New Feature: What Went Wrong for Australia at the 2014 T20 World Cup?

[chasingthedon]

Marco looks back to the recently completed T20 World Cup in Bangladesh and asks, "What went wrong for Australia?".

Cricket Web - Features: What went wrong for Australia at the 2014 T20 World Cup?

 

[Furball]

Too many Victorians, something the article disappointingly skirts around

 

[Daemon]

1. Starc (best white ball bowler in the world) bowling crap
2. Can't play spin
3. Too many Brads
4. Lack of Nathan Lyon

In those conditions and with the team they had, I don't think they underperformed that much, they were never that good to begin with. If all the pitches were roads they would've definitely done a whole lot better.

 

[Jono]

Nah that's it. People who aren't from Australia who aren't allowed to make anti-Victorian jokes. Sick of this ****.

****ers.

 

[Jassy]

It's the nature of the beast, T20 is like that. They needed 31 in 18 with 6 wickets in hand vs Pak; and the game vs WI could also have gone either way. They had one poor game against the team that was undefeated till the final. No need to over-analyse IMO.

 

[Julian87]

4. Lack of Nathan Lyon

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[Julian87]

4. Lack of Nathan Lyon

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Just adding to that; picking Nathan Lyon (and Ryan Harris but that's another point) in the real world cup is the only way Australia will win. They're not going to win a 50 over tournament with Xavier Doherty and Faulkner as the third seamer.

 

[Flem274*]

they kept losing

 

[BeeGee]

In those conditions...

It's no coincidence that the teams who rely the most on their seam bowling (e.g. Australia, New Zealand, England) performed poorly, while the spin heavy teams (e.g. India, Sri Lanka) did well.

If you want to be a great team you need to be able to perform in all conditions. Australia need to develop some spin bowling talent and depth, as well as batsmen who can play spin.