Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins is the new Test captain of the Australian cricket team as Cricket Australia made it official on Friday.

Pat Cummins is the world’s No.1 ranked Test bowler.

Cummins becomes Australia’s 47th test captain.

Australia’s wicketkeeper-batsman Tim Paine quit as Test captain a week ago over the public revelation of an exchange of allegedly sexually graphic text messages with a female colleague in 2017.