The Ashes 2015: SWOT Analysis of Australia Team

The Ashes 2015: SWOT Analysis of Australia Team: The Australian side has been through ups in the recent past. After their glamorous World Cup triumph in March, 2015, they went onto beat the West Indian team in the Caribbean by 2-0. Some of the young talents of Australia have come up brilliantly for them and under the leadership of Michael Clarke things have been pretty much on the track for them. The Ashes is just days away and undoubtedly they will come out to be the favourites of the tournament. However there are two faces in the coin.

To enlighten onto it, here is the SWOT Analysis of Australia Team:

Strengths:

• The World Champions in the 2015 World Cup followed by the victory over the West Indies in the test series, the Australians are doing every thing right at the moment and it will not be much difficult for them to carry on with the momentum.
• Possession of an in-form fast bowler in Mitchell Starc will be a huge boost for them. Starc was the leading wicket taker in the World Cup and surely he will torment the English batsmen in the series.
• Michael Clarke has been an extremely strategic captain and he has led his team right from the front and understands the game situations decently well.
• Batsmen in the likes of Steve Smith, Clarke, David Warner, Shane Watson and others have been in the scoring ways and they might dominate upon the English bowlers.

Weaknesses:

• Shaun Marsh has struggled in recent times and there has been a dilemma about the opening pair in the test squad. This might well be a major concern for the Aussies.
• Nathan Lyon has been their front line off-spinner but the team does lack spinning options. Fawad Ahmed has been picked in the squad but he lacks experience in the international level.

Opportunities:

• Australia does possess the history of defeating England 5-0 in Australia, the last time these two sides met in a test series. This will boost up their cause.
• Broad has been struggling a bit with his form of late and that could be taken advantage of by the Aussies.
• England lacks a specialist spinner and this might go well for the Aussies as they are way much more comfortable against the pace bowling.
• The English batsmen have been uncomfortable against the Australian bowling line up in the likes of Starc and Johnson. This might well benefit the Aussies.

Threats:

• England’s Joe Root has been in scintillating coming into the Ashes and he might well stand up against the Australian bowlers to inflict big scores.
• Australia were defeated in the last Ashes in England in 2013 so that might be running into their minds somewhere.
• Mitchell Johnson admitted of late that the death of Phil Hughes affected his bowling. Unfortunately, a number of players are yet to recover themselves mentally from that sad incident.

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