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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby am Bays » Tue Feb 17, 2026 6:37 am

Been a great summer for Australia, we won the ASHES

It’s all that matters
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby locky801 » Tue Feb 17, 2026 6:48 am

Woeful performance last night

apart from Marsh and Head our batting was pathetic, followed up by a very average bowling performance
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Feb 17, 2026 6:57 am

am Bays wrote:Been a great summer for Australia, we won the ASHES

It’s all that matters


Really? We should be winning all things cricket and taking every competition seriously with the money and resources we throw at it. Why even send a team if we're not there to win, and I believe we have the cattle to win.

A gold medal in a 100m sprint bears the same value as a gold medal in the marathon...................or even archery for that matter.
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby Jim05 » Tue Feb 17, 2026 7:15 am

am Bays wrote:Been a great summer for Australia, we won the ASHES

It’s all that matters
At the end of the day yep, the Ashes were the priority.
I think the T20 WC is pretty low on our list, its like they deliberately don’t care about it
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Tue Feb 17, 2026 7:24 am

CA have the Harvey Norman factor with T20, like the fans. Interest free.
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby gadj1976 » Tue Feb 17, 2026 7:32 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:
am Bays wrote:Been a great summer for Australia, we won the ASHES

It’s all that matters


Really? We should be winning all things cricket and taking every competition seriously with the money and resources we throw at it. Why even send a team if we're not there to win, and I believe we have the cattle to win.

A gold medal in a 100m sprint bears the same value as a gold medal in the marathon...................or even archery for that matter.


Serious question, what money and resources?

What I see is a scheduled that revolves around the BBL which are pitches deliberately designed not to spin or take seam, which allows batsman to freely swing to create entertainment for the viewing public.

If we were serious about the World Cup, we'd schedule it to follow the BBL (tick!), but have something in it for the bowlers, so that they can acclimatise to the conditions we'd expect in the World Cup - especially knowing where it's been held. We've done none of that at all. The BBL is a standalone competition which does nothing to prepare those players for these conditions.

Australia will say it's taking T20 seriously but it's not.
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby amber_fluid » Tue Feb 17, 2026 8:15 am

Losing patience in all forms of the game with Green.
He’s not in any of my teams going forward
Needs to go back to state cricket and earn his spot
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby carey » Tue Feb 17, 2026 8:17 am

At least the Aussies are being beaten by some powerhouse nations lol :lol:
you've gota keep on keep'n on .........
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby Armchair expert » Tue Feb 17, 2026 8:42 am

Checked the score at my 1:30am piss, was nearly the end of the Aus innings 170odd the score, headline on cricket.com.au was Renshaw out so I thought Smith got a gig and made a few.

I woke up this morning and wtf
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby Armchair expert » Tue Feb 17, 2026 8:50 am

Cameron Green is a very poor mans Shane Watson

sorry the truth is brutal
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby locky801 » Tue Feb 17, 2026 8:54 am

Armchair expert wrote:Cameron Green is a very poor mans Shane Watson

sorry the truth is brutal


Would say his IPL team owners would be a tad nervous with all that they are paying him
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby Jim05 » Tue Feb 17, 2026 8:58 am

Why fly Smith over there only to let him have a front row seat to watch us get eliminated?
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby The Dark Knight » Tue Feb 17, 2026 9:41 am

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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Feb 17, 2026 10:00 am

gadj1976 wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:
am Bays wrote:Been a great summer for Australia, we won the ASHES

It’s all that matters


Really? We should be winning all things cricket and taking every competition seriously with the money and resources we throw at it. Why even send a team if we're not there to win, and I believe we have the cattle to win.

A gold medal in a 100m sprint bears the same value as a gold medal in the marathon...................or even archery for that matter.


Serious question, what money and resources?


What I see is a scheduled that revolves around the BBL which are pitches deliberately designed not to spin or take seam, which allows batsman to freely swing to create entertainment for the viewing public.

If we were serious about the World Cup, we'd schedule it to follow the BBL (tick!), but have something in it for the bowlers, so that they can acclimatise to the conditions we'd expect in the World Cup - especially knowing where it's been held. We've done none of that at all. The BBL is a standalone competition which does nothing to prepare those players for these conditions.

Australia will say it's taking T20 seriously but it's not.


The BBL would be a fair outlay, the training in Dubai and the mini series against Pakistan they played as a warm up wouldn't have been a cheap exercise, actually paying the likes of Maxwell, Stoinis and blokes such as Dwarshuis to only play the short game.

The BBL should've been the audtion for the World Cup squad with the exception of those that would be walk ups if they weren't playing test cricket at the time.

Anywho, hopefully this embarrassment will see them pick T20 squads with in-form players moving
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Re: 2026 T20 World Cup

Postby gadj1976 » Tue Feb 17, 2026 10:50 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:
gadj1976 wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:
am Bays wrote:Been a great summer for Australia, we won the ASHES

It’s all that matters


Really? We should be winning all things cricket and taking every competition seriously with the money and resources we throw at it. Why even send a team if we're not there to win, and I believe we have the cattle to win.

A gold medal in a 100m sprint bears the same value as a gold medal in the marathon...................or even archery for that matter.


Serious question, what money and resources?


What I see is a scheduled that revolves around the BBL which are pitches deliberately designed not to spin or take seam, which allows batsman to freely swing to create entertainment for the viewing public.

If we were serious about the World Cup, we'd schedule it to follow the BBL (tick!), but have something in it for the bowlers, so that they can acclimatise to the conditions we'd expect in the World Cup - especially knowing where it's been held. We've done none of that at all. The BBL is a standalone competition which does nothing to prepare those players for these conditions.

Australia will say it's taking T20 seriously but it's not.


The BBL would be a fair outlay, the training in Dubai and the mini series against Pakistan they played as a warm up wouldn't have been a cheap exercise, actually paying the likes of Maxwell, Stoinis and blokes such as Dwarshuis to only play the short game.

The BBL should've been the audtion for the World Cup squad with the exception of those that would be walk ups if they weren't playing test cricket at the time.

Anywho, hopefully this embarrassment will see them pick T20 squads with in-form players moving


But that's not money and resources to prepare a team for the World Cup. That's just hit and giggle stuff to make money for CA. VERY different purposes.
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