World Cup - 2019

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Bloke who showed dissent shouldn't play next week.

Did well to get that far... Too many average players and too many not at peak form.  All rounders performed poorly.

Hope they pick a better side for the ashes and they give more even performances.

Ashes will be a different side. Batting will be quite a bit different and Pattinson will be a huge boost to the bowling line-up

Warner
Khawaja
Patterson
Smith
Head
Wade
Paine
Pattinson
Cummins
Starc/Hazelwood
Lyon

Might not be the actual Test line but you get the idea.

Throughout the World Cup too much was left to too few. Finch and Warner were brilliant throughout the series but once they failed the batting was too brittle to cover for them. Smith had a solid series, up and down a bit much but a great knock last night. Carey was terrific but Stoinis and Maxwell were non-existent in the top 6 and that really hurt, where as in 2015 Maxwell was outstanding and as an all rounder we had Faulkner, way better than Stoinis. Maxwell's issue is that he is far too unreliable and can play dumb shots at the wrong time. Might have been better dropping Stoinis out of the squad when he got injured and played Mitch Marsh as he was awful.

Bowling-wise, Starc did very well although certainly short of his 2015 form, an indication of how good he was 4 years ago. Cummins was great when he had the new ball but once Berendorf came in, he was relegated to first change and was no-where near as effective. Lyon is our best ODI spinner but he is far, far better under Test conditions. Again in 2015 we had Starc, who was unstoppable, Johnson and Faulkner with help from Hazelwood/Cummins.

In the end I was rapt we won the toss and batted but hindsight showed that was wrong. The pitch was really tough to bat on early but by the afternoon had settled and was easy to bat on. Fielding, for one of the rare times this series, would've been alot better.

We didn't have a great side and in the end probably did well to make the semis and lead the ladder for 8 of the 9 rounds.