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Speaker 1: While Australia were going two nil up in the ashes,

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Speaker 1: there were plenty of players around the country putting their

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Speaker 1: hand up for national selection conversations. Welcome to Domesticated. I'm

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Speaker 1: justin Edwards Fox Crickets. Nick Savage joins me.

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Speaker 1: We've had the first two Tests, Australia are two nil

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not too many surprises in that squad. Basically the

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Speaker 3: so I love the consistency. You know, two up, no

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Speaker 3: Hopefully Commons will be injected. Kauwaja might be available. That's

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Speaker 3: a whole other story, but it's going pretty swimmingly for

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Speaker 1: Does feel like in that batting lineup the only way

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Speaker 3: Exactly, that's probably the main way, although I don't see

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Speaker 1: One player who was playing for the Australia last summer

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Speaker 3: Days and they couldn't get him out and it wasn't

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Speaker 3: But I just get the feeling that when Steve Smith

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