Eerie silence and sacred cows as Cummins awaits passage from India

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Cooped up in his Ahmedabad hotel as the Australian contingent began to leave India for the Maldives to wait out the government’s travel ban, Pat Cummins had time to reflect on a very different IPL experience. | malcolmconn

This is what months of COVID bubbles have done to Australia’s leading cricketers. Countless hours looking out into the world can make pretty much anything a highlight.

This time it’s different. Outside his Ahmedabad hotel window, the scene is post-apocalyptic. No gridlocked traffic, no beggars or hawkers, and, most of all, no noise from horns, struggling motors and anyone shouting for attention. Instead, it’s eerie silence and a free passage for India’s sacred cows.. “Around the hotel there is less staff and when you hop in the bus to go to training there is normally a few hundred people waiting. There’s no one out there now and no crowds at games.

“We’re happy and healthy and we’ll get married when we can, but we’ve got a little one on the way and I’m delighted, I’m pumped,” Cummins said. “I brought a coffee machine over here with me which has been good,” said Cummins. “I usually wake up, have a coffee, ring home for an hour or so and then normally a few teammates come around for a coffee so that has some routine.”

“I’ve felt quite helpless and quite detached from it all being kept in comfortable hotels,” he said. “We were playing games and training like every other year. It just felt that I should be doing more for the people around us.

 

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malcolmconn Can The Age, the ABC etc report on what’s happening about returning Aussies from the UK, Europe, Israel, Hong Kong and China more generally, the USA etc etc. The single focus on India while important is simply demonstrating a political bias as opposed to news reporting/journalism

malcolmconn Don't here him whinging and having a major dummy spit like Slater. Cummins should be captain of team imo.

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