Not surprisingly, Buchanan has an unblemished record in the quadrennial tournament as Australia did not lose a game in either edition.<\/p>\n
So watching Australia crash out in the first stage of the recently-concluded T20 World Cup would have been hard to swallow for the 72-year-old. In a chat with Sportstar<\/i>, the Australian reckoned that the early exit was a timely wake-up call for the cricket authorities back home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an expectation on a side like Australia to at least make the semifinals, and then potentially the final and even win it. So when they get knocked out in the round-robin stage, it means that they\u2019re losing to teams they should easily beat. That should instigate some soul-searching and real, in-depth thinking about why it happened,\u201d Buchanan said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He was here in his role as a co-founder of the \u2018Ready Steady Go Kids\u2019 programme, which is designed for kids aged two to seven and introduces them to 13 different sports.<\/p>\n
On India\u2019s T20 World Cup triumph, he remarked, \u201cMy overall view on Indian cricket is that it\u2019s heading in the direction where you would expect it to be. It\u2019s a powerhouse of world cricket. Simply because there is so much talent in this country, and the competition to get into the national team is very, very high. Therefore, the players, who are presumably selected on merit and graduate, fit pretty well to play at that level. And I think you\u2019re beginning to see that with the win the other day.\u201d<\/p>\n