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Speaker 1: With the domestic season nearing the points end, Australia's batting

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Speaker 1: picture looks no clearer. Welcome to domesticated. I'm justin Edwards,

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Speaker 1: Fox Crickets. Nick Savage is alongside me. Nick Jason Sanger,

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Speaker 1: well done to hear he was the only century maker

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Speaker 2: Scoring round, wasn't it. Most of the games wrapping up

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Speaker 2: pass score. It's probably a few different factors in play,

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Speaker 2: but I wouldn't call it a crisis at this stage.

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Speaker 2: Although there are you know, probably a couple spots on

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Speaker 2: that Test side up for grabs and no one's really

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Speaker 1: It does feel like that there was a chance in

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Speaker 1: these matches for someone to grab a Test spot. We've

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Speaker 1: talked about how we think there's only three of the

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Speaker 1: someone goes with these three shield rounds and got three hundreds,

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Speaker 1: the selectors may as well have Freezebee to Baggy Green

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Speaker 1: to them out under the pitch. But it's just it

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be happening for the batsman at the moment.

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Speaker 2: To be fair, Sam Harper got a ninety odd to

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Speaker 2: he's looking superb. He probably wasn't really in Test contention

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Speaker 2: But no, certainly it's been very low scoring and a

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Speaker 2: Jake Weatheraord missed this round, which was obviously really poor

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Speaker 2: speaking to Curtis Patterson later he has had a great

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Speaker 2: there's it just hasn't been. It's been a season for

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Speaker 2: the bowlers, I suppose last few weeks has been very

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Speaker 2: so that's nine matches, six hundreds in nine matches. Is

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Speaker 2: we expect more from that from our bowlers, from our batsman?

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Speaker 2: And I've done some more numbers. There have been thirty

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Speaker 1: Compare that to last year. Last year's season finished with

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Speaker 1: fifty hundreds. That was a lot. That was a lot

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Speaker 1: don't think we're going to get to the forty mark

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Speaker 1: tells me, oh, the batsmen not a same as they

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Speaker 1: corresponding seasons twenty years ago five oh six there were

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Speaker 1: of people will tell you, oh, the batsmen were just

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Speaker 1: and I wonder whether that's a good thing We've created

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Speaker 1: It's perhaps gone too far the other direction and it's

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Speaker 2: we've seen the Test arena more because it's low scoring

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Speaker 1: It is a good point you make with the conditions.

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Speaker 1: I also think the new points format in the Sheffield

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Speaker 1: innings points were so important, so teams if the team

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Speaker 1: Now with the bonus points system, it's not quite as

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Speaker 1: So twenty one times this season a team's been bold

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Speaker 1: head to the ashes those wickets are flat now in England.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we need next summer some flatter wickets might be

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Speaker 2: I think the whole the pitches across the show have

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Speaker 1: One man that is scoring runs despite the difficult conditions

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Speaker 1: They've got six and forty runs each, ninety three against

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Speaker 1: If you said Sam Harper's in Test contention, nonsense, right,

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Speaker 1: Is it ridiculous to say that Sam Harper is in

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Speaker 2: one thing maybe stopping Sam Harper just the style of

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Speaker 1: But it's all in the red backs.

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Speaker 1: It is interesting for South Australia's sort of a you

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Speaker 3: Us, Thanks for having me so.

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Speaker 1: It's unfortunate of course that Jack Edwards is not going

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Speaker 4: Yeah, hang on, it's always always a pleasure to captain

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Speaker 1: Chatting off fair just before.

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Speaker 2: There's obviously the little bit of threat of rain around

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Speaker 1: Your fifty over form at the moment, Curtis, is extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: You've scored two hundred and twenty nine runs since the

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Speaker 4: It's a good question, I think I think starting the

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Speaker 4: So it'd be nice to get one more tomorrow night

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Speaker 3: But I don't think there's one big answer.

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Speaker 4: I think feeling relaxed, being still and having just general

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Speaker 2: And just casting your mind back to the final game

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Speaker 3: That's a really good point answer.

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Speaker 4: Your question is quite frantic. At the break, we had

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Speaker 1: Maje your way into the one A Cup Final where

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Speaker 1: He's quite selflessly put himself aside to ensure tamb Is

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Speaker 3: Spot on.

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Speaker 4: You know, there was obviously a few variables that play

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Speaker 2: Is the fact that this could be a last hurrah

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Speaker 3: For all of us to send him off with a win.

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Speaker 1: Not just in One day cricket in the last two years, Curtis,

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Speaker 4: You need to need to step away, and for me

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of Test grigger coming up over this

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Speaker 3: Of the season is always always a good thing to

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Speaker 4: It's it's strong, but it is in the background, you

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Speaker 4: I will say back when I was selected, that was

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Speaker 4: certainly picked at the right time, and it was nice

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Speaker 3: Belt early on.

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Speaker 4: But I'm more mature, I've got a more complete game now,

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Speaker 4: so and I've got the confidence that I guess I've

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Speaker 4: done it in the past when I was selected.

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Speaker 3: So got to put runs on the board.

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Speaker 4: I've got to score more red ball runs, that's for sure,

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Speaker 4: and I'll be looking forward to taking that opportunity if

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Speaker 4: it does come, and.

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Speaker 2: No doubt that would have been a lot of disappointment

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Speaker 2: in the Blues camp last week failing to make that

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Speaker 2: Sheffield Shield final. But is it a bit of a

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Speaker 2: bittersweet feeling seeing a couple of former teammates and Jason

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Speaker 2: It must be a bit of a weird feeling for

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not something I'd give that much thought to, to

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Speaker 4: be honest, you know. I mean, I guess McAndrew left

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Speaker 4: the country for me, he's incredibly consistent and has fantastic skills.

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Speaker 4: And Jason's probably a different one. I'm a bit closer

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Speaker 4: with saying. And that period when I was dropped, he

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Speaker 4: was out of the side too, and we spend a

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Speaker 4: lot of time together probably trying to achieve similar things

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Speaker 4: in our games and trying to figure a few things out.

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Speaker 4: And cutos to him. He's done it, he's figured it out.

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Speaker 4: He's got back to that Australia a level and performed

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Speaker 4: there too, And I mean there was no doubt I

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Speaker 4: think even the powers to be cricking New South Wales.

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Speaker 4: That's saying how the lot of ability he showed us

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Speaker 4: at a young age you just, for whatever reason wasn't

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Speaker 4: able to define it here in New South Wales. So

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Speaker 4: really happy for him that he's having that success and

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Speaker 4: he's playing playing his best cricket South Australia at the moment.

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Speaker 1: He certainly is, and I think you are too as well, Curtis.

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Speaker 1: The One Day Cup Final New South Wales and Tasmania

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Speaker 1: alive on Fox Sports and Ko thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us, Curtis. Good luck for that match and of

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Speaker 1: course the rest of the season with New South Wales.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys, appreciate it. Chez