Since they last toured Oz, only notable away achievement was beating Pakistan. Lost In SA, whitewashed in India and could only draw against a weak SL lineup.
No, we've crumbled in Australia pretty much every time since the good 2001 series. Whoever is saying that is incorrect.
Aus teams being great and Inferiority complex.
I think it's kind of inevitable the rankings will be called into question everytime a side doesn't live up to them. I remember Australia being ranked number one after the 2013/14 season after the ashes and that win against South Africa (coming soon on the heels of heavy away defeats in England and India). They then proceeded to be completely blown away in the UAE and similar reactions were generated then. I think it just shows how there's not been a lot to seperate the top 5 teams of late, and how difficult it is to be away from home.
Largely agree but Mark Howard makes him look like Richie Benaud.
But Taylor's ahead of him and Warner isn't far behind. Kohli is only 100 ahead of Taylor. That top 5 order could change a bit in the next few weeks.
Yeah he needs 49 to get ahead of Taylor. Warner and Ross should retire before these guys - would be really nice to see their positions moving around - even Kane's not that far behind.
True. It doesn't help in this case that they've gone in here with no warm-up matches. I can't remember that happening on a NZ tour to Australia before.
I don't think he injured the hammy when batting. Perhaps he had muesli for brekky on Thurs and would have bowled all day, but had bacon and eggs on Fri and that triggered the hammy strain? Whatever.
It's almost as if soft tissue muscle injuries have a great deal of (bad) luck involved and if you change one prior event that much you shouldn't assume that subsequent (chance-based) events will occur in exactly the same way.
Based on what I’ve seen so far, I’d say they would have been rolled for about 166...
