Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. “I’d love to sit back in 10-20 years and just show the huge impact we’ve made.” skip past newsletter promotion “I try to do my little bit to normalise the conversation and make a bit of difference to make his future a bit better. “We would love to go overseas, India, England, there’s so much scope for making a change in those places,” Cummins said. His involvement in the cause has prompted some criticism from right-wing commentators, telling him to “stick to cricket”, but the 30-year-old plans to remain actively involved. One of those passions outside of cricket has been Cricket for Climate, a foundation he helped set up to reduce the sport’s carbon footprint. And I was just spent, like burnout and I just remember thinking ‘geez I’m 25 here but I want to do this until I’m 35’ I’ve got to find a way to balance all these different things.”
“This is about four or five years ago, I kind of just came back from injuries. “Cricket’s basically 12 months of the year there’s always a cricket game going on somewhere, and I played non-stop for a year or two,” Cummins told WeAre8’s Get Real with Rio. In a wide-ranging chat with England football legend Rio Ferdinand, Cummins said he had sought to find other things in his life outside of cricket. The rise of Twenty20 leagues across the world has meant players have increasingly had to choose between the riches of franchise cricket and the prestige of playing for their country. However, Cummins said he needed to adjust mentally after forcing his way back into the Australian team in 2017 following almost six years on the outer due to injury.
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