Former Australia cricketer Mike Hussey welcomed Pat Cummins’ captaincy after the 4th Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) completed in a draw.
Australia had England 9-wickets down with 2-overs to go, but Stuart Broad and James Anderson managed to hang on and repudiate the hosts a win.
Hussey, nevertheless, said Cummins did well as skipper and
almost got the job done. Conversation on Cricbuzz, the 46-year-old said:
“I thought he was very good. I would give him a very good mark out of 10. I think the way he rang the changes today, he changed the bowlers around from different ends. I thought his field positioning was excellent as well. Almost got the job done.”
Hussey said the only matter was whether Cummins may have decided to announce earlier in their 2nd innings to give the bowlers additional time to knock England over, but agreed that he was spot on tactically.
“The only thing is if he had the chance again, would he have maybe declared perhaps half an hour earlier? They had plenty of runs on the board for that pitch. England was always going to struggle to get that many. But tactically speaking, he did a very, very good job,” Hussey elaborated.
He also acclaimed how Cummins handled his bowling while also skippering the side.
Although he didn’t take a wicket for a while in the 2nd innings, Hussey said he came back to bowl a brilliant spell, rejecting Jos Buttler and Mark Wood in a similar over.
“Cummins didn’t pick up a wicket in the second innings for quite a period of time and I was wondering if he was juggling in his mind between his captaincy side of things and the bowling side of things. But then, he was able to compartmentalize that, come back on for that amazing spell. He saw the moment and seized the moment.”
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