After facing defeat in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne and trailing 1-2 in the four-match series against India, Shane Warne had heaped praise on Cummins and predicted him to be the future captain.
Kohli overtook Steven Smith in August and has now held the top position for 135 days.
Hick stressed the need to develop awareness of the game and gave the example of Kohli's first innings 204-ball 82-run knock.
The Australian batting failed for a second time in this Test, after getting bowled out poorly in the first innings.
India came within sniffing distance of a defining victory before a stoic resistance by Australia's tail delayed the inevitable on Saturday.
Pat Cummins struck a valiant unbeaten half-century to keep India two wickets away from victory in Melbourne.
Kohli fell before lunch, edging Pat Cummins (1-54) to second slip where Peter Handscomb just got his fingers under the ball.
After the Adelaide Test, the 21-year-old told the media that he enjoys troubling batsmen by distracting them.
India beat Australia by 31 runs at the Adelaide Oval on Monday to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
Rishabh Pant was trying to force Pat Cummins into playing a big shot against R Ashwin in the 76th over of the Australian innings.
Skipper Virat Kohli, who grabbed all the headlines ahead of the Adelaide Test, failed to live up to the expectations in the first innings.
It will be surely a series to watch out for before the 2019 ICC World Cup and both teams will give their all to achieve the glory and the journey will start from Adelaide Oval.
South Africa's Duminy has been released along with Australian fast-bowler Cummins, who was ruled out before the start of IPL 2018. Rahman and Lankan spinner Dananjaya have also been let off.
Australia is scheduled to play two test matches and three one-dayers and a Twenty20 international against Pakistan in the UAE.
The comment, which made headlines in the cricket world, was viewed as Cummins bravely laying down a challenge to Kohli.
In India's last tour to Australia in 2014, Kohli scored four centuries, including two in Adelaide and one each in Melbourne and Sydney.
Pat Cummins was bought by the Mumbai Indians for Rs 5.4 crore. He joins his Australian teammate Mitchell Starc in the list of injured players who will not take part in the IPL.
Cummins removed AB de Villiers for 64 after tea to end his 128-run stand with Dean Elgar and start South Africa's sudden slide.
Cummins said Australia had deliberately targeted the England tailenders with bouncers and would continue to do so.
Pat Cummins picked up two vital wickets to restore some confidence in Australia's pace trio after a pair of unheralded batsmen grinded through most of the opening day of the Ashes series to help England reach 196/4 at stumps.
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