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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Kristin Amiot.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, January thirty one. Commissioner Karen Webb has defended

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Speaker 1: a decision by New South Wales Police to withhold information

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Speaker 1: about its discovery of a caravan packed with explosives for

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Speaker 1: more than a week.

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Speaker 2: This has a COVID investigation, an investigation that requires us

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Speaker 2: to go about our business without popromising investigation. There is

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Speaker 2: a time and a place that we need to inform

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Speaker 2: the community where there is a vista public safety. We

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Speaker 2: believe we've mitigated the public reason, but we need to

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Speaker 2: get on with the investigation and that's why that recurred.

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Speaker 1: The vehicle was abandoned on the side of a road

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Speaker 1: in Durall, in Sydney's northwest, containing enough explosives to create

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Speaker 1: a sizeable explosion. A note containing the addresses of a

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Speaker 1: synagogue and members of the city's Jewish community he was

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Speaker 1: also discovered. It hasn't been designated a terrorist incident, but

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Speaker 1: two people arrested on unrelated charges were in police custody

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Speaker 1: this week after posting on social media that they were

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Speaker 1: looking for a caravan. Jewish leaders say they understand the

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Speaker 1: need for clandestine investigations, but urged police to be more

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Speaker 1: transparent about community safety. In the wake of a spate

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Speaker 1: of anti Semitic attacks, a home next door to a

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Speaker 1: Jewish primary school in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs was vandalized with

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Speaker 1: anti Semitic graffiti on Wednesday night, an act condemned by

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi on Thursday. This situation is moving quickly.

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Speaker 1: You can read the latest at the Australian dot com

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Speaker 1: dot au. Steve Smith needed just one run to reach

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Speaker 1: a coveted test cricket milestone when he stepped onto the

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Speaker 1: pitch at Gaul International Stadium in Sri Lanka. But not

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Speaker 1: content to leave it at that, the skipper put on

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one runs over two days, bringing

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Speaker 1: his career test total to just over ten thousand. The

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Speaker 1: question now is when we'll see this incredible feat again

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Speaker 1: and if it's likely to become a rarity. That's today's episode.

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Speaker 3: Nine ninety nine test runs? Can you get the last one?

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Speaker 3: Worse than being on ninety nine?

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Speaker 1: For Border?

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Speaker 4: It was historic standing ovation for Alan Border, the second

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Speaker 4: in history to achieve ten thousand runs ten grand reasons

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Speaker 4: why is one of.

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Speaker 3: The greats for war. It was a long time coming.

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Speaker 3: That was a eficit innex under pressure. You'll see none.

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Speaker 1: Better for ponting.

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Speaker 3: It was a relief. What's the best de riggy Ponting?

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Speaker 1: And when Steve Smith brought up ten thousand test cricket

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Speaker 1: runs in the first test of the Warnler Litteran Trophy,

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Speaker 1: it was deliverance.

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Speaker 3: There it is first Paul Smith, a landmark moment.

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Speaker 4: Steve Smith's to ten thousand test drums.

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Speaker 5: It's a pretty significant moment in any batter's career.

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Speaker 1: David Tanner is the Australian's Night Editor.

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Speaker 5: There have only been four Australians now who've got to

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Speaker 5: the mark, and only fifteen batters of across crickets one

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Speaker 5: hundred and forty five year history, so it's a big

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Speaker 5: number to reach.

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Speaker 1: The skipper had been left hanging one agonizing run short

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Speaker 1: of the milestone after he was bowled by Presid Krishna

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Speaker 1: at the SCG in the final test of the Border

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Speaker 1: Gavaskar Trophy. Do you think that Steve Smith will feel

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Speaker 1: differently about this because it's happened off home soil, and

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Speaker 1: in particular because he was quote unquote robbed of it

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Speaker 1: at the SCG or do you think he's just happy

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Speaker 1: to get there.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure he would have loved to have got the

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Speaker 5: runs on his home but you would have to think

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Speaker 5: any better that gets to ten thousand runs is going

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Speaker 5: to remember wherever it happened in the world, the moment

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Speaker 5: that it happened, and knowing Steve Smith is probably going

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Speaker 5: to also look at it as whether his innings helped

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Speaker 5: his team in the Test match.

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Speaker 3: Being quite the team player.

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Speaker 1: Steve Smith's effort in Sri Lanka makes him the equal

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Speaker 1: second fastest to record ten thousand Test cricket runs. He

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Speaker 1: did it in one hundred and fifteen Tests, for more

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Speaker 1: than West Indian Brian Lara. Of course, it's a feat

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Speaker 1: that might not have materialized at all thanks to a

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Speaker 1: Test cricket band placed on Smith following the sandpaper Gate

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Speaker 1: cheating scandal in twenty eighteen, Australia's cricket captain Steve Smith

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Speaker 1: being escorted out of South Africa with his career in tatters.

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Speaker 1: Smith and his former vice captain David Warner were banned

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Speaker 1: from international and domestic cricket for twelve months following the incident.

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Speaker 1: Where Cameron Bancroft was caught roughing up one side of

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Speaker 5: It'd be interesting to know how many runs he might

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Speaker 1: Smith and Warner were also slapped with additional leadership bands,

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Speaker 1: and many speculated Smith would never captain the Australian Test

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Speaker 1: side again, even after the official sanctions ran out. But

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Speaker 1: as current Test captain Pat Cummins sits this one out

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Speaker 1: due to the imminent arrival of his second child, Smith

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Speaker 1: is back in the skipper's seat, meaning he's not only

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Speaker 1: the fourth Australian to make ten thousand Test runs, but

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Speaker 1: the fourth Australian captain.

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Speaker 3: He's been the player of his generation at a moment.

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Speaker 4: Here that reinforces what a special career this has been.

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Speaker 1: David Tanner delved into the cricket archives to understand how

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Speaker 1: Steve Smith's rode to ten thousand Test runs compares to

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Speaker 1: that of his predecessors.

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Speaker 5: Certainly, the Border and Waw ones are very admirable, partly

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Speaker 5: because both of them happened on home soil. They both

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Speaker 5: got them in an SCG Test in Sydney. When Border

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Speaker 5: got to ten thousand runs, he was only the second

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Speaker 5: of any play out in cricket's history to reach the mark.

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Speaker 5: Sunil gavascar the Indian opener was the first one. So

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Speaker 5: border was joining a very select club back then.

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Speaker 4: Here's one hundred and twenty two behind Sril Gaviscar and

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Speaker 4: let you say he won't reach them in this city

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Speaker 4: Test much the prolonged deviation from the crowd and well deserved.

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Speaker 5: Steve Wars was a very emotional one because he had

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Speaker 5: a really rough year. He'd had a lot of substandard

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Speaker 5: innings for a long time and if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 5: there were even some people questioning whether he should keep

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Speaker 5: his place in the team despite his stellar career.

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Speaker 6: When you have a thirty five thirty six, when you

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Speaker 6: start the file or not do so well, people straight

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Speaker 6: away say well you too old, your past your best,

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Speaker 6: you should retire. And the fact that I was a captain,

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Speaker 6: I was fronting every press conference, it was something I

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Speaker 6: couldn't avoid, was that inevitable question are you retiring as

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Speaker 6: your formerly good? You know, are you going to be dropped?

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Speaker 6: So there's a lot of negativity going into the Test.

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Speaker 5: Match and he came to his home Test in Sydney

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Speaker 5: against England and desperately needed a good innings. Australia batted

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Speaker 5: on the opening day and war scored a century on

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Speaker 5: the first day. He reached his century with the last

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Speaker 5: ball of the day, which was what everybody remembers, but

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Speaker 5: it was a shot that got him to think it

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Speaker 5: was sixty nine runs earlier in his innings that was

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Speaker 5: the one that got him to the ten thousand mark.

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Speaker 5: But in a way, that innings has remembered more for

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Speaker 5: him finally breaking a long run of bad innings with

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Speaker 1: But it's Ricky Ponting's effort that bears the most resemblance

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Speaker 1: to Smith's.

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Speaker 5: He did his in the West Indies, a bit like

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Speaker 5: Steve Smith getting his in Sri Lanka.

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Speaker 3: It was a very small crowd in Antigua.

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Speaker 5: There were only about two thousand people at the ground

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Speaker 5: to witnessed this historic moment. But one of them was

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Speaker 5: viv Richards, the great West Indian batsman, who they were

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Speaker 5: playing at a ground that was named after Cyvivian Richards.

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Speaker 5: Richards never got to the ten thousand mark himself, but

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Speaker 5: at least there was someone noteworthy there coming up.

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Speaker 1: We ask if a cricket onslaught could make milestones like

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Speaker 1: this one less likely. There are few circumstances nowadays when

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Speaker 1: cricket fans are bereft of matches to watch. The Australian

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Speaker 1: men's Test side will play around a dozen Tests this year,

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Speaker 1: while the world champion women are in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a dominant multi format ashes campaign against England. Seventy four

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Speaker 1: to twenty matches will be played in the Indian Premier

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Speaker 1: League from March, and then the local Big Bash competitions

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Speaker 1: kick off at the tail end of the year. They

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Speaker 1: are World championship titles to be defended too, and in

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Speaker 1: a few short years cricket will return to the Olympics

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Speaker 1: following a hiatus of more than a century. But as

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Speaker 1: players diversify their portfolios, and as India's Viat Collie creeps

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Speaker 1: towards it, you have to wonder what becomes of that

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Speaker 1: ten thousand Test run milestone. And just lastly, David, On

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Speaker 1: the one hand, you've got players like Sam Constace who

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Speaker 1: are starting younger and building up an incredible number of

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Speaker 1: runs very early in the piece. But on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: the cricket calendar is so stacked now and the focus

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Speaker 1: on Test cricket maybe isn't what it once was. So

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Speaker 1: is there a possibility that ten thousand Test runs could

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Speaker 1: become a rarity?

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Speaker 3: I think it works both ways.

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Speaker 5: There certainly is a more packed cricket calendar than there

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Speaker 5: used to be, But if look at the list of

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Speaker 5: the fifteen people who got ten thousand, I mean Samuel

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Speaker 5: Gavisca was the first to do it.

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Speaker 3: I think it was in.

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Speaker 5: The nineteen nineties, so it was one hundred years of

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Speaker 5: cricket before anyone got there, which spoke to how much

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Speaker 5: more cricketers were already playing, say thirty years ago. Yes,

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Speaker 5: you now have t twenty and one day Internationals vying

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Speaker 5: for time, but there still seems to be a significant

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Speaker 5: amount of Test cricket being played, so I wouldn't think

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Speaker 5: it's going to be a rarity. But certainly with more

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Speaker 5: different types of cricket being played, there might be fewer

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Speaker 5: batters getting to the mark than there would have been

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Speaker 5: before TEA twenty and loll.

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Speaker 1: David Tanner is the Australian's Night Editor. The first Test

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Speaker 1: in the Warnmuerletteran Trophy continues on Friday. You can follow

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