"Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins pays tribute to his mother as he leads his team to victory in deciding match against India and breaks records in IPL tournament"

 

Australia's cricket team captain, Pat Cummins, lost his mother, Maria Cummins, on Friday. She had been sick for a long time and was trying to get better in Sydney. In the cricket match that happened on the same day, the players wore black armbands to show their respect for Pat Cummins' mother. This match was very important because it was deciding who would win the series between Australia and India.

Patrick James Cummins is a person from Australia who plays a sport called cricket. He is really good at it, and he is the leader of the Australian team in two different types of cricket games called Tests and ODIs.

He throws the ball with his right hand very fast, and people think he is one of the best bowlers in Test cricket, which is a type of cricket game that can last for many days.

                                    

In January 2023, the people who make the rules for cricket ranked him as the best bowler in the world for Test cricket.

Patrick started playing for the Australian team when he was 18 years old in 2011, but then he got hurt and couldn't play for a few years. He came back to playing international cricket in 2015, and started playing Test cricket again in 2017.

After the 2019 cricket season, Patrick won two big awards for being the best cricket player in Australia and the best cricket player in the world for Test cricket.

Patrick James Cummins also plays cricket in a special tournament called the Indian Premier League, or IPL for short.

He started playing in 2014 for a team called the Kolkata Knight Riders. He played for them again in 2015, but then he played for a different team called the Delhi Daredevils in 2017. He didn't play in the IPL in 2016, 2018, and 2019.

In 2020, the Kolkata Knight Riders wanted him to play for their team again, and they paid a lot of money to buy him back. He became one of the most expensive players from another country to ever play in the IPL.

He played for the Knight Riders in 2021, and he will play for them again in 2022. In all the years that he played in the IPL, he played in 37 matches and took 38 wickets, which means he helped his team get the other team's players out. In 2021, he played in seven matches and took nine wickets. He also scored 93 runs, which means he helped his team score points too.

In April 2022, Patrick did something really amazing in the IPL. He hit the ball very far and very fast, and he scored 50 runs in just 14 balls! This tied a record for the fastest 50 runs in IPL history, which means he did something that only one other player has ever done before.