Australian captain Pat Cummins has added that he would be surprised if his teammates start sledging South African pace bowler Kagiso Rabada about his drug suspension during the 2025 WTC final. However, Rabada left IPL 2025 midway during the season to serve his ban after it was found that he had allegedly used cocaine in January 2025 as well. Notably, he was banned after he had tested positive for recreational drug use during a domestic T20 competition in South Africa in January this year as well.

“It’s not really our style. I’d be surprised if that came up,” Pat Cummins said on Tuesday, June 10 (via Hindustan Times).

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“I’m just glad to be playing again. The process was handled really well … I think, as a player, and a man, people will have their different opinions. I can live with that. There are some people who would have been disappointed and to those people I’m deeply sorry … The people closest to me are the ones I felt I let down. But life moves on. I’ll never be ‘Mr-I-Apologise-Too-Much’. But I’ll never condone that action,” the pace bowler had said about the incident.

Meanwhile, former Australian captain Tim Paine had slammed the need to address Kagiso Rabada serving his suspension, as dealing with a personal issue as well.

“It stinks. I don’t like this use around personal issues, and it is being used to hide stuff that isn’t a personal issue. If you have a professional sportsman who’s tested for recreational drugs during a tournament in which he is playing, that doesn’t fall under personal issues for me. That falls under you having broken your contract. That is not a personal issue; that is something that is happening in your personal life,” Paine concluded.