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It’s been a disastrous start for Australia in their five-match T20 series against New Zealand, the tourists trailing 2-0.
When they take to the field against the Black Caps today in Wellington, it’s a must-win, and the men in green and gold must make changes in an attempt to flip the script on what has been a disappointing tour thus far.
Sure, they were impacted by travelling in COVID times, but every team around the world has been, and it didn’t seem to bother India a great deal in the home summer just gone.
The Wrap: Lineout issues tower over Super Rugby A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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No matter what tinkering around the edges of laws is undertaken, one fundamental rugby truth remains the same: games are won and lost at the set piece.
This is not an article bemoaning too many scrum penalties and lineout maul tries. Individual and pack strength must remain a key component of the contest, lest the big boppers are turfed from the game and rugby becomes a game for a certain body type only. Nobody wants this.
Daniel Sams is cannon fodder at the death, while Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Kane Richardson remain Australia’s best options in these dying overs in T20s. That’s what was revealed when I painstakingly calculated using ball-by-ball data the performance of every Australian who’s bowled at least four times at the death in international T20s over […]
When does Aaron Finch’s rotten T20 run shift from “he’ll come good” to “we’ve got an issue”? The Australian captain’s lacklustre form continued on Monday night, dismissed for just one against a dominant Black Caps outfit. For those counting at home, that’s now 10 innings in 2021 for Finch, and he’s yet to pass 20. […]