'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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00:00He started his running and, yeah, I was in here training as well.

00:03So, yeah, I think he's obviously hasn't started bowling yet,

00:08but 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.

00:17So things 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 and get into his bowling,

00:23but, you know, he's in good spirits.

00:26And, yeah, look, the team's obviously better with him in it for sure.

00:29So hopefully he can get right.

00:31And if he plays three tests or five tests or two tests,

00:34it's, you know, as many as we can get out of him,

00:37it's the best thing for the team.

00:38It's interesting how the brain works, I suppose.

00:41Yeah, I think my record when I'm captain is probably better than it is when I'm not.

00:44But, yeah, I don't know how the brain works and how it functions.

00:47But, yeah, I feel like I kind of go to another level

00:49and try and set a standard, I suppose.

00:51And that's as far as I can sort of say.

00:53I don't know what makes us different.

00:55I'm unsure with that question.

00:56But, yeah, like I said, it's being authentic and doing it your way

00:59when you're the man with the sea next to your name.