Clear all day
Maxwell and Zampa are enough.
Well it's a dry pitch and NCN is pretty average(watch him take wickets). Lyon could've been dangerous.
Would definitely make things more interesting
No chance. They've lost 3 of their last 50 or so WC games.
For me this is the Aussies' best batting line-up but Khawaja's vulnerable if he isn't allowed to play himself in, Maxwell you can get playing risky big shots then you're into the lower middle.
Not really, their late middle order has already won them a game going from 30/4 to 290. It's a solid batting lineup, they've just failed to click in the death overs on a couple of occasions.
I think this is their best line up as well, but slightly unbalanced, perhaps due to Dave and Smith being absent and now they have to re-accommodate them. Khwaja was doing well as an opener, before Warner came back. His scores are 104, 91, 100, 24, 88, 0, 62, 98 in the games leading up to the WC vs Ind and Pak. Since then 15, 13, 42, 18, 10. Playing him low down the order is a waste of a player like him. Don't really rate Stoinis very high with the bat as well.
It was against WI though, who made Bangladesh look like they'd score 400, so I wouldn't draw many conclusions based on that game. I think when under pressure, that middle to lower order can easily fault a high scoring chase.
Indeed, Khawaja feels like a shoehorn at this WC. He's a good batsman but takes far too long to get going to be any further down the order than one down (did he come in at six the other day?
). However even now when he's in at three you could argue Smith should go to join Warner to maintain the R-L partnership. Warner's return really seems to have fecked Khawaja, he seems to look a square peg every innings recently.India wouldn't be doing much better. Their top order is even slower
We would be pretty much bang on same as what they have got, but from here on we expect to score at 8-9 RPO.
Gaining form slowly but surely. Ominous for the competition.
Agreed. He’s a fecking class player and one match against the best bowling in the tournament doesn’t change that. Going into the tournament I said that if Warner and Smith can find form, which they both definitely have, then I can see Australia going all the way, and I’m standing by that.
Aus-Ind and Eng-NZ would be more fun.
No I know what you mean.
Nah. We should be able to dispatch Kiwis and would enjoy watching Aus and Eng battle it out in the other semi.
It's the same for Kohli who has gotten good runs but doesn't look in full flow.
An in form Warner would be destroying this line up. His strike rate is 80 this tournament.
Should be 400+ given the size of the ground and the fact that there is no swing or spin in offer. It doesn't matter anyway given this will still be a very easy win for Australia.
