Has a fast bowler ever captained Australia?
Has a fast bowler ever captained Australia? But the tide is turning, albeit slowly, with the 10 fast bowlers to have taken 50 or more wickets as captain all coming in the past four decades. And 144 years after Dave Gregory became Australia’s first ever Test captain, Cummins could soon become the latest to break the mould.
When was the last fast bowler to captain Australia?
The last fast bowler to lead Australia at test level was Ray Lindwall for a single match in 1956, and only as a stand-in. Cummins is Australia’s 47th Test captain. Smith was fired from the captaincy after the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa in 2018.
Who is the best captain of Australia?
Steve Waugh.
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How good is Pat Cummins?
He averages just 20.49 and has an extremely good bowling strike rate of 44.76 in Australia, England and South Africa combined. More importantly, Cummins has 26 wickets at an average of just 26.38 in Asia, where the wickets are the least likely to be appreciated by a fast bowler.