Australia has named leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson, left-arm spinner Ashton Agar and uncapped off-spinner Todd Murphy to partner Lyon for the Test series.
The Australians are having their training camp in Bengaluru before they head to Nagpur on Monday.
Cummins had his first media interaction after arriving in India, in Bengaluru on Saturday. This is what he said regarding spin department in that press conference:
“We’ve got plenty of options here (with) finger spin, wrist spin, left arm (pace) when (Mitchell) Starcy comes back.”
“We’ll obviously pick the bowlers that we think are going to take 20 wickets. But how we split that up, we’re not 100 per cent sure yet.”
Asked if it would be a two-pronged spin attack, he said: “I wouldn’t say it’s a given. Obviously it’s very conditions dependent. Particularly in the first Test, once we get to Nagpur we will see that.”
“The good thing is someone like Agar was in our last team, Swepson played the last two overseas tour, so a bit of experience.
“Murphy played in the last tour. We feel that we got a lot of support in that department for Lyon.”
“Travis Head also bowls really good off-spin. We have to balance things. We have got a plenty of variety there to choose from. We have not locked in any bowling line-up so far,” Cummins added.
