Mixed campaign came to a close with Afghanistan’s win over Bangladesh as did opening batter’s international career
Most often, in trying to assess a sporting team’s tournament, you may as well be looking for the future in chicken entrails. Throw enough offal and you can interpret it as any shape you like.campaign can go a couple of ways. Look at the struggles against lower-ranked teams and you can see a side that never hit its straps. Australia lost nearly half a game against Oman, three-quarters of a game against Scotland, and finally an entire costly one against Afghanistan.
So what went wrong? Usually this question is answered by personnel, but this team appeared well selected. It may be unimaginative to go for the big three quicks, copy-pasting the attack used in the last one-day World Cup and in most Australian Test matches for the last seven years.
Jake Fraser-McGurk with his fast starts could have been handy chasing 206 against India on a decent pitch, but he never made the formal squad. David Warner showed against England that he could still be explosive but didn’t replicate it when it was really needed against India.In the end, his final match for Australia was innocuous, on the fringes of national attention, edging to slip for six at about 2am Sydney time, out to a bowler who was nine years old when Warner made his debut.
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