Cummins Shows Sympathy to England Amidst Covid Outbreak

Pat Cummins, the Australian Test captain who has now retained the Ashes alongside probably one of the best Australian sides in some time now has shown some sympathy towards Root and his men as the Covid outbreak and interruptions have hit the visitors.

With the English coach out with Covid, and interim coach Graham Thorpe taking the charge, England will face Australia tomorrow for the fourth and penultimate Ashes test of the season.

The English team has had 3 other members from the coaching staff isolating after a positive covid test.

“They’ve sacrificed quite a lot to come over here,” Cummins said. “Two weeks’ quarantine, time away from families, some restrictions on what they can do, opposed to pre-pandemic. They’ve had some positive cases, the coach being away from this game, it’s been really tough for them. We are really thankful they are out here as part of the series.”

With Australians also affected by the virus we can understand the position Cummins is speaking from. Travis Head will also be out of the fourth test after he submitted a positive test for Covid yesterday.

Graham Thorpe, facing this situation, said, “You have to be able to find ways of throwing punches back at good bowling attacks. I’ve always been one for trying to set up to score (and) then trust your defence if the ball is in the right area. So trying to keep that simple for the players”

“You get knocked down sometimes in life, you do have to get back up. There’s no hiding place. Some players are trying to establish themselves in the team, that’s an opportunity, some you might say are trying to stay in the team and that’s an opportunity as well.”