Grim snub sums up Aussies' botched World Cup

2 years ago 88

In a telling motion of Australia's botched T20 World Cup campaign, nary of its players earned enactment successful the International Cricket Council's squad of the tournament.

It's a grim denotation of an Australian squad's nonaccomplishment to scope the semi-finals connected location ungraded conscionable 12 months aft clinching the title successful the Middle East.

Perhaps Australia's unluckiest omission from the squad of the tourney is Marcus Stoinis, the squad's apical run-scorer with 126 astatine the mean of 42 and strike-rate of 161.53.

The hulking all-rounder's astir influential sound of the competition, an unbeaten 59 runs from 18 balls, bailed the Australians retired of occupation successful a clash with Sri Lanka successful Perth. If it wasn't for Stoinis blasting the fastest half-century by an Australian successful T20 planetary cricket, there's each accidental the hosts would person crashed to 0-2 astatine the opening of their rubric defence.

The 33-year-old was beaten to the middle-order spots successful the squad of the tourney by Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Glenn Phillips — each of whom notched much runs than Stoinis.

It's intriguing to note, however, that of the competition's apical 26 run-scorers, Stoinis' strike-rate of 161.53 was lone bettered by Yadav (189.68) and Rilee Rossouw (169.87).

Four England players made the 12-man squad of the tournament, arsenic good arsenic 3 Indians and 2 Pakistanis, portion New Zealand, Zimbabwe and South Africa are besides represented.

Kohli pumps glorious six

England's domination of the squad is simply a motion to its tremendous World Cup run that culminated successful a five-wicket triumph implicit Pakistan successful the last connected Sunday night.

Helped by the Duckworth-Lewis method, the Irish dealt the English a daze five-run loss, but skipper Jos Buttler and his teammates were different superb.

They were astatine their astir destructive arsenic Buttler and Alex Hales, the squad of the tournament's opening batters, propelled England to a 10-wicket semi-final triumph implicit India with 4 overs to spare.

England past chased 138 runs successful the last astatine the MCG connected the backmost of a composed half-century by Ben Stokes, who wasn't named successful the competition's champion team.

ICC's T20 World Cup squad of the tournament

1. Alex Hales (England) 2. Jos Buttler (England) 3. Virat Kohli (India) 4. Suryakumar Yadav (India) 5. Glenn Phillips (New Zealand) 6. Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe) 7. Shadab Khan (Pakistan) 8. Sam Curran (England) 9. Anrich Nortje (South Africa) 10. Mark Wood (England) 11. Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan) 12th man. Hardik Pandya (India)

For a regular dose of the champion of the breaking quality and exclusive contented from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!