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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from newstalksb.

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Speaker 2: Annie McDonald Adelaide Oval. How's the weather today? Looks a

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Speaker 2: bit cloudy on Telly by me.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what, this is the coldest twenty four

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Speaker 3: degrees I've ever been and I've been rocking Singler and

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Speaker 3: studies all five days, avoiding maybe to avoid sunburn. It's cool.

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Speaker 3: I'd say it's a bit of a north westerly, which

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Speaker 3: is weird to say in Australia. That's cool, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: it is cool, A little bit of drizzle and pretty dark.

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Speaker 3: They've just fliped the lights on here at the Oval,

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Speaker 3: which has sort of almost come as a bit of

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Speaker 3: a bit of a shock to the system to me.

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Speaker 3: But it's I mean, I imagine conditions like this will

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Speaker 3: probably only only benefit the second new Ball. I forget

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Speaker 3: to that point.

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Speaker 2: You've got the full experience of the blazing heat and

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Speaker 2: now a bit of a cloud and the lights on

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Speaker 2: there at Adelaide. What on earth were England doing yesterday?

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Speaker 2: What on earth was Harry Brook doing yesterday? Can you

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Speaker 2: unpack that for me?

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Speaker 3: Well, I've been asking myself for that for several years. Actually,

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Speaker 3: the thing with Harry Brook though, as it's worked the

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Speaker 3: whole time until until now, and the absolute pressure cooker

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Speaker 3: of trying to win the ashes from the most unlikely spot.

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Speaker 3: I look back to the Travis Head dropping Travis Head

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Speaker 3: on ninety nine and I just think if that cost

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Speaker 3: them what seventy one runs, if they were seventy one

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Speaker 3: runs closer, shot like that will be put away. They

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Speaker 3: can easily defend that or actually leave that, leave that

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Speaker 3: ball it's not it's not going to take a wicket

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Speaker 3: and he might still be out there. Ben Stokes would

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Speaker 3: still get an absolute and absolute worldy of a delivery

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Speaker 3: from Nathan Lyons, so he'd be dismissed. But those dismissals

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Speaker 3: when you're trying to there's no more bigger pressure than

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Speaker 3: trying to win the ashes. And if you're doing that,

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Speaker 3: whether you're back against the wall, but a chance to

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Speaker 3: break a record to stay alive in the series, you've

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Speaker 3: just got to really wonder where you hit and how

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Speaker 3: much actually that he got to them.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the stats runs and balls faced

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Speaker 2: and I know these are more middle to lower order

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Speaker 2: players than Jamie Smith and will Jack's Smith nine off

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Speaker 2: thirty nine Jack's eleven or forty one. They're probably the

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Speaker 2: least basball numbers you'll ever see from England batters, regardless

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Speaker 2: of where they are. They can't possibly win or save

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Speaker 2: this Test, can they.

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Speaker 3: I might not leave Adelaide if they somehow win this Test,

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Speaker 3: so I might actually be sharing for them. So w

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Speaker 3: in the Test because love in the city. But I

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Speaker 3: can't see it happening. An interesting note on those basball numbers.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure Zach Crawley, the poster boy for basball,

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Speaker 3: got eighty five yeares today, but he started his innings

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Speaker 3: one off I think about twenty eight balls. So you

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Speaker 3: don't need basballs and shouldn't be about hitting from ball one.

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Speaker 3: You don't need to put the pressure on immediately. You've

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Speaker 3: actually it's a team snatch. You've got time to play

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Speaker 3: yourself into the into the game. And he had a

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Speaker 3: hell of an innings unfortunately came to an end. And

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Speaker 3: I can't help but think his wicket as well, possibly

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Speaker 3: was one that probably wouldn't have fallen if he didn't

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Speaker 3: have the pressure of four hundred and thirty odd checks.

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Speaker 3: If it was just three hundred and sixty then then

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Speaker 3: it would have been a lot better.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, I've got to get to waters at Bay Oval.

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Speaker 2: You'll have noticed that orders you have, You've.

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Speaker 3: Led all this.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to throw you over that bus again

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Speaker 2: two days in a row. By having I must say,

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Speaker 2: I must say, as far as a as a cricket

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Speaker 2: report goes, it's right up there. In fact, if this

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Speaker 2: game is still going in a couple of hours, I

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Speaker 2: might get you back on two fifteen for six. Currently

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Speaker 2: England they need four thirty five. Australia need four wickets.

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Speaker 2: Annie McDonnell live at the Adelaide Oval for US Normal

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Speaker 2: Show producer now a show corresponded in South Australia. Good

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Speaker 2: to chat to your mate.

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