‘The biggest challenge is that you’ve got ten overs to bowl’

The ODI World Cup 2023 is nicely underway, however the marquee event didn’t get off to one of the best of begins for the Pat Cummins-led Australia. The aspect took on India of their first recreation of the event and succumbed to a bitter loss towards the Rohit Sharma-led aspect.

Talking of the identical, Australian skipper Pat Cummins got here ahead to speak about how difficult the ODI format has been for him personally. The 30-year-old talked about how he solely centered on Take a look at and T20 cricket within the early phases of his profession and the way his function modified in ODI cricket.

Cummins made his ODI debut in 2011, and through the years, he has solely performed 78 matches within the format, which is the place a number of confusion and headache stems from. In keeping with the pacer, his tactical strategy to the format is what wants work.

“Early in my profession, I discovered it a tough stability between Take a look at cricket and T20, and I used to be getting too funky. With one-day cricket, your roles will be very totally different – from being a gap bowler with a ball that swings, to approaching first change and possibly bowling cross-seamers the place you are attempting to defend and get your wickets via stress. It is a totally different sort of problem to the opposite codecs,” Pat Cummins was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.

It is fairly a bodily format: Cummins

Moreover, Cummins additionally talked about how one of many largest challenges within the format is how the bowlers have ten overs to bowl. Branding ODI cricket as one of many bodily taxing codecs, he did state that it’s fairly robust, however he has been having fun with it. 

“The largest problem is that you’ve ten overs [to bowl]. It is fairly a bodily format, I discover it probably the most bodily taxing if you’re doing two or three video games in every week. We’re doing 15k (kilometres) in a 50-over match,” Cummins mentioned.

“In T20, in case you bowl one actually good over that may be match-winning. However in one-day cricket, it isn’t usually the case, and it is uncommon that situations are within the bowlers’ favour, which is okay. It is only a problem you have to try to cope with. It is robust however I do take pleasure in it,” he added.