Pat Cummins scripts HISTORY, breaks 62-year-old record, becomes only Australian captain to...
Pat Cummins.
New Delhi: On Day 2 of the first Test match of the Frank Worrell Trophy against the West Indies on Thursday (June 26), at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, Pat Cummins etched his name in the record books again after he broke a long-standing record that had stood since 62 years, the longest in Test cricket history.
Eliminating Keacy Carty during the fifth session of Day 3, Pat Cummins made another successful strike to dismiss Roston Chase during the second session of Day 4. The West Indies skipper had just balanced the batting with a steady 44 and seemed set to place his side in the lead when Cummins bowled him LBW to stem the tide.
Pat Cummins scripts history
Upon the removal of Keacy Carty, Pat Cummins matched the records of the most number of Test wickets by an Australian captain by Richie Benaud. He would then overtake Benaud by dismissing Roston Chase to be second in the all-time list of captains with test wickets. Cummins becomes the second in line after the great Pakistan former captain Imran Khan in this prestigious list.
Pat Cummins' magical numbers as a skipper
Cummins is also the joint-second-highest five-wicket bagging Test captain with nine to his credit–one less than the current record of 10 by Imran Khan. Richie Benaud nonetheless remains on the top of the list of most wickets captured by a spin bowler as a captain.
Pat Cummins replaced Tim Paine as the Test captain of Australia in 2021 and has captained his country in 28 matches to date. By comparison, Richie Benaud led Australia in 35 Tests, and Imran Khan in 48 red-ball tests at the helm.
As the Test captain, Pat Cummins has led Australia to great victories where they won the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) title in 2023 and qualified as finalists again in 2025.
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