Ashes 2017-18: Pat Cummins continues to bowl despite being highly unwell

Australian speedster Pat Cummins showed great resilience on the second day of the ongoing Ashes fixture at the MCG. Cummins had picked up a stomach bug a day earlier that made his seriously unwell as the Australian team took the field on the second day. During the course of the game (Ashes 4th Test, Day 2), Cummins was seen struggling with his fitness.

He bowled a spell of three overs and had a chat with skipper Steve Smith. He went off the field and then came back after a little while to roll his arms over. As per the quotes in Stuff.co.nz, teammate of Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, later remarked that the latter was seriously unwell. Cummins was so sick that he had to sleep during the tea interval on the day.

“At tea time he slept pretty well, the whole 18 minutes of it. Hopefully he’ll see the doctor tonight, get some fluid on board and have a good night’s sleep. I was pretty proud of Pat … the way he stuck at it and was able to put that massive effort in for us was quite pleasing to see,” quoted Nathan Lyon.

Not the first time

Incidentally, this is not the first time that Pat Cummins has struggled big time during a Test fixture. Earlier this year, he was the solitary pacer in the Aussie lineup for a Test against Bangladesh. During that game, Cummins was seen struggling too. Later, he had admitted that the conditions in Bangladesh were the worst that the team had ever faced in terms of humidity and heat.

“All the boys who played that test said it was the hardest they’d ever experienced in terms of the brutal heat and humidity. Even the Bangladeshis struggled,” he wrote on PlayersVoice earlier this year.

“Sometimes, in between overs, I’d be at fine leg on all fours, vomiting. When I look back on it all, it makes me happy. That might sound like a strange thing to say … but I’m really satisfied that I got through it all,” he had written further.

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