Pat Cummins’ mother passes away, team to wear black armbands on Day 2

TIL Desk Sports/ Australia Test and ODI skipper Pat Cummins’s mother Maria passed away overnight in Sydney due to cancer, according to information reaching here on Friday. She was undergoing palliative care in a hospital in Sydney. Cricket Australia confirmed the news of Maria’s death in a Tweet on Friday.

“We are deeply saddened at the passing of Maria Cummins overnight,” said Cricket Australia in a statement. “On behalf of Australian Cricket, we extend our heartfelt condolences to Pat, the Cummins family and their friends.”

The Australian cricketers playing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will wear black armbands as a tribute to her on the second day of the fourth and final Test of the series here.

Cummins had returned home after Australia’s second Test defeat in New Delhi to remain in Sydney to be at the side of his mother who is in palliative care due to breast cancer. Steve Smith is leading the Australian team in India in Cummins’ absence.