What went wrong for Australia against India and how do they fix it?

Cummins is toothless. A scrambled seam at 140k is not going to trouble anyone on a flat track. Even against India at home Cummins was over rated. Starc too is not swinging the ball but serving out half volleys down the leg side. Both are really perceived to be enforcers but they are not. Bring back the saviour Mitch asap!!!

As its turned out, Stoinis is gone, injured, and Mitch Marsh is coming.

How many do you want Max MNC Stoinis Carey....

TRUE. (ONE extra thing AUS were defencive in middle over while bowling and India was attacking with kul-cha)

When someone attacks .... Bowlers gets defencive, Chance of taking vickets lessons. Means good chance of having vickets in hands at last few overs. (Kuldip and chahal is different. They are always hunting. If one hit six or for still they don't go defencive. (So R.R. is not every thing)

INDIA DID TARGETED HIM. YOU NEED TO KNOW THE EFFECT. AFTER FIRST OVER BOTH AUS. AND NCN went defencive and (both bolling and folding wise) Along with NCN and some other factors AUS needed to use main bowlers (some overs) in middle overs. That ment last 10-12 overs AUS didn't had enough quality overs. And India had some vickets in hands. So India can take extra chances..... (@35 overs both teams score were almost same. ) (Difference was India had good bolling options at the end overs) Kumar's 2 vickets made some difference. (India didn't bat that deep comparing to AUS but India had good 4th bowler)

1/3rd of the way into the World Cup and we're still trying to figure out our side. This should have been settled months ago. Langer still trying to find ways to pick his mates. Too many holes. Finch, now Warner, NCN, Zampa, undependable Stoinis replaced with undependable Mitch Marsh. Turning into a disaster.

decent ODI trundler and biffer shit at tests. but will be in the Ashes squad for sure. clearly Stoinis was a strain in the side.

#donteverselectMitchMarshagain When will the obsession with the Marsh brothers ever end????

Your wish has granted by m Marsh back into AUS squad

I would take Nesser over Richardson any day of the week.

Yea but the thing is Turner hasn't been bowling since his injury and if he had been he would be an easy option and unfortunately Neser has only been good with bat and ball at shield level not in his ODI.

You can't pick Christian when he doesn't even have a state contract, his niche is T20 and that's where he plays best And even then, Christian was used by the Renegades extremely sparingly, he seldom bowled more than 2 overs a match and always batted at 7. Not exactly a flexible choice.

Ashton Turner would have been the guy. Heck, Nesser would be great with the ball over there potentially and is fantastic with the bat.

I don't disagree with you but like I said in terms of the selectors point of reason I can't see them dropping Stoinis. Maxwell is an amazing part time border line all round bowler but I just don't see the selectors giving him 10 overs or making the selections you mentioned. Stoinis has been ok with the ball at the near death end and has got wickets so all we can do is hope he gets some runs unfortunately. I'm not saying you are wrong, but it's just not what I think the selectors will do unfortunately.

We don't have any allrounders and haven't done so since Watson was in his prime. What we have is players who can bat and bowl a bit and they are chosen for the squad. Stoinis has done little with the ball and nothing with the bat at least NCN has runs on the board. Maxwell isn't going well either but there is no one else. The options are limited. Marsh in for Stoinis with Maxwell at 6, and Lyon for Zampa (though Zampa did have a poorish game against India but is quite good normally where Lyon will bowl ,line and length and frustrate batsmen). Alternatively, drop Stoinis, move Carey to 6 and play Behrendorf.

The annoying thing is though Australia picked no backup all rounder and the selectors won't risk NCN as allrounder or Maxwell to bowl 10 overs. So we have to just hope that Stoinis comes good unfortunately. I would have liked to see Dan Christian picked as all rounder he has an excellent record in the England one day competition and would make a good finisher at 7 or even Faulkner would have been a better option.

And we only lost by 30runs! (Maybe I'm being highly optimistic, which is unusual for me)

What went wrong is pretty simple: 1. They played one of the best 2 teams in the world and weren't necessarily expected to win. It wasn't an upset, it was a match that went to form. 2. Warner is struggling to find his free scoring form 3. NCN isn't able to keep the pressure on once the opening bowlers come off 4. Zampa is not bowling well at all at the moment 5. Stoinis hasn't miraculously become good 6. Carey dropped a vital catch where taking that catch quite possibly would have turned that 352 score into more like 325-330 which would have been much more chaseable. 7. Starc had an off night.

The limited squads that teams have at the world cup certainly limits possible changes. They don't have cover in all positions, and one place they have no cover is in any sort of allrounder positions (batting or bowling allrounders). They have a batsman who doesn't bowl at all and three bowlers who don't do much with the bat as their backups. So I think where it comes to learning from this match and trying to do better, it's likely those things will mostly revolve around getting the best out of the players in the eleven rather than much in the way of team changes. Unless they decide to play two specialist spinners in any matches, in which case it would be NCN who would make way, which does slightly weaken the tail and requires the batsmen to make sure they aren't leaving too much for the tail.