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Pat Cummins Age, Stats, 300 Test Wickets and Captaincy

Pat Cummins is Australia's Test and ODI captain and a right-arm fast bowler for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Born on 8 May 1993, he was 33 on 20 August 2026. His dated 27 December 2025 record contains 72 Tests and 315 wickets; he had already reached 300 with 6/28 against South Africa in the 2025 World Test Championship final. Cummins missed the 2026 T20 World Cup while recovering from lumbar bone stress, returned for SRH in April, and resumed Test captaincy against Bangladesh in Darwin in August. The Darwin match occurred after the statistical cutoff, so it is described separately rather than being partly added to the older table.

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Right-handedRight-arm fast bowlerBorn 8 May 1993

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Current squadSunrisers HyderabadIndian Premier League · Official retained 2026 squad and captaincy context

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Full namePatrick James Cummins

Age33As of 20 August 2026

Date of birth8 May 1993Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

Batting styleRight-handed

Bowling styleRight-arm fast

Career overview

Pat Cummins cricket career

Born in Westmead, Sydney, on 8 May 1993; age 33 on 20 August 2026.

Right-handed lower-order batter and right-arm fast bowler.

Dated Test snapshot: 72 matches and 315 wickets on 27 December 2025.

Australia's 47th men's Test captain and 27th men's ODI captain.

Led Australia to the 2023 World Test Championship and ODI World Cup titles.

Returned from lumbar bone stress in IPL 2026 and to Test cricket in August 2026.

Career story

Pat Cummins career and playing journey

Who is Pat Cummins?

Patrick James Cummins is an Australian fast bowler and senior captain. Cricket Australia's profile lists him as a right-handed batter and right-arm fast-seam bowler. He has led Australia in Test and ODI cricket while playing franchise T20 cricket for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Bowler is the correct primary role even though Cummins has produced important lower-order innings. His runs and wickets remain separate measures. Captaincy is also a match role: a career appointment does not prove that he led every Australia or SRH game during an absence, rest period or stand-in arrangement.

Age, birth details and playing style

Cummins was born on 8 May 1993 in Westmead in Sydney, New South Wales. He was 33 on this page's 20 August 2026 review date. The birth date is permanent, while the displayed age needs a dated reference because it changes each May.

At 192 centimetres on Cricket Australia's profile, he uses height, pace and control as part of his fast-bowling method. Height alone does not explain a wicket record, however. Match conditions, length, movement, workload and the support of the wider attack all affect how a spell develops.

Early rise and 2011 Test debut

Cummins topped the wicket list in Australia's state-based Big Bash as a teenager and became Cricket Australia's youngest centrally contracted male player for 2011-12. His Test selection came after only a handful of first-class matches, making the scale of his Johannesburg debut unusually demanding.

Against South Africa in November 2011, the 18-year-old took 6/79 in the second innings. He then made 13 not out and hit the winning runs in a two-wicket Australian victory, earning Player of the Match. The six wickets belong inside his debut-match and career totals; the winning runs explain why the performance was more than a bowling landmark.

The injury gap before his Test return

A heel injury immediately followed the Johannesburg Test, and recurring back stress injuries interrupted the next phase of Cummins's career. He still appeared in white-ball cricket and was part of Australia's 2015 ODI World Cup squad, but he did not become a continuous Test selection straight away.

Cricket Australia's career account places his sustained Test return in the 2017 period. That gap matters when interpreting totals: his career began in 2011, but 72 Tests by December 2025 do not represent an uninterrupted annual workload. The later durability was built after years of managed rehabilitation and shorter-format preparation.

Becoming Australia's Test and ODI captain

Cummins became Australia's 47th men's Test captain in November 2021. Cricket Australia then appointed him the 27th men's ODI captain in 2022. The two roles cover different teams and schedules, and neither automatically extends to T20 internationals.

A captain can shape bowling changes, fields, declarations and selection discussions, yet results still belong to the team. This page therefore separates Cummins's personal figures from the trophies won under his leadership. It also uses scorecards for match-specific captaincy instead of assuming the permanent captain was available.

The 2023 World Test Championship title

Australia beat India by 209 runs at The Oval in June 2023 to win its first World Test Championship mace. Cummins captained the side, while first-innings centuries from Travis Head and Steve Smith established the match advantage and the attack completed the victory on day five.

The title is a team achievement under Cummins's captaincy, not an individual bowling award. It belongs to the 2021-23 championship cycle and should not be merged with the separate 2025 final, where Australia faced South Africa and Cummins reached 300 Test wickets.

The 2023 ODI World Cup final

Cummins also captained Australia to the 2023 men's ODI World Cup. In the Ahmedabad final he chose to bowl first, completed all 10 overs for 34 runs and dismissed Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli. Australia restricted India to 240 and won by six wickets after Travis Head's century.

The final is useful evidence of both captaincy and bowling control. The correct return is two wickets for 34, despite an inconsistent headline summary on one ICC page. The named dismissals and scorecard outcome control the claim, so this profile does not repeat the erroneous three-wicket wording.

ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year for 2023

The ICC awarded Cummins the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy as Men's Cricketer of the Year for 2023. The award covered a defined calendar year in which he combined fast bowling with leadership in Australia's World Test Championship and ODI World Cup victories.

An annual award is fixed once presented; it is not a live player ranking. It also differs from the two team trophies. Listing all three is not double-counting when each item is labelled by its award or competition, but adding them into one invented career score would have no statistical meaning.

Reaching 300 Test wickets at Lord's

Cummins entered the 2025 World Test Championship final on 294 Test wickets and took 6/28 in South Africa's first innings. The spell made him the eighth Australian to reach 300 Test wickets and was his 14th five-wicket innings at the time.

South Africa ultimately won the final, so the personal milestone should not obscure the match result. The six wickets are already included in the 315-wicket snapshot dated 27 December 2025. They must not be added again when explaining how he crossed 300.

What the December 2025 statistics show

The dated table records 72 Tests, 1,567 runs and 315 wickets at a bowling average of 22.05. It also records 90 ODIs with 143 wickets and 57 T20Is with 66 wickets. These rows describe different formats and cannot be added to create a unique-match total.

His 315 Test wickets sit inside the broader first-class row, while 143 ODI wickets sit inside List A cricket. The snapshot predates his August 2026 Test return. Keeping the label at 27 December 2025 is more accurate than changing only the match count without reconciling every run, wicket, catch and delivery from later scorecards.

Lower-order batting value

Cummins's primary value is fast bowling, but the Test row includes 1,567 runs, three fifties and a high score of 64 not out at the December 2025 cutoff. His unbeaten 44 in the 2023 Edgbaston Ashes Test is an example of context that a career aggregate alone can hide.

With Australia chasing 281, Cummins and Nathan Lyon completed the target after the ninth wicket fell. That innings does not turn him into a batting all-rounder, nor should it be added again to his aggregate. It demonstrates why lower-order contributions can change a close Test even when batting is not the player's main discipline.

Sunrisers Hyderabad captaincy and IPL 2024

Sunrisers Hyderabad bought Cummins for INR 20.50 crore before IPL 2024 and appointed him captain. He took 18 wickets, his best season tally to that point, and led SRH to the final. The league's player page retains those facts as a defined 2024 record.

The auction amount is a competition contract value, not confirmed take-home pay, lifetime earnings or net worth. The official 2026 squad document lists an INR 18 crore retention deduction. Those two figures apply to different roster events and should not be combined or converted into a personal-wealth estimate.

Why Cummins missed the 2026 T20 World Cup

Australia removed Cummins from its final 2026 T20 World Cup squad because he had not fully recovered from a lingering back injury. Cricket Australia described lumbar bone stress that had limited him after the 2025 Caribbean tour and allowed only one Ashes Test appearance before another recovery block.

The absence was a fitness and workload decision, not a retirement from T20 internationals. Ben Dwarshuis replaced him in the squad, while Mitchell Marsh remained the T20I captain. A missed tournament also does not erase Cummins's earlier place in Australia's 2021 title-winning squad.

IPL 2026 return from lumbar bone stress

Fresh scans in April 2026 showed the back stress issue had resolved and cleared Cummins to resume bowling without restrictions. He returned for SRH against Rajasthan Royals on 25 April, his first competitive match in four months, and conceded only 27 runs while taking one wicket in a chase of 229.

Ishan Kishan had led SRH during the absence, and Cummins resumed the captaincy on return. The clearance applied to that stage of rehabilitation; it was not a guarantee that he could immediately sustain Test-match loads. Cricket Australia later described a gradual June-July build toward repeated 20-over days.

The 3/28 that secured an IPL playoff place

Against Chennai Super Kings in May 2026, Cummins took 3/28, his best return of that IPL season at the time. He dismissed Sanju Samson and Ruturaj Gaikwad as SRH restricted Chennai to 180/7, then completed a five-wicket chase to secure a playoff place.

This performance is a match-specific update rather than a full season aggregate. SRH's official profile later listed 72 career IPL matches and 79 wickets, but a profile total and a single scorecard serve different purposes. The page does not infer unlisted 2026 figures from selected highlights.

Return to Australia's Test side in August 2026

Australia selected Cummins as captain for the two-Test home series against Bangladesh, setting up his first Test since December 2025. He played the first Test in Darwin from 13 August and was among Australia's wicket-takers as Bangladesh built a large first-innings lead.

Bangladesh won by nine wickets on 16 August, its first Test victory in Australia. That result is part of Cummins's captaincy record even though it was a team loss. The second Test was scheduled for 22-26 August in Mackay and had not begun at this page's 20 August review cutoff.

How to read the 2026 status

The evidence shows a sequence rather than one unchanging fitness label: Cummins missed the February-March T20 World Cup, received scan clearance in April, returned through the IPL, increased his red-ball workload, and played the Darwin Test in August. Each statement belongs to its own date.

A successful return does not mean earlier injury reporting was wrong, and the Darwin loss does not prove a new fitness problem. Future status should come from a later Cricket Australia selection, medical update or scorecard. The page does not predict availability for Mackay or subsequent tours.

What makes Cummins's record distinctive

Cummins's career combines an unusual debut, a long injury-interrupted development period, elite Test wicket volume and leadership across two international formats. The 2011 6/79 and 2025 6/28 provide milestones at opposite ends of that development: a teenage breakthrough and the spell that carried him past 300 wickets.

His 2023 captaincy achievements add a different kind of value. Australia won the WTC mace and ODI World Cup in the same year, while Cummins contributed as a frontline bowler. The record is strongest when personal performance, team outcome and captaincy responsibility remain clearly separated.

Evidence boundaries for future updates

The next statistical revision should reconcile the Darwin scorecard and any later Mackay appearance across matches, innings, runs, balls, wickets, averages and catches. Updating only one headline number would leave the structured table internally inconsistent. Until then, the December 2025 label remains visible.

Future IPL claims also require a full official season table rather than a selection of team reports. Contract figures should retain their competition labels, and injury language should follow the latest dated medical or selection evidence. No private wealth, confidential contract or guaranteed future appearance is inferred from public cricket records.

Pat Cummins records

Pat Cummins career statistics and records

Batting, bowling and fielding figures are kept separate by competition and format.

Test (Wikipedia, 27 December 2025)72matches

Batting

Runs: 1,567
High score: 64*
Average: 16.67
100s / 50s: 0/3

Bowling & fielding

Wickets: 315
Best bowling: 6/23
Average: 22.05
Balls: 14,391
Catches / stumpings: 36 catches; stumpings not listed
5w / 10w: 14 / 2

Only fields published by the named source are shown; unavailable values are not guessed.

ODI (Wikipedia, 27 December 2025)90matches

Batting

Runs: 537
High score: 37
Average: 14.51
100s / 50s: 0/0

Bowling & fielding

Wickets: 143
Best bowling: 5/70
Average: 28.78
Balls: 4,683
Catches / stumpings: 24 catches; stumpings not listed
5w / 10w: 1 five-wicket hauls; ten-wicket hauls not listed

Only fields published by the named source are shown; unavailable values are not guessed.

T20I (Wikipedia, 27 December 2025)57matches

Batting

Runs: 158
High score: 28
Average: 10.53
100s / 50s: 0/0

Bowling & fielding

Wickets: 66
Best bowling: 3/15
Average: 23.57
Balls: 1,254
Catches / stumpings: 16 catches; stumpings not listed
5w / 10w: 0 five-wicket hauls; ten-wicket hauls not listed

Only fields published by the named source are shown; unavailable values are not guessed.

First-class (Wikipedia, 27 December 2025)86matches

Batting

Runs: 1,901
High score: 82*
Average: 18.45
100s / 50s: 0/6

Bowling & fielding

Wickets: 361
Best bowling: 6/23
Average: 22.71
Balls: 16,993
Catches / stumpings: 41 catches; stumpings not listed
5w / 10w: 14 / 2

Only fields published by the named source are shown; unavailable values are not guessed.

Career chronology

Debut and last listed match

Australia Tests

Debut

6/79 and winning runs on debut at Johannesburg in November 2011

Last listed match

Returned as captain in the Darwin Test against Bangladesh in August 2026

Australia white-ball

Debut

ODI and T20I debuts against South Africa in October 2011

Last listed match

Missed the 2026 T20 World Cup during back rehabilitation

Indian Premier League

Debut

Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014

Last listed match

Captained Sunrisers Hyderabad after returning in April 2026

Career achievements

Career achievements and milestones

Took 6/79 and hit the winning runs on Test debut in 2011.
Reached 300 Test wickets with 6/28 in the 2025 WTC final.
Won the 2023 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.
Captained Australia to two ICC titles in 2023.
Led Sunrisers Hyderabad to the 2024 IPL final with 18 wickets.
Returned to Test captaincy against Bangladesh in August 2026.

Reader questions

Pat Cummins FAQ

How old is Pat Cummins?

Pat Cummins was born on 8 May 1993 and was 33 years old on 20 August 2026.

How many Test wickets does Pat Cummins have?

The structured snapshot records 315 wickets in 72 Tests on 27 December 2025. He played again in August 2026, so that dated total is not presented as live.

When did Pat Cummins reach 300 Test wickets?

He reached 300 during his 6/28 against South Africa in the World Test Championship final at Lord's in June 2025.

Which ICC trophies has Pat Cummins won as captain?

He captained Australia to the 2023 World Test Championship mace and the 2023 men's ODI World Cup.

Why did Pat Cummins miss the 2026 T20 World Cup?

Australia withdrew him because he had not fully recovered from lumbar bone stress and chose a longer rehabilitation period before a Test-heavy schedule.

Does Pat Cummins captain Sunrisers Hyderabad?

Yes. He resumed SRH captaincy when he returned from injury in April 2026 after Ishan Kishan had led during his absence.

Conclusion

Pat Cummins's record spans more than a wicket count: 6/79 and the winning runs on debut, a return from years of injuries, 300 Test wickets, two ICC titles as captain in 2023 and a successful IPL comeback in 2026. The dated table records 315 Test wickets through 27 December 2025.

His August 2026 Test return is recorded separately because the Darwin match falls beyond that statistical cutoff. This keeps current chronology visible without disguising a partially updated career table as a live record.