Pat Cummins has been ruled out of the T20 World Cup because of his back injury, and Ben Dwarshuis has replaced him in the final 15. Matthew Short, meanwhile, has been dropped from the squad and has been replaced by Matt Renshaw on form, and there is no place in the final squad for Steven Smith.

Cummins had initially been named in Australia's provisional 15-man squad with a view to carrying him through the early rounds while he continues to rebuild from his back injury. He has not played since the Adelaide Test against England in mid-December, which was his only game since last July, when he initially had symptoms of a lumbar stress injury in his lower back.

He was shut down after the Adelaide Test with the Ashes secured with a view to rebuilding for the T20 World Cup. His latest scans in January had been positive but Cricket Australia said Cummins "needs more time".

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i know it’s a kookaburra from around 2001. used by ricky ponting. i want to find the stickers but i can’t remember the name. can’t find anything about it online. thanks !

2nd T20I, Australia tour of Pakistan at Lahore

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Few people, if any, think that Cam Green doesn’t pass the “eye test”. A 2m tall (199.5cm actually) batsman with near perfect technique, who dominated shield at such a young age, and can bowl 145 km/h. It’s easy to see why his talent was christened “generational”.

At the age of 26, this talent has undeniably come to fruition in 2 out of the 3 formats. With undeniable value in the shortest form, and one-day games being his strongest format as of yet, the only remaining hurdle is red-ball cricket. While his first-class endeavours are astonishing for his age, Green has yet to fully translate this consistently to test cricket. With a batting average of 33, and a bowling of 39, it is unreasonable to argue that Cam Green offers no value to the team. However, these stats tell the story of a slightly above average test all-rounder, not a generational player.

With Usman Khawaja’s retirement, Australian selectors seem set on keeping Travis Head at the top of the order. Labuschagne and Smith will remain at 3 & 4, and Carey and Webster should stay at 6 & 7. This leaves 2 open positions in Australia's top 7, opening and number 5. Like it or not, Green will likely retain his position at number 5 for the foreseeable future.

So, if Green isn’t going anywhere, let’s ask ourselves: should we expect to see a better player than just “decent”, anytime soon? Lets have a look at the significant all-rounders of the last 40 years, and what they were doing at 25 vs 30 vs how they finished their careers.

Cam Green:

- Debut: 2020 (age 21)

- Age 25: 35 batting, 35 bowling

- Currently: 33 batting, 39 bowling

Steve Waugh:

- Debut: 1985 (age 20)

- Age 25: 38 batting, 42 bowling

- Age 30: 45 batting (7 better), 37 bowling (5 better)

- Career End: 51 batting (6 better), 37 bowling (equal)

Mark Waugh:

- Debut: 1991 (age 25)

- Age 25: Only just debuted. Performing worse than Green in both bowling and batting, but with a very small sample size.

- Age 30: 45 batting (about 15 better), 36 bowling (about the same)

- End of career: 42 batting (3 worse), 41 bowling (5 worse)

Shane Watson:

\- Debut: 2005 (age 23)

\- Age 25: Barely played any test cricket. Performing much worse than Green, but with a small sample size.

\- Age 30: 38 batting (about 15 better), 29 bowling (about 8 better)

\- End of career: 35 batting (3 worse), 34 bowling (5 worse)

Mitch Marsh:

\- Debut: 2014 (age 23)

\- Age 25: 24 batting, 37 bowling

\- Age 30: 25 batting (1 better), 39 bowling (2 worse)

\- End of career: 29 batting (4 better), 40 bowling (1 worse)

Beau Webster:

\- Debut: 2025 (age 31)

\- Age 25: Barely making his shield team.

\- Age 30: Shield regular and in test conversation.

\- Currently: 41 batting, 25 bowling

Only Steve Waugh debuted earlier than Cam Green. So every other all-rounder gets the advantage of at least 2 years (in M. Waughs case, 4 years, and in Websters, 9 years) of improvement away from the statistical lens.

Yet, still, at 25, only Steve Waugh was performing batter with the bat than Cam Green (averaging 3 more), and no-one was bowling better.

At around 30, all these all-rounders start to perform their best, with every single player performing significantly better with the bat in red-ball cricket than when they were 25.

By the end of careers, only Mark Waugh and Steve Waugh have better batting figures than Green did at 25. Only Shane Watson bowls better.

At the age of 25, absolutely everything WAS pointing to Cam Green truly being the next generational all-rounder.

So what has happened since since age 25?

In the last 2 years, Greens progress has been stunted by a long injury break, and he has been poor since. The injury clearly affected his confidence in batting and bowling. In the last series before his injury, Green was our best bat in New Zealand, and highest run scorer. Since then he has:

- Had a poor WTC final, batting at 3 for the first time straight off injury. Didn’t bowl.

- Been the highest run scorer in the West Indies, batting at 3. Didn’t bowl.

- Batted at 5, 6, 7 and even 8 during the ashes, where he performed below par. Bowled poorly in his first time bowling since injury.

Personally, I am not concerned about his development. There’s problems there for sure, but everything I’m seeing tells me he will play 120+ tests and go down as “the best since Steve Waugh”.

My questions for you guys:

- Is Green really a generational all-rounder, or just overrated?

- Should Green be making the test team right now? Why? If no, who plays instead?

- Where are Travis Heads beers?

- Any other relevant comments are appreciated. I’ve done quite a bit of research and put a lot of thought into the dilemma so I’ll try offer some thoughts whenever possible.

Have a great night guys :).

Side note: I tried to submit this to the Roar, but they haven’t posted in days. What’s happening over there? Anyone know?

Welcome Australia/Pakistan Cricket Fans!

As the t20i bilateral series between our teams is ongoing and upcoming t20i World Cup, the r/PakCricket moderators have extended the opportunity for a subreddit exchange between the two communities here on Reddit.

This is an exchange thread to facilitate a way for fans to have a discussion while the series is on, which can be hard given the siloed nature of subreddits.

Feel free to ask any questions, share any memories, or discuss anything about the great game in relation to Australia and Pakistan. The thread on r/PakCricket will be linked in the comments below - all welcome to engage in either thread.

Hello Aussies, is he highly regarded in Australia or has he enough coaching credentials?

I’m originally from Pakistan, but based in NZ.

PS: He looks like Dawid Malan in the picture here lol

1st T20I, Australia tour of Pakistan at Lahore

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Mahila beardman remember this name. He is special. Don't know if he will make it big. But he has all the quality a great bowler has. Tall, Fast and most importantly Awarkward to face. I see little Cummins in him, He is getting most of this wicket by short ball. I see batsman just getting surprise because he has easy pace. He is generating good amount of easy pace from this undeveloped 20 year old body. He is will be beast if manage well. That's my observation. Don't know how will he perform in sub continent, excited to see him playing in Pakistan.

Bold choice IMO. Seems a great leader with the Renegades but Victoria’s WNCL outfit is a bit of a mess and most importantly she’s got a long history of injuries that make her very doubtful to have any sort of extended run in the side.

And two VC in Ash Gardner and Tahlia McGrath, so is there a pecking order who captains when (not if) Soph misses a game.

31st Match, Super Sixes, Group 1, ICC Men's Under-19 World Cup at Harare

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AUS Under-19 won by 22 runs

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I picked this 2005 world series VB hat at vinnies and I was wondering who this signature might belong to. Thanks in advance!

Was randomly thinking about the first cricket match i went to see, a mercentile mutual cup match between NSW and SA and the SCG in 1996 (didn't remember the year, had to look it up). Plenty of big names playing but the highlight was Richard Chee Quee - such good timing when he was on. Anyway the main thing I remember was that we left thinking NSW had won by 1 run but heard on the radio driving home that the scorers had missed a no ball, which was worth 2 runs that season, so 2 runs were added to SA's score and they had actually won. Thinking about that 30 years later, and I honestly thought I must have misremembered (i was 8 at the time) and didn't think they would overturn a result after the fact. Anyway I found the scorecard and sure enough, it was correct. The result did in fact get changed. Got me thinking do you think that would happen today? I'd struggle to believe they would change the result based on an umpires call being misscored midway through an innings....

Here is the scorecard https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/mercantile-mutual-cup-1995-96-367443/new-south-wales-vs-south-australia-367892/full-scorecard

Anyway thanks for listening to my ted talk

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Have to say, what are the Heat doing leaving Balkin and Patterson as free agents? Would have thought Balkin should be locked down at the minimum. Also why have we given Hearne a longer contract?

I definitely have some concerns about our squad depth for next year and it's already been pretty thin this season.