Test cap in sight for teen bowler amid concern over burnout

AS AUSTRALIAN cricket fans scratch their heads at Pat Cummins's lightning climb to the top, his mother has likened her son's rapid rise to ''getting to the top level of a building by the express lifts''.

''He's taken the express lifts, and most of us in our careers take the stairs,'' Maria Cummins said last night.

Achieving in cricket is not the only part of life that Cummins, the second youngest of five children in his family, has succeeded faster than others. ''I think he started walking before he was eight months and he was bowling from there,'' said Mrs Cummins, whose two eldest sons play first grade for Penrith.   Full Read