"Don't think we are surprised with Smith's innings. We have seen it for 15 years from Smithy. He was fantastic. [He] almost dragged us over the line single-handedly at the end," Pat Cummins said after the Gabba Test.
India's star batter Virat Kohli competed with Australian captain Pat Cummins and World Cup 2023 final hero Travis Head for the biggest ICC award. Kohli was India's leading run-getter in Tests in 2023 and also won the Player of the Tournament award at the World Cup 2023.
It was a memorable year for Australia in Test cricket too as Pat Cummins led them to the World Test Championship beating India in the final. As many as five Australian players have made it to the ICC Test team of the year 2023.
Josh Hazlewood dazzled brightly with his spectacular performance with the ball. He bagged 4/44 in the first innings and backed it up with a match-winning fifer (5/35) in the second to leave West Indies dazed. Travis Head won the Player of the Match award for his gutsy 119 in the first innings.
Cummins led the Australians from the front with the ball in hand against Pakistan recently. The Australian skipper finished as the leading wicket-taker in the three-match series that saw Australia register a whitewash.
The ICC announced the Player of the Month nominees for December in both male and female categories with two Indians finding a place in the latter, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma for their performances in the England and Australia series. However, in the male category, no Indian was there.
India's star batter enjoyed a sensational year with 2048 runs in just 36 international innings with a record eight centuries in 2023 while the Australian captain claimed the ODI World Cup and WTC 2023 trophies to earn the nomination for the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers award.
Australia won the first Test in Perth by a humongous margin of 360 runs and earned a hard-fought victory in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) by 79 runs.
Australian captain Pat Cummins capped off a decorated year with his second 10-wicket haul in a Test match as the world Test champions took an unassailable 2-0 lead against Pakistan. Cummins is having a great time on and off the field as he came up with an epic response to Mohammad Hafeez.
Australian captain produced a match-winning performance with ten wickets (in two innings) in the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan at Melbourne Cricket Ground to conclude the year 2023 with another series win on Friday.
Skipper Pat Cummins registered figures of 10/97 as Australia clinched the three-match Test series against Pakistan taking an unassailable 2-0 lead with a 79-run win at MCG. Pakistan had their moments but couldn't hold onto them and if you give Australia a sniff, they won't let you breathe.
India and South Africa will look to stamp their authority on the moving Day of the first Test between the two sides. South Africa are ahead in the contest currently as they have 5 wickets in hand and also an 11-run lead.
AUS vs PAK: Pat Cummins got the wicket of Babar Azam with a 'dream ball' on Day 2 of the Australia vs Pakistan 2nd Test in Melbourne. Cummins took a fifer with sensational bowling in the first innings.
Usman Khawaja was reprimanded by the International Cricket Council (ICC) after he wore a black armband during the first Test of the Australian summer against Pakistan in Perth.
Former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed has not been included in the 12 players who have been shortlisted for the Boxing Day Test at the MCG by the Pakistan team management.
Iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground hosts Australia's second Test match against Shan Masood-led Pakistani team in the Boxing Day fixture. Pat Cummins' Australia are leading the three-match series 1-0 after a dominant 360-run win in Perth.
The IPL 2024 auction in Dubai on Tuesday, December 19 came to an end. 72 players were sold for a whopping sum of INR 230.45 crore. Mitchell Starc walked away with the biggest paycheck as KKR added the maximum number of players. Here's a look at squads of all 10 teams after the auction-
Sunrisers Hyderabad signed star Sri Lankan spin all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga for a base price of INR 1.5 crore but had to scorch INR 20.50 crore to sign Australian captain Pat Cummins in the Indian Premier League 2024 auction.
Former Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner revealed that he has been blocked by the 2016 champions on social media websites. Warner wanted to report his Australian teammates Travis Head and Pat Cummins' stories since they were both picked by SRH but he couldn't.
IPL auction 2024: Pat Cummins was picked for a huge sum of INR 20.5 crore by Sunrisers Hyderabad. This was the most expensive deal of the auction 2024 until Mitchell Starc broke that record a little later. Here's how much SRH will have to pay to Cummins for a single ball in IPL 2024.
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