Last week, the KKR pacer, Pat Cummins garnered a lot of praises after his noble deed. Cummins is currently in India while plying his trade for KKR in IPL 2021 and seeing India’s terrible situation during the second wave of COVID-19, he donated $50,000 to the PM Cares Fund. However, in the latest turn of events, he has decided to allocate his funds to UNICEF Australia’s India COVID-19 Crisis Appeal.
Seeing the poor state of India, various big names and organizations are coming forward to make donations to India in providing essential medical facilities. In the same manner, Cricket Australia has also taken up an initiative to help the fellow nation. CA announced that they will throw their support behind India in this need hour while being in association with the Australian Cricketer’s Association and UNICEF Australia.
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The funds generated by Cricket Australia will be provided to India for their medical equipment and generating oxygen for the critical patients. While Pat Cummins was amid all the appreciation for donating the generous amount to India, he was criticized by many for donating to PM Cares Fund. Many believe that the funds in the PM Cares are not being channelized properly and not coming in use of the needy ones and it can be the reason behind Cummins diverting his channel of donation.
Here is Pat Cummins’ latest announcement:
Terrific work @CricketAus
FYI I ended up allocating my donation to UNICEF Australia's India COVID-19 Crisis Appeal.
If you're able to, please join many others in supporting this here https://t.co/SUvGjlGRm8 https://t.co/1c0NE9PFdO
— Pat Cummins (@patcummins30) May 3, 2021
In the most recent turn of events, KKR was all set to play against RCB in IPL 2021 before distress broke in Kolkata’s camp. Sandeep Warrier and Varun Chakravarthy have tested positive for COVID-19 while many other cricketers have been put into hard quarantine. Cummins is also one amongst them and in the same light, the match between the two teams got postponed.
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Talking about KKR’s performance this season, they have witnessed poor form and are currently struggling at 7th place in the points table with only 2 wins in their total seven games.
