Cummins hungry and focused for challenging English summer

Australia captain Pat Cummins has his eye on playing all six Tests on the current UK tour, starting with the World Test Championship Final against India before he leads the team in the five-match Ashes against England.

The Ashes opener begins June 16, four days after the scheduled end of the WTC final, and the five games will be played in a tight schedule of just over six weeks with shorter turnaround time between the Tests. Cummins noted that while some rotation would be likely through the course of the red-ball tour, he ideally wouldn't want to be the one missing out.

"I mean it's a balance," Cummins said when asked if he could play all six. "I've been exhausted and depleted before but still got up and felt like I did a really good job. But if that kind of comes up at any stage, of course, it's a conversation... I'll be aiming to play all six and there's some good breaks in between kind of every batch of two Tests matches here. So I think it's manageable. But obviously Cam Green helps out a little bit as well with the amount of overs he can bowl," the 30-year-old added.