Pat Cummins not involved in white-ball captaincy

Pat Cummins is targeted on doing justice to his appointment as Australia’s new Test captain and believes limited-overs management can be “too much” for him, the 28-year-old stated on Saturday.
Cummins is the primary Australia paceman to steer the workforce in 65 years after Tim Paine stood down earlier this month following a “sexting” scandal.
Limited-over skipper Aaron Finch led Australia to their maiden Twenty20 World Cup title earlier this month, and Cummins reckoned split-captaincy suited them.
“It’s probably too early to say, mainly because I start this role and see where we go,” Cummins was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press.
“My intestine feeling and desire in the intervening time is to have separate captains.
“I believe it’s an excessive amount of to ask, definitely of me. I’d love to only focus on check cricket.
“Aaron’s doing a fantastic job,” Cummins stated, saying it was finest to have “someone who can take the white-ball squad teams to make it their own, take it in their own direction”.
“At the moment I’m purely focused on tests, that will stay the same” for the foreseeable future.Finch, 35, is eager to steer the workforce at the least till the 50-overs World Cup in India in 2023, after which Australia might have to search out his successor.
Cummins, who has insisted he doesn’t need to miss check cricket, stated he has been flooded with messages since touchdown the check captain’s function however the feeling had not sunk in but.
“Probably not fully,” he stated after a observe session on the Gold Coast.”I believe till I stroll out on the Gabba and see a giant residence crowd, pull on the Baggy Green (cap) and exit for the toss – that’s when it’ll most likely hit me. It’s a little bit of a bizarre feeling.”

The Gabba Stadium in Brisbane will host the primary Ashes check in opposition to England from Dec. 8. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth are the opposite venues of the five-match sequence.