Aussie legend's big admission after WC exit

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Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor has conceded that New Zealand has "got america covered" successful presumption of putting retired ascendant teams successful each 3 formats of the game.

Taylor's comments travel a disappointing group-stage exit from Australia astatine the T20 World Cup astatine the weekend, with New Zealand, England, India and Pakistan qualifying for the semi-finals.

Australia's location World Cup defence was yet doomed by a fearfulness 89-run nonaccomplishment astatine the hands of New Zealand successful its tourney opener, a stroke the reigning champs could not retrieve from.

New Zealand presently ranks up of Australia successful some constricted overs formats of the game, and is the reigning Test champion contempt its existent ranking of 5th successful the agelong format.

Taylor was afloat of praise for Australia's neighbours and suggested that they could larn a happening oregon 2 from the Black Caps.

"They bash it amended than immoderate squad successful the satellite astatine the moment, to beryllium wholly honest," helium told 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio.

"To play successful each format of the crippled ... they've got america covered successful that regard. New Zealand is simply a smaller federation with little radical playing the game, they bash it amended than conscionable astir anyone astatine the moment.

"Somehow they've been capable to enactment 3 antithetic teams connected the park, evidently there's players who play the 3 formats, but they're capable to enactment them connected the parkland and beryllium up determination with the world's best.

"They won the inaugural Test title wherever they bushed India astatine Lord's, they mislaid the (50 over) World Cup last successful 2019 to England which they astir apt should've won, and erstwhile again they were successful the T20 last past twelvemonth and they're successful the semi-finals this week.

"Every tournament, they're determination oregon thereabouts, truthful they're doing thing amended than Australian cricket is doing, India, England. They're doing it amended than we are, and that's the facts."

Australia's existent T20 outfit is an ageing one, with Cameron Green the lone subordinate of the World Cup squad presently aged beneath 25.

Eleven members of the squad are aged 30 oregon over, and Taylor suggested that it was clip to commencement grooming young players done the T20 side.

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"I deliberation they've got to look astatine each the players," helium said.

"If you look astatine our T20 side, we've got Davey (Warner) who's 36, Aaron Finch is 36, Matty Wade who's 34, Steve Smith 33. Our apical 4 oregon 5 are successful their mid-30s now, and successful 2 years' clip they'll beryllium successful their precocious 30s.

"We've got (Mitchell) Starc, (Josh) Hazlewood and (Pat) Cummins who are inactive our champion Test lucifer bowlers. In 2 years' time, bash we privation them to beryllium our champion T20 bowlers? I don't deliberation we do.

"If we privation them to inactive beryllium our champion Test lucifer bowlers successful 2 years' time, it's going to beryllium precise hard for them to beryllium our champion T20 bowlers astatine the aforesaid time.

"So we've got to commencement reasoning astir the assorted teams and who is going to beryllium the make-up of those teams."

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