Speaker 1: Let's say goody to Ishagua.
Speaker 2: Good to be here, guys, great to be on the show.
Speaker 3: Now you are here as part of the Fox team
Speaker 3: for the Summer of Cricket and we've got the ashes
Speaker 3: and you're not the only there's a legion of English
Speaker 3: people hitting our shores. Forty thousand Jesus, I'm told of
Speaker 3: hitting planes. They're gonna be arriving the next few days
Speaker 3: ahead of the ashes too.
Speaker 1: This is a nice gig for a commentator. What is
Speaker 1: this like the Summer of dreams? This show?
Speaker 2: It is when we're women? Yeah, oh yeah, I am.
Speaker 2: I've done three ashes tools here now actually made that
Speaker 2: four with women's as well. And it hasn't always gone well, so.
Speaker 1: Can I ask?
Speaker 4: Right, just because I'm new into the cricket world and
Speaker 4: anybody we speak to who's coming over for it seems
Speaker 4: to have that general attitude well, hope, hope and lack
Speaker 4: of confidence. Have they had such a bad run in
Speaker 4: the past against the Aussies.
Speaker 2: Well, we have while a Test match in the last
Speaker 2: three series, so that's pretty bad run. It's not been great,
Speaker 2: can I ask?
Speaker 5: It's still very much a male dominated industry, especially in
Speaker 5: terms of cricket commentating. What's it like being one of
Speaker 5: the only females in there amongst all the blokes.
Speaker 2: I do my best to keep them in check. Doesn't
Speaker 2: always work. I guess I've worked in kind of male
Speaker 2: dominated spaces since I was quite young playing in a
Speaker 2: boys team, and then pretty much all the way through
Speaker 2: cricket has been quite male dominated, so I've kind of
Speaker 2: slipped into that mode. I can kind of slip into
Speaker 2: that mode quite easily. But also I think it's important
Speaker 2: to go back to what you're there for, which is
Speaker 2: you're just there to be a cricket commentator and call
Speaker 2: the action. And I've been very fortunate to have made
Speaker 2: some amazing friends across my cricket journey, both playing but
Speaker 2: also in broadcast. I'll always talk about Shane warn He
Speaker 2: was super welcoming to me in the commentry box. You know,
Speaker 2: when you first get in, when you first get into commentary,
Speaker 2: it is quite an intimidating place, especially if you're the
Speaker 2: only female and you feel like you can't put a
Speaker 2: foot wrong and so forth. But over time, you know,
Speaker 2: the guys have been really, really supportive.
Speaker 1: Do you still think about Warny? Is sure?
Speaker 2: I do? I do I do a lot, you know,
Speaker 2: even when I'm not here, because he was just one
Speaker 2: of those characters that while he had the gravitasse, but
Speaker 2: he was really magnetic as a personality and I always
Speaker 2: just wanted to be in his company. But in the
Speaker 2: commentary box, I mean think, I think our friendship really
Speaker 2: kind of grew more so here in Australia and at
Speaker 2: Fox because he really valued what I had to say
Speaker 2: when it came to cricket commentary, and so I feel
Speaker 2: like when I had his respect, I kind of got
Speaker 2: the respect for everyone else as well around the world. So,
Speaker 2: and he was a cricket pader. No one could talk
Speaker 2: about the game like Warning. Could he have this unbelievable
Speaker 2: ability to really simplify it to the masses. And that's
Speaker 2: what I loved about working with him.
Speaker 4: You have a teacher how to scullar beer or suck
Speaker 4: back of dart.
Speaker 2: You know this is a misconception about Warning. He wasn't
Speaker 2: a beer scullar.
Speaker 1: No, he wasn't he the preme extreme.
Speaker 2: He liked his life soda.
Speaker 4: If you've spent much with his son, Jackson, but god
Speaker 4: spinning image, aren't there?
Speaker 2: Yeah he is. Jackson is a beautiful human and yeah,
Speaker 2: he brought them up, he raised them.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so let's get a prediction. I think by
Speaker 1: a confidence. What do you think.
Speaker 2: Going to all? Sorry to all, I know you want
Speaker 2: a prediction one way or the other, but I'm going.
Speaker 1: To astral retain the ashes?
Speaker 3: Okay, oh no, hold the ashes?
Speaker 1: So to all, we retain the ashes?
Speaker 4: Well we can way to watch your handiwork every ball
Speaker 4: of the ashes live and ad break free during play
Speaker 4: on Fox Cricket available on KO Sports.
Speaker 5: Just quickly before we let you go, tell us about
Speaker 5: Take Her Lead, which is a charity that you've found
Speaker 5: in which is empowering women in cricket.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So we know that girls drop out a sport
Speaker 2: at twenty percent more of a rate than boys between
Speaker 2: the ages of eleven and fifteen. There are lots of
Speaker 2: different reasons for that. Boys need to be competitive to
Speaker 2: feel like they belong. Girls need to feel like they
Speaker 2: belong before they can be competitive.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So we're trying to create that but also provide more
Speaker 2: opportunities for women. So that's in broadcast. In administration, We've
Speaker 2: got a network for women. It's UK based at the minute,
Speaker 2: but we're trying to raise awareness here in Australia as well,
Speaker 2: so we're doing a fundraising tour. Make sure you follow
Speaker 2: at Rick's Ashes on Instagram. We're doing an event in
Speaker 2: every city during the Ashes and it's going to be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: So want to do great charity, amazing great charity. Hey,
Speaker 4: thank you so much of your time this morning, and
Speaker 4: enjoy your time on our shores.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Jason, Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good following
Speaker 2: them on the socials.