All-rounders are like gold, they genuinely pick themselves from their batting and their bowling is a bonus: Pat Cummins

Australia captain Pat Cummins stated that his side has enough fast-bowling all-rounders in their roster with Marcus Stoinis doubtful for their World Cup opener against India. The high-voltage clash will be contested on October 8 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. 

Stoinis has been practicing for the last two days, bowling almost four overs on Friday evening before batting for about 40 minutes under lights. However, the Aussie skipper stated that the star all-rounder is unlikely for India clash.

"He's (Stoinis) going to have a run out (there) this afternoon but he's got to jump through a few hoops," Cummins said on the eve of the match as quoted by cricket.com.au.

Cummins reckoned the all-rounders are like gold as they can impress with both bat and ball.

"In one-day cricket, more than any of the other formats, you need allrounders, you've got to try and find 50 overs. We feel really blessed to have people like Cam Green, Mitch Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, and Marcus Stoinis in the side. They're like gold … they genuinely pick themselves from their batting and their bowling is kind of a bonus.

"It means you can bat deeper. We're lucky that we're going to have seven or eight bowlers to choose from but no doubt you'll see more from the specialists and the all-rounders will chip in when they need to," the 30-year-old added.

Cummins further opened up about how he will manage his all-rounders' workload throughout Australia's nine group matches in the marquee event. Notably, Marsh has played only Australia's last three matches after a break and Stoinis is currently recovering from his hamstring injury, suffered during the series against India.

"If things shift then we'll manage that, but the good thing is in each game, between Maxwell, Marsh, Green and Stoinis, we'll have lots of bowling so there might be some games where one or two of the allrounders either don't bowl or bowl very little. But Mitch is really good, it's all on track. That's been by design to hold (him) back from South Africa and start building up to the World Cup and he's going really well," he concluded.