. However, Pat Cummins\u2019 injury is a thing of concern as the team might start the series without their captain.<\/p>\n

\"Pat Pat Cummins celebrates after taking the wicket of South Africa’s Temba Bavuma.(Action Images via Reuters) <\/p>\n

However, the Australian chief selector has ensured that the management is ready with an option. He has put the captaincy contingent on record in case Pat Cummins doesn\u2019t play the Ashes opener in Perth on November 21. In a recent media interaction, he confirmed that Steve Smith is the automatic stand-in and struck an upbeat note on Cummins\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n

George Bailey speaks about Cummins\u2019 replacement and readiness of the team<\/p>\n

Speaking about the involvement of Pat Cummins with the rest of the team, even if he is out, Bailey said, \u201cRegardless of whether he\u2019s playing, Pat\u2019s keen to be around because if he\u2019s not playing, he\u2019ll be rehabbing and getting ready and bowling, so he\u2019ll be with the team anyway. So, that information flow and working together as captain and vice-captain will remain the same,\u201d as quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n

While speaking about Pat Cummins\u2019 captaincy, Bailey said, \u201cI actually have no further update on that from when I think the last time Pat spoke. It is progressing. He\u2019s building up. He\u2019s optimistic about it. I think actually the more he\u2019s done over the last few days, the more optimistic he\u2019s become, but I categorically don\u2019t know if he\u2019s bowled a ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey also spoke about the readiness of Steve Smith<\/a> for the role during the series, \u201cSteve landed and he was at cricket NSW the next day batting. So he\u2019ll do his thing. We\u2019ve tried to tailor everyone\u2019s prep to suit them and certain obligations around that, but very comfortably, he\u2019ll be ready to go,\u201d said Bailey.<\/p>\n

These statements are coming after Pat Cummins<\/a> was heard saying that the Ashes opener might be a bit too quick for him to be ready and that he is less than likely to make it earlier this week. The Australian skipper\u2019s absence might hurt the team\u2019s chances, as, besides being a leader, he is also one of the main bowlers of the team and has the ability to change the course of a match with his wholehearted bowling efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cricketing fraternity is getting ready for one of its biggest rivalries. Australia and England are getting ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[13285,64,63,740,1208,1948,85,35235],"class_list":["post-223205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ashes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-pat-cummins","tag-sports","tag-steve-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223205","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=223205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}