Pat Cummins

Pat Cummins is a player that truly epitomises the Aussie spirit of never giving up. After making a stellar start to his career, injuries nearly forced him into oblivion but the star all-rounder batted all odds and now is one of the premier cricketers all around the globe. He captains Australia in Test and ODI formats.

Pat Cummins was born on May 8, 1993, in Westmead, Sydney, Australia. He is 6'4" tall, right-handed batter and excels as a right-arm bowler. As one of the best fast bowlers in Test cricket history and one of the finest players of his generation, Pat Cummins has garnered an overwhelming amount of acclaim. He has guided Australia to victory in the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. In addition, he's regarded as a reliable lower-order batsman and a decent finisher.

Pat Cummins: Along the Years 

Pat Cummins Records 

• Current no. 1 Test Bowler in ICC rankings.

• Cummins became the youngest Australian player to bag a five-wicket haul in Test cricket at the age of 18 years and 193 days. He achieved the feat on his debut Test against South Africa in November 2011 in the second Test in Johannesburg.

• In 2019, Cummins picked 99 wickets in a calendar year - 59 in Tests, 31 in ODIs and nine in T20 Internationals.

• Cummins is only the second Australia skipper after George Giffen in 1984 to pick a five-wicket haul in first Test as captain. He became the first captain to pick a five-wicket haul in Ashes since Bob Willis in 1982.

• Cummins holds the record for scoring the joint-fastest half-century in IPL.

• With 11 wickets in the 2010–11 Big Bash Series, Pat Cummins became the youngest player to be signed for the 2011–12 International Series.

• Cummins became the world's number 1 test bowler in 2019, the first Australian to do so since Glenn McGrath.

• One of the slowest innings in ODI history that took place in the 2023 World Cup(12 runs from 68 balls).

• Australian bowler with the highest ranking points in Tests (914 points)

• Fastest Australian to 250 Wickets in Test

• First Captain to Take a 10-Wicket Haul in a Melbourne Test

Pat Cummins Awards

• Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2020

• After the completion of the 2019 season, Cummins won the ICC '2019 Test cricketer of the year'.

• He won the Allan Border Medal at Australian Cricket Awards in February 2019 .

• He was awarded the Wisden Cricketer of the year in 2020.

• ICC Men’s Test Team of the Year: 2019, 2022, 2023 (captain)

• Shane Warne Men’s Test Player of the Year-2021

• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy- 2023

• ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year- 2023

Pat Cummins Career 

Australian cricketer Pat Cummins is famed for his career achievements and success in the World Cup tournaments. He has won many honours and is currently the top-ranked test bowler in the world. Known for his dynamic leadership, Cummins has played for a number of domestic and regional cricket teams. He was a member of the Australian side that won the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Cummins was the winning captain of both the 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. 

Pat Cummins Domestic Career 

Pat Cummins started his junior cricket days by playing for the Glenbrook Cricket Club. He then made his entry in first-class cricket in 2010, playing for Penrith.

The 2010-11 season was the best season for his domestic cricket and he emerged as the leading wicket-taker in the T20 Big Bash League 2010. In March 2011, he made his first-class debut in a match against Tasmania where he took his maiden four-wicket haul.

Pat Cummins IPL Career 

Owing to his sheer pace and the ability to hit the deck on a consistent basis, Pat Cummins was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014. However, injuries and lack of opportunities meant that he played only 4 games over the course of the next two seasons.

The Aussie bowler was then bought by Delhi Capitals ahead of IPL 2017. Cummins played 12 games and picked up 17 wickets. However, he became the most expensive buy in the 2020 IPL Auction after being bagged by KKR for a whopping 15.50 crores (AUD 3.17 million). It is back to purple and gold for pacer Cummins.

He picked 12 wickets in 14 games, including a four-wicket haul in the 2020 IPL season. Cummins played seven matches in the first half of IPL 2021 but decided to skip the second leg in UAE in order to stay beside his wife for the birth of their first child.

Cummins displayed his power-hitting abilities with the bat as he smashed an unbeaten 66 in 34 balls with the help of four boundaries and six sixes. Although KKR lost the match by 18 runs, a new side of Cummins was disclosed to the world.

Cummins was released by KKR ahead of IPL 2022 auction but the franchise picked him for INR 7.25 crores despite intense bidding by both new IPL teams Lucknow and Gujarat for the Australian quick.

Playing in his first game for KKR in IPL 2022, Cummins slammed the joint-fastest fifty in IPL. He hit his fifty in 14 balls against Mumbai Indians to equal the record of KL Rahul. The Aussie speedster also picked seven wickets in five games he played in the season. He was benched in a few games after getting hit for runs.

Due to his busy international schedule, Australia's captain Pat Cummins decided not to participate in the Indian Premier League in 2023.

With the Kolkata Knight Riders, Pat Cummins played in the last three IPL seasons before having his 2022 season cut short by a hip injury.

In the IPL 2024 Mini Auction, SRH signed Pat Cummins as the skipper for a record breaking deal of 20.5 crore. He led Hyderabad to the final.

Pat Cummins International Career 

Australian cricketer Pat Cummins is the captain of the men's national team for both Test and One-Day International cricket. As one of the best fast bowlers of his generation as well as one of the all-time greats in Test cricket, Cummins is widely regarded as the player for big tournaments. Additionally, he is renowned for being an effective lower-order batsman. He was a member of the Australian side that won the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.. Cummins was the winning captain of both the 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Pat Cummins ODI Career 

Cummins was part of the title-winning Australian squad of 2015 but played just two games due to recurring injury concerns and the availability of Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc and James Faulkner in the pace department.

In 2019, he was selected for the ODI series against India. In the first ODI, he took 0-48 in the 10 overs whereas in the second ODI he took 4-29. However, it was in the 4th ODI that Cummins claimed his best bowling figures in an ODI with 5/70 that restricted India to 358/9. Cummins picked 31 wickets in 2019 out of which 14 of those were registered in the 2019 ICC World Cup.

On 29 February 2020, Cummins took his 100th ODI wicket in the first match against South Africa. Cummins played just nine ODI matches since cricket resumed in June 2020, after Covid-hiatus. One of the major reasons was his elevation to Test captaincy and the shift in more T20I matches apart from the T20 leagues around the globe.

Following Aaron Finch's retirement from ODI cricket, Cummins captained Australia for the first time on November 17, 2022.

He led Australia's cricket team in the 2023 World Cup in India as captain. Prior to the world cup, he had only led Australia in four ODI matches, making him the least seasoned captain in the competition. The team had a poor start to the league stage, losing their opening two games and finishing last in the standings. After that, the team won nine straight games and defeated the host nation, India, in the championship match to win Australia's sixth world cup. 15 wickets were taken by Pat Cummins in 11 games.

In the final, he claimed two vital wickets of Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer while only giving up 34 runs in his 10 overs. Many cricket fans and experts praised Pat for his captaincy during the final match against India.

Pat Cummins Test Career 

Cummins made his debut in Test cricket at an extremely young age of 18, a feat very few people have achieved so far. Cummins made his debut in Test cricket against South Africa in 2011.

Cummins finished the 2019 Ashes in England with the most wickets - 29 in 10 innings - as Australia retained the urn with a 2-2 result in the five-Test series. Cummins picked 8 and 12 wickets against Pakistan and New Zealand in Australia's summer in 2019.

Cummins picked 21 wickets in four matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020-21 against India. He was the leading wicket-taker of the series from both sides although Australia lost 2-1 on their home turf for the second time in a row.

Cummins replaced Tim Paine as Australia Test skipper just before the 2021-22 Ashes. He once again finished with most wickets in the prestigious Test series with 21 dismissals in four matches at 18.05. This was the third time for Cummins to lead the bowling charts in Ashes.

He accounted for 12 dismissals in the three Tests in Pakistan, including the match-winning figures of 5/56 in Lahore that helped Australia to win their only match and eventually clinch the series 1-0.

In the four-match Border-Gavaskar series against India, Australia lost both of the first two games under Cummins' leadership. Due to his mother's illness, Cummins had to return to Australia, therefore Steve Smith captained the team for the final two games as well as the three-match ODI series.

In the ICC World Test Championship Final 2023, which took place between June 7 and 11, 2023, Cummins guided Australia to victory against India.

Australia won all three of the series' matches under Cummins' captaincy, and the team retained the Benaud–Qadir Trophy in December 2023 and January 2024. In the Second Test at the MCG, Cummins also claimed his second career 10-wicket haul and, with his dismissal of Mohammed Rizwan, he reached the milestone of 250 test dismissals as Australia easily defeated Pakistan by 79 runs.

Pat Cummins T20I Career 

Pat made his international debut against South Africa in the year 2011. It was a two-match T20 series and he took 5 wickets in total, two in the first and three in the second match. Unlike longer formats, Cummins wasn't a regular member of the T20I side. He played just 18 T20 Internationals from 2011 to 2018 and claimed 23 wickets at an average of 20.47.

It is only from 2019 that the Aussie fast bowler has started in the T20I playing XI on a regular basis and also played a key role in Australia's triumph in the T20 World Cup 2021 in UAE. He picked five wickets in the tournament and was clinical in the slog overs conceding 7.10 runs per over. Cummins retained his place in the 2022 T20 World Cup hosted by Australia.

Pat Cummins Captaincy 

Cummins was the winning captain of both the 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. He was a member of the Australian team that won the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Pat Cummins captained the Australian cricket team through 27 Test matches as of March 2024, with 16 victories, 6 losses, and 5 draws. In Test matches, his winning percentage is 59.25. In ODIs, Cummins has also led Australia, succeeding Aaron Finch. 

The first fast bowler to captain Australia on a full-time basis is Cummins. In his role as captain, he has also captured 100 Test wickets, making history as the second Australian cricket player to do so, behind Richard Benaud. 

Pat Cummins Under-19 Career 

At the age of seventeen, Cummins made his first-class debut against Tasmania in March 2011. He took two wickets in the match. In the 2010–11 Sheffield Shield season, Cummins played in three games, including the final one in which he bowled 65 overs. Later, a back injury barred him from playing in the Australia A tour of Zimbabwe.

Cummins was included in Australia's provisional squad for the August 2012 ICC Under-19 World Cup, which took place in Queensland. After playing for the Sydney Sixers in the 2012 Champions League and the Australia T20 World Cup, Cummins was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his back in November, which again kept him out of the 2012–13 home summer.

Pat Cummins Family 

Pat Cummins was born on 8 May 1993 to Peter Cummins and Maria Cummins in Westmead, South Australia. He has four siblings which includes two brothers - Tim Cummins and Matt Cummins - and two sisters - Laura Cummins and Kara Cummins.

Pat got engaged to his long-time partner Becky Boston on February 5, 2020. The pair married on August 1, 2022. They have a son named Albie Boston Cummins who was born on October 12, 2021.

Pat Cummins Net Worth 

Pat Cummins's estimated net worth as of 2024 is approximately USD 41 million. The majority of his income stems from international matches, brand endorsements, domestic circuits and IPL . Cricket Australia released a list of 24 players for the National Men's Contract List 2023–24 in April 2023. The highest contract players make over $3 million annually, per that contract. Pat Cummins was signed by the SRH for INR 20.5 crore in the 2024 IPL auction.

Pat Cummins House 

Pat Cummins lives in a lavish house in Sydney. His house is located in Eastbourne, Sydney.

Pat Cummins Cars 

Pat Cummins owns a Land Rover Range Rover Sport, Ferrari 488 GTB and a Mercedes Benz S-Class.