Australian cricket nice Ian Healy thinks present Test and ODI captain Pat Cummins ought to relinquish the “burden” of captaincy and focus his consideration on bowling.
The superstar fast bowler took over from Tim Paine as Take a look at captain in November 2021 and has since assumed the position of ODI captain as properly, after longtime white-ball skipper Aaron Finch’s retirement from the one-day recreation.
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Finch has since called it quits from international cricket altogetherleaving a emptiness in Australia’s T20 captaincy, a job which Healy has warned Cummins off.
The truth is, the previous Australian wicketkeeper would not even suppose Cummins ought to maintain the Take a look at or ODI captaincy for for much longer.
“I do not need him carrying the burden of a lot captaincy for too lengthy,” Healy mentioned on SEN.
“I would like him to complete (as a bowler solely).
“The captaincy creates a burnout and 4 to 5 years is a very long time as a captain.
“He is achieved a number of years (as Take a look at captain) already, now he is including (ODI captaincy) to his thought processes at a time when he is coping with some type of household sickness again house.
“So yeah, I want to see him end his profession as a tearaway quick bowler and another person with the captaincy burden.”
Cummins left his aspect’s tour of India after the second Take a look at calamity to be together with his household, initially meaning to return for the third Take a look at at Indore.
However with information rising that his mom is critically sick and in palliative care, Cummins made the tough call to miss the third Test to stay with his family in Sydney.
Healy threw up an choice to be Cummins’ successor.
“I believe Travis Head is sort of succesful,” the 58-year-old mentioned.
“He is led South Australia since he was a 21-year-old, he is fairly succesful and has acquired lots of expertise.
“He is the primary one which stands out to me.
“The likes of Glenn Maxwell would possibly have the ability to do elements of it (within the quick kind), however so far as longer-term captaincy prospects apart from Travis Head, I can not suppose (of any).”
