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Australia Sleeps on T20 Cricket

Marginalised at best, invisible at worst. Is it time to wake up?

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Sam Perry
Feb 18, 2026
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Most people will have found it pretty funny that Australia is out of the T20 World Cup. If you support another nation, why wouldn’t you? When the World Cup final boss fails so limply, things become possible: taunting Aussies on What’s App, anticipating their long-term decline, dreaming of your team winning things. If you’re on the Internet, you can scroll reply-guys and timeline goblins, watching them own, cook, violate, and/or dunk on Aussies in the comments: cry more, cry harder, cope, copium, gutter days for the Aussie team, India is your father, Sri Lanka is your father, Zimbabwe is your father etc.

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