Mitchell Starc reveals truth behind Pat Cummins baggy green mystery

‘I don’t know if that’s supposed to be told or not.’

Australian Test cricket captain Pat Cummins didn’t lose his brand new baggy green, as was first reported — he had it stolen from the team’s dressing room within days of receiving it.

The 32-year-old, who got his first baggy green in 2011 at the age of 18, was given a fresh one for the current tour of the West Indies, given his original cap’s dilapidated state.

It had holes and rips right throughout the top and brim, and needed to be replaced.

Which it was, in time for the pre-series trophy photoshoot with opposing captain Roston Chase — until Cummins later took the field with the old one during the first Test in Barbados.

Reports out of the Australian camp suggested at the time that the cap was lost, but fast bowler Mitchell Starc has set the record straight.

Ahead of his 100th Test, after which players are traditionally offered a new baggy green, Starc joked that there mightn’t be any left, given Cummins has had to have two replacements.

“Apparently these days if you play 100 Tests you get another baggy green, but I think Pat’s just taken them all with the last couple of weeks of events, so there are probably none left,” Starc told Willow Talk.

Willow Talk host Adam Peacock asked: “He fair dinkum lost his new one, did he?”

Starc then quickly clarified: “He didn’t lose it, it got taken,” Starc added

“I don’t know if that’s supposed to be told or not, but yeah, it got stolen out of the changeroom.

“So he now has three (baggy greens) like David Warner.

“There was a manhunt for this hat for the whole Barbados Test match, so yeah, it’s gone. You heard it here first.”

Warner’s baggy green went missing in the days leading up to his final Test match last year in Sydney.

Despite fears it had been stolen, and a public plea for it to be returned, the cap was later found in a bag at the team’s hotel.

The same can’t be said for Cummins, it seems, whose second cap was taken at some point before the first Test.