Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins has no intention of leaving the shortest format of the game soon. Instead, he aims to win a gold medal for Australia in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Cricket will return to the Olympics after over a century.
The cricket games will be in T20I format. Cummins, who led Australia to the ODI World Cup victory last year, hopes to guide the team to Olympic gold.
“Seeing the Olympics made us all really excited. You want to be part of it, right in the center,” Cummins said in an interview with Fox Sports. “I’d really like to be there for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. I’ll be around 35 years old, so I hope I’m still playing or close to it.”
“To be honest, it seems far away right now. Maybe as we get closer and start preparing for it, everyone will get more excited,” he added.
Cummins, one of the top cricket players today, is taking a two-month break from cricket. He wants to be completely ready for the highly anticipated Border-Gavaskar Trophy later this year. India will go to Australia in November for a series of five Test matches, starting on November 22 in Perth.
Cummins says that the prestigious trophy is the only one he hasn’t won yet, and he is very eager to win it as the team captain.
“This is the trophy I haven’t won yet… It’s the one trophy that many in our team haven’t won either,” Cummins mentioned.
“We’ve done some incredible things as a Test team over the past few years. You start to believe you can win every series at home. I think we need to aim to be among the top teams.”
“That’s our goal for this summer. India is a very strong team. We play against them often and know them very well, but we also feel we’re in a strong position,” he continued.
