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[ad_1] Australian captain Pat Cummins said on Thursday that they are hoping to try different team combinations and players in the ODI series against India to prepare for the ICC World Cup 2023, starting next month. Pat Cummins said that he had fully recovered from a wrist injury and hoped to play all three one-day internationals against hosts India starting Friday. While Cummins returns, Australia still won’t have the services of pacer Mitchell Starc and all-rounder Glenn Maxwell for the first match in the northern Indian city of Mohali. “I am feeling pretty good, pretty much 100 percent, and hope to play tomorrow and play all the games,” Cummins told journalists. But the Australian pace spearhead said Starc, who is recovering from a groin injury, and Maxwell, from an ankle injury, won’t play “but will be available later in the series”. Most of Australia’s top players are also key members of different franchises in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament, and Cummins

[ad_1] Australian cricketer Ben Cutting of the Karachi Kings has described the Pakistan Super League (PSL) as “second to none.” The Karachi Kings selected the 36-year-old for the PSL 8 season. He has previously played for Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators, making this his fourth season in the competition. When reporters asked what brought him and his wife to Pakistan again and again, the Australian cricketer said that it was “the people and the culture of Pakistan.” “We love coming here. This is my fifth visit to Pakistan. I think it’s Erin’s fifth or sixth as well. So, we look forward to it every year. Coming back to the PSL and the country of Pakistan and the hospitality, the standard of cricket is awesome,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to getting back out there in front of the full house, wherever we play, whether it’s Karachi, Multan, now Lahore, Islamabad. It can be very exciting to roll out in front of a local crowd again,” the Australian cricketer added.