The confidence of three World Cups won in 1999, 2003 and 2007, and the confidence of more international runs than any other Australian. It’s a confidence unshaken by numerous pointers to Australia’s declining ODI fortunes in particular. Once we get Warner, Smith and Bancroft and those guys back into the fray, even looking ahead to the World Cup, I don’t think there’ll be too many better teams on paper going into the World Cup, and I’ve said that for a long time. They’ll get [the] best opportunity to come up and be ready for a World Cup. “Yeah we went to World Cups with Michael Bevan injured, Darren Lehmann suspended, Warney went home, Jason Gillespie went home.

Source: Pakistan Today February 10, 2019 05:55 UTC