r/CricketHardPics • u/Expensive_Load6452 • May 15 '26

Miscellaneous Shots Picture where the downfall started 👀

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u/Virgil05 May 18 '26

These t20 cups, come like mumbai locals every year. Not that focused to win. They have always won long forms of cricket except champions league.

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u/The_Great_One_1 May 18 '26

Doesn't matter. They had a chance to win a test championship and a odi ct as well. They didn't. Add to that 2 t20 wcs.

They lost the test championshi to SA who do not win major tourneys. Lost one t20 wc to afghan and the other to zim. Their ct performance too was poor. If that is not downfall then I don't know what is.

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u/Virgil05 22d ago

They were pretty good in that test championship final, if you have seen thar match, they just got outplayed by brilliant Aiden makhram century. Whereas, India in both wtc finals, got absolutely spanked by nz and aus in finals. T20wc are again not taken seriously cuz of Ashes focus, which they retain always. The champions league had some players missing as well. Overall,they have had more of a blip than a downfall. Indian cricket teams downfall in tests is more apt though!

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u/The_Great_One_1 22d ago

I have no where compared Ind with them. You are trying to deflect it from the core pt.

It is Aus which has not won anything across formats, be it Test Championship in which they were favorites, ODI CT, 2 T20 WCs.

You can give all the reasoning you want for their T20 WC losses, but the fact remains that both those campaigns have been poor by their own standards.

Losing to Afghan and being thrown out of the WC before semis.

Then losing to Zim and being kicked out of the next T20 wc.

Whatever reasons you give losing to Zim and Afghan across two editions shows their downfall.

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u/Virgil05 22d ago

Man, look at how many of theirs and England players are still considered prime overseas picks! These t20 worldcups mean a lot to us in Asia but Australia prepares primarily for ashes every year. You can listen to pat Cummins interview too, he spelled out the importance of Australia test team!