Australian captain Pat Cummins is likely to make a comeback in the Sheffield Shield ahead of the much awaited Test series, Border-Gavasker Trophy against India. The series will start in the late November this year.

Pat Cummins and his teammates. 
Cummins has been rested from Australia's UK tours (England and Scotland), where the Aussies will play 5 ODI's and 6 T20I's. Cummins will be focusing on Red-ball during this time. Australia will play 5 Test match series against India, in the Border-Gavasker Trophy and then will play two Tests against Sri Lanka. These 7 Tests will be the ultimatum to Aussies and will decide whether they can defend their WTC title. They're currently on second position in the WTC rankings just behind India.

Cummins last played Sheffield Shield back in 2021 for New South Wales and played just 9 games in the four-day domestic competition. The batters will play two rounds of Shield and those who will not be in the part of Pakistan ODI series might get another outings. 

"Ronnie [coach Andrew McDonald] called me the other day and said we need to talk about this," Cummins told News Corp. "I prefer to go a little bit fresher but definitely play some cricket going in.

"So I'd say it's either two or three ODIs, plus a Shield [game] or maybe just some Shield, maybe some NSW one-day stuff. I imagine kind of late October/early November will be when I start playing building up for the Tests."

Australia haven’t won the Border-Gavasker Trophy since 2014. And they lost the last two home Test series against India.