Aust, thrashed again — by papers

Press, 29 January 1986, Page 22

Aust, thrashed again — by papers

NZPA-AAP Sydney Newspaper commentators yesterday poured scorn on Australia’s meek surrender to New Zealand in the World Series Cricket one-day international match in Adelaide on Monday. “Bad days do not come much worse,” wrote Terry Brindle, in “The Australian.”

“Australia added to its more macabre records by suffering statistically and psychologically its biggest thrashing in the competition.” Brindle said the suggestion that Australia was reacting to the knowledge that it did not actually, need to win to make the finals is all the more accusing if it is

“That detracts from the performance of New Zealand, which attacks every game, not only because it has to win but because it wants to. The professionals at play.”

Brindle added that New Zealand bowled accurately, fielded tigerishly and took its catches with professional non-

chalance. “It does not devalue Its performance to suggest it needed to do little else,” Brindle said. In the “Sydney Morning Herald,” Mike Coward wrote: “The Very nature of this peculiar but universally popular form of the game demands you don’t take all the happenings too seri-

“Certainly it was not possible to take seriously the effort of the Australian XI at Adelaide Oval yesterday. “Somehow they: managed to be dismissed for 70 ... by a New Zealand team who have been far., from convincing bn this second visit here this summer.” . .