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"He will return to India later this week to re-join preparations for the third Test in Indore," the team said in a statement.India are currently leading the four-match series 2-0. India, who have retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, had crushed Australia by an innings and 132 runs in the opening Test and went on to win the second Test, in Delhi, by 6 wickets.
Australia Test and ODI skipper Pat Cummins has flown back home mid-way of the ongoing Border-Gasvaskar Trophy against India. The pace bowling all-rounder took a flight to Sydney on Sunday due to a "serious family illness", informed Cricket Australia. However, the apex cricket body of the nation also stated that Cummins is expected to return before the third Test of the four-match series that is set to take place a the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore, starting March 1. After the Test series gets over, India and Australia will be playing a three-match ODI series, beginning March 17.
embarrassment in Pat Cummins’ speech at post-match press conference was unmistakable. His team went down sweeping mindlessly to Indian spinners on Sunday. The sweep has been the go-to shot in spinning conditions since Matthew Hayden’s rampage in India in 2001. It just appears that their cricketers believe there is not any other way to survive in these conditions.“There were a few lessons we learned well from last week. We did well in the first innings at times, probably at times just overplayed that in the second. I am probably as much to blame as anyone else there,” Cummins said while talking about the flurry of batters falling to the sweep shot.
MELBOURNE : Australia captain Pat Cummins has headed home from the tour of India due to a serious family illness but will return in time for the third test, the team said on Monday.
Australia captain Pat Cummins presented Cheteshwar Pujara with a signed Australian team's Test jersey to honour the India batter for playing his 100th Test on Sunday. After bowlers skittled out visitors for 113, Rohit Sharma, Srikar Bharat and Cheteshwar Pujara held their ground to help India register an emphatic 6-wicket victory against Australia in the second Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy here at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Sunday. The Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) on Sunday posted a photo of the Australian captain presenting a signed jersey to Pujara.
Not every batter is comfortable playing a high-percentage risk shot like sweep and reverse sweep and that's where some of his teammates perhaps “went out of their methods”, was skipper Pat Cummins' observation after Australia's demoralising six-wicket defeat against India in the second Test. As many as five Australian batters, including vice-captain Steve Smith, were guilty of playing across the line to deliveries that were consistently keeping low. “I thought they (India) bowled really well. It's not easy out there, but perhaps some guys went away from their methods,” Cummins said after the match. Cummins feels that the “one size fits all” approach isn't the right way to go about as far as batting on these tracks are concerned.
India spinner Ravindra Jadeja took career-best figures of 7-42 to help his team thrash Australia by six-wickets in the second Test and secure a series victory on Sunday.
NEW DELHI : Australia's batters went away from their usual methods for scoring runs which led to their downfall in the second test against India, captain Pat Cummins said after his team suffered another heavy defeat on Sunday.