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DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN? - The Great Australian Bat Off
In this episode of 'Cricket at O', hosts Peter Lawler and his co-host dive into the excitement of the Great Australian Bat Off, discussing the latest performances and contenders for the cove...
DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN? - The Great Australian Bat Off
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Cricket at O. It's a website. It's a podcast. It's a way of life. Okay, it's getting a hangover here.
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Oh, it's Peter Lawler over here. And welcome to Cricket at O. You're independent cricket podcast.
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Things have changed since last week. We're on Earth a U piece. Like you're in a hall of mirrors.
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Well, they're Paris, you're on the surface of her side. What is that behind you?
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Uh, it is a pretty grand mirror, isn't it? You can't see the balls. What are the back of my head, can you?
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I'm actually in, I'm on Sandy Bay Road in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Yeah.
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Good part of the world, just to put it in. You know, that, uh, St. George's,
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just just up from battery point there. Not from the Sandy Bay Road bakery,
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where I did a lot of work on Tim Watson's, Tim Payne's book. Yeah. When I was writing Tim Payne's book,
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he looked at the road there. It's supposed to go. It's a sense, is it? It's, uh, the sense we
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summer in the rest of Australia. It's so damn cold here. But Tasmanians don't seem to notice. They
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will get around in their shorts. I recall that I would sit doing Tim's book and he would be in his
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shorts and I'd have like five layers of clothes on and just get hypothermia nonetheless.
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They're weird down here. I'm, you're back in the, um, Cogatoreum. I am back in the Cogatoreum,
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just, just pro-ten. Um, so I'm about to meet my state agent and, uh, and I'm hot spotting at
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all my phone because I don't have internet anymore. I was sort of gradually just staged with draw
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for my house and, uh, yes, my life's in flux, but hopefully all that will be resolved present
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but in the meantime Pete, it's your favourite time of the year.
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Which is, of course, the great Australian battle. How's it all going?
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Better than this podcast. I'm sorry people, we're having a few internet problems here.
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Before we move off from, okay, okay, okay, just before we get onto that greater strand path off.
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One, where's the cat? I haven't been greeted by a vision of its aynas.
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At any point during this podcast. Does it move to us?
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No, no, no. Most of the books, uh, most of the furniture and the cat have all gone into storage.
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Well, not into storage, um, is the cat has come to live with Janine and myself in St. Kielber.
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And she's, she's adapted to it seamlessly. She's loving it, in fact, getting more attention
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than ever. Got a drug habit yet.
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Okay.
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She's all right. Um, is, is, have you, have any cricket at home?
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Listeners have been through the place and kicked the tyres and perhaps interested in buying
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a car. I don't know. I don't know. I steer clear of the place when, when people are coming through
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for inspection. Nothing worse than people sort of ferriting around in your stuff.
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I think I've still got all my wisdoms up there. Now I've gone missing. Uh, yeah,
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always well. So far, uh, uh, at the only disappointment my weekend was, um, I got washed out.
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The air is first round, got washed out, which is unusual for us, but, uh, but we had to sit
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out. So, uh, we will talk a little bit of club cricket later. Um, but, uh, but in the meantime,
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the bet off piece, the bad off your favourite time of year. Tell us how is it unfolding as the
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greatest Australian people? Yep. The greatest dream that off is it's gone up and not to get you.
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I think at least in terms of recognition, have you come across this fantastic thing
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that code sports are doing? No. No. Well, they have got this, uh, what would you call it? It's
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kind of like a bat off generator machine that they've developed. Right. Uh, in which they've got
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all the candidates listed. Uh, it's, it's very informative. And, and I can't find it on my machine
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right now, but basically they've gone to crash. They've gone to Ben. They've gone to Dan,
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Journey, they've gone to Tim Mitchell, which is the internet guy there. And they've listed
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the candidates in this year's greatest fame bet off. They've given them an expert's ranking.
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So, for instance, crash, journey, a Mitchell have got Labushane listed as the number one candidate.
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We're, we appear to be only batting off for one spot here.
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Corn has given, is constus, so he's number one candidate. But it basically it's Labushane
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constus, weather-old Marcus Harris. Remember Marcus Harris? Nathan McSweeney,
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Almate Harrison. Uh, remember Renshore. Uh, Bankroft and there's, they've thrown in an outsider,
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young Campbell Callow. Yeah. Yeah. Probably got a duck. Got a second.
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Yeah. So then, uh, so they basically built a chart where, uh, a graph where you can actually,
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track the performance of these badders. Or as they say it, they're keeping
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their, what are they doing? Our experts will have their nose to the ground getting the latest
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whispers. That must be painful for them anyway. There's, you know, the best way to get a whisper
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with your nose. No. But Matthew Renshore has burst out the gate.
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Yeah. The first hundred of the first class season. Two later. Two later. It's all over.
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Well, Manus Labushane is, um, is, I think he's still in as we, as we do this pod. So, uh,
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so no real surprise there. You know, I sort of expected to become like, what's the first class runs?
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He's not going to leave any stone unturned in the person in the spot. Uh, McSweeney's failed. Has
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he Bankroft failed? Patterson failed? Constus failed. Um, yes. If, if, if, if, if, was he had caught
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Jake Weatherall, he would have failed, but he's gone on to get 67. Marcus Ares failed to dive in
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that, uh, in that chill game and he's running himself out for the 61. So, um, missed opportunity for him.
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One person who's not in their calculations is Mitchell Marsh, Pete. Well, that's another,
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well, it's, it's, it's, it's a good suggestion that, and let's keep you on the lay there. But just
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getting into the battle for us, uh, weather, I was first out of the box. He was first of 50,
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and it was, I saw two headlines that he was, that he, he'd state the claim for a test place.
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Yeah. I, um, I think it's a little, it's a little, um, it's, it's a little bit comparing apples
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and oranges at the moment, isn't it? Because have you, did you get a chance to tune in to the game at
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the Wacker? No, that's a nightmare. That's a nightmare for me. Yeah. Yeah. That is really difficult.
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I mean, Constus was failed twice. I'm not making any excuses. Well, about us over there. But
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if you're, if you're, um, minus Labushane and Osmond Koaja, those guys, you want to be batten
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on, on that AB field, that, that, that, you just fill your pockets with runs up there on the AB
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field. So I don't know how many, how much they will expose themselves. If I'm Osmond Koaja,
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I'm putting, I'm putting that in, it's in my pocket and going home. Um, a few people are saying
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that that Labushane 100, that's it. Yeah. Races over. All Labushane need us to do is get a 100,
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and he'll go through. So he might, he might damage his chances by playing in any more
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shill games. Yeah. Well, I'd like to see him keep playing in shill games.
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Is that for him? Is that for him opening or betting it three?
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Well, it's opening. I, the way I read this, it's not spelled out, but it's only the
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openness position is up for grabs, even though even the camera green spelling and number four
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for Western Australia. And bowl these first first plus overs in 12 months in this game.
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And got to work it with these second delivery. Did you see the catchy top of slips?
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I did. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I, I put him in for a slip. I'm, I'm bad at number three on the
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strength of be slip catching the line. Sorry. So, and yes, it's very early, very early doors here.
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It's the same question. So we keep going back to it. You're not convinced about Cam and green
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at number three. I'm not, I don't know what they can do. I can't see them dropping. I can't
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see them dropping slug, unless he fails. No, maybe not. Maybe I was saying that because I'm in
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both as manual while we record. Yeah. It was interesting that he was asked, wasn't he,
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about the idea of betting three end bowling overs? And he thought maybe if it, if it did prove
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difficulty, then then Webster could bowl additional overs to it to make up for. I still think
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he looks a more natural player at, at number four or five. And I still can't quite see any
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reason why Steve Smith can't bet three except. No, I've, I've, all of those reasons.
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Right. I agree with you entirely, but it just looks like that's the way it is. And I pay.
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Oh, most, they're quite a lot of, you'd have to think more people are more comfortable betting
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four and five than three. Just interesting. I assume you put a copy right on the greatest
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training bet off because I think it was your formulation, originally, wasn't it? It was one of those
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little praises that I sing out to the world. It's roots and got quite popular. Yeah. I should have
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been an advertiser, I think not journalism. We're so obsessed this time of year, always
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with the top three, aren't we? Forget about everything else. We don't get who's taking
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wickets as a slow baller. We don't care who's, who's bowling a quick spell. And as you say,
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it is kind of difficult to evaluate top three runs when so much depends on luck. So much depends
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on conditions. So much can depend on injury. You know, this time last year, I think we all had
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Cameron Bankroft, inked in as a, as a, as a good, as a good chance starter in the, in the series
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again, didn't yet, but he just kept stringing failure after failure after failure. That's quite
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hard to gotten that. You're right, aren't you? Yeah. Are we ended up with Nathan McTwenty? But are you
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now going to throw Mitch Marsh's name into the next thing? Well, it's funny. I was thinking when I was
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watching him on Saturday night, Mike. Yeah, that's good news. It was scary stuff. It was scary stuff.
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You know, if you've been serious, where on earth do you bow to? Perfectly acceptable kind of
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length deliveries. It just seemed like he could hit every single ball before. It was just a matter
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of where. So, you know, when he's in formula, that he does look absolute. You're also going to,
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and it reminded me that a few years ago, Greg Chapel said, Mitch or Marsh, test opener.
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I think we all scoffed at the time, but there's a left field thought.
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Pitch is going to, if it's going to be, if it wait, maybe if it was flat wickets, like it was in
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Australia five or six years ago, there you give a consideration. The ball, the double-lankered
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cookabout is done. Maybe just a little bit too much over the last few seasons for a Marshall
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like option. So, maybe his chance has come and gone, but my word, he looked authoritative
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on Saturday night. And his record, his last sevennings, 54, 88, 18, 18, 85, 9, not out, and 103,
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not out. And he was the difference between the two sides on Saturday.
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Made that 100 in England, in the ashes. Here's a question. If you could be in Basmicale's skin,
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column, who would you open with? Who would England open with? If England had to choose 11 Australians.
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Okay, right. So, I'm not choosing, am I pretending that the Australians are English?
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It's quite a stretch. I'll make it simpler for you. Pretend that Basmicale's Australian coach.
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Yeah, well, he would be interested in ceiling, wouldn't he? He'd be looking in how good the
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player could be rather necessarily their last dance meetings. So, yeah. So, there's that.
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I'm channeling Basmicale. He wouldn't be choosing Nathan McSweeney.
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No. And he probably wouldn't be choosing, wouldn't be choosing,
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Cameron Bancrofty wouldn't be choosing Marcus Harris. Probably wouldn't be choosing,
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I don't think. I was just going to say he's probably managed to lose him an out by now.
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I think he might have. Yeah. Yeah. I think he might be thinking about weather-old.
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That's a kind of a Basmicale pick. The guy who looks the part, you know, and weather-old,
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even when he's not making runs, always looks like he knows where he's doing. He's got lovely technique.
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He's very good to look at in the same way as Zach Crawley's.
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There's a bit about weather-olds. There is. Judging my last use for him, he's the
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infamous Australian first class batterer. He's sort of get out.
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I know you've bad as mine too. He might actually opt. Marsh and constus.
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And back in the mid-game. For the next ten years, the job is that.
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Oh my goodness. He's a maternity contract.
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Yeah, we had been discussing that spot for ages. Funny, I had it caught up on the phone with David
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Wanner during the week. I don't think he'll get. It just makes it so easy when you can lock in that
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one opener, or those two open, it doesn't for a long time. I would bless our Warner for that
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that decade plus. He made that so much easier.
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Is he talking about a comeback yet? Is he available? Surely he's available.
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Talk him into it. Get the exclusive.
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Our relationship almost didn't survive. He's last suggested a comeback.
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You can make it go. I was I mean, I'm not going to repeat what I said. I kind of wish I'd never
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said it. I wouldn't you love him to sort of surges way through the pack and announces
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of availability and wait for the nation's call. Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't think it's going to happen
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about anyway. Yeah. All right. Well, we know none the wives are there. In fact, we're dumb
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other than when we started because you're trying to. You try to match Marsh into the mix just to
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muddy the waters a little bit more. Women's World Cup Pete, where are we up to?
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Well, the India Pakistan, India and Pakistan played off last night in a repeat,
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in there were repeat scenes from the man's match. Hello, perhaps not.
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No, I don't think it was as bad as the Asia Cup men's matches. Nonetheless, there were no handshakes
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at the start of the game. No handshakes at the end of the game. We kind of knew that was going to
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happen and didn't send or affect the match too much. Well, did you see what happened at the top skits?
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No, Tommy. The Pakistan skipper was a Fatima Saini. Fatima Saini.
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The Kairns. The match referee and Mel Jones, who was announcing third heads. It landed heads.
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I said, you're cool. All right, okay. In other circumstances, we'd be talking about that for two
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decades. The fix was in. George Blimpham said, the famous boxing match. Then there was the
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rather interesting run out with Manibir Haali toward the end, but those they were.
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That's just matching. They didn't seem to be any additional acrimony upon above them beyond that,
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which the BCCI and the BJP have imposed upon their quickers when these games happened.
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It does seem to be the case that we're now at the stage where any gesture of sportsmanship or
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civility towards Pakistan would be interpreted by anti-national. It'll be like chamber and like
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a piece. The idea is probably true for Pakistan's players. Yeah, absolutely. I mean,
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Pakistan has been as much to blame in a lot of this as India to my mind. Look, well, in their
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behaviours, maybe not in that sort of structural thing around the handshake. Yeah, I look at some,
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we're now reached the point where there's almost nothing to be done about it. And I'd
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say this will gratify the brainwashed BJP trolls who hate watches, but who else? I wonder.
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What did you think of Athos suggestion that maybe the ICC stop reaking every draw
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to maximize the opportunities for these two teams to play each other because it's just become
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unseemly real. That would be hard for the game to say no to money, wouldn't it?
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Hard for most people to say no to money. Yeah, it is hard for the game to say no to money.
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But you've got to think that, you know, LET would be pretty happy to see this too. I mean,
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the objective of terror is to sow discord, isn't it? To crumple and then and spread hate. So I
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think LET would be delighted to see Indians and Pakistanis spitting at each other. You know,
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the jihadists want to hot war in Kashmir. So we're so
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to fail to see how falling in mind with this benefit is anyone. But no, well, and as you say,
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I mean, there's a lot of antithetically in England, in India towards the very fact that this game
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was being conducted. People were angry with the BCCI and the government for letting it go ahead.
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They would be happy with that. And there was, while we're in India, Australia A play they're
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last matching camp or last night. I've lost track of time. I love it, can't for almost a sellout
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crowd. Yeah, right. Yeah. It was amazing crowd turned up for the game. Well, they got a better
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crowd than they did for Westerners versus India, didn't they? Oh, my goodness. Yeah.
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You know, when you don't feel a, feel a ground for an Indian test match,
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yeah. Look on my works. You might be in despair. That was pretty grim, wasn't it?
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A pretty grim. Yeah, I went out to make myself a piece of toast in a cup of tea and the test was over.
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I've never, that was such a lackluster performance by the West Indians in that,
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when they in their last earnings, their batting performance was really poor.
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And generally, a sort of a low intensity test, wasn't it? You know, the gap between the two sides
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was so palpable, it was almost a question of simply going through the motions.
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Makes you start, I think maybe two divisions should could be a thing. I mean, is it an amazing,
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you know, the West Indians beat Australia just last year in a test match at the GABA, but they have
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fallen so far off the pace that, yeah, I think you're right. You know, that they are making a very
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solid argument for two divisions right before our eyes. There's another series on that we've
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completely forgotten. You know, Australia, I think, Australia men's team is playing well.
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That's, well, I've observed before the, the, the, oh, the mid-master.
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The mid-master. Yeah. I've forgot the context of the games. And one of those, and one of those was
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a wash out. So, so the series, it's one of those series that's over before almost, you know,
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it's going on. They renamed it the beige oval or something for the series because of some sort of
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animal. Yeah, it was quite cute. I noticed that the, the Chapel Headley trophy was on the line.
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Awesome. For those of us who'd almost forgotten, the Chapel Headley trophy exists.
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So, obviously, it's been gathering dust at CA for, I think, the last 10 years or so.
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Someone remembered, oh, yeah, remember, we play for that. Anyway, you can go back in the,
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in the, in the broom cupboard at CA. Is that still an annual event? Did, did, did, just don't
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click it agree to make that an annual event on the back of that first day night test?
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I think it was, that was, we should know those things, didn't we? But, but, you know, it never came
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to fruition and it probably would have required a four-year month year for it to be fitted in.
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Hmm. Oh, you never know. They can have daylight saving, they can have a four-year month year.
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Now Pete, you also observed something that Westerners cricket, the loss of, of a certain special
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someone. Yeah. Yeah. Burn a julien. If you, of a certain age, you'll remember Burn a julien,
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you would have seen him play with Newt Gillian. I do, yes. I do. I do. I do. I do. I do. You got him on
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the cover of Ashley Grace Book here. There he is over on the, that's right. Just hold that up
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to everyone listening to the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. That's Ashley Grace Book, the unforgiven, isn't it?
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Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just looking up. I was just looking up a chapter about,
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that, that, that, in that book, yeah, Burn a julien for, for those of you who don't know, it was a
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very stylish, uh, Western, the, in all-rounder of the, of the 1970s. Uh, looking up, he's
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record. It's actually not bad. He took 50 wickets at 37. He made eight hundred and eight hundred and
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sixty six runs at 30. He made a couple of test hundreds. He made a, he made a very important
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26, not out in the 75 World Cup Final. Uh, it took a lot of wickets in that, in that, in that,
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in that, um, event. Actually, he took four for against Sri Lanka and New Zealand, I think,
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and two for in the final at Laws. Indeed. And he also, people might have forgotten this,
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but I remember it very well. He was the opening partner for Roy Fredericks in Perth when Fredericks made
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that hundred and sixty nine off a hundred and forty odd balls. They put, they put, they put julien
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up to open the batting because I think they dropped Greenwich and they didn't pick Bateshin.
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Yeah. And julien was the like, this silent partner he put on 25, well, they, well, they put on 91
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and, and Roy Fredericks went crazy. He was a, he could, he swung the ball a long way and he was
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had a really nice composed sound defensive technique. He probably should have, um, lasted longer
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at test level. It was, um, it was just such a huge amount of Western Indian talent around that,
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at that time, but he has passed, he, in the age of 75. He has passed the, he made a century at
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Lord's, didn't you, Gideon? You've been looking at me for three. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if I, I've been in
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home, I would have reached immediately for that book. It's by my desk at the moment, actually,
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24 test matches. But, no, there could, he, there wasn't, he played in World Series cricket, didn't he?
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Yep. Yep. But more controversially, he was, and that's why he's seen, he naturally goes
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ball. He was, was a South African rebel tourist, which, which was controversial if you were a
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cricketer from Australia or England, but extremely controversial when you're a cricketer from
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West Indies. Yep. And you weren't treated very well at home. Anyway, the West Indies cricket board,
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put out a statement today. And I thought it was very interesting because it was very much the,
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well, I think the olive branch had been extended prior to this, but it said, it noted that his
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international career came to an end, following his participation in the 82 83 and the 83 84 tours
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of South Africa. It said those to fit, you know, it said, when the world of sport was sharply
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divided by the moral and political challenges of apartheid, those decisions reflected the difficult
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realities of that era and the pressures faced by players navigating competing demands of
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opportunity, conscience and circumstance. Yeah. As we, as we honor Bernard Julian, we also
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recognize the importance of reflection and inclusion. They're really quite a good statement that
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they put out. It goes on and on. So did you, do you remember the chapter in the unforgiven about,
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about Julian, about trying to make contact with him? Yeah. Extremely elusive. He'd suffered
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ill health and he was apparently a victim of depression and was it was someone who had
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kept the the creative establishment at arms length. And I mean, he basically, he,
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you know, from what other players are saying on that tour, he really had gone on it simply because
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he had no money. He was bad. Like any Westernian test player who'd fallen out of test calculations,
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they were subsisting on, you know, a modest stipend from domestic cricket. And I think he'd fall
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out of calculations at county level by that stage. He had previously played for Kent.
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He was a lot of force. Yeah, quite a number of those players. He was on the breadline, which is
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hard to believe now in this modern era, when there are so many good livelihoods around for players who
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you know, aren't anywhere near the the operational of so yeah, that is a very thoughtful
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announcement. Well, reflecting on the decline of West Indies cricket,
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I reckon one of the key factors in that decline is that when they were at their peak,
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they all played county cricket just about, didn't they? Yes. Say all but now they can't. I mean,
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those rules have changed, however they. It's also the players on his group. They were really,
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really good players. And they were a lot of them. And yes, and you're right, the number of vacancies
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in in county cricket has diminished. And the tendency is for counties to shine,
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sign players on shorter term contracts. There's not anywhere near the amount of first-class cricket,
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there's a lot of T20 cricket players go for, you know, it'll fight for contracts that don't last.
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But you're right. I mean, in some ways it was Australian players in the late 80s, early 90s,
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who took the place of West Indies players because they were keen and aggressive and eager to learn
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and good clubmen. And it was got pretty clear to the counties that the quality of West Indies players
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was diminishing and they weren't anywhere near as reliable or as committed.
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Kidian, you said that we would get back to grade cricket before this podcast was done.
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Right about this kid, Harjes Singh, who played out at Blacktown on the weekend. What do you know
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about his innings? Yeah, well, I watched the highlights, but they're probably, they're probably
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wasn't much more. So you can look it up on Fox Sports as has posted the live footage of his innings
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314 from 142 balls. Or at least the 25s, the 35s, sixes that he's hit in addition to
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12 fours. And it really, I know it probably sounds a little bit monotonous, but it is kind of
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nice to watch because so the camera station and the ground is empty. So you can hear the ball
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hitting the bat and you can hear the ball landing and clattering in the among the equipment and
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bouncing off the side screen and hitting the cars in the car park. And the camera doesn't move
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so you can see the bowl is shoulder slump. You can see the captain coming over to pat him on the back.
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You can feel the long weight for the return of the ball. The scoreboard gets a bit scrambled.
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It is like being in the game itself. I mean, we've all we've all been there when your club has
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got an absolute tailing from someone who's gone berserk, but I really, really felt for the Sydney
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guys who are fielding through this innings, which is a record, a record for a one day innings in
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Premier cricket in Australia, I think certainly in Sydney. And it's the second highest score, I think
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in grade cricket in Sydney, all told that the record was was picked the Trump as 335, which was
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the first over two day game back in 1903. He came in at number three. He came in at 11.
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You didn't want him patting against your club. I think they lost 10 cricket balls. He spent at
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an estimated value of 2000. Paul McGraw, get out to Pat and park. There's a few cricket
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homographs, he's an artist friend of ours who makes who makes art from cricket, lost cricket balls
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or found cricket balls or whatever they are. I had heard about him a bit earlier. He might make
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Dashaq Meta, who's obviously the chair of the Chapel Foundation. He got a call a couple of years ago,
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three years ago from Neil to Costa, the batting coach. He said, you got to come out and check out
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this kid. At the time, he was 16. I think he just become one of a bit handful of 16 year olds to
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ever make 800 in Sydney Pramiff, first grade cricket competition. I think the others are Steve Smith,
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Osman Kauajar, Nick Madison, Curtis Patterson, Arthur Morris, Ian Craig, and Bobby Simpson.
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He's done it when he was 8th youngest to score 100 in the men's first grade competition.
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Neil was saying at the time, he's a lock for a strength cricket. I don't know why he doesn't have a
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New South Wales contract. I tried to make some calls earlier, but no one wants to talk to me today.
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He has very good genes. His father was Punjabi's state boxing champ,
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and his mother was a state-level long jumper. He's grandfathered him to become a prick at us.
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So when he was young, he would get cash every time he scored a 50, but apparently grandpa had a file
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for bankruptcy after two seasons, so they stopped doing it. No, it's not true. He's not
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father didn't go bankrupt, but I will try and get to the bottom of why he, I haven't seen
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him around the New South Wales can. I think he will now. Pretty exciting. Just another indication
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of the changes coming over Australian cricket to a degree, isn't it, changing demographics of
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Australian cricket, seeing it in the crowds and on the fields. I was talking to a guy the other day
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about the start of the cricket season. I don't know if I mentioned this on the podium.
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I think I've seen that a handful of people use the nets in Maritville in the last month,
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as people shake off the cobwebs from the winter. Someone lives out further out in the suburbs
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where there's a lot of Indian and Pakistani and Bangladesh-y people said,
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the nets have been full of winter. Well, well, fathers who have had their sons and daughters
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in the nets, or winter, every night, the guys, it's got some watches, people training in the nets.
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It's not happening in the west, well. A cricket and a tell reader, Pat Rogers, was actually at the
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game on the cricket. Oh, he said that before play commenced, a few words were said in honor of
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four premier cricket stalwarts who had passed away since last season, including Bob Simpson,
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it was the record scorer for Singh's first-grade club, Western suburbs, and of course within two hours,
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Simpson's long-time record of 229 for the club has been broken. He also points out, Pat,
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and I like this. So he was his mind wandered to, I think the Trump is amazing innings, he's
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335 back in 1903, when you only got a 60-view hit out of the ground. That's one in redfern was it?
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That's right, that's right. And the Trump hit 225s. Every time you hit a 5, you had to change
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ends unless it was the last ball of the over. Right. But one of the hits famously went through
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the window of the boot factory across the way. And apparently the broken window was
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kept in its frame and displayed at the local leagues club for many years afterwards, touched by
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a holy Trumper's seeks. And Pat goes on to point out that one of Trump's New South Wales teammates
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from that era was a guy called Austin Diamond, who was a New South Wales captain in their period,
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and it is the diamond, the diamond of his name that inspired the diamond that now
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is on the caps of Western suburbs, and was on the helmet of Harvest Singh, a
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hard-easing as he made his 300-week end. Nice historical connection, Pat Rogers, thank you very much
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for that. God, that's some depth work in the rabbit hubs, should be working through cricket at
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all. I'm surprised that he was able to tear himself away from watching all those sixes, a thoughtful
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contribution from Pat, thank you kindly. Getting you sent out. So, but if you haven't
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watched it already, do check up on the highlights. You'll love them for the soundtrack of the
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the spectators who are cheering the sixes, but also the on-field noise of the field is trying to
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encourage the ballads. Go, Joey, they're like Dolly, come on, hunts. That's the
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ballad you've reached from parts to stuff. That's something that you're very familiar with,
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but me not so because I sort of tend to have a cricket in a professional manner, but those sounds
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of the sound of cricket, particularly I think of those sort of empty stadiums or empty grounds,
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where it somehow manages to keep the noise in. There's something very romantic about it.
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There is a such a tendor, a six that I remember in Nagpur. I'm out of the league because it bounced
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on the Tim Roof of the press box like that, and then you heard it roll down the gutter,
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floor lofted to the roof, and smash a crate of empty Coke bottles in a shot outside ground.
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Or you know the sound of Mitch Marsh hitting a ball. The sound of that sledge you,
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even the sound of the ball is deep when I run in.
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It makes a mighty clomp. It makes a mighty clomp as it leaves
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tidest things about this for sure.
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Yeah, he's a solid lad by the look of him.
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You get in us going to ask you, you've sent out a, what do we call these things?
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A post to the cricket adult sub-stack subscribers this morning,
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or urging people to become financial subscribers. Before we put the price up,
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this is CPI FX cricket adult like it affects everything.
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Well, we're converging once again on Craig's Argent Day, which is November 1st.
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That will be the great man's 74th birthday. That's the day when we turned on paid sums on
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cricket adult a year ago, and we are actually going to bump the price up for subscriptions after
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that date. At the moment, it's a hundred dollars per year and $20 per calendar month from,
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November 2nd, the birthday of Victor Trumper, where we're going up to $124 per year.
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Which is of course, Pete, as you and I both know.
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Craig's Argentire score in test cricket.
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It's $124.
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In a magnificent stand of $251,000, you know, $126.
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What's important to note with this price-tuned
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idiot is that anybody who has an existing subscription stays on the old rate.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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$100 a year, $20 a month.
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Yeah.
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Cheap as cheap as $200.
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Till the record.
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Or if you've got a subscription, don't stress when I'm going to screw you
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any more money.
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But if you were considering getting a subscription for this asher summer,
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get in early and you'll get this cheaper rate.
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Yeah.
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The only thing you would need to check would be if you got yourself a new credit card and you
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need it to update on your details, but otherwise, as you were, if you're not a subscriber to
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the subsday, forget at r.com and you want the opportunity to subscribe at the bargain
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basement price of $100 a year.
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You've only got three weeks to do it.
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Some people's internet speeds are quite slow.
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How's that all we've got time for on cricket itself this week?
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I think it probably is, Pete.
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We'll be back this time next week with further developments in the Great Australian
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Badoff, an update on the women's world cup.
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Potentially further exploits from great cricket.
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Hopefully I'll get again this weekend.
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I got washed out last weekend.
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I might even tell you how my house has gone aroption.
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But in the meantime, it's goodbye from me.
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And it's good night from him.