Cricket nice Ian Healy has slammed Australia’s World Cup debacle as “not good enough” after the aspect was pummelled by 134-runs by South Africa on Thursday evening.
The outcome sees Australia drop to 0-2 and in a 10-team competitors the place each aspect performs one another as soon as for 4 semi-finals spots, it leaves little or no wiggle room for the aspect.
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It’s believed Australia might want to win six of their closing seven video games on the very least to e book a spot within the closing 4.
The loss was additionally the primary time in World Cup historical past Australia has misplaced 4 matches in a row at a World Cup, having been knocked out of the 2019 event after a pair of losses.
But it’s the way in which that Australia are shedding that’s most telling because the aspect have been bundled out for 177 with greater than 9 overs remaining chasing South Africa’s 7/311.
It leaves Australia second final on the ladder forward of solely Afghanistan.
Healy stated Australia appear “unsettled” which he added was disappointing because it was a component of the preparation for the event that’s in Australia’s management.
Healy in contrast the present aspect to the 1992 aspect that he performed in, who “drifted into it” having performed World Series Cup tri-series, a event Australia received.
Concerningly, that Australian workforce missed the semi-finals in that event, which was performed in Australia and New Zealand — the final time Australia had missed the playoffs at a Cricket World Cup.
“We weren’t as focused and fierce as the opposition for the start of the tournament and we fell behind,” Healy stated of the 1992 workforce.
“Now these guys have got that type of preparation and that sort of driftiness into them and they’re unsettled as well. So how has all this happened. It’s not good enough.”
Greg Alexander stated the warning indicators seemed to be there when the South African collection had seen Australia win the primary two matches earlier than three 100-run losses to lose the collection.
Healy stated the Aussies have been fidgeting with their batting order all through the collection whereas some gamers have been overcoming harm, saying it was “just so unsettled and unprofessional”.
“You can’t come into a World Cup against South Africa — they looked like they wanted to eat us alive and India are so animated and into it.
“They’re so hungry and animated and we’re really stiff, tired and anxious.”
Healy referred to as Pat Cummins’ drop the most important of the innings, labelling it “hopeless” and saying: “That tells me this team is nowhere and have got to find something fast.”
As for the shock name to dump Alex Carey for Josh Inglis, Healy stated the choice was “unfair”.
“It’s a bit of shame when a keeper gets dropped for his batting,” Healy stated.
“What does that indicate? It indicates the top order is not doing their job well enough and there is too much being asked of the wicketkeeper with the bat.
“He is a good batsman and he’s out of form. I thought it was unfair and unnecessary to have Josh Inglis in the squad because that destabilises the keeper.
“We’ve never needed a second wicketkeeper in a World Cup and if you do, it means the first wicketkeeper got injured and then you can put the other bloke in anyway.
Josh Inglis being in the squad is holding a batsman or a bowler out. We don’t need a second keeper in the XV.
“That was not great and not going to help Alex Carey.”
He additionally questioned why not one of the batters had been moved on.
Healy wasn’t the one individual slamming the Aussies.
Former 9 Test and 7 T20I spinner Steven O’Keefe stated that it was an “uncharacteristic” efficiency from Australia.
“They dropped five catches. Australia over the last 12 months are completing in the field at 66.4 per cent in regards to catch attempts. We sit just above Nepal,” O’Keefe stated on SEN’s The Run Home.
“You think of great Australian teams in the day, they would turn half-chances into full chances. Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Mark Waugh, these sort of guys turned World Cups just with their fielding efforts.
“A couple of the catches were tough ones and were at the back-end of the innings, but you’re looking for silver linings in this group … success leaves clues but so does mistakes and when you’re looking at fielders and the fielding unit isn’t switched on and dialled in and we’re making that many mistakes.
“Maybe being tired is a reason, but its certainly no excuse two games into a World Cup.”
He added that the fielding points have been a “look into the psyche of these guys.”
Speaking on SEN Tassie Breakfast, former Australian captain Tim Paine stated he was shocked that Carey was dropped for the match.
“This World Cup would have been planned for over a year, ‘How we want to play, what our set up of our team looks like’,” Paine stated.
“For that to change in one game, I was shocked. It is fascinating.
“I just don’t understand, if they didn’t think he was the man or they thought he was that close to being dropped, then why go with him in the first game?
“We’ve had a year of planning for this. So, the two balls that he faced against India was, ‘Oh, no, he’s done, we can’t pick him again’. Is that it for the World Cup? It’s going to be hard to get him back in.”
Australia subsequent play Monday evening towards Sri Lanka.
Source: www.news.com.au
