In an interview, Australian World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins recently revealed how he made a brilliant plan to win the 2023 World Cup Final in India last month. Pat Cummins revealed that the Australian team and the management decided to switch their plan from Plan A to Plan B after losing the ODI series in South Africa which resulted in a very important decision over time.
The 30-year-old Australian pacer said that he watched his teammates getting exhausted after bowling long spells and then being punished for boundaries during the death overs in hot and humid conditions, similar to India. It became important for him to discuss new plans with Australia’s head coach, Andrew McDonald. After sustaining a wrist injury, Cummins had to miss out on the series which led to the conversation being initiated.
After winning the World Cup, Pat Cummins further looked back at his team’s achievements under his leadership as the Aussies won the World Test Championship final, ODI World Cup, and Ashes in 2023. He was quite happy and said it would be a very memorable year and mentioned it as the highlight of his cricketing career.
Pat Cummins explains how he masterminded Australia’s 2023 World Cup glory
In an interview by Sydney Morning Herald (via Masthead), Australian World Cup Captain Pat Cummins explained how he masterminded Australia’s 2023 World Cup Victory and was quoted as saying:
“So from afar as well, you look at it and it is a bit of a pressure release, seeing that. And it is like you’re seeing things play out and just a different perspective to what we normally get on the ground,” said Pat Cummins.
“Sitting up there next to Andrew means we could talk through things on the fly ahead of the series. I think in Centurion it was hot, about 40C, the boys had been out there for three hours. Then you’ve got two set batters and you’re running in trying to hit yorkers and as an outsider that just looked really hard to do,” he stated.
He added
“The boys looked tired, they’d been out there for hours. So I think off the back of that you start to have conversations around ‘OK, well, at our best, yes, we might be able to hit yorkers, but if we’ve been in the field for 40 overs and we’re cooked, how do we put the percentages back in our favor?’ So slower balls, maybe bouncers or cutters, things that have a bit more margin for error,” he added.