Indian Premier League’s most expensive cricketer to skip BBL due to this reason
XtraTime Web Desk: Indian Premier League’s most expensive cricketer Pat Cummins will miss the Big Bash League 2019-20. The Sydney Thunder fast bowler has decided to take a break from BBL owing to a jam packed schedule in 2019. Thunder coach Shane Bond has ruled out the possibility of the 26-year-old playing for his side this season. The world's number-one ranked Test bowler, who has been a regular on the Thunder list in recent years since crossing from the Perth Scorchers after BBL03, could have joined Josh Hazelwood and Steve Smith in signing on for the back-end of the BBL09 season. Instead, he'll take a break after Australia's three-game ODI tour of India in January, a decision understood to be endorsed by Cricket Australia. No fast bowler has bowled more overs in international cricket than Cummins this year, with the formerly injury-riddled paceman staying fit during back-to-back World Cup and Ashes campaigns leading straight into another busy home summer in all formats. That season has now become even longer after adding the IPL to his busy schedule, but Cricket Australia has endorsed its players competing in the lucrative tournament ahead of next year's T20 World Cup. In a staggering sign of Cummins' soaring value on the world stage, he's now behind only Virat Kohli ($3.4m) among the highest paid players in the IPL.
