Yeh you need to take wickets yet leave out your most destructive wicket taker. Especially given the minnow nations generally struggle with express pace and swing.
Moronic.
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Moronic.
It's not like he ripped through Ireland's top order a few days earlier or anything.
The selectors totally blew this World Cup. Stuck with too many out of form players including the captain, failed to read that swing was a weapon (as Leysy said Jhye Richardson should have come in for Cummins), and with Green in the side instead of Finch, probably should have gone with Agar as an additional spinner at times.
Finch should do the honourable thing and step down. He's a spent force. Wade too. Finch turns 36 in 11 days, Wade 35 next month. Time to move on. Warner is 36 but has looked in ripping nick and is classes above those two so he can stay.
Kane Richardson is in the same boat as Sean Abbott for me. Very good at the level below, not quite up to international level.
Too many bitsers in the top-order as well. Australia needs to find some batsmen who can hit, instead of hitters who can bat (Marsh, Stoinis, David). Not sure we have the talent to win without arguably the three best batsmen in the country (Smith, Labuschagne, Khawaja).
Yes, gone are my days of watching, listening, reading etc with everything to do with Australian cricket.
I dunno, there's a couple of unlikable blokes in that team.... with Warner leading the pack, who is a particularly polarizing figure for many who have loved the game.
Bit of a zero care factor for me now.
much the same, haven't watched a minute of the hit & giggle
Not sure Jhye Richardson is at his best in limited over cricket but he is definitely a test class fast bowler.
AJ Tye is a proven commodity in T20, I’d play him.
Zampa is our best T20 bowler by far at the moment and to me playing 2 spinners has proven a good choice in the 20 over game. Ashton Agar should have been playing ahead of one of the quicks imo.
Richardson is a high quality right-arm outswing bowler. They're valauble whatever the format, and lacking in our current team. As good as they are, Cummins and Hazlewood are too similar. Tye not for me.
I’m only saying that J. Richardson’s record is much better at a 1st class level than it is in limited overs cricket, tends to leak runs. To me if he plays in the T20 or 50 over side it is instead of Starc as both are strike bowlers who can also go for runs.
Whether it is Tye or someone else we need a death bowler who has the 20 over variations. Slow balls, back of the hand etc. None of Cummins, Starc, Hazelwood or either of the Richardsons have that. We are too predictable for the hitters.
I also don’t see how we can have both Maxwell and David in the team. Agree on Finch and Wade going but also Steve Smith is not a 20 over batsman.
This 20 over team had more holes than Swiss cheese. Missing the finals was probably a true reflection of where it was.
No mention of McDonald?
Langer won a 20 over World Cup in Dubai just 12 months ago, yet McDonald can't get the same squad past the group stages at home.
That is a massive drop and he is essentially the one major change in that time.
We also looked poorly organised, unsettled and players not relaxed or enjoying themselves, both in lead-up games and in the Cup itself.
That is on the coach.
As much as I'd like to lay the boots in to support JL, I think it's pretty hard to judge a coach on T20 performance, it's a very unpredictable game.
There's also the issue that generally speaking, if you want to win a cricket world cup, don't host it.
Yeh, and we only lost one game. Not sure it's a knives out type result.
Aussies need new blood, youth in all forms of cricket, especially T20 & ODi, but don't think our domestic structure & administration offer much encouragement. Other nations seem well ahead of us.
The upper crust of Australian Cricket throughout it's history has been a very entitled bunch.
The selectors hang with the older boys for too long and this stifles development and delays the 'new blood'. .... imo ...
I think the last 2 decades have been particularly bad with this in mind.
I've gone off cricket altogether another game ruined by the body politik, and hit and giggle.
I find this bunch of Australian Cricketers, quite unlikeable with Cummins the biggest virtue signaling clown of them all.
He's dead to me as is this team.
What they did to JL sealed the deal for me.
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So by calling him virtue signalling you're saying he doesn't actually believe what he's standing up for? I personally think he's actually quite admirable in standing up for his beliefs. He probably shouldn;t have played in the T20 World Cup but thats hardly his fault.
