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Australia under fire over dubious World Cup call - CtrlF.XYZ

Australia under fire over dubious World Cup call

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Australia's squad creation is nether the spotlight aft the determination to permission Steve Smith retired of the broadside that was humiliated by New Zealand successful the World Cup opener.

Smith, who played successful past year's victorious World Cup side, was omitted from the line-up that faced the Black Caps, with the hard-hitting Tim David preferred.

David's inclusion ensured that Australia loaded up connected powerfulness hitters arsenic opposed to accumulators specified arsenic Smith, but the telephone backfired with the location broadside finishing good abbreviated successful its tally pursuit of 201.

Smith's vocation T20 mean of 25.74 and a onslaught complaint of 125.34 are humble compared to his numbers successful the different 2 forms of the game, and he's been seen arsenic the unusual antheral retired arsenic a result.

However, erstwhile Australian batter Callum Ferguson suggested that Smith's exclusion had led to the batting lineup becoming excessively one-dimensional.

"We came successful power-hitting dense and possibly Steven Smith could beryllium the feline that tin travel successful and navigate tricky waters erstwhile they come," helium said connected Nine's coverage.

"At the moment, it feels similar if it's not the cleanable conditions possibly we're susceptible erstwhile it starts swinging oregon the spinners get a clasp of america successful the mediate of the innings."

Stream each Australian men's T20 World Cup lucifer positive selected different matches, including the finals, unrecorded and escaped connected 9Now

"He's (Smith) the 1 that I deliberation Australia volition talk a batch about, having specified a prime subordinate sitting connected the bench," erstwhile Australian skipper Mark Taylor added.

Despite questions astir the team's composition, Australian skipper Aaron Finch suggested that the lineup volition stay the aforesaid erstwhile the location broadside faces Sri Lanka connected Tuesday.

"They got the leap connected america early successful the archetypal 4 overs with the bat and we ne'er recovered from that," helium said of New Zealand's performance.

"They were successful beforehand of the crippled the full way, and erstwhile you're chasing a large full it tin travel undone similar that. We were conscionable wholly outplayed successful each 3 facets.

"We've got content successful our radical that we can bash that (qualify for the knockout stages), and that we've inactive got the close squad and the close players, but contiguous was a disappointing one."

"I deliberation consecutive distant he's much oregon little saying this is not astir the team, we conscionable didn't play well," Taylor said of Finch's comments.

"He's enactment each of this speculation astir whether Steve Smith oregon Cameron Green mightiness play.

"He's saying we're going to play this broadside due to the fact that this is the broadside that's going to triumph america the World Cup."

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