Australian cricketers Pat Cummins (L) and Mitchell Starc walk with the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 Trophy during a media opportunity at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday — AFP SYDNEY, Nov 28 (AFP): Captain Pat Cummins said Tuesday that cricketers were "not robots" with Australia's Twenty20 team struggling in India straight after their 50-over World Cup triumph.
Seven of the Australia squad who won the World Cup remained in India for a five-match T20 series that started four days after the November 19 final.
A second-string India side won the first two matches and reports in Australia say that six of the seven are now set to return home. The third T20 is later Tuesday.
Ben McDermott, Josh Philippe and Chris Green were among reinforcements being sent to relieve the flagging World Cup heroes, the reports said.
With a busy home summer of cricket looming, including Test series against Pakistan and the West Indies, Cummins acknowledged the burden on the players, some of whom have been playing in India since September.
"They're humans, they're not robots," he told reporters at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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