What Has Happened to Mighty Australia?

[Lala]

Australia seriously in a transition period now and losing Warner and Smith has damaged them lot. 

 

5-0 lost to England. 

 

15 years ago it could have been 5-0 lost by England since Aussies were hard to beat at anywhere. They got much better players. Aussies have now seriously lost their mojo. 

[LORD_analyst]

they have gone in  the 'pakistani minnow' mode.....

Edited June 25, 2018 by LORD_analyst

[Jamadagni]

Nothing happened. Imagine India without Kohli, that would be a huge miss for the team while Australia are without 5 of their  best players. Mark this post... Australia are sure shot semi finalists for the next year's WC. All other teams are competing for only 3 slots. 

 

Warner

Finch

Smith

Marsh

Maxwell 

Stonis

Carey 

Starc

Cummins 

Hazelwood 

Stanlake 

 

Head, M Marsh, Counternile, Agar Tye in the bench. 

 

No reason why this team can't win the world cup! 

[G_B_]

hmm its not just cricket. Australia are in relative decline (from very high standards) in most sports.

 

Combination of an aging anglo saxon  population and immigrants not being able to fill the void

 

Australia need to tap the asian community in their country to bolster their supply of talent.

 

From being dominant globally they are left to be being dominant at home.

[Tibarn]

England got much better, that is part of the reason. 

 

People should look at the England teams in the 2011/2015 WC or 2013 CT, there were so many players who shouldn't have even been near an ODI side. 

[Moochad]

Will Warner and Smith be available for the WC?

[Switchblade]

14 minutes ago, Moochad said:

Will Warner and Smith be available for the WC?

Yes their ban ends in March.

[Stuge]

Loss of certain Cricketers has really affected Australian team and its morale.

[rkt.india]

23 hours ago, Lala said:

Australia seriously in a transition period now and losing Warner and Smith has damaged them lot. 

 

5-0 lost to England. 

 

15 years ago it could have been 5-0 lost by England since Aussies were hard to beat at anywhere. They got much better players. Aussies have now seriously lost their mojo. 

What would you expect when a team is playing without their top 3 fast bowlers? I remember Australia getting blanked 3-0 by NZ before 2007 WC and they still won the WC.

[MK55]

Theyll be a completely different team with Cummins, Starc and Hazlewood/Stanlake in the playing 11. Paine needs to be replaced in ODIs and may be get back M Marsh

[Zero_Unit]

Every team goes through transition at one point or not. However AUS is not as bad as you think they are. Couple of main players were missing so hence the bad performance. And this eng team is probably lifting the WC this time around so don't be surprised of the thrashing they received!

[kosingh]

It became harder for them to tamper

[YCCC]

Erm have you been living on the moon since March? 

[cowboysfan]

The alarming thing for Australia is that they cant even score big on flat wickets now,leg spinners and even Ali have restricted their scoring.I dont think they would be favorites for the WC even with a full strength squad.

[gattaca]

3 hours ago, YCCC said:

Erm have you been living on the moon since March? 

He is living in Pakistan. 

Edited June 26, 2018 by gattaca

[Lala]

15 hours ago, Jamadagni said:

Australia are sure shot semi finalists for the next year's WC. All other teams are competing for only 3 slots. 

 England are sure shot semi finalists for the next year's WC since WC host in their home conditions and England are red hot form.

All other teams are competing for only 3 slots.  

[Khota]

Australia is not that bad but cricket in general is losing some charm there. They rather play so many other sports. Right now they are high on football. I wish India would do that too and become multi sport nation. Being best in cricket proves nothing.