Pat Cummins has bowled the most number of dot balls in the ongoing World Cup and the two bowlers that follow him are also from Australia – Mitchell Starc and Nathan Coulter-Nile. The 26-year-old looked in great rhythm against Pakistan on Wednesday and took 3 for 33 to derail their chase.
“That’s the big improvement in my game in the last couple of years, the ability to hold a length and make it difficult to get runs,” said Cummins.
“If you give away easy singles then 300 becomes quite an achievable score. Cutting out the singles is huge, it means if you give away a boundary it might not be that big over of ten or 11, it may just be a five or a six.
“This was as good a bowling wicket as you’ll get. If you didn’t bowl well then you’d get smashed but if you put it in the right places you were always in the game.”
Cummins and his strike partner Starc have 18 wickets between them in the tournament while the rest of the team have a combined 12.
“It goes to show that everyone can bat these days. It was a bit closer than we would have liked, so it was good to get those couple of wickets and finish it off. We gave them a bit too much width and suddenly they were back in the game, it’s a good lesson to learn,” he added.
