Australia’s first loss of the T20 World Cup and their first ever to Afghanistan puts them at risk of early elimination;even if they beat India in their next game they won’t be guaranteed a place in the semi-finals.
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Australia advanced with a perfect record and will look to maintain their run as the second stage of their tournament gets under way at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
There is a view among players that Mitchell Starc is not in Australia’s best XI at the T20 World Cup,despite his record as one of the country’s greatest ever white-ball bowlers.
World Cup strike force Travis Head is yet to receive Cricket Australia’s nod of approval to play in the US-based Major League Twenty20 tournament next month.
After competing in the IPL and T20 World Cup,the Australian pace ace had no interest in backing up for Major League Cricket – until someone mentioned Silicon Valley.
With his international career nearing an end,David Warner will be relieved not to have to face so much abuse about his role in the 2018 Newlands ball-tampering scandal,but he also knows he’ll never fully escape the stain it left on his reputation.
Mitchell Starc invoked a phrase beloved by Justin Langer to flatly reject English suspicions that Australia seriously considered easing off on Scotland to eliminate Jos Buttler’s team from the T20 World Cup.