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Australia’s Test captain Pat Cummins is pleading with cricket hierarchy to not burn out “vulnerable” allrounder Cameron Green.
Cummins says managing Green’s workloads will be paramount in the 23-year-old fulfilling his massive potential.
“Even the last couple of summers, it’s one of my first kind of thoughts whenever I bowl him is: we don’t want to burn him, he’s young, he’s vulnerable,” Cummins told reporters on Friday.
Cummins, because of injury, took six years between Test matches one and two.
“I have been on that side,” he said.
“It has been a real huge win for from the medical side of things to have him (Green) play as much cricket as he has over the last couple of years.
Cameron Green. (Photo by Steve Bell/Getty Images)
“And fortunately he can fall back on his batting even if he’s not bowling heaps.
“Now he’s in and around three formats, it becomes even more important.
“He is someone who loves playing so even when he goes back to WA we have got to manage that because we have got 15 Test matches in the next six months plus World Cups and lots of cricket.”
Green took the Twenty20 opening batting slot with aplomb in the recent series against India but isn’t among Australia’s 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup in November.
Cricket Australia have reportedly offered players including Cummins extended contracts to keep them out of the IPL.
Green looms as a multi-million IPL dollar selection if he nominates.
“It’s one of those ones: you can’t really blame anyone for going in, he is going to have huge demand on him wherever he plays,” Cummins said.
“So it’s a decision for him to make. There’s lots of cricket around.”
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Meanwhile, Australia’s veteran women’s star Ellyse Perry has hosed down suggestions she could replace Meg Lanning as captain.
Vice-captain Rachael Haynes has also retired, leaving the Australians with leadership positions to fill.
Lanning has taken an indefinite break from cricket but Perry said her focus was on returning to allrounder status, not the captaincy.
“I feel really uncomfortable considering something like that,” Perry told reporters on Friday.
“If Meg is not back for our next series, we have got some really wonderful young leaders coming through and some experienced leaders too.
“We have got some options there, but first and foremost it’s very much our thoughts and support is with Meg.”
Perry has been playing as a batter only because of a back injury but returned to bowling last weekend.
Durham have been docked 10 points in this year’s English County Championship after Nic Maddinson admitted to an infringement regarding the size of his bat.
The 30-year-old, who has played three Tests and six T20s for Australia, used a bat which failed a bat-gauge test in Durham’s Division Two match against Derbyshire earlier this month.
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Batting No.4 at Derby, in Durham’s first innings, Maddinson had scored just one run when eagle-eyed umpire Hassan Adnan stopped play because he was concerned the bat’s measurements exceeded regulations.
Those suspicions proved well founded because the bat would not pass through a gauge in an on-field test. Maddinson had to continue with a different bat and was dropped before being dismissed for eight runs.
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The Cricket Discipline Commission considered that there was no intent by Maddinson to gain an unfair advantage but added the issue had to be dealt with on a “strict liability basis”, with the onus on players to make sure the equipment they use conforms to the laws of the game.
A 10-point penalty was therefore imposed on Thursday, with no further sanction.
Durham began the last round of championship matches knowing they could not achieve promotion and their season ended on Thursday afternoon with a 462-run defeat against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.
Maddinson, who also plays for Victoria, and Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash, made 40 and 13 in his two innings in the match.
David Warner. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)
David Warner’s hopes of getting his leadership ban lifted hinge on whether Cricket Australia will rewrite its code of conduct.
A report in The Age reveals that under the code, Warner, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft gave up the right to appeal their sanctions for the 2018 ball-tampering scandal when they accepted their punishments without requesting a hearing.
According to the CA code: “Where a player or player support personnel admits the offence charged and accedes to the proposed sanction specified in the ‘Report & Notice of Charge’ form in accordance with the procedure described in Articles 4.5.5.1, the player or player support personnel waives his/her right to any appeal against the imposition of such a sanction.”
Warner is a potential candidate to replace Aaron Finch as one-day skipper after he announced his retirement from that format recently and he is also a chance to take over the T20 team with his opening partner almost certain to quit that side as well after next month’s World Cup on home soil.
Sydney Thunder are also keen to hear from CA about whether Warner will be eligible to lead them when he makes his long-awaited return to the BBL this summer.
Bumrah in doubt for World Cup
Star India paceman Jasprit Bumrah is reportedly set to miss next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia after being ruled out of the ongoing home series against South Africa with a back injury.
The 28-year-old, whose unorthodox action and yorkers make him a valuable limited-overs asset, missed the recent Asia Cup with the injury.
He played two 20-overs home matches against Australia earlier this month but skipped Wednesday’s Twenty20 against South Africa after the injury flared up.
Local media quoted Indian board (BCCI) sources as saying Bumrah had now been ruled out of the World Cup, where 2007 champions India begin their campaign on October 23 against arch-rivals Pakistan in Melbourne.
But BCCI spokespersons declined to confirm if Bumrah had been ruled out of the World Cup, with secretary Jay Shah saying only that the bowler would miss the entire South Africa series.
“Bumrah has sustained a back injury and is currently under the supervision of the BCCI medical team,” Shah said in a statement on Friday.
Mohammed Siraj will replace Bumrah for the next two matches against Temba Bavuma’s team.
India beat world champions Australia 2-1 earlier this month and are 1-0 up against South Africa in their three-match series.
However, their death-overs bowling has been a concern ahead of the World Cup. With Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Arshdeep Singh bleeding runs in the final overs India had hoped Bumrah’s return from injury would plug that hole.
Rohit Sharma’s team are also fretting over the fitness of batsman Deepak Hooda, who has been ruled out of the South Africa series with a back injury.
Teams can make changes to their squad with ICC approval up until October 15.
The Cup kicks off on October 16 with qualifying matches at Geelong featuring Namibia vs Sri Lanka and Netherlands vs the UAE.
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