“We haven’t played well in this series, we don’t seem to have been able to put it all together on the one day, there has been something lacking.” Australia’s struggle in the 50-over format has not gone un-noticed in the cricketing world, with the New Zealand Herald newspaper asking if the side were “the worst world champions?” A statistical breakdown of previous world champions’ winning percentages, showed that only the 1983 Indian team had a worse success rate between tournaments. India won 44 percent of their games between 1983 and 1987. Smith’s side have also been far from settled. Four of the 2015 World Cup winners – captain Michael Clarke, wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, pace bowler Mitchell Johnson and all-rounder Shane Watson – have retired from international cricket. Since that victory, selectors have also given 18 players debuts in one-day international cricket. In an era when run rates are pushed consistently past six an over, Australia have also only scored more than 300 on 13 occasions in 50 completed matches since the World Cup. They lost three of those games. Hohns said the selectors may need to look at a different type of player for their side, with a focus on hard-hitting middle order players and specialist limited-overs bowlers as they look ahead to the 2019 World Cup in England. “With the World Cup in 2019 there is a lot of one-day cricket to be played between now and then,” he said. “We will be trying very soon to get together the main nucleus of our squad so they can play together for some time.”
Published in Daily Times, January 23rd 2018.
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