"It's not desperation," Smith said. "We've got 27 games left, but certainly there is a will to get better, to improve and go and collect the points we require. "For me, the time is right to make Pat Cummins captain, something I thought even before the events of Friday unfolded," Warne wrote in Australia'sThe Daily Telegraph on Sunday Peter Fury told Sky Sports last week: "We'll definitely get somebody of high calibre." "He's a massive asset in many respects, first and foremost his performances on the field and especially what he has done against Australia in the recent past. But also the way that he plays his cricket.