‘If you’ve got a day off, go to Coldplay, why not?’: Brett Lee backs Australian skipper Pat Cummins | Cricket News
While Australian World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins was seen attending a Coldplay concert in Sydney along with his wife Becky Cummins with Australian selectors resting Cummins and four other players from the last ODI against Pakan on Sunday, former Australian pacer Brett Lee has put his weight behind the Australian captain.
With former players like Michael Clarke questioning the decision to rest key players, Lee felt that there was no harm in attending the concert if the team management rested Cummins. “Nothing wrong with that. I was there (at Coldplay) as well and it was absolutely brilliant. If you’ve got a day off, go to Coldplay, why not?” Lee told Nine’s Today.
Australia had rested Cummins along with pacers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazelwood and batsman Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne for the third ODI against Pakan at Perth. The Josh Inglis led Australian side suffered an eight-wicket win against the visitors and it was for the first time since 2002 that Australia lost an ODI series at home against Pakan. Former Australian captain Michael Clarke had questioned the decision to rest key players.
“I’m just a bit confused, so 11 days between now and the first Test, why can’t the Aussie boys who are part of this Test series play in the one-dayer. They are going to go to training and get flogged. If Australia had won the first two games, then you can understand why they rested their big fish, but it was a series on the line. You can’t expect the fans to want and come and watch one-day cricket,” Clarke had told Big Sports Breakfast Radio Show.
Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley had defended the decision. “We often have been criticised in the past for not giving new players an opportunity to come in. There was a plan in place, and that plan was to really make sure that our all-format players were in absolutely peak condition for the upcoming Border-Gavaskar series. This was obviously a massively disappointing result, but I think a really good opportunity to expose some of the talent that’s coming through to the pressures of international cricket,” Hockley had told the media earlier.
