Legendary Wk-keeper Adam Gilchrist was delighted with Pat Cummins after Australia’s ten-wicket victory against India at Adelaide.
The Australian captain Cummins played a key role in Australia’s win as he picked his 13th five-wicket haul in India’s second innings registering figures of 5/57.
Following his match-winning performance, Gilchrist lauded Pat Cummins saying that his spell was terrific to watch. The legendary wk-batter also mentioned how the fast bowler looked more aggressive in his celebration.
“Cummins was outstanding, he looked like if there needed a bit of a grease and oil change after Perth and a tune-up, he was purring by the end of it, so that was terrific to watch.”
“You could see just through his celebrations that… every wicket that he took he was more aggressive in his celebration,” said Gilchrist.
Gilchrist also highlighted that the Australian players looked stung by criticism after their 295-run loss in Perth.
“Not in that lose control extent but you could just see that clearly they’d been stung by a bit of criticism around after their performance and they internally would have been so disappointed with the way they played in Perth.”
“So it showed you what it meant to them and they knew that they were back at the level they want to play their cricket,” he added.
Meanwhile, India’s WTC final qualification chances have taken a massive turn after the ten-wicket loss in the pinkball test.
After the Adelaide loss, India moved to third spot in the WTC points table for the 2023-25 cycle with nine wins from 16 matches having a point percentage of 57.29%. On the other hand Australia claimed the second spot with having percentage of 60.71%.
Meanwhile South Africa are one win away from qualifying for the summit clash sitting in the top of the WTC standing with 63.33% PCT.
The third match of the Australia-India Tests will begin on December 14 at The Gabba.
