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Speaker 1: Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hey everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Unplayable Podcast. Day one of the SCG

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Speaker 1: Test matches ended in a rather wet note. Unfortunately, England

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Speaker 1: finished at three for two hundred and eleven after only

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Speaker 1: forty five overs were possible on day one. A bit

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Speaker 1: of rain in Sydney. Who would have guessed it, but

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Speaker 1: he had to break down those forty five overs and

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Speaker 1: a little bit of the stuff around the outside is myself,

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Speaker 1: josh I onn Ifinger and Louis Cameron. Why don't we

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Speaker 1: start with the rain lou because that was obviously a

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Speaker 1: disappointing end of the day. There were parts and times

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Speaker 1: where it looked like we could be playing, we didn't

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Speaker 1: end up playing, and all in all was a bit

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Speaker 1: of confusion and disappointment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Sydney is the reason why this is

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Speaker 2: the only ground that has the sponsors, sorry, the covers sponsored.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the big.

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Speaker 2: Nrom main insurance logo all over those white sheets. I'm

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Speaker 2: pretty sure nowhere else. I mean, to be fair, we

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Speaker 2: actually just haven't seen that much rain. Yeah, but money

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Speaker 2: well spent, you'd have to say absolutely that is that

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Speaker 2: is genius. Yeah, but like they might sponsor it to

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Speaker 2: other grounds. I just haven't seen it because it hasn't

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Speaker 2: really rained too much.

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Speaker 3: This year, so that's a tick so far. Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: It was a bit.

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Speaker 2: We kind of have this conversation every year in Sydney

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Speaker 2: and every time it kind of rains, like what more

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Speaker 2: could we kind of be doing to either get the

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Speaker 2: game going or maybe entertain the forty nine more than

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Speaker 2: forty nine thousand people who came.

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Speaker 3: To a massive crowded Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize Sydney held that many people. But I

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Speaker 2: think when the members come in and they get the

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Speaker 3: Kind of come down to watch.

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Speaker 2: I kind of feel like cricket doesn't do a great

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Speaker 2: job of like all right, there's no cricket on, Like

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Speaker 2: what's how are we entertaining those people? And I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying like we need to go full big bash or whatever,

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Speaker 2: but like, could we have like a I don't know,

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Speaker 2: a traveling circus troop like on hand to you know,

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Speaker 2: just something like I'm joking, but like just something to

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Speaker 1: Slip and slide on the outfield or something.

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Speaker 2: Well that's right, yeah, yeah, something fun like that. Like

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Speaker 2: all the TV stations, right, they have all this kind

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Speaker 2: doing their best or who they think will be playing

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty seven matches, Like this is all kind

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Speaker 2: of stuff we talk about when we don't have any

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Speaker 2: cricket to play, right, So could we be doing that

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Speaker 2: from a ground perspective, I'm sure those conversations are happening.

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Speaker 1: It was disappointing, but as you said, lots of members

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Speaker 1: came in today. We heard on the coverage that members

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Speaker 1: sure that they got in today. There was lots of

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Speaker 1: pink around, even though it's not quite Janie mcgra day yet.

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Speaker 1: But if you do want to donate, of course to

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Speaker 1: that very worthy cause of the McGrath Foundation, had to

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Speaker 1: pink test dot com dot au. We began today with

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Speaker 1: a really touching tribute to the first responders and those

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Speaker 1: lost in the Bondai tragedy a few weeks ago. Some

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Speaker 1: great shots of Ahmed al Lahmed his arm in a

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Speaker 1: sling but saluting to the crowd and getting to shake

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Speaker 1: the hands of all the players. That was so, that

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Speaker 1: went heavy with the quicks again, Lou.

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Speaker 2: That's right, the first time in one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: seven years Australia haven't played a spinner at the SCG.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of beggar's belief really, that it's been that long.

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Speaker 2: You would have thought that, you know, it might have

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Speaker 3: And we were trawling through.

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Speaker 2: The archives, you know, old scorecards trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: You can't even compare the game to what it is, like,

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Speaker 2: Charles the terra turner just about like fifty overs straight

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Speaker 2: you wonder whether they would have made the same decision

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Speaker 1: You know how when something happens, you know, fifteen years

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Speaker 1: You can't really go all the way back to eight I.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it was a state, like we weren't

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Speaker 1: But it looked like the right call early from Australia,

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Speaker 2: But I think you know the emphasis he's on what

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Speaker 2: head to head, that's head to head. Yeah, duck at

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Speaker 2: Sometimes that's you know, Crawley's made a career out of it.

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Speaker 2: You know, the ironic kind of thing. I think by

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Speaker 2: I think we all thought this guy's got some real potential.

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Speaker 2: He's averaging over forty. Is a Test batsman. I know

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Speaker 2: So it's just an interesting contrast between the two openers.

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to judge Crawley on the Perth Test

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Crawley he's the one that his average always

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Speaker 1: of wrap your head around. But he's an enigma, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure. I've just got a message through as well, Loue.

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Speaker 1: Today's crowd of fifty three thousand and one that's been

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Speaker 1: upgraded too, is now the largest SCG crowd since nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy five when Australia played the West Indies.

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Speaker 2: It's four thousand more people come in the nine minutes

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Speaker 2: we started to recording.

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Speaker 3: Podcasts that happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's the official word from Cricket Australia. Maybe

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Speaker 1: if you came in late after lunch today, Ben Dukett,

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Speaker 1: I want to just read through his scores this series.

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Speaker 1: It's been a pretty torrid series for him so far,

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Speaker 2: He was up here at the doing the press conference

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Speaker 3: Who would you go for a few?

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Speaker 2: Well, I did, We were doing these. I was doing

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Speaker 2: You know, what are you thinking like, maybe you know point,

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Speaker 2: you know, like two percent, three percent?

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe believe four percent Hamish McKenzie fans, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: My best one was I'm sterling to hear your answer

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Speaker 2: that one. My best one was Ben Edmondson zero point

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Speaker 2: nine percent. I thought that was you know, that's a

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Speaker 2: very good score. And I turned around and I asked

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Speaker 2: you if you'd done that square. You said you had.

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Speaker 2: You said you'd also done Ben Edmondson.

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Speaker 3: So crazy.

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Speaker 1: So yes, you can pick your Hamish McKenzie's if you want.

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Speaker 1: But if you want to play the BBR good game,

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Speaker 1: people should go to the Big Bash at Yes, they

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Speaker 1: should catch everyone tomorrow, like the Unflavored Podcast

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Speaker 2: Five