Aussies are so average now!

[patriot]

Ever since Bucknor has retired things have been difficult for them. He is hard to replace.

:--D

[EnterTheVoid]

Say what DSR ? :finger:

[punjabi_khota]

Say what DSR ? :finger:

:dontknow: They just beat the 7th ranked team at home. Does that make em great ?

[Bumper]

This thread is pwnage of epic proportions. Look at the condescending tone from dsr. While an Aussie fan might feel a bit depressed (reading this), a Pak fan would be shattered to know that his team is not even good enough to beat a washed up Aussie team. Its time for Pak fans to load up on the Akram and Waqar's tapes of the 90s and pretend that the 2000s never happened. :dontknow: I know, I know, i dont have to describe to you guys, how to live in denial, but still...

[achilles]

Guys, some facts- 1. Australia was never a good team. They just had good players who shined individually and took their team to glory. 2. Australia has rubbish bench-strength and playing in their team is equivalent to playing a game of musical chairs. If you are Jason Krejza or Bryce McGain, you will be dropped even after one poor game, while Nathan Hauritz will be persisted for months and months. 3. Most Players in Australia (according to cricinfo's survey) don't aspire to play for Australia. Their No.1 priority is an IPL contract. 4. Australia is all talk and no game. They will trash-talk about you in the media, only to see Harbhajan Singh & Zaheer Khan get 50s and get owned by weak bowling attacks like West Indies. 5. After their top players retired, the transition for them has been a never-ending one, contrary to what they say in the media - "We have the strongest domestic structure in the world". 6. Its funny that a country which boasts of the strongest domestic structure in world can't find 11 decent players to play and have 14 injured players, getting replaced mid-way during a tournament and the replacement players get injured and replaced. Which means that a replacement player gets replaced. Talk about fitness ! 7. Australia is past their prime and playing yourself up is like asking for an erection without having a D!CK. 8. The present Australian squad is mentally weaker than a 80 yr old on viagra. The fact that they need to get under the skin of bowlers like Benn & debutants like Brendan Nash speaks volumes about their mental toughness, or should I say the lack of it! 9. Australia needs to learn that they can't win games with the tongue. They need to bat, bowl and field well to win games. 10. Pride comes before a fall.

[Params7]

1. Australia was never a good team. They just had good players who shined individually and took their team to glory.

That would be team India. The team of individual performers...including A GOD, and other Batters on the level of Jesus Christ himself (Dravid, Sehwag etc) but could never win a World Cup after '83, unlike Australia, who been consecutively winning what..pretty much every major ODI tournament (World Cups, Champions Trophies). Such a feat isn't possible on just individuals performing awesome, there's a lot of teamwork, spirit and attitude to fight in Aussies and that's why they dominated for a decade, man...remember a depleted Aussie side just beat a prime Indian side in a 7 match ODI series. Australia = New York Yankees of cricket.

[99.94]

3. Most Players in Australia (according to cricinfo's survey) don't aspire to play for Australia. Their No.1 priority is an IPL contract.

Absolute rubbish

[PotterManiac]

Ever since Bucknor has retired things have been difficult for them. He is hard to replace.

:haha:

[Guest Gunner]

Guys, some facts- 1. Australia was never a good team. They just had good players who shined individually and took their team to glory. 2. Australia has rubbish bench-strength and playing in their team is equivalent to playing a game of musical chairs. If you are Jason Krejza or Bryce McGain, you will be dropped even after one poor game, while Nathan Hauritz will be persisted for months and months. 3. Most Players in Australia (according to cricinfo's survey) don't aspire to play for Australia. Their No.1 priority is an IPL contract. 4. Australia is all talk and no game. They will trash-talk about you in the media, only to see Harbhajan Singh & Zaheer Khan get 50s and get owned by weak bowling attacks like West Indies. 5. After their top players retired, the transition for them has been a never-ending one, contrary to what they say in the media - "We have the strongest domestic structure in the world". 6. Its funny that a country which boasts of the strongest domestic structure in world can't find 11 decent players to play and have 14 injured players, getting replaced mid-way during a tournament and the replacement players get injured and replaced. Which means that a replacement player gets replaced. Talk about fitness ! 7. Australia is past their prime and playing yourself up is like asking for an erection without having a D!CK. 8. The present Australian squad is mentally weaker than a 80 yr old on viagra. The fact that they need to get under the skin of bowlers like Benn & debutants like Brendan Nash speaks volumes about their mental toughness, or should I say the lack of it! 9. Australia needs to learn that they can't win games with the tongue. They need to bat, bowl and field well to win games. 10. Pride comes before a fall.

That's about the only thing which I agree with since it is a generic statement. Despite all their failings we just failed to beat them in the ODI series at home, remember? So who is mentally stronger?

[PotterManiac]

That's about the only thing which I agree with since it is a generic statement. Despite all their failings we just failed to beat them in the ODI series at home' date=' remember? So who is mentally stronger?[/quote'] :two_thumbs_up:

[Bradman99]

Guys, some facts- 1. Australia was never a good team. They just had good players who shined individually and took their team to glory. 2. Australia has rubbish bench-strength and playing in their team is equivalent to playing a game of musical chairs. If you are Jason Krejza or Bryce McGain, you will be dropped even after one poor game, while Nathan Hauritz will be persisted for months and months. 3. Most Players in Australia (according to cricinfo's survey) don't aspire to play for Australia. Their No.1 priority is an IPL contract. 4. Australia is all talk and no game. They will trash-talk about you in the media, only to see Harbhajan Singh & Zaheer Khan get 50s and get owned by weak bowling attacks like West Indies. 5. After their top players retired, the transition for them has been a never-ending one, contrary to what they say in the media - "We have the strongest domestic structure in the world". 6. Its funny that a country which boasts of the strongest domestic structure in world can't find 11 decent players to play and have 14 injured players, getting replaced mid-way during a tournament and the replacement players get injured and replaced. Which means that a replacement player gets replaced. Talk about fitness ! 7. Australia is past their prime and playing yourself up is like asking for an erection without having a D!CK. 8. The present Australian squad is mentally weaker than a 80 yr old on viagra. The fact that they need to get under the skin of bowlers like Benn & debutants like Brendan Nash speaks volumes about their mental toughness, or should I say the lack of it! 9. Australia needs to learn that they can't win games with the tongue. They need to bat, bowl and field well to win games. 10. Pride comes before a fall.

1. Never a good team, yet they dominated world cricket for 10 years? If they were never a good team then every other side for the past 10 years have been absolutely pathetic. 2. True with the spinners bit, but still the depthin other areas is quite good. 3. Joke.. 4. We have won more games then any other country in the past decade, so most of the times I'd presume our talk has worked! 5. It takes time. You can't just replace legends of the game just like that! 6. How about a nation that has 1 billion people and has cricket as their only real sport. 7. Just wierd.. 8. Yeah, it wasn't Benn's fault at all. 9. No **** 10. *yawn*

[King Tendulkar]

^ You are still very average now. As shown by nearly being beating by a pathetic pakistan team!

[Bradman99]

^ You are still very average now. As shown by nearly being beating by a pathetic pakistan team!

A win is a win. It doesn't matter how you get them. The decision to bat first on that pitch was a bad one and to still come back from that position shows good character. A lot of other teams would of thrown in the towel in that situation! I think we are the 2nd best team in the world, would like to see a series against India because I don't think we would have anything to be afraid of.

[Guest Gunner]

6. How about a nation that has 1 billion people and has cricket as their only real sport.

Pwnage!! :haha::haha:

[thevortex]

Now that the real powerhouses of players are not there, Ponting's captaincy is being exposed. Pakistan could actually have won this series despite not playing too much Test cricket for a couple of years - if not for a couple of weak sessions. That is how bad Australia is right now. Right now they are winning out of habit. Because the team knows how to win even when it is down in the dumps. But I think when they get beaten consecutively, say 2 or 3 times, that is when self doubt would set in and they would start ruing the loss of the old greats. Lets see how it goes. Mitchell Johnson is probably the world's most overrated bowler. He is fast alright, but speed alone is not enough for a bowler to really shine in the long term. ________ Washington Medical Marijuana

[Bradman99]

Pontings captaincy is not being exposed we won 5 out of 6 tests so that is a load of crap. MoYo's captaincy was exposed not Ponitngs. The only mistake Ponting made wasn choosing to bat first in the 2nd test, other then that his declarations, bowling changes and field placements have been good. Sure, our team is not as good as it once was and it may take a long time before we reach that level again, but we are far from a bad side. I'll continue to back Johnson, he can bolw badly all day but then come up with a ball no one else is capable of and get a breakthough. He has that x factor about him which makes him a weapon. A very good bowler. Wasn;t the leading wicket taker last year by chance.

[veer]

this thread makes ICF's IQ level fall drastically..

[Pak_Forever]

Guys, some facts- 1. Australia was never a good team. They just had good players who shined individually and took their team to glory. 2. Australia has rubbish bench-strength and playing in their team is equivalent to playing a game of musical chairs. If you are Jason Krejza or Bryce McGain, you will be dropped even after one poor game, while Nathan Hauritz will be persisted for months and months. 3. Most Players in Australia (according to cricinfo's survey) don't aspire to play for Australia. Their No.1 priority is an IPL contract. 4. Australia is all talk and no game. They will trash-talk about you in the media, only to see Harbhajan Singh & Zaheer Khan get 50s and get owned by weak bowling attacks like West Indies. 5. After their top players retired, the transition for them has been a never-ending one, contrary to what they say in the media - "We have the strongest domestic structure in the world". 6. Its funny that a country which boasts of the strongest domestic structure in world can't find 11 decent players to play and have 14 injured players, getting replaced mid-way during a tournament and the replacement players get injured and replaced. Which means that a replacement player gets replaced. Talk about fitness ! 7. Australia is past their prime and playing yourself up is like asking for an erection without having a D!CK. 8. The present Australian squad is mentally weaker than a 80 yr old on viagra. The fact that they need to get under the skin of bowlers like Benn & debutants like Brendan Nash speaks volumes about their mental toughness, or should I say the lack of it! 9. Australia needs to learn that they can't win games with the tongue. They need to bat, bowl and field well to win games. 10. Pride comes before a fall.

lol..this gotta be one of the most rubbish post on ICF. It was so bad that I started :haha:

[vvvslaxman]

I do not think Watson will be a permanent solution for them. Also their opening is not as consistent as Hayden/Langer. Also Hadden has a long long way to match Gilly. He may never match him at all. Their biggest weakness has been inability to run through tail. You can't really put a finger on specific reason. But sooner they fix is the better.

[Chorazin Reto]

Didnt Aus beat India on their home turf in an ODI series last time the 2 teams played? Seems to me they are still a competitive side, just not the dominating side of the previous 10 years.