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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: You know how I was talking the other day how

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Speaker 2: you chase sporting moments that you remember forever. Yeah, Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: my gosh, how good was it? I mean with the

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Speaker 2: Perth time difference as well? Around about seven seven thirty

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Speaker 2: at night, We've got to watch Travis head with one

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Speaker 2: of the most amazing innings to win the first Test

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Speaker 2: against England. And this is the ashes, Kate. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is our nice, pure hatred. This is the biggest

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Speaker 2: rival in the world. And the man who well he

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Speaker 2: top scored in the first innings for Australia, who took

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Speaker 2: five dismissals behind the stumps. Alex Carey joins us down

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Speaker 2: Alex today.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, morning, Well done Alex.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the whacker or the Perth Test match and

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Speaker 1: always growing up, I love the Perth Test because you

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Speaker 1: can get home from school and still get about five

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Speaker 1: hours of cricket. So yeah, yeah, to see what we

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Speaker 1: saw on Saturday night was pretty special.

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Speaker 2: Can you just tell everyone you finish shirly lazy, you

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Speaker 2: finished early two day test kids, and then obviously you're

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Speaker 2: up training this morning or what do you have to

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Speaker 2: do right now, kids.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, recovery fifty of course. No. Look, we got to

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Speaker 1: head back to Homeport a couple of days early, so

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Speaker 1: that was always planned after the Test to head home

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Speaker 1: for a couple of days and then we'll regroup up

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Speaker 1: in Perth on the weekend. So you drop the kids off,

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Speaker 1: did you drop? Yeah, that's I'm back on duty. Actually

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Speaker 1: that is good.

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Speaker 2: That is good.

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Speaker 3: The safest pair of hands dropping the kids off. I

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Speaker 3: love it. Have we got a phone call from Cricket Australia.

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Speaker 3: They were just a little concerned that the numbers are

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Speaker 3: down for them between four and eleven million dollars because

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Speaker 3: it wrapped up early. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I spoke to the boss, the boss post test and

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Speaker 1: he said, look, we'll deal with that. You guys just

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Speaker 1: worry about getting results on the field, so we're able

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Speaker 1: to do that.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's good.

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Speaker 3: He was crying in his car.

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Speaker 2: It was Alex, can you tell us the moment? Right?

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Speaker 2: So Osmond Kouwaja back spasms throughout the Test. He opens

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Speaker 2: the batting for Australia the second innings. There's been so

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Speaker 2: many wickets that have dropped a very hard pitch to

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Speaker 2: bat on. I mean you get the high score twenty

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Speaker 2: six in the first innings. But when Ozzy said I

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Speaker 2: can't open the batting, what's what's the feeling like in

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Speaker 2: the change room And how did Travis Head put it?

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Speaker 2: Does he just put his hand up and say I

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Speaker 2: do it? Or do you all vote on it?

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Speaker 1: Or how does it happen? Yeah, that information was well.

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Speaker 1: I guess it came off pretty early with Uzzie's back,

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Speaker 1: so we knew that he wasn't going to open the batting,

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Speaker 1: so they were able to have that discussion while we

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Speaker 1: were still trying to take the three or four wickets

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Speaker 1: that were after. And then I think there was a

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Speaker 1: few discussions. You could send out, you know, a Nathan Lyon,

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Speaker 1: or you could send out a study bolence. It kind

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Speaker 1: of down the new ball. But yeah, I think I

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Speaker 1: done it in the past, and he's a wife all

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Speaker 1: opening bata, so I think he put his hand up

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Speaker 1: and said, yep, I'll do it. And I think you

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Speaker 1: wanted to go out there and get after them a

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Speaker 1: little bit as well, so he certainly did that moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think for this group as well, it's whatever thrown

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Speaker 1: our way, We're able to deal with it calmly and

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Speaker 1: back to whoever goes out and does something like that

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Speaker 1: or a different situation. We're able to make decisions underpression

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Speaker 1: and stay pretty calm about him.

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Speaker 2: How was the sledging out there, Kiz, was there? I mean,

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Speaker 2: like I said, this is one of the biggest rivalries

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Speaker 2: in the world, and there is a pure hatred there.

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Speaker 2: When you're out on the pitch, you're getting stuck into

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Speaker 2: each other. Was there anything going on?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't too bad. It was very noisy, I thought

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Speaker 1: day one the English had more fans there. They were

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Speaker 1: very loud, so he had to see. It was incredible

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Speaker 1: and you don't really need too much talking between players

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Speaker 1: when you've got that atmosphere, So no, I wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: it was too spicy. I thought the cricket probably spoke

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Speaker 1: for itself. There were so many which its falling stark.

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Speaker 1: He was fired up, bowling beautifully, and our batters were

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Speaker 1: just going about our business kind to you know, face

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Speaker 1: their fast stuff as well. So I think that the

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Speaker 1: cricket probably was the spiky stuff that spoke for itself.

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Speaker 1: That's Alex.

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Speaker 3: The kids are late for school with you banging on about.

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Speaker 3: Is your wife standing in the kitchen saying, get off

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Speaker 3: the phone and get the kids in the car.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it this morning. He's having to sleep in.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good man, good man, before you go, just before

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Speaker 2: you go, kids. This is such a basic question, right,

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Speaker 2: But my wicket keeped wicket kept once when I was

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Speaker 2: younger in a junior game, and my hands afterwards were

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Speaker 2: so sore. You've got guys that are bowling one hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty five and fifty kilometers an hour? Do you

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Speaker 2: get how many stingers do you get during an innings?

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Speaker 2: And like are your hands blown up afterwards?

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Speaker 1: But you haven't done a hard days work in your

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Speaker 1: life Alex's condition, It's okay. You've got beautiful gear these

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Speaker 1: days that are protective, and I think your hands just

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Speaker 1: get accustomed to it. But yeah, stuck when he when

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Speaker 1: he's fired up, they come through, and yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: great to see and hopefully he's got a bit more

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Speaker 1: in him in the second test.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you asked that because I wanted to know

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Speaker 3: about your fingers. You have funny fingers or something? Because

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Speaker 3: I remember meeting was his name? Is it Ian Chapel

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Speaker 3: or something? Go in a nightclub on.

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Speaker 1: The place. Unlievable like you to go.

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Speaker 2: Guys, well, no worries. If you could just get me

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Speaker 2: a couple of tickets to the Sydney Test, that would

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Speaker 2: be great.

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Speaker 1: Thank thanks, good guy.

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