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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks. Edb Our Australian correspondent Adam Peacock has

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Speaker 1: completely Bonker's day off Ash's cricket yesterday, Adam, England all

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Speaker 1: at one seven two, Australia one twenty three for nine.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to get into a third day?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, because I stand here outside First Stadium right

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Speaker 2: now about to go in. It's actually sprinkling, so whether

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Speaker 2: might play a part today, but no, it's it was

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary days cricket. It was just unfortunately it feels

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Speaker 2: on modern cricket because things happened quickly when the ball

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Speaker 2: dominates the bat. So yeah, I don't know what to

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Speaker 2: think about what we're going to expect today. I don't

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Speaker 2: entirely know we can actually confidently anything. But England are

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Speaker 2: very much on top with this fifty run advantage at

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Speaker 2: the moment with Australia only one wicket left in the.

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Speaker 3: First can you just just clarify the situation, A situation

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Speaker 3: with Osmond Kwaja who should have been opening the batting

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Speaker 3: but didn't because what he spent too much time off

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Speaker 3: the field during England's and things is that right.

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Speaker 2: Well, he was off the field when the innings ended,

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Speaker 2: so you need to be back out there, and I

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Speaker 2: think with seven minutes you need to be out there

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Speaker 2: for like a seven minute period. So apparently got a

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Speaker 2: backspasm and then that backspasm meant that he wasn't ready

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Speaker 2: to go on and he wasn't quite right, and that

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Speaker 2: meant he couldn't come out and bat straight away. And

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Speaker 2: then obviously Australia lost the wicket in his first innings,

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Speaker 2: so then everything falls back and it was he falls

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Speaker 2: down the order. So yeah, it wasn't great, not ideal,

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Speaker 2: but hopefully he gets himself right and he's ready to

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Speaker 2: take his he's proper place in the lineup in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Back again.

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Speaker 1: Mitchell Starks seven for fifty eight. How good was he yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Brilliant. Yeah, just bowled in the right areas but

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Speaker 2: bold with the right rhythm. Knowing him a bit, he's

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Speaker 2: kind of prepped perfectly. He built up, built up, built up,

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Speaker 2: so he's got himself into a physical state which is

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Speaker 2: really good. He just wasn't happy with his rhythm in

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Speaker 2: terms of spell on spell rhythm going in to the

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Speaker 2: Test match, but he found it yesterday. He was fantastic

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Speaker 2: and he deserved everything he got. Look, the second part

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Speaker 2: of England winnings was diabolical the way they went about it.

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Speaker 2: They lost five to twelve and nineteen balls, so there

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Speaker 2: was absolutely no patience whatsoever there and the Australian bowlers

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Speaker 2: just put it in a good area and then the

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Speaker 2: English batters did the west for them. So, yeah, he'd

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Speaker 2: be really satisfied with his bowling performance. He wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: verybody happy that he had to go out there and

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Speaker 2: back in the day's play like he's done his part.

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Speaker 2: And this is where the division between batta and bowler

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Speaker 2: exists in a cricket dressing room. And I dare say

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Speaker 2: that it was a horrible division in the dressing room yesterday.

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Speaker 2: But there would have been some silent moments between the

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Speaker 2: two sets of proponents that are meant to be good

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Speaker 2: at one thing in cricket, and yesterday the batter just

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Speaker 2: didn't aame up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you.

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Speaker 1: Talked about some of the English shot making. There was

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Speaker 1: some fairly average shot selection among the Australian batters too,

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Speaker 1: wasn't there. Yeah, that just.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't seem that ability like the greatest thing you can

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Speaker 2: have in Jess, cricket is patients and how do you

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Speaker 2: be patient with the ball with the bat, and that's

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Speaker 2: just don't try and hit every ball everybody, like Travis said,

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Speaker 2: for instance, he got himself in twenty and yeah he

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Speaker 2: makes him pay by being attacking. And he just hit

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Speaker 2: a shot that he picked out on and I'm not joking.

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Speaker 2: There was no one within sixty meters that guy went

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Speaker 2: on apart from the bowler, but there was no one

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Speaker 2: else there. So he was just tempted into that to go,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, wow, look at all the space out there.

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Speaker 2: I'll go for it, and just picked out. He could

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Speaker 2: not picked out that field or any better. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: on a ball that you can just let go to

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Speaker 2: the keeper, don't have to get involved with. But that's

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Speaker 2: how Travis plays. So but finding that balance, it feels

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Speaker 2: like it's really finite these days with the in Test cricket,

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Speaker 2: these batters who are playing a lot of Test ONNY cricket,

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Speaker 2: they just can't help themselves. So I don't know how

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Speaker 2: they find a way to rebuilt with that Australia, but

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Speaker 2: they're going to have to because if they come up

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Speaker 2: and you know, serve up one hundred and forty hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty in test matches. That these tests are going

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Speaker 2: to go to days.

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Speaker 1: All right, ninety minutes until day two starts. Just before

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Speaker 1: you go. The Wallaby's w repp there year with the

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Speaker 1: Test match against France Paris tomorrow morning. They've lost to England,

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Speaker 1: Italy and Ireland in the last three weeks. What chance

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Speaker 1: the Wallaby's gonna end the year on a high and

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Speaker 1: beat France in Paris.

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Speaker 2: It be a miracle. Yeah, I'm only going off the

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Speaker 2: way that Australia are performing at the moment. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: that the air has certainly gone out of the balloom.

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Speaker 2: And there's a few questions been asked if Joe Schmidt

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Speaker 2: and but we've been here before and I think I've

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Speaker 2: said it to you more than a few times. When

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Speaker 2: the depth is tested in Australian rugby, bad things happen

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Speaker 2: like this. We don't have the depth of the other nations.

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Speaker 2: We don't live in England. They're making all these changes

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Speaker 2: week in week out and they continue to win Test matches.

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Speaker 2: So it's frustrating because that this is where Australian rugby

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Speaker 2: really needs to look after itself for the future. In

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Speaker 2: terms of okay, balance the book, get them sorted, have

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Speaker 2: the lines to have the World Cup, get the revenue

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Speaker 2: going in the right direction. But rugby league clubs all

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Speaker 2: around Australia are infiltrating the traditional development pathway of Australian

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Speaker 2: rugby and that's the private schools. They're becoming rugby league

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Speaker 2: schools really quickly. So I got a few issues behind

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Speaker 2: the scenes Rugby Australia to try and rebuild the depth

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Speaker 2: at the top level. So because things like this are

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Speaker 2: going to happen, we're going to be structuring around on

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Speaker 2: tours trying to find solutions that possibly aren't there. And

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Speaker 2: it's really unfair on the guys who are playing and

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Speaker 2: also trying to coach a squad when they're just it's

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Speaker 2: not a fair fight with some of these European nations

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Speaker 2: and countries like the New Zealand and South Africa.

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Speaker 1: Interesting times. Hey, great the chat has always Adam, enjoy

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Speaker 1: our perth mate. Hope Day two goes well and we

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Speaker 1: get a day three. Always good to catch up. Adam

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