Pat Cummins’ face says it all after being asked about England’s World Cup humiliation

Australian captain Pat Cummins delivered the perfect response after being asked his thoughts on England’s World Cup humiliation.

Australian captain Pat Cummins has delivered the perfect response to England’s World Cup debacle.

The defending champions were humiliated in an eight-wicket thrashing at the hands of Sri Lanka which pushed them to the brink of elimination.

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The knives came out from all corners with former England skipper Nasser Hussain torching his fellow countrymen after the loss.

The defeat leaves England in ninth place and needing a miracle over their final four games if they’re to advance into the semi-finals.

Cummins was asked for his thoughts on the loss during a press conference ahead of Australia’s Trans-Tasman clash with New Zealand on Saturday night.

He didn’t even need words to convey his message, his face said it all.

A journalist in attendance threw the following question at the Aussie skipper: “You mentioned close friends in other teams. I imagine you would have been heartbroken to see England suffer a defeat last night. What was your reaction to that given you have got them in a couple of games time?”

The question caught Cummins off guard and saw him instantly burst out in laughter before he sheepishly responded: “Yeah, it was sad to see. I don’t have much for it.”

Cummins’ laughter will only pour fuel on the fire of relations between the two nations following a hostile Ashes series.

Stuart Broad revealed he had called Cummins an “absolute disgrace” as he was taken over by “red mist” following Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal.

Alex Carey’s stumping of Bairstow became the talking point of the Ashes after he threw down the stumps when he saw his counterpart repeatedly wandering out of his crease.

Australia went on to win that second Test at Lord’s.

Broad has revealed he was overcome by a fit of rage and ripped into Cummins for not withdrawing the appeal.

“As I’m walking out to bat at Lord’s and there’s boos going at the Aussies, the captain Pat Cummins is coming on to bowl so he’s walking towards me at the end of his mark,” Broad recalled on the Up Front podcast.

“And I just looked at him and said, ‘You’re an absolute disgrace’.

“He said, ‘Oh yeah, you’re hardly an upkeep of the spirit of cricket’.”

That quip from Cummins was in reference to when Broad famously didn’t walk in the 2013 Ashes when he clearly edged the ball but was given not out by the umpire.

“So that upset me a bit,” Broad said.

Broad wasn’t a happy camper. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

Bairstow, and England, tried to claim the moral high-ground following the incident, but former Aussie captain Tim Paine wasn’t having it and called out the English keeper after there was clear evidence he had claimed controversial stumpings and run outs throughout his career.

“We have seen it happen, numerous times. And not only have we seen it happen, Jonny, we’ve seen you do it,” Paine said.

Paine was alluding to vision from a 2014 County Championship match where he committed a contentious stumping on Nottinghamshire’s Samit Patel.

The video that’s circulated since the Ashes incident shows Bairstow waiting with his gloves next to the stumps, before whipping off the bails as Patel raised his foot off the ground after a delay.