Sydney: After losing their last two test captain amid allegations of violations, Cricket Australia will be sure to do their due diligence before appointing the next person to take over the job.
Tim Paine’s surprise resignation on Friday over sexually explicit text messages following the departure of Steve Smith of the leadership team after the scandal-Tubpering Ball controversial Newlands, 2018.
“The Board has accepted the resignation of Tim and now will work through a process to identify and national election panel appoint a new captain, “CA said in a statement.
As Vice-Captain, Fast bowler Pat Cummins 28 years would be an obvious choice to replace Paine and his appointment will enable a rapid transition to early Ashes series against England just three weeks away.
Although Cummins has a flawless record and is currently at the top of the test bowling rankings, Australia, like most of the major countries of Cricket, traditionally choose the captain of line-aduknya cough.
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The messages dating back to 2017, many months before Paine pulled back into the test team after an absence of seven years and a stint on the test while Cricketray Lindwall in India in 1956, making it the only specialist Fast Bowler to lead Australia in the format of the longest of the game , A candidate may be excluded unless Cricket Australia is ready to cancel its own decisions are opening batsman David Warner, who was given a lifetime of leadership ban for his part in the scandal Newlands.
Smith, the third best test batsman in the world according to the ICC rankings, qualified, however, after serving a two-year ban on the leadership to “Sandpapergate”.
In anticipation of retirement Paine widely expected at the end of the Ashes series, a media campaign to revive the three-year reign as captain rumbled all the time now, and Smith have expressed interest.
However, Cummins, said recently he was ready, willing and able to step into the top job and not worry too much about adding a task to the captain of a workload that is sometimes difficult to lead the pace attack.
Former captain Steve Waugh said earlier this month that it was time bowler, especially Cummins, given the opportunity to lead the test team, and the head of Travis TRAVIS Batman futures on Friday.
“Obviously Pat has spoken well, named as Vice-Captain, it’s hard to pass him, or give him a chance,” he told reporters after the resignation of Paine.
“He is someone who exudes leadership, not only with the way he presents himself and spoke and the way he goes about things and the way he coached, but also when he is on the field.”