Australia captain Pat Cummins speaks at captains day for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 in India

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00:00 your first ODI World Cup as captain.

00:03 You lead a side that has a great,

00:04 or a country that has a great record at World Cups.

00:08 What is it about Australians and ODI World Cups?

00:12 They just seem to have the knack.

00:13 - Yeah, I can't take too much credit for many of them.

00:18 There's a couple of the boys were there in 2015,

00:20 which obviously gives us confidence,

00:22 but yeah, I don't know.

00:24 I think we had a really strong era in the early 2000s.

00:27 I think one day cricket's a format

00:30 that's really suited Australian teams of the past.

00:33 Yeah, not only kind of taking the game on with the batting

00:36 and having some good quick bowlers,

00:38 but even in the field, that early kind of 2000s era,

00:41 I grew up watching.

00:42 Yeah, they were amazing, really athletic.

00:45 So yeah, hopefully we can carry on.

00:47 It's a pretty good history we've had in World Cups.