Australia at Cricket World Cup Player by Player Analysis

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Injured Michael Clarke will lead the team (subjected to fitness). (Getty Images)

Australia at Cricket World Cup Player by Player Analysis: World Cup has returned to the land of Kangaroos after 23 years and the hosts were the last to announce their world cup squad. Injured Michael Clarke will lead the team (subjected to fitness). George Bailey will serve as his deputy. Cricket Australia has decided to analyze the performance and injury-condition of Michael Clarke until their 2nd match vs Bangladesh. If he gets fit, he will continue. Otherwise, he will be replaced by George Bailey as Captain and by another batsman in the 15-man squad. His replacement hasn’t been announced yet.

Cricket fans that will be supporting Australia must be very happy to know that Australia will play all their group matches at home. We have pooled the scrupulous data of Australia’s representation at the World Cup. The stats include each player’s input in Australia/New Zealand and in previous world cups.

Most experienced in Australia/New Zealand: Michael Clarke – 111 matches

Most experienced in World Cups: Michael Clarke – 18 matches

PlayersPerformance in AUS/NZPerformance in WCs
MatchesRunsWicketsMatchesRunsWickets
Michael Clarke111351520186692
George Bailey17558First Experience
Aaron Finch17613First Experience
David Warner28964First Experience
Steve Smith16427116531
Mitchell Marsh3991First Experience
Shane Watson63176164154357
Brad Haddin5714637332
Glenn Maxwell1622614First Experience
James Faulkner1221022First Experience
Mitchell Johnson593588072510
Josh Hazelwood409First Experience
Pat Cummins215First Experience
Xavier Doherty266321First Experience
Mitchell Starc1610628First Experience

Michael Clarke and Shane Watson will be playing their 3rd world cup while Steve Smith, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson will be playing their 2nd world cup each. The rest of the squad hasn’t even played a single world cup but it does not matter as the world cup will be a home event to the Australians.

*All the stats are updated until January 12th, 2015.

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