Australia's T20I strengths and weaknesses

Australian T20 selections have offered little continuity

Weakness: Indecisive Selections

Selectors are always easy to blame, but the Australian selectors have at times made it particularly easy.

For many years Australian cricket as a whole has devalued the T20 format. This was at its most apparent in 2017 when it was announced the Australian side would partake in T20 games in New Zealand after the Test side had already left to tour India.

T20 cricket often seemed to be an afterthought for the selectors. They would rest the country's best players and experiment with players who seemed to be picked on hunches more than anything else. Then comes a World Cup and they would seem to panic, throwing together squads that had no experience playing together.

There has been a more concerted effort to ensure continuity in the last year or so, but Australia still face India with Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Marsh, all being rested.

Furthermore, certain players have simply slipped through the cracks. It is an injustice that the Big Bash's all-time leading run-scorer, Michael Klinger, and all-time leading wicket-taker, Ben Laughlin, only ever played three games each for the national side.

It is a further indictment on the selector's that Michael Beer, a short form specialist with a T20 economy of just 6.49, only ever played for Australia in test cricket. This anomaly is perhaps even stranger than if Chris Rogers had only ever played T20 cricket for Australia.

These scatter-gun selections mixed with Australia not playing many T20 Internationals, in general, has left Australia with a side very light on experience.