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How do Australia keep winning ICC titles? Pat Cummins reveals mantra ahead of T20 World Cup 2024
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Australia Test and ODI captain Pat Cummins has revealed the secret behind Australia’s success in the ICC tournaments. Australia won two ICC titles under Cummins’ leadership in 2023. In fact Cummins in the only captain in the history of cricket to win two ICC titles in a single year. Speaking exclusively to Sports Tak after guiding SRH to the final of the Indian Premier League, Cummins said that it was important to strike a balance between mentality and approach.
Cummins said that the luck factor could not be discounted in an ICC tournament. The World Cup-winning captain said that Australia try to find a balance between treating finals as a normal game, while maintaining that whatever they do in the match will be remembered for a long time.
“You cannot discount the factor of luck in winning an ICC title. We spend a lot of time balancing between de-pressurising a final, but at the same time kind of acknowledging that you are going to spend a long time in your life looking back and make sure you play the way you wanted to play. We have had a bit of success taking the confidence of a final into the next one,” Cummins told Sports Tak.
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Asked which final was more difficult to win, the ODI World Cup or the WTC, Cummins said that the ODI World Cup presented a lot of challenges for India and winning the title in foreign conditions gave them a lot of joy.
“The ODI World Cup, we have to beat every other team. We were playing in Indian conditions, which was quite foreign to us. We had injuries to deal with, form to deal with, so a lot of things had to come together, and it did come together in the final. And you know, that’s what makes it do satisfying you know. It’s not easy,” Cummins said.
With the T20 World Cup set to start in a week’s time, Cummins said that Australia were not one of the favourites, but were going into the team with a lot of confidence under their belt.
“Not sure we are favourites. We are one of the better sides who are coming into the tournament with some form. Confidence is a big thing in T20 cricket and we will give it our best crack,” Cummins said.
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