Matthew Hayden

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The hope lies in Ireland.

Would you have ever heard an Australian talking about that as well?

Yeah, there's been some woes.

I mean, the reactions back home, the mood, if you like, of the nation has been rather heavy because I think we've been sold down the stream a little bit

in terms of our selection and how we've gone about preparing for this World Cup.

It actually sort of smacks, to be fair, a little closer to home, a little shot across the bows closer to home.

It sort of smacks of England and their question in the Ashes preparation.

This kind of self-fulfilling prophecy that kind of we're OK and things are... No, don't worry.

It's a...

A healthy mix of denial and maybe even just mismanagement.

So if you go right back to a selection case, it's not like these World Cups aren't scheduled ahead of time.

Australia have obviously been a little bit...

Gesumpt by these late injuries.

Cummins, obviously, an enormous loss.

And also Hazelwood that you'd have to say is right up there in the top five Premier Fast Bowlers across T20 format.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say ever since he was managed by Dhoni at CSK, he's had a real uplift of the way that he's approached T20 cricket.

But look, every nation has got these problems and Australia, it's not like their cupboard of talent is bare.

Old Mother Hubbard has produced wonderful cricketers in Australia for many years and we know we enjoy coming to countries like Sri Lanka and we just haven't prepared for what we've seen.

We've picked power hitters in finesse-type conditions