Has watching the Australian cricket team become boring?

It seems like a wild thing to say, but with the Aussies well and truly taking it to all who oppose them in the cricket world cup, and in turn brushing them aside without a whimper, it’s a somewhat relevant question as we enter the cutthroat “super six” stage.

Many of the big teams are out, barring the Aussies of course, and so we are left with the lesser likes of past world cups such as Kenya to make up the numbers.

That may sound a little harsh but in reality it is clear that they, nor any other team, are a real threat to the Aussies if the current trend continues.

The lesser likes are merely just making up the numbers and not doing a very good job of it at that.

Evidently they will not threaten the Aussies going on to win successive world cups withstanding some unbelievable miracle the likes of which has never been seen before.

It very much saddens me to say this, however it is unmistakably obvious while watching world cup 2003 that Australia is very much in a class of their own, upper class at that, with the lone challenger in South Africa being knocked out of the competition in controversial circumstances.

This begs the question – has watching Australia play become boring?

It’s gotten to the point where you don’t even have to watch the matches to know the outcome. You almost expect the Australian’s to thrash every team they come up against, and on past form, you’re rarely disappointed.

And while this is a great thing from a diehard Australian point of view, and it’s all fine and dandy to jump and down for joy as Hayden, Ponting and Gilchrist go on their all too familiar rampages, it hardly makes for exciting cricket after you’ve seen it done a few times over.

The unpredictability seems to be lacking. The most exciting thing this world cup has been the “Canadian guy,” who’s reportedly sorta an Australian, but who plays for Canada on an international level, belting basically every ball bowled at him over the fence, or in some cases out of the park.

As much as it pains me to say this, the excitement in world cricket has without a moment’s time passing, disappeared. While watching the Australian’s smashing the world is great, it’s becoming a little tiresome.

Can’t we just lose a match here or there just too keep the possibility of us not winning the world cup alive in the minds of the opposition.

For their sanity, for the sake of something, anything, can’t we? Please….I’m begging you…I mean…the poor quality of opposing teams has got to the point where even our Australian A team, or probably even B team if there was such a thing, would annihilate any of the teams out on the park in South Africa at the World Cup, barring perhaps the host nation themselves at their peak.

It’s time the rest of the world got cracking.

I want the excitement of international cricket of yester year to return, the unpredictability, the fearsome looks, the ferocity.

It’s all too timid…all too timid, and if the rest of the world doesn’t wake up from it’s half-baked daze in the very near future, I fear I may not even watch the world cup final…why would I need to…Australia’s gunna win…Australia always wins…they’re unbeatable...aren’t they?

The opposition seem resigned to losing…and while they think this way…they will!

What are your thoughts?