Following in the footsteps of Steve Smith, Travis Head and Glenn Maxwell, Pat Cummins has become the latest Australian to join the fledgling US T20 league.
Australia will start as overwhelming favourites in their Twenty20 World Cup opener against Oman, before a far sterner test against England in game two.
A fledgling T20 league in the US has done what the Big Bash couldn’t and signed a long-term deal with the Australian Test captain.