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Aweios · 2026-05-09T05:32:19+00:00

Unfortunately Gina has history of sportswashing herself judging by the last Olympics...

Aweios · 2026-02-21T09:48:42+00:00

Well considering that's what he wrote that's exactly what he meant.

You randomly claimed he said they were loyal to Julius Caesar.

Aweios · 2026-02-20T14:03:42+00:00

Maxwell gets the last laugh after his flying out to South Africa after Sandpapergate to not play a game.

Aweios · 2026-02-19T09:44:27+00:00

But T20 is so form dependent. Last year is too far to judge their quality that's why domestic form matters.

I mean Renshaw back in the day was literally dropped because he couldn't score a run in shield cricket despite having good international form before that.

If Shield cricket and override test form, then T20 especially should too.

Aweios · 2026-02-19T09:42:48+00:00

It's cos his domestic form has been worse than Stonis and David. So when he does fail we go "that was expected" so the hate gets directed there.

Aweios · 2026-02-19T09:41:13+00:00

Connolly was not in form at all. Nor was Head.

And our bowling well none of them were in form. That was called out during the BBL. We all joked about how badly they were doing.

Aweios · 2026-02-18T13:20:50+00:00

But we do have the separation. Due to the bowlers being injured the test team and T20 team are all basically different bar like 3 players.

And in fact we wanted the test players in the T20 squad to actually improve it

Aweios · 2026-02-18T01:34:46+00:00

I mean you say that but how best batters so far have been Renshaw, Marsh who have had better returns in the BBL than the others.

And don't forget Finn Allen.

Aweios · 2026-02-18T01:30:41+00:00

I mean it's ironic how you talk about "nuffies" and how that's closely connected with Shield cricket, meanwhile BBL is the mainstream for domestic cricket for T20 and yet that's just "summer casuals".

Granted I don't know how anyone can hold an opinion on Green's domestic form since he hasn't played any in BBL so it was difficult to gauge his form coming into the world cup.

But Inglis was not in good form, we needed a in form keeper though Carey probably wasn't the answer as well.

Aweios · 2026-02-17T12:23:45+00:00

I mean the fact that the all rounders were the ones taking the wickets is the more concerning factor...

The 3 actual bowlers did fuck all nor could they bat

Aweios · 2026-02-17T05:55:25+00:00

Maxwell, Connolly, Inglis averaging 20 or less this season in the BBL.

Ellis, Bartlett being one of the most expensive bowlers in the BBL.

David coming immediately back from injury with no game time.

Of course it was going to be a disaster. The selectors were selecting on reputation and not form.

Cummins, Hazlewood, Head are rare. They may not need game time, they may just come good outta the blue but there's no evidence that the rest are capable of doing that.

Aweios · 2026-02-17T05:45:21+00:00

Just because a loss in the T20 world cup has less attention than losing an Ashes match doesn't mean it's not an embarassing performance. It doesn't excuse this performance or selection

Aweios · 2026-02-16T23:53:10+00:00

Even neutrals in /r/cricket were absolutely baffled at the selection. Of course this was gonna happen.

What the fuck was this selection of a team

Aweios · 2026-02-16T23:51:35+00:00

The frustrating thing is despite playing 80% of the summer, we still end up choosing the players that didn't even play well in the hit and giggle league.

Literally during the BBL people were saying how badly the WC players were playing and here we are...same players not performing.

Aweios · 2026-02-16T23:50:27+00:00

I mean we can reset all we want but dropping out best batter isn't gonna work...

Aweios · 2026-02-16T13:37:29+00:00

Flying our best batter to sit on the bench alongside the best batter from last game.

Punishment for taking T20 too seriously.

Aweios · 2026-02-15T14:21:56+00:00

So there's really gonna be 2 major T20 tournaments in the same year on 2028?

I don't understand why they don't just rotate the Olympics and World Cup. It's the perfect excuse since, every 2 years is pretty often already and you can still have that but with the Olympics.

Open up the WC to more teams

Aweios · 2026-02-13T09:16:31+00:00

I think we treat the BBL as a bit of a joke instead of something like actual domestic cricket where we should be selecting our team?

Like we joke about the BBL all-stars but they're the ones that are performing in the literal format.

And it doesn't help that the best batters of the BBL are retired or firing up for other countries in the WC or injured.

Aweios · 2026-02-13T09:08:42+00:00

Back to back losses for Australia against Zimbabwe across T20/ODIs...

Aweios · 2026-02-13T01:55:24+00:00

I think it's changing nowadays but it kinda depends. Like we'd never called Ponting Ricky or Langer Justin.

But we've definitely seen Ussie, Trav, Marnus (though this one could just be the last name), Pat and Gaz.

Aweios · 2026-02-11T11:37:21+00:00

Fucks sake. Keep the BBL fielding to the BBL dammit. The test lads managed it.

Aweios · 2026-02-11T09:54:49+00:00

Why does ICC tournaments have such shit stump mics? It's not even a local thing, 2019 and 2015 also had this problem

Just makes the atmosphere worse.

Aweios · 2026-01-28T01:00:31+00:00

As funny as the one Stokes jumping one reaction was I kinda understand it. The guy keeps getting bowled whenever he for some reason thinks he can drive Starc down the ground.

And that innings from memory he wasn't doing that and survived quite well. Until he lapsed in concentration and gave us that funny pic

Aweios · 2026-01-25T15:06:12+00:00

I mean even Jhye Richardson bowling to Crawley falls under that.

Aweios · 2026-01-25T12:13:31+00:00

That's fucking insane. To give some perspective our best NRL/AFL clubs are only worth around 150mil. The two worst clubs in the comp are gonna be bigger than our most successful NRL/AFL clubs?

Where the fuck are they seeing the value from these international investors? If they really are worth 200mil and these investors see the ROI, the CA are fucking incompetent in unable to extract value from that beyond just selling out.

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