{"id":186725,"date":"2025-06-15T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186725\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:59:12","slug":"pat-cummins-hints-at-overhaul-after-wtc-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186725\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Cummins hints at overhaul after WTC defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia captain Pat Cummins has indicated major changes in the team after the unsuccessful defence of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) against South Africa at Lord\u2019s on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chasing 282 to win the 2025 final against Australia at Lord\u2019s, South Africa broke their trophy jinx with a resounding five-wicket victory in the final on day four.<\/p>\n<p>Aiden Markram starred with a magnificent fourth-innings hundred, taking his team home to a historic victory.<\/p>\n<p>Following the defeat, questions arose regarding Australia\u2019s top three, comprising Usman Khawaja, Cameron Green, and makeshift opener Marnus Labuschagne. The trio contributed only 49 of Australia\u2019s 419 runs, just over 10 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on our Official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va9kjxo6mYPLvlX1UJ43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp channel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the defeat, Pat Cummins highlighted the performances, asserting that there needs to be more effort from some players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s probably quite a few people in the line-up that wish they could have done a little bit more,\u201d Cummins told reporters. \u201cThe top three was an obvious one in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the three-match series against West Indies, Pat Cummins said that the WTC cycle feels like a bit of a reset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t particularly know why, but it does feel like a little bit of a fresh start,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou fast forward, you know, a couple of years (and) you start maybe thinking about who\u2019s going to \u2013 and hopefully we make the final \u2013 but who\u2019s going to be in that team and maybe do we want to get some games into them? Do we feel like now\u2019s the right time to change? Or do we hold with the team that got us to the final?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll kind of got a couple of weeks before the first Test in the Windies, so I think we\u2019ll sit down and have a bit of a think after we digest this game. But for me, I think a new WTC cycle in some ways, does feel like a bit of a reset,\u201d Pat Cummins concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/a-sports.tv\/mlc-2025-glenn-maxwell-seal-first-win-for-washington-freedom\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">MLC 2025: Maxwell, Holland seal first win for Washington Freedom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia captain Pat Cummins has indicated major changes in the team after the unsuccessful defence of the ICC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,29003,76554,79,16,15,75381],"class_list":{"0":"post-186725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-pat-cummins","10":"tag-south-africa-australia","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wtc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}