Pat Cummins, the pace ace who has always been a leader through his actions

, grabbed the ball and charged in on Test debut at Johannesburg’s Wanderers Stadium, South African speed demon Morne Morkel noticed something about the 18-year-old that made him shuffle forward in his seat.

South Africa’s top order in that match may have been one of their greatest ever. Graeme Smith opened the batting, Hashim Amla at first drop, Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers in the middle order.Morkel reveals how much Cummins rattled South Africa’s top order, en route to second innings figures of 6-79, before hitting a boundary for the match-winning runs.

“In big stadiums there’s lots of people and you don’t really notice it,” Cummins told local reporters after the match. “But here it’s all your teammates [watching] and you know how much it means to everyone. It’s nerve-wracking.” A Penrith junior, who cut his teeth in Green Shield – Sydney’s under-16 competition – before working up from fourth to first grade, Cummins is a beacon of hope for cricketers in the west.“The boys ran out of alcohol and drank the fridge dry that night of the final,” Goldsmith said. “Pat handed over his credit card to probably the only sober person there, who bought quite a few hundred dollars [of alcohol] courtesy of Pat and probably some of his IPL money.

A year later, Cummins was captained by a future Australian teammate in Adam Zampa in the NSW under-19s team that featured childhood best mate Jordan Silk, as well as Sean Abbott and Gurinder Sandhu.

tomdecent SMHsport Wonder what Pat will eventually resign for. The Australian captaincy is cursed.

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