Defending champions Australia had been blasted as “mediocre” Sunday after they didn’t make the T20 World Cup semi-finals, with native media calling for the fallout to be “fast and brutal”. Aaron Finch‘s star-studded facet entered the event assured of turning into the primary back-to-back world champions, however it went horribly unsuitable from day one. An enormous 89-run loss to New Zealand first-up and a washout towards England took three factors off their tally, after which they failed to fireside up sufficient with the bat of their three victories.

They completed equal on seven factors with England and New Zealand in Group 1 however had been knocked out attributable to an inferior run price.

It was solely the fourth time prior to now 30 years that Australia haven’t progressed into the semi-finals of a World Cup in any format.

“Although it was close in the end, truth be told, the Aussies never really deserved to make the semis,” wrote The Australian newspaper, calling their defence “shambolic”.

“The fallout to the team’s lacklustre efforts in a home World Cup should be fast and brutal to avoid it ever happening again.

“Serious questions will should be requested concerning the staff’s present management and future route as a result of their performances had been less than scratch.”

The Sydney Morning Herald said that regardless of England scraping past Sri Lanka on Saturday to dump out the hosts, “there was little to suggest Australia as a semi-finalist”.

“Stuttering victories over qualifiers Sri Lanka and Ireland and second tier nation Afghanistan are hardly the muse for a World Cup defence, notably when it was undermined on opening evening by a dreadful loss to New Zealand,” it added.

The Sydney Daily Telegraph also piled on, saying their tournament “will be summed up with one phrase -– mediocrity”, adding that “the brutal reality is that they did not deserve a semi-finals berth”.

Although the statistics are somewhat distorted because qualifiers played extra matches, no one from Australia set the tournament alight.

Marcus Stoinis was their top run scorer with 126, but only 16th overall, while none of the bowlers took more than five wickets, with Josh Hazlewood (thirty first) and Adam Zampa (thirty second) the most effective of the bunch.

All-rounder Glenn Maxwell admitted that they had not been adequate.

“We in all probability have not put the entire sport collectively,” he said.

“There was a few video games final 12 months through the World Cup the place we in all probability did I feel — Bangladesh, West Indies and Sri Lanka we performed the entire sport, virtually back-to-back.

“I don’t think we’ve got any batters in the top five or six or 10 run scorers,” he added.

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“We haven’t probably got the higher wicket takers either, it feels like we’ve just been chipping away, bits and pieces here and there.”

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