Yeah they should have gone with Topley, Curran and one of Jordan/Archer. Jordan is generally good at cutters, slower balls but he did not bowl well today. Wood though is really bad selection on this pitch.
That is just one of the many issues. They are still 50 runs behind.
Tactically poor as well. Australia hardly bowled at 140k. Mostly cutters.
Wood had a 22 run over too
Yeah he's a big match player. That unplayable inswing will come out soon enough
They use the ground dimension better than any team in the world. They have players to execute and fielders to support it. Look at Stoinis. He is hardly a bowler. Just a gentle dibbly dobbly pie chucker. But the way he used the pitch was an exhibition of how to use the ground dimensions. As i type it Zampa is precisely talking about ground dimensions.
Buttler has to get his selection and toss decision right.
Brooks was garbage even in 2023 wc
I mean maxwell is a genuine spinner and stones is a genuine bowler as well. The concept of pseudo allrounders doesn't really exist in Australia. Their bowlers are bowlers. Their allrounders are allrounders, their Middle order is a middle order and their openers are openers plain and simple.
Dint he destroy Cummins and head recently in ipl final too?
They get the job done but I don't rate Maxwell very highly. Even today he was taken apart by Moeen Ali in one over. Stoinis is your classic dibbly dobbler. He can be useful but batters can also go after him.
They did the same thing against Pakistan at the 2023 World Cup on a ground where 368 was very much chasable. Zampa in particular was so sharp and precise with his lengths that Pak batters could never target him like they intended, even with the short boundaries at Chinnaswamy and he ended up running through Pakistan with a 4-fer on a pretty dead deck.
They may or may not win the world cup. But they will put their best foot forward. Hayden mentioned something about it. It makes sense. "Australia is not an offensive team it is a great defensive team". He is spot on. They can have out of form players, misfit players. But collectively they have this over my dead body approach. Been the case since Alan Border days. That is why they have staged miraculous come backs. They may not even have the best XI. At this point no team can challenge them unless the conditions overly favor the opposition and not Australia.
My point is that their allrounders. Even if you rate them poorly their still genuine batting allrounder who can bowl.
