Should Australia be kicked out of the game?

[Seamer]

After Australia thumping their latest hapless opponents - in this case NZ 5-0 in New Zealand, i read an amusing article in crickinfo suggesting they be tossed out of cricket before they destroy the game. Have a read and tell me what you think.

http://aus.cricinfo.com/link_to_data...05MAR2005.html

[Occasional Fan]

"Crushing series victory" for Australia in The Ashes? The whole article loses all credibility at that point.

[Ernest]

No why should the Australians be kicked out of the game.
It was a silly article really, New Zealand are nowhere near their best, England beat them 3-0 last year, so it's not that big of a deal IMHO.

[jot1]

Originally Posted by Seamer

After Australia thumping their latest hapless opponents - in this case NZ 5-0 in New Zealand, i read an amusing article in crickinfo suggesting they be tossed out of cricket before they destroy the game. Have a read and tell me what you think.

http://aus.cricinfo.com/link_to_data...05MAR2005.html

Nooooo! who are we all going to hate!
I think keeping a team like Australia in can only make the other nations work harder and try harder and strive higher. The prestige of being able to say we're the team that beat the Aussies should be a great motivater. Anyway, whoever is then top of the log will never really feel like champions. They'll always have the ghost of the Aussies to haunt them.

[Rachael]

Originally Posted by cricinfo

If Zimbabwe were criticised for lacking players of international standard then the same could be said of New Zealand's attack today

NZ.. and pretty much everywhere else. Right now... least in terms of seamers... no one is really in a much better state: forget Zimbabwe and Bangladesh and New Zealand.. the WI side is so young and raw that English counties would probably not accept the services of the bowlers even if they had no overseas-player regulations to work around... in India hopes are pinned on Pathan.. who just isn't ready yet... and in Pakistan there's no real indication that the backup for Shoaib is any more ready. Sri Lanka are getting excited about prospects.. but as with elsewhere.. hopes are being pinned on the desperately inexperienced.

Right now you've aging war-horses like Pollock and Vaas standing head and shoulders above their peers... and no real competition.

The best two seam attacks outside Australia are presumably SA (assuming Pollock Ntini, Langveldt and Nel are all fit) and England (Harmison, Hoggard, Flintoff and Jones / Anderson).. but let's face it: on the displays from SA not one bowler from either side would have been considered for one of the great WI pace attacks of the past!

[Leafy Seadragon]

Originally Posted by Occasional Fan

"Crushing series victory" for Australia in The Ashes? The whole article loses all credibility at that point.

Agreed. The choice of words should have been "complete victory" - "crushing" doesn't go far enough (said with about the same conviction as the article under discussion)

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by Rachael

The best two seam attacks outside Australia are presumably SA (assuming Pollock Ntini, Langveldt and Nel are all fit) and England (Harmison, Hoggard, Flintoff and Jones / Anderson).. but let's face it: on the displays from SA not one bowler from either side would have been considered for one of the great WI pace attacks of the past!

Correct Rachael, but you omit to say, not one of the current Australian pace attack would have been considered for the great WI pace attacks.
In those day more great bowlers were queuing up to replace aging bowlers.

The best example of this is when j Garner finished at international level, C Ambrose was there to take his place.

[Paoli]

Garbage...Kicking a team out because they're too good...

Man U and Real Madrid and Chelsea, Barca, Arsenal, Juventus and Bayern should be kicked out of European football then...Hey, lets kick Schumi out of F1....

Uninformed point on Cricinfo.

[Zainub]

I usually happen to enjoy Andrew McLean's exploits, but this "throw Australia out of cricket" article went a bit far forward in the line of providing amusing cricket annalysis to read.

This article, excuse me for being blunt, was a total disgrace, not only to Austrlia's greatness, but also to Cricinfo's repuatation of being a site providing quality cricket insight.

I'm afraid Mr. Mclean wrote that piece in a state of utter dissapointment with his favoured NZ side losing the plot against Australia, and that consequentionally meant the article was going to have no credibility at all. He simply fails to see the positive impact Australia's high standards produce. In recent times most teams have shown an improvement after playing the World Champs in the next outings. If Mr. Mclean's NZ side are so utterly inept that they don't learn from their mistakes, well its their fault, not Australia's.

This was by far the worst cricket article I have read any where at any time. A total disgrace.

[Paoli]

Hang on. After reading it you realise it is in a little fun and does go too far, yet is simply stating Australia are too far ahead of anyone else...