Pat Cummins had a lot to worry, forgot about bowling himself in 2nd Test: Allan

The legendary Allan Border feels Pat Cummins had a lot to worry about as the series against India was his first real test as captain and in the process underbowled himself in the second Test in DelhiAustralia conceded the fourmatch series for the Border Gavaskar Trophy after losing the opening two Tests in Nagpur and DelhiCummins who had faced just one defeat as captain before coming to India was the sole quick in the Australian playing XI in the sixwicket loss in Delhi He bowled just 13 overs in the first innings and didnt bowl at all in Indias second essayTo me the fast bowler its always fraught with danger Border told SEN RadioI thought Pat grossly underbowled himself in that Test matchThere were opportunities when things were starting to go stray particularly in the Indian first innings when we had them on the ropes and they formed a good partnership a couple of blasts from him running in and bowling some short stuff for two or three oversAustralia had reduced India to 139 for 7 before Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin shared a 114run stand to take India to just one run short of the visiting teams first innings totalThere are other guys out on the field I suppose who could go to the captain and say mate why dont you have a bowl Border said But I just thought this is Pats first real test as a captain the rest has been plain sailing you go to the subcontinent and all of a sudden you get tested out in all sorts of areasHes worried about lots of different things he forgot about himself bowling I think Thats what can happen in those situations when your premier fast bowler is your captainAlso Read BorderGavaskar Trophy Australia skipper Pat Cummins flies back home due to family illnessHowever Border was also sympathetic towards CumminsThere is a lot going on even if youre the captain in those situations and youre a batter People dont really appreciate how tough it is its a really different place to play the game in the subcontinent he explained Youve got to have your wits about you thats for sure when its not going right and its going south it goes south very quicklyFormer wicketkeeper Ian Healy felt Cummins lost the mind power to set the field properly in the second inningsThen the mental stress thats involved in getting your field right he didnt seem to have that in the last inningsHe still had men on the boundary instead of extra catchers around the batiquest that takes a lot of mind power to keep it all together thinking about that and bowling changesCummins has flown back home from the tour of India due to a serious family illness following the second Test He is expected to return to India for the remaining two games of the BorderGavaskar trophy in Indore and AhmedabadThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever