ICC T20 World CUP – Australia T20 World CUP: As expected, Australia is dumped out of T20 World CUP. England’s win over Sri Lanka on Saturday consigned Australia to a group-stage exit as their title defence petered out. With all not well with the Australian team, reports coming in from Australian media suggests T20 Careers of Aaron Finch, David Warner, Matthew Wade, Steve Smith and few other oldies in the team are now on-line as Australian selectors will look for fresher legs for the FUTURE: Follow T20 World CUP 2022 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
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Australia T20 World CUP: Most of the cricket experts in Australia feel that the top Australian cricketers have aged and selectors are unlikely to given any more chance going forward.
- Finch and David Warner will both be 37 for the 2024 tournament
- Glenn Maxwell and Steve Smith will be 35 and Marcus Stoinis 34.
- Wicketkeeper Matthew Wade has already declared this event to be his international swansong.
“I don’t see T20 cricket being a 37-year-old’s game at the absolute elite level. It might be terrific from a spectacle point of view but at the top level you want young people playing this game.”, said forme captain Mark Taylor.
Taylor, a former opener who was jettisoned from the one-day team in 1997 for Adam Gilchrist, cast extreme doubt over Finch’s future.
“When you’re an opening batsman – I do know what it’s like even though I didn’t play T20 – and facing guys bowling 140 km/h or quicker it’s not always easy to stay in, but take them for eight or nine an over that’s even harder.
ICC T20 World CUP: Glenn Maxwell reveals regrets as Australia’s T20 World Cup defence falls well short
Meanwhile batter Glenn Maxwell says the contrast between the team’s performances in this year’s tournament and during the run to the title in 2021 have been strikingly different.
“We probably haven’t put the complete game together.
“There was a couple of games last year during the World Cup where we probably did I think – Bangladesh, West Indies and Sri Lanka we played the complete game, almost back-to-back. They were clinical performances, we did the game quickly and were just pretty sharp in all areas of the game.
“We’ve probably missed a few opportunities this year. A couple of batters have got starts but haven’t gone big.
“I don’t think we’ve got any batters in the top five or six or ten run scorers. We haven’t probably got the higher wicket takers either, it feels like we’ve just been chipping away, bits and pieces here and there.”
Australia’s enormous margin of defeat to New Zealand in the first game of the Super 12 stage had hamstrung their campaign right from the off, leaving them with a net run rate deficit that proved pivotal as England finished level on points but above on NRR.
Questions had been raised over whether the preparation for the tournament was wrong from Australia, but Maxwell said it was more just a case of an opponent executing their game right on the day.
Finn Allen getting New Zealand off to a flier with 42 from 16 balls inside the first few overs.
The ‘tee off (not recklessly)’ dilemma: Glenn Maxwell on the trouble with batting down the order rest lead-in that we’ve ever had, 15 games in all sorts of places in some pretty average conditions,” Maxwell said.
“Once that fifteenth game was finished against India at the Gabba, the feeling around the group was almost a sigh of relief, now we can start the tournament.
“We were excited, we were fresh, we were pumped up and ready to go. They just had a player who was better on the day.
“Pretty much everything we did they counteracted in the first four overs. That can be all it takes in a T20 game, we saw (Marcus) Stoinis do it against Sri Lanka, take the game away in three overs.”
Maxwell and Co. will now turn their attention to the 50-over format and hope that they can find the illusive ‘complete game’ when the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup kicks off in India next October.
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