Australia captain Pat Cummins didn’t know how to control his anger after a fellow diner tested positive for COVID-19, forcing him to play the second Ashes Test in Adelaide.
Cummins was out for dinner with his friend Harry Conway, who plays for BBL franchise Adelaide Strikers, at an Adelaide restaurant ahead of the second Test, when a patron at a nearby table was diagnosed with a COVID-19 positive case. recognized as.
“I was really angry – but I don’t know who’s on whom,” Cummins, who captained the team in the Boxing Day Test, was quoted as saying.
“There was no one to blame. Once it became clear that there are state rules, you have to follow them.”
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Cummins had tested negative for RT-PCR but was asked to self-isolate as per South Australia’s COVID rules, thus forcing his return on the morning of the Adelaide match.
“We knew it might pop at some stage in this series. I didn’t think – or expected – it was going to be me,” said the 28-year-old, who missed a home Test in almost five years Was.
“You follow protocol, but there was hardly any COVID around, so I didn’t factor it in at all until someone came next to me and said he was positive.
“Nobody did anything wrong. That poor guy went to Adelaide to enjoy a few days of cricket – I felt really bad for him too.”
Cummins’ teammates Mitch Starc and Nathan Lyon may have also missed the match as he had to join them for dinner at the same restaurant, but since the captain didn’t check his phone for 40 minutes, the two parted ways. went. Had a different meal.
Of Leon and Stark, he said, “They left in a rage – they made a stink and sat back.”
“It’s just a player, it’s a little bit of big news because it’s COVID and the captain, but it’s not the end of the world, it’s not a huge change.”
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Cummins thought they would face off but once he saw the Test match on TV, he got angry again.
“Then after about an hour (after watching the test on TV) I was so angry, I wish I was back there,” he said.
“But it was good. It was a different way.”
Australia lead 2-0 in the five-Test series.
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