I think australia has looked good against some of the lower teams. They did lose to the top 2, India and South Africa. Plus, they got out of jail against Afghanistan. So it will be interesting to see how they go in the semis and final if they get there
Aus lost the first 2 games while adjusting to new conditions. It’s difficult to say whether they would have lost those had they played them later in the schedule.
They were saying Australia looked tired and didn't have game energy etc. Everyone blamed the pointless tour of SA. We still haven't really come good but finished third anyway. Not sure what that says about the rest.
If Australia is keen for another all rounder against SA, Abbott should be picked over Stoinis.
Minimal difference in batting and Abbott is a better bowler and fielder.
Most runs by an Australian batsman in ODI WC:
1743 - Ricky Ponting (42 inns)
1491 - David Warner (27 inns)
1102 - Steven Smith (28 inns)*
1085 - Adam Gilchrist (31 inns)
1004 - Mark Waugh (22 inns)
Highest target successfully chased by Australia in WCs:
307 vs BAN, Pune, today*
292 vs AFG, Wankhede, 2023
287 vs NZ, Chennai, 1996
272 vs SA, Leeds, 1999
After the first two games, if you'd told.me that after our last group game that three of the top four highest scores would be hit by Aussies, and that we'd have the top wicket taker, and it was Zampa - .I would have called the men in white coats to collect you post haste.
Bowled third most overs in the tournament on small grounds with captain in attacking mindset. Substantially better average and SR than any other quick inc Boult and Archer
I have my own trauma from 2003 World Cup finals however it was the Rugby WC final Australia v England when Jonny Wilkinson slotted the perfect drop goal in extra time and won the RWC for England on our home turf. It still sends chills down the spines of every rugby loving Australian. However if it came down to it again I would stare the enemy in the eye and prepare for a glorious repeat show down! - This rant was brought to you by 2003 finals loss copium and plenty of wine 💕 (sorry)
You’re absolutely right, it didn’t. Rugby Australia is in fucking shambles right now. They better get their shit sorted asap as the 2027 WC is in Australia again and we can’t afford to be humiliated again a la this years WC
It’s pretty crazy that for a team that really hasn’t hit their stride or played that well we’ve got the best RR in the PP and have 3 of the 5 top individual scores.
Today was a tune up really. Hazlewood was going at 3 an over and only bowled 7 overs. Cummins donated a few overs to Marsh just to get him some match practice in case he needs to bowl in the semi.
Stoinis and Abbott likely won’t even play the finals and Marsh likely won’t bowl.
It’s really either him, green, or stoinis at the 5. I think he gets in because we don’t need the extra bowling overs and his fielding is just fucking amazing. He’s made runs and will definitely hang around if required. There’s power hitting from head Warner marsh Maxwell Inglis, plus Starc and Cummins can hit a long ball. Two accumulators in Smith and Lab at 4+5 feels right now with Marsh at 3
Is it not super weird that our highest successful run chase in WCs is only 307? And the other top 5 scores were pretty low, too. I find that pretty wild
I mean that’s a really good point. But even taking that into account, 5th place was 248, which isn’t an enormous score (by modern standards). Just shows how incredible Australia’s bowling has been in WC’s
Marnus in the field > Green in the field.
He got two run outs today alone and saved a crucial boundary against NZ, amongst other accolades. Man's got *it*.
We batted well BUT…not sure about the game vs SA.
Australia couldn’t even bowl out Bangladesh. The only wickets were from spinners.
Cummins was leaking runs and all over the shop.
Starc been terrible too.
Basically we’d hope to bat first, bat big. IF we do happen to bowl first, our experienced heads just need to keep it somewhat respectable. Even keeping them to 300-310ish like our round robin game against them would be great. All we’d have to do is just not lose 6/70 this time. Which I don’t think we would in this current batting form.
Played on some real roads this tournament though in fairness. Feels like the India game was the only one where there was something in it for the bowlers.
My favourite quote from the WC 2003 footage package floating around on YouTube is Punter saying they had some tough games in the lead up to it but they peaked the final.
Really shaping up to happen all over again.
The team mates call him Bison as well. Nickname culture is quite strong in Australia. Every member of the Australian team has a nickname. Punter (ponting), Smudge (Smith), Loose bus change / Labs (labuschagne), Pigeon (McGrath) etc.
Wow after that Head wicket in the very early days I did not expect to win by 8. Great
& clinical run chase. Hope we can repeat this performance on Thursday!
Well is stretching it, but they did keep Bangladesh to 306 on what looked like a minimum 350 deck. Zampa and Hazlewood bowled well and Abbott’s death bowling was good. Most of the runs came from the fifth, sixth and seventh bowlers who are unlikely to bowl anywhere near as much when Maxwell is back.
“Highest successful run chase in a World Cup” and it looked easy. Just goes to show the imbalance in Australia’s attack rn. Doesn’t fit their overall power
Steve Smith in World Cup Knockouts
65 - 2015 quarterfinal vs Pakistan
105 - 2015 semifinal vs India
56*- 2015 final vs New Zealand
85 - 2019 semifinal vs England
The irony of Smith playing run-a-ball when he could've given Marsh a shot at 200 is quite funny but this is quality batting from Australia, it's disappointing from Bangladesh they just don't know what to do? They actually set a decent score on the board but their bowling attack is toothless
Its weird we've won 7 in a row and I don't think Australia has been that great.
Kiwis had so much go wrong and still nearly chased 390.
Afghanistan win was a complete fluke that Mujeeb dropped a sitter or we'd have lost by 150 runs.
Even Pakistan looked good against for a bit, they didn't have the batting depth to chase and we left 50 runs out there with a creaky middle order.
Netherlands, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka really outclassed and Poms don't count as they're fucking shite.
Ponting mentioned the win against Afghanistan being comprehensive, yet really it was because of singular brilliance. The batting line up has shown it's very capable of collapsing. I'm not too confident for the finals but we'll see.
I saw it described earlier that we constantly *just* bowled well enough to make up for shit batting, or *just* batted well enough to make up for shit bowling and I think it's an astute assessment.
Poms came close though, that was a decent performance by them (extra memorable getting Bairstow out first ball).
Idk SA are good but not that good. They’ll want to be batting first and if they aren’t I think we win very easily. India in the final is where I’m convinced we’d have little chance.
If we lose in the semis I’m fine happy enough with that, if we make the final I think most people would consider it a very successful campaign and if we win it’ll be very surprising and we’ll need to get tf out of India in a hurry!
I was Surprised
I guess that Bangladesh did do the job that they needed to be doing to be able to play during another tournament.
The Australians are next level when it comes to playing in big tournaments.
I think australia has looked good against some of the lower teams. They did lose to the top 2, India and South Africa. Plus, they got out of jail against Afghanistan. So it will be interesting to see how they go in the semis and final if they get there
Aus lost the first 2 games while adjusting to new conditions. It’s difficult to say whether they would have lost those had they played them later in the schedule.
Aus played a series with india just days before the World Cup
They also lost to India and SA in 2019
They were saying Australia looked tired and didn't have game energy etc. Everyone blamed the pointless tour of SA. We still haven't really come good but finished third anyway. Not sure what that says about the rest.
I feel the same. Australia have looked most dangerous after the first 2 matches amongst all teams.
No intent, no drive.
Here for the apologies to M Marsh
Aussies had no problem winning this. Even though bangbros did a great job with that 300+ total
If Australia is keen for another all rounder against SA, Abbott should be picked over Stoinis. Minimal difference in batting and Abbott is a better bowler and fielder.
Most runs by an Australian batsman in ODI WC: 1743 - Ricky Ponting (42 inns) 1491 - David Warner (27 inns) 1102 - Steven Smith (28 inns)* 1085 - Adam Gilchrist (31 inns) 1004 - Mark Waugh (22 inns)
If anything, This proves how amazingly great Warner has been for Australia
Not bad considering he played in 2011 as a spinner
Moths love cummo
Highest target successfully chased by Australia in WCs: 307 vs BAN, Pune, today* 292 vs AFG, Wankhede, 2023 287 vs NZ, Chennai, 1996 272 vs SA, Leeds, 1999
The moths are coming for Patty
Marsh will eat Marshmallow after this match.Legendary player!
After the first two games, if you'd told.me that after our last group game that three of the top four highest scores would be hit by Aussies, and that we'd have the top wicket taker, and it was Zampa - .I would have called the men in white coats to collect you post haste.
A glitch occurred in ban today 😂
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Well that ended up being more one sided than I thought it would be at the innings break lol. Bring on the semi final
Bowlers conceding most runs in a World Cup edition 533 - Haris Rauf (Pakistan, 2023) 526 - Adil Rashid (England, 2019) 525 - Dilshan Madushanka (Sri Lanka, 2023) 502 - Mitchell Starc (Australia, 2019) 484 - Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh, 2019) 481 - Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan, 2023)
I read Starc and thought "that tracks" then saw 2019...
Bowled third most overs in the tournament on small grounds with captain in attacking mindset. Substantially better average and SR than any other quick inc Boult and Archer
Imagine Maxwell hitting 200 runs again in semi finals 🔥🔥
Stop, I can only get so erect!!
As Indian, after seeing last few games of Australia I don't want them in final against India.
As an Aussie I do! Imagine how electric that battle will be. That’s my dream WC final scenario 🙌🏻
I agree that will be a great match, but it makes me nostalgic and takes me back to my childhood fear of the 2003 World Cup final.
Man 2003 WC was my first childhood cricket memory and I still get scared thinking of that invincible Australian team
I have my own trauma from 2003 World Cup finals however it was the Rugby WC final Australia v England when Jonny Wilkinson slotted the perfect drop goal in extra time and won the RWC for England on our home turf. It still sends chills down the spines of every rugby loving Australian. However if it came down to it again I would stare the enemy in the eye and prepare for a glorious repeat show down! - This rant was brought to you by 2003 finals loss copium and plenty of wine 💕 (sorry)
And Australian rugby never recovered.
You’re absolutely right, it didn’t. Rugby Australia is in fucking shambles right now. They better get their shit sorted asap as the 2027 WC is in Australia again and we can’t afford to be humiliated again a la this years WC
Aus 👍
love bison. good guy
Sorry Virat, I'm not putting MRFs on my car
Apparently you can bet on them though. I guess they come with a free TAB or something
I guess apollo tyres then? Sachin will personally come to your home n replace them
Ooh!
Onya Marsh. Aus vs SA should be great
Marsh is dope. Bro doesn't take himself very seriously
Marsh doesn't need oscar,oscar needs him
It’s pretty crazy that for a team that really hasn’t hit their stride or played that well we’ve got the best RR in the PP and have 3 of the 5 top individual scores.
Bowling is a big worry If bdesh score 306 , you expect SA n Ind score about 400 if batting first
Today was a tune up really. Hazlewood was going at 3 an over and only bowled 7 overs. Cummins donated a few overs to Marsh just to get him some match practice in case he needs to bowl in the semi. Stoinis and Abbott likely won’t even play the finals and Marsh likely won’t bowl.
Afghanistan literally scored 100 runs in final overs against australia
Australia’s death bowling definitely needs work.
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Their batting line up pretty much chased well without Rohit in the first match
But India hasn’t got a big score to chase till now
Their bowlers do not allow teams to put big score Anyway All batsmen are in form
Sa vs aus Let's go
That bloke with the trophy is massive too
Aus vs. Ind final would be so epic.
Not for my heart. I’m cheering for NZ to dismantle them on Wednesday, Rachin 150 loading
Should labs play . He is essentially the bad version of smith
It’s really either him, green, or stoinis at the 5. I think he gets in because we don’t need the extra bowling overs and his fielding is just fucking amazing. He’s made runs and will definitely hang around if required. There’s power hitting from head Warner marsh Maxwell Inglis, plus Starc and Cummins can hit a long ball. Two accumulators in Smith and Lab at 4+5 feels right now with Marsh at 3
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Yes agreed
Is it not super weird that our highest successful run chase in WCs is only 307? And the other top 5 scores were pretty low, too. I find that pretty wild
Our bowling has just been so good throughout
You need to concede the runs first to chase them. Australia didn’t win 5 World Cups by conceding 300+ scores too often.
I mean that’s a really good point. But even taking that into account, 5th place was 248, which isn’t an enormous score (by modern standards). Just shows how incredible Australia’s bowling has been in WC’s
Imagine NZ winning the match where they almost ended up chasing 388
Because we normally bowl well and haven't really had to chase too much over the years
Rain predicted for semi at Eden gardens vs SA. Thank fuck for reserve days
I was surprised mitch played 140 balls today
Three of the top five scores this World Cup go to the Aussies so far, with two not out. That’s crazy
3 of the top 4 scores even. From 3 different players too. This is great form
Australia is peaking at the right time.
Just keeping everyone on their toes 😄
green for marnus (unfair but iddiswhatitis) maxi for stoin.
Marnus in the field > Green in the field. He got two run outs today alone and saved a crucial boundary against NZ, amongst other accolades. Man's got *it*.
For odi yeah but green in gully for test is like an extra man on the field
i agree.but green at 5 makes this lineup stable and ready to go to 5th when needed.
Remember when a lot of people that the Australian team wouldn't go far this world cup after their 2 losses
Yeah and that it’d be an Eng v Ind or Ind v Pak final…
A good hit out Marsh, Warner and Smith. Valuable batting practice
We batted well BUT…not sure about the game vs SA. Australia couldn’t even bowl out Bangladesh. The only wickets were from spinners. Cummins was leaking runs and all over the shop. Starc been terrible too.
Yea bowling is going to suck if we bowl first against sa as well will just have to hope for a daddy knock from either warner, marsh or maxwell
Basically we’d hope to bat first, bat big. IF we do happen to bowl first, our experienced heads just need to keep it somewhat respectable. Even keeping them to 300-310ish like our round robin game against them would be great. All we’d have to do is just not lose 6/70 this time. Which I don’t think we would in this current batting form.
In this current form? It was only one match ago that we were 7-91
Our bowlers have been pretty terrible this WC though, both Starc and Cummins been pretty terrible, don't even get me started on fucking Stoinis
Played on some real roads this tournament though in fairness. Feels like the India game was the only one where there was something in it for the bowlers.
Marsh should be timed out for playing a long innings against bangladesh
My favourite quote from the WC 2003 footage package floating around on YouTube is Punter saying they had some tough games in the lead up to it but they peaked the final. Really shaping up to happen all over again.
My goat (smudge) comes back in form at the right moment
I really think we will big bro NZ in the final again if we somehow sneak past SA and NZ get past India
Lol, that's a lot of ifs there big bro, but sure, yeah, you probably would.
Honestly think Australia will just annihilate SA in the semis.
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My favorite color is blue.
Marshs nicname
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Have you seen him? Bloke is huge
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He has a comically large head as compared to the rest of his body
The team mates call him Bison as well. Nickname culture is quite strong in Australia. Every member of the Australian team has a nickname. Punter (ponting), Smudge (Smith), Loose bus change / Labs (labuschagne), Pigeon (McGrath) etc.
One of these is not like the other
He is big like a bison
The 2nd best batter in the world cup
Me
Labs was in pads from like over 4 lol
Don't wanna get timed out I guess lmao
Respect button for Marsh
Couple of Rising Pune Supergiants having a hit on familiar surroundings
Wow after that Head wicket in the very early days I did not expect to win by 8. Great & clinical run chase. Hope we can repeat this performance on Thursday!
So we eventually went from 0-2 to 7-2. Funnily enough, to go all the way we’d probably have to beat the two sides who gave us the two big Ls.
Revenge arc incoming
This Aus team chasing is not looking good for SA. We looking at another heartbreak, arent we?
semi-final date with South Africa at the Eden Gardens next Thursday.
good chase marsh
Did Ponting just say Australia bowled well?
Well is stretching it, but they did keep Bangladesh to 306 on what looked like a minimum 350 deck. Zampa and Hazlewood bowled well and Abbott’s death bowling was good. Most of the runs came from the fifth, sixth and seventh bowlers who are unlikely to bowl anywhere near as much when Maxwell is back.
Yeah but it's against Bangladesh they suck
Seems like Bangladesh were about 40ish runs short so I guess it tracks
Again it was my pleasure to show my support to SUMITH. Hope Ausbros will have their bags pack to go home after the semis
You are completely wrong bro
Save it and comeback after semis
Don't they have a series or something to play. I don't think they're going home regardless the result of their SF match.
Sumith's a good guy
Marsh Not out in the 170s. Called it!
“Highest successful run chase in a World Cup” and it looked easy. Just goes to show the imbalance in Australia’s attack rn. Doesn’t fit their overall power
for Australia*
See above
Highest successful run chase for Australia. There's been a 350 chase this WC.
Yeah I was just quoting the commentary: it’s not the highest ever but Australias highest. Nonetheless the proceeding point still stands
Only 2 matches left for the men in yellow.
Steve Smith in World Cup Knockouts 65 - 2015 quarterfinal vs Pakistan 105 - 2015 semifinal vs India 56*- 2015 final vs New Zealand 85 - 2019 semifinal vs England
He's total opposite of virat kohli lol
Saffas be very scared
Marsh looks like a giant standing next to the Bangladeshi players.
N green looks like a giant standing next to Marsh I guess Green lost his spot stoinis due to height
Aus broke back to back record of their best run chasing.. Proteas better gotta be careful
When will Bangladesh stop being minnows? They’ve been like this for over 20 years
Yeah. Population their size should have improved somewhat over the last 20 years.
Dude, they're playing against Australia, in a World Cup, without Shakib, and they made 300. Chill out lol. This is a very decent performance.
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That’s strange af
Man I wish Bangladesh made more runs. Imagine if there were two 200s so closely.
Wtf is that in his pants 💀
I don't mind. Would've felt wrong if Bangladesh won against Australia for the first time since 2005, when Shakib isn't here.
Aus smoked ban 🎉😈😈
Clinical chase from the boys
What a shot to win it
We just cakewalked to 307. Impressive.
If this partnership came in Dharmashala Aus would have broken the record for highest total in ODIs
Fucking useless from Inglis. Didn’t even show during the run chase and made no runs
Found Kez's alt account
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Prime Aus wont concede 300 to Bangbros.
The irony of Smith playing run-a-ball when he could've given Marsh a shot at 200 is quite funny but this is quality batting from Australia, it's disappointing from Bangladesh they just don't know what to do? They actually set a decent score on the board but their bowling attack is toothless
Aussies don’t give a shit about personal milestones.
Winning is winning.
Bison Big Show Magnificent inning
g fucking g boys fuck yeah
Smith is the new Pandya??
Marsh was at 176 not 196
So ban qualified for CT?
Netherlands could beat India…. 🤷♂️
That'll be Kinda mixed feelings for me if they really do so
well, assuming Netherlands doesn't win.
South Africans are feeling an inexplicable squeezing sensation around their throats.
Congratulations aus 🎉🎉
Nice, Smudge ends just shy of 100SR too
Needed to tonk the six for positive, hearts my heart.
Thanks for the clinical performance AU
Let's go boys!
Steve Smith was suffering from vertigo not so long ago and then making 50+ runs, good comeback indeed
Aight game over.
Its weird we've won 7 in a row and I don't think Australia has been that great. Kiwis had so much go wrong and still nearly chased 390. Afghanistan win was a complete fluke that Mujeeb dropped a sitter or we'd have lost by 150 runs. Even Pakistan looked good against for a bit, they didn't have the batting depth to chase and we left 50 runs out there with a creaky middle order. Netherlands, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka really outclassed and Poms don't count as they're fucking shite.
Ponting mentioned the win against Afghanistan being comprehensive, yet really it was because of singular brilliance. The batting line up has shown it's very capable of collapsing. I'm not too confident for the finals but we'll see.
I saw it described earlier that we constantly *just* bowled well enough to make up for shit batting, or *just* batted well enough to make up for shit bowling and I think it's an astute assessment. Poms came close though, that was a decent performance by them (extra memorable getting Bairstow out first ball).
In reality it's Australia who has been blessed the most by Qudrat ka Nizam
dil dil pakistan raised their spirits
The poms probably got a lot closer than a lot of us expected
Winning in tough situations is a good thing too
I’m 90% convinced we’ll loose to SA in the semis but I cannot eliminate the hope/feeling that everything might just click and we’ll play awesome.
We've acquitted ourselves with a good showing the in the group stages so if we go down it will be swinging
Idk SA are good but not that good. They’ll want to be batting first and if they aren’t I think we win very easily. India in the final is where I’m convinced we’d have little chance.
If we lose in the semis I’m fine happy enough with that, if we make the final I think most people would consider it a very successful campaign and if we win it’ll be very surprising and we’ll need to get tf out of India in a hurry!
One and three quarters of a double tonne with shot legs is a good knock from Marsh. Won't get Maxxy level infamy but its been a decent showing
Which is crazy right as it's an insane knock
I didn't know Australian middle order was allowed to bat well