SPEED DEMON
BOUNCING BACK
How do you shrug off five years of crippling injuries to become the world’s leading fast bowler? Ask Pat Cummins
Life is moving fast for Pat Cummins. It was about a year ago that Men’s Health spoke with him for the first time, at Sydney’s Clovelly Beach. Missing a tour of Bangladesh to protect his then still-delicate body, he was looking ahead to that summer’s home series against India. The spate of injuries – mainly spinal stress fractures – that had caused a five-year hiatus between his first and second Tests seemed to be behind him at last, though old heads still wondered whether he was made for such a punishing craft.
And now? Cummins is on top of the world, not just the mainstay of Australia’s pace attack but the preeminent bowler in
