Big Bash League

Cummins set for BBL comeback

Jan 14, 2014: Pat Cummins will finally make his long-awaited return to Australian domestic cricket for Perth Scorchers against Adelaide Strikers at the WACA on Thursday after Cricket Australia cleared the injury-prone fast bowler

The Ashes 2013-14

McDermott preaches bowlers' durability

Dec 30, 2013: Craig McDermott expect Ryan Harris to be fit for the final Ashes Test and is equally adamant a rich next generation of pace bowlers must be raised with the expectation to play long Test series

Australia news

Another long injury lay-off for Cummins

Aug 19, 2013: Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins is set to miss much of the 2013-14 domestic season after a recurrence of his lower back stress injury

Australia A in South Africa 2013

Injured Cummins returns home

Aug 12, 2013: Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins has returned home from the A tour to South Africa to assess a lower rib/back injury

Australia A in South Africa 2013

Ahmed, Agar 'Ashes contenders' - Inverarity

Jun 19, 2013: The legspinner Fawad Ahmed remains in contention for a late Ashes call-up despite being named in the Australia A squad to tour Africa while England and Australia battle for the urn

Australia news

Pat Cummins to make comeback

Jun 18, 2013: Pat Cummins, the Australia fast bowler, will play his first competitive match in nine months for the Northern Ireland Cricket Academy on Wednesday

Australia A in England 2013

Cummins to travel with Australia A to England

May 10, 2013: Pat Cummins will travel with the Australia A party to England later this month, although he will not be part of the official squad, and is hoping to make a full return during the Australia A tour of South Africa in July

No strain, plenty of gain

Feb 5, 2013: The career of Bruce Reid, a cautionary tale in Australian cricket, has not been forgotten by those seeking to preserve the latest crop of young fast men

Australia v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Hobart, 3rd day

Australian fast bowlers blow up

Dec 16, 2012: For the second time in three Tests, Australia have found themselves a bowler short less than halfway through a match, a ruinous state of affairs that will cause plenty of knock-on consequences

South Africa in Australia 2012-13

The plague of the back injury stalls Cummins, de Lange

Nov 6, 2012: If you are young and bowl quick, you stand prone to stress factors of the back; the promising, fast-bowling duo of Pat Cummins and Marchant de Lange is a case in point

Australia news

Howard 'disappointed' to be left in dark on Cummins

Nov 4, 2012: Australia's team performance manager Pat Howard has expressed his disappointment at the Sydney Sixers Twenty20 team not passing on information about Pat Cummins' condition before he was diagnosed with a back stress fracture

Australia news

Time for Cummins to slow down

Nov 2, 2012: His body cannot be expected to stand up to the demands that have been placed on it by New South Wales, the Sydney Sixers and Cricket Australia

Australia news

Injured Cummins to have action assessed

Nov 2, 2012: Pat Cummins has revealed he was booked into the Australian Institute of Sport to have his bowling action examined for signs that it had contributed to his injury-ridden year

Australia news

Cummins nurses sore back

Oct 31, 2012: Pat Cummins' young career may again be held up by injury as he awaits the results of scans on a sore back following his return from the Twenty20 Champions League in South Africa

Australia news

Cummins eyes fourth day of Shield match

Oct 30, 2012: Pat Cummins has been left out of the New South Wales side for their Sheffield Shield match against Queensland, to start at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Friday

Champions League T20 2012

Sydney Sixers were flawless champions

Oct 29, 2012: There were almost no flaws in Sydney Sixers' victorious campaign. Brad Haddin had rich resources at his disposal and he managed them astutely

South Africa in Australia 2012-13

Wade likely to hold Test spot

Oct 28, 2012: At 24, Matthew Wade is set to become Australia's youngest first-choice Test wicketkeeper since Ian Healy

Titans v Sixers, 2nd semi-final, CLT20, Centurion

Cool Cummins does it again

Oct 26, 2012: Pat Cummins was the Sixers' finisher but their impressive starts with ball and bat were just as important

Titans v Sixers, 2nd semi-final, CLT20, Centurion

Sydney Sixers in final after nailbiter

Oct 26, 2012: Fortunes ebbed and flowed in true Twenty20 style in Centurion, as Sydney Sixers scripted a final-ball jailbreak to set up a title clash with Lions on Sunday

Sydney Sixers v Yorkshire, Group B, CLT20, Cape Town

Young quicks mastermind demolition

Oct 16, 2012: Although Brad Haddin was named Man of the Match after Sydney Sixers' thrashing of Yorkshire, the demolition was inspired by their gang of young quicks