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Where getting smacked by the Kiwis tonight.

Well deserved smacking as well.....bowled poorly, batted poorly.. .too many passengers for such a format.....no doubt the selectors will keep the faith for the next match  on Tues.....bridge too far I reckon with that negative run rate to make the semi's.....

Im not sure who is the more clueless at CA- the players, the selectors or Pat's mate Ronald McDonald or a combination of all 3!
How many times have we told those clowns on here that you have to pick a completely new side for T20 cricket from the other forms and yet they still continue down the path of picking Smith, Cummins, Hazlewood etc whilst everyone bar the CA crew knows Fatty Finch, Wade, Stoinis, Starc, Maxwell, Warner are hopelessly out of form in this format but they still keep picking and playing them!
This T20WC has memories of that disastrous 1992 home World Cup written all over this for Australia and many will be quietly chuckling to themselves about it!

Well done to the Kiwis, they played the perfect T20 game, firstly in having the courage to drop a proven performer in Martin Guptill and selecting a young gun Finn Allen who had no fear of the Australian team and proceeded to smash them to all corners of the ground during the power play. This set the tone for the entire game and New Zealand kept their foot on the throat of Australia for the whole contest.

I think most Australian cricket supporters would not have been surprised with this result given the form line leading into the tournament. This was a team picked on reputation and past performance rather than current pedigree. A reward for the players who pulled off the unlikely victory in 2021 rather than a serious attempt to win this one.If they wanted to be in the hunt for back to back titles where was Nathan Ellis who is by far the best performed Australian bowler in T20 cricket in the past 12 months?  Where was Ben Mcdermott who has been scoring runs for fun in the BBL in the last few years. Why was Josh Phillipe not put in the squad as a like for like after Inglis’s unfortunate injury? Just to rub this in he made 80 from 50 balls for WA yesterday. Where were Jhye Richardson and Jason Berendorff from the successful Scorchers outfit? I’m sure there are a few more I have forgotten

Instead we have a collection of has beens or out of form players trying to compete with teams who have actually evolved with the game. It smacks of arrogance and disrespect to the Kiwis who were delighted to throw it back in their faces.

Australias bowling and fielding was dreadful yesterday. Even Hazlewood and Zampa, who are normally tight were bowling pies. 200 was about 30 over par I reckon and after Australia lost a few early wickets, the instruction from the dugout should have been to try and bat out their 20 overs and get as close as possible to protect their run rate but lo and behold guys like Maxwell and David just kept playing unrealistic shots and what could have been just a 20- 30 run loss became a train wreck. You wonder if Ronald Mcdonald said anything to them about game awareness, super coach that he is apparently.

Australias remaining games are against Sri Lanka, England, Ireland and Afghanistan. They will probably(?) win 3 of those but I can’t see them beating England this time around and with their Net run rate that will be tournament over.

It is the worse credentialled batting line-up we have seen for a while, I am afraid. If they are going to play Smith, honestly, it would be better to open and tell him to bat the 20 overs.

90,246 fans just seen an amazing last ball finish at the McG.
There was kaos at the end and Pakistan Captain Babar had a meltdown. The vice Captain had to set the last over fields.
Virat Kohli came to the wicket at 3-30 odd after the disaster of the Powerplay.And played one of the best if not best T20 innings ever.The Indian Emperor has ice in his veins.Hes so cool under pressure.

Even for a dyed in the wool Test Cricket man like myself, that was an incredible T20 WC game last night between India & Pakistan at the MCG in front of 91,000 and probably a billion watching around the world.
To go down to the very last ball is all you can hope for as a neutral viewer.
Kohli turned back the clock with some of his hitting a combination of sublime timing and power!

BH the Victorian Government is trying to  organize a India V Pakistan Test Match.Played on the McG as a neutral venue for both teams.So the talk is this morning.
Viewing audience was 1.5 Billion.That excludes villages in India and Pakistan who would listen on transistor radio.

gtrxuone wrote:

BH the Victorian Government is trying to  organize a India V Pakistan Test Match.Played on the McG as a neutral venue for both teams.So the talk is this morning.
Viewing audience was 1.5 Billion.That excludes villages in India and Pakistan who would listen on transistor radio.

I am not surprised GTR.
If we in WA actually had a Premier, Sports Minister & Tourism Minister who had any clue on sport we should have jumped on the opportunity ourselves being in closer proximity to both India & Pakistan and being close to their timezone but alas we dont.
The likes of McGowan, Templeman & Cook have no idea how big of an opportunity they have missed there, in fact the Pakis & India play a double header here at Perth Stadium for the T20 WC soon but you wouldnt even know unless you were a cricket fan!

BH that why the Optus, Australia v Sri Lanka match starts at a strange time 7-30 our time,late for a Tuesday night..The telecast beams into India at 4 pm there time.