Mark Waugh wants Cummins axed from side

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The fallout continues pursuing Australia's triumph implicit Sri Lanka successful Perth, with cricket fable Mark Waugh calling for Pat Cummins' head.

Cummins has had a hard commencement to the T20 World Cup and was criticised for the mode helium bowled the all-important 20th implicit connected Tuesday night.

The Australians looked acceptable to restrict Sri Lanka to a beneath par full with 1 implicit remaining successful the innings but that anticipation was dashed erstwhile Cummins was thumped for 20 runs, with his implicit including 2 wides.

A erstwhile selector for the nationalist team, Waugh didn't mince his words connected RSN Breakfast, suggesting Cummins should beryllium axed for Friday's must-win lucifer against England.

"There's players individually that conscionable aren't getting it right," Waugh said.

"Pat Cummins with the ball, there's a monolithic question people implicit him heading into the adjacent game. Aaron Finch's innings was torturous. It truly was. I don't deliberation helium tin unfastened the innings successful the adjacent game. If he's going to play, helium should bat determination down the order.

"It conscionable doesn't consciousness right. They're not a blessed campy and they look similar they're lacking confidence. They're truthful nervous. I don't cognize what the reply is."

Waugh's projected alteration would let Finch to bat successful the mediate order.

"I would bring Cameron Green successful and I'd bring him successful for Pat Cummins and I'd fto Cam Green unfastened the batting," helium said.

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"That's 1 alteration I would decidedly make. I cognize it leaves your bowling a small short, but I deliberation Cameron Green tin vessel 4 overs arsenic good arsenic immoderate of the different bowlers astatine the moment."

While Cummins was the antheral Waugh identified for the axe, there's a lawsuit to beryllium made that Finch, the captain, has enactment his spot successful jeopardy owed to an innings that was wide criticised.

Despite carrying his bat and acting arsenic an anchor during Australia's chase, helium made conscionable 31 from 42 deliveries, batting astatine snails' gait successful the discourse of a T20.

Even much disconcerting was the information that helium was trying to deed the bound conscionable arsenic often arsenic the explosive Marcus Stoinis, but was truthful severely retired of interaction that helium didn't negociate a azygous four, and deed conscionable 1 six.

Waugh wasn't the lone pundit acrophobic astir Finch's contribution, with Michael Clarke and Nine commentator Callum Ferguson some near wondering however helium could lend to a palmy World Cup campaign successful the signifier he's presently in.

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"He'll person to look rather hard astatine the mode helium went astir it, and the method. I felt similar helium mightiness person been trying to spell a small spot excessively hard astatine times," Ferguson explained.

"At this crushed you really don't request to pursuit the shot excessively hard, you tin clip the shot and find gaps.

"It felt similar helium struggled to find that bushed that he's been looking for."

Clarke was much direct, suggesting Finch was fortunate Sri Lanka didn't transportation the shot up further.

"I thought if the Sri Lankans tin get this shot successful the close country portion it's new, we could beryllium nether the pump and we were," helium said connected Sky Sports Radio's The Big Sports Breakfast.

"But adjacent still, if that's England's bowling attack, if that's India and Pakistan's bowling onslaught that I watched the different night, if that's South Africa's bowling attack, Finchy is not lasting 10 seconds due to the fact that helium played and missed and balls went implicit the stumps.

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