T20 World Cup 2024 – Australia’s World Cup mojo is on full display as the triple crown is in check

“I think tonight I just went in with a clear sense of being a little more determined and a little more true to my fundamentals and what I do best,” Maxwell said of his brief innings against Bangladesh. “I know I’m going backwards well; I know I play good spin if I’m busy with my feet and I’m going forward and back and if I look for gaps in the field and adapt to what’s coming in front of me, I know it. enter my innings freely.

“Even when I think back, I feel that maybe I got a little bit into the pace of the game during the IPL when you are drafted as a power hitter. And that [where] all your focus goes to each and you think a lot about the hidden boundaries every ball instead of playing to your strengths and tonight kind of going back I think what I do best is to start my innings with good cricket shots, get my ability to deceive the fields and try to stick to that.”

“It feels like every place has its own little idiosyncrasies,” Maxwell said. “This [Antigua] it is a slow outsider with a breeze to the short boundary. Barbados can be fifty-five on the wicket, it can go slow. As we have seen, St. Vincent will be spinny and can be a slightly faster outfielder. So, there are many different changes.

“It feels like you’re going to a completely different part of the world every time you go, and you have to adapt and change. I think that’s the way our team has gone. It feels like we’ve been there for a long time. They’re quick to adapt in this tournament, I’m sure that’s going to be true in the last few games.

“We’ve picked everything we’ve got to do so far,” Cummins put it succinctly after Bangladesh’s exit, adding that it felt like Warner was “always there” on the charts heading into the World Cup and that Starc, who has led the wickets in both of his overs events -50 and 20, “he stood up when we needed him [him] big time.”

Speaking before the Bangladesh match, Ricky Ponting touched on Australia’s tournament mentality. “I think some teams feel that Australia will lift the big games, so they try hard to do things differently,” he said. “I think it’s India [ODI] The World Cup final is a good example of that – they ran away from what they had done right away, they tried too hard and it cost them. Australia knows what to do – they are always in control and ready to play every game.”