'Can turn around pretty quickly' - Smith confident in Cummins' Ashes fitness - video Dailymotion

Cummins "hasn't started bowling yet" but Smith is confident in the captain's fitness ahead of The Ashes

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00:00additional training in for a long year

00:04so yes I think he's obviously hasn't started bowling yet

00:09but he gets into things pretty quickly

00:11so he probably doesn't need as much as Josh or Starkey

00:15I think Starkey said that the other day as well I saw

00:17things can turn around pretty quickly

00:19so we'll see where everything lands with him

00:21he's obviously got a few things to tick off

00:22and get into his bowling

00:24but he's in good spirits

00:26and look, the team's obviously better with him for sure

00:29so hopefully he can get right and if he plays three tests or five tests or two tests it's a you know

00:35as many as we we can get out of him it's it's the best thing for the team it's interesting how the

00:39brain works i suppose yeah i think my record when i'm captain is probably better than it is when i'm

00:43not but yeah i don't know how the brain works and how it functions but yeah i feel like i kind of go

00:48to another level and try and set a standard i suppose and that's as far as i can sort of say

00:52i don't know what makes us different um i'm unsure with that question but yeah like i said it's it's

00:58being authentic and doing it your way when you're you're the man with the c next to your name