WEBVTT - Sydney D4: Why Bethell’s ton was 'always coming' 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.239 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by quantas the official 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.399 podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.799 Once again this season, Quantus is proud to be flying 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:16.640 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everybody, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.479 this is The Unplayable Podcast, Day four of the Fifth 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.720 Test here at the SCG and Australia. Oh, they now 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.480 trail England by one hundred and nineteen runs. We've seen 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.760 an amazing century to Jacob Bethel here, one hundred and 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.159 forty two not out as it stands, and overall a 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.880 pretty great day of Test cricket. Eleven wickets, three hundred 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.560 and fifty one runs and we've got a game, folks. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:39.080 Yeah, I think we do. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.559 Tentatively, it felt like the way England had some kind 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.400 of mind explosions, like in the piece there, it felt 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.519 like what Jacob Bethel had done a ton for the 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.440 ages was going to be completely undone in. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:54.160 A bit of a flash. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.360 But there are one hundred and ten, one hundred and 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.880 nineteen runs ahead now. Jacob Bethay sat up here in 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.720 the press conference a second ago and said, if we 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.360 can get it up to one eighty one ninety who knows. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.959 I tend to agree with him. But England, as I 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.880 think you've pointed out, England agan need to bowlop it 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:13.680 than they have in this game so far. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.639 I mean, it's been the story of the series. England 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.080 have got themselves into strongish positions and then have relinquished that. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.200 We saw a couple more today, which we will get to. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.920 A brook Wick at Jack's Wicker of Stokes, sorry, a 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.720 Smith run out, So we'll get to all those, but 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.200 let's stay with Jacob Bethel because what an innings that 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.440 was austraight in lasts too long today, and then Bethel's 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.440 in in the first over of England's innings after Stark 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.679 struck again one hundred and two hundred and thirty two balls, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.200 sixteen fourth, A lot of those high class boundaries as well, 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.120 you could make a claim for many of those being 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:51.960 the shot of the day. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.480 And he, I don't know, did he give a chance. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.640 He was pretty much chanceless, and even when he had 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.680 to spend seven balls on ninety nine, he never looked 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.800 like he was going to panic. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.440 He just looked. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.760 Composed, calm, and he got there with not much doubt 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:09.000 in the. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.639 End, which is a great starting point, and I think 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.400 it was four or five overs one shot away from 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.359 one hundred. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.639 He got to ninety six really quickly. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.520 He got to into the nineties off some overthrows, kind 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.040 of exactly what we're talking about the other to day 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.480 around throwing at the stumps and the potential of creating 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.640 some overthrows. But that was probably my biggest takeaway of 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.960 today was this is a man who has two centuries 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.960 before today against grown men. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.440 So I'm going off Cricket Archive, which is a pretty 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.040 reliable source for me most of the time. 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.040 So not juniors, That's right, that's what you're saying. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.600 Yeah, So there's the list I'm kind of going off. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.200 Has a bunch, you know, Barbados under fifteens versus Jamaica 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:53.600 under fifteens, English Schools, Cricket Association, Midlands under fifteens versus 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.200 North under fifteens, Warwickshire under seventeens Young Lions stuff. When 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.720 he's actually played against men, there's been one hundred against 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.320 the Warwickshire Fort Warwickshire second eleven against Clusters year second eleven. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:06.919 Okay, so not even county stuff. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:08.440 Well not in below county. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.880 Yeah, second eleven stuff, and then there was another under 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.679 nineteenth century following that, and then he made one in 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:20.200 a bilateral ODI against South Africa. Yet when he got 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.480 to within one shot away from a century, he just 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.560 kind of calmly nudged around. He got a single, he 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.800 got to ninety seven, he got to ninety eight, he 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.720 got to ninety nine. Stark bolt too ripping bounces at him, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.280 you know, one hundred and forty five k an hour. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:33.960 Yep, he got in the line of it. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.960 And then when he finally saw bow webster flight wine up, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.200 he said, I'm having a piece of that and bunted 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.600 him over long on that. Just the composure he showed 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.240 in that moment was extraordinary for a guy who, as 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.440 we said, just hasn't got much experience in like he 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.920 hasn't even done that at county level, Like he hasn't 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.360 been he hasn't been dominating ODII cricket T twenty cricket. Yes, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.240 we can all see the talent, but when it got 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.880 to that moment, I was watching him really cihause, I'm likeual, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.200 he's never been in this pitchure before. I guess you 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.880 can you can see why the basball regimes have have 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:07.640 fast tracked him. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.480 Yeah they love him, don't they, and heading into today 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.880 averaging only twenty seven in first class cricket from twenty 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.360 seven matches, So it doesn't really strike you as a 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.640 player of the future. But when we saw him a 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.599 bat today, it was without doubt that's six. That was 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.440 a great shot. It came down the track. And then 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.159 the celebration was not over the top either. It was 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.120 if he was saying, like the job's not done. It 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.320 was a little fist pump and a little salute to 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.760 his family, and the family was shown a lot on TV. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.120 There weren't many words being spoken as he got through 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.680 the nineties. And then I reckon a few tears down 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.919 his father's face when he did get there. Great to see, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.840 and yeah, that's one of the things that makes test 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.440 cricket special. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:46.960 It does. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.600 Yeah, and dad is an absolute spitting image. Apple doesn't 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.680 fall far from the tree. And but yeah, he was 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.120 he was really struggling. Bethel himself said I found his 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.760 press conference just before really interesting. He said that he 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.880 could nervous when he sees other people in the nineties, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.760 but you know, I guess like he does it in himself. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.919 He wouldn't really know because he just hasn't been in 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.839 that position too much. You know. It's interesting as well, 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.479 like he came out and played a season a great 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.960 cricket out here, didn't get to one hundred in that either. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.520 He played, he got to the ninety nine in under 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.800 twenty one game, but he never passed fifty playing in 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.960 first grade in Sydney. So it's interesting. And even we 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.320 asked him about him before and about Great Cricket, he said, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.400 I didn't really learn much, Like it's very different conditions 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:32.760 to you know, what you're going to play at the 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.080 next level, and it's like, well, you're an eighteen year 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.960 old kid, Like what do you mean the next level? 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.960 Like there was no next level at that point. But 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.200 this is a it's not to be confused with arrogance, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.520 because he seems like a very humble, down to worth, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.400 modest kid. But he has clearly just been pre ordained 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.800 for greater things the whole time, and it's like he's 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.599 known it. It's a remarkable, remarkable story, remarkable character. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.200 He was asked as well if he had can sit 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.800 it about or thought forward ahead to what he would 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.479 do when he would get this one hundred, his first 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.200 hundred in first class cricket, and he said it was 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.479 always coming, wasn't it? So that was maybe that could 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.880 be a mistaken as arrogance, but that is just a 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.920 young kid with a full belief in his own ability. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.000 That was a remarkable line. That really was a remarkable line. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.680 It was like out no, it was always coming. Yeah, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.120 hang on, what do you mean who knew? Who knew? 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:23.240 Was? 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.640 I mean we all thought it was, you know, the media, everyone, 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.720 Baz McCullum, everyone has watched him. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:28.560 They thought it was coming. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.279 But for him to also kind of know that it's 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.279 that's yeah. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.560 It's rare now to score your first Test century, sorry, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.080 to score your first first class entry in a Test match. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.400 There are some good numbers and players that you dug up, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.760 including some of the English guys. Gus Atkinson did it, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.640 Stuart Broad did it, Jack Russell or Keeper did it. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.560 I've also found some others Lou from other countries. Jason Holder, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.080 he did it from the West Indies of course, Jason 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.800 Gillespie he did it as night watching and then this 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.560 is a surprise. Kumar Sangakara yeah as well from Shrinker. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.880 So if you can have half a career that Kuma 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:06.360 he'll be doing pretty well. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.120 So a bit of a theme with those ones. Yeah, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.840 Atkinson suit Broad is one of them. Jack Russell, there 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.920 was a guy from pre nineteen hundred's weally bin cricket 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:15.680 doesn't count. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.520 In Healy did it as well. So the theme. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.200 There is wicket keepers and handy lower roared to batters 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.840 who are primarily bowlers. They are the ones doing it 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.600 not And then you know there's a couple from I 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.720 guess countries or regions in Holder's case, where the first 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:38.280 class system maybe isn't you know, as robust as Australia 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.760 in England and maybe India. But and then I guess 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.480 you get the prodigies. I guess that's the other category 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.960 is and Sanga Kara was probably one of those. Holders 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.400 was probably one of those as well as one of 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.440 the most talented cricketers coming through it at one hundred 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.160 nineteen's level, certainly in the last last couple of decades. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.920 So there are some guys who can just be fast 0:07:58.920 --> 0:07:59.320 tracked to. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.640 Greatness, definitely, and Bethel might be one of those. Only 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.960 twenty two years of age the start of the day 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.440 Australia scored three for forty nine to get their total 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.160 up to five hundred and sixty seven. It was Bo 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.200 Webster who was not out seventy one, not out stranded, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.840 perhaps short of his made in Test century, but had 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.680 fantastically well. It didn't look like getting out really And 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.400 then it was Mitch Stark who struck for the twenty 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.440 seventh time in the first over of a Test innings 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.240 and he got Crawley out for the third time in 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.760 that fashion in this series. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.560 Yeah, it was an interesting start from Mitchell Stark because 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.600 it looked like that was a pretty wild and wooly 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.600 first over. Like that ball that came back to Crawley 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.280 was an absolute beauty. But the rest of them were 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.200 nowhere near the stump, so were sure they were wide. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.640 You know, Duckett kind of got off the mark with 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.079 some of them, but yeah, he just speared one back 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.800 into his pads. And that's kind of bowler he is. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.040 He struggled all game. In fact, I reckon with the footholes, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.720 even in the first sinnings when they hadn't been anywhere 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.760 and down on the wicket. He was really battling. And 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.200 that seems to be a theme. It doesn't seem to 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.280 just he just doesn't love bowling at this ground. They 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.120 even had to kind of swing him around from the 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.360 other end to bowl from there. But you know the 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.439 way Michael Nisa and Scott Bowland in particular in this 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.200 innings have just kind of picked it up off the 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.760 back of him, you know, maybe not being quite at 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.240 his best the last two tests of this series, which 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:26.040 is forgivable. Bowland I thought was just immense two thirty 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.240 four up nineteen overs I think he had. You know, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.719 he'd considered thirteen runs from his first ten overs of 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.920 the day, so he was just relentless and that created 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.600 a lot of pressure. You know, Nissa gets Ben Duckett 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.240 up to he kind of gets away to his high 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.160 score of the series. It only gets his series average 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.040 up to about twenty, but he looked like finally a 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.360 big score was in the offing. But yeah, Nissa gets 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.160 duck it. Boland then gets Joe Root on the back 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.680 of some really excellent bowling, and it kind of brings 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.760 Brooke and Bethel together and for a moment there it 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.439 looked like things were going pretty well for England. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.480 Yeah, so Ducket's a serious total two hundred and two 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.200 runs I've also dug out the stats how many times 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:06.560 you reckon? 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:07.839 He left the ball? 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.080 This seriously, probably probably quite a few more times I 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.040 reckon than what he had done in previous series. That 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.679 might I haven't looked up the previous series, but his 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.360 total leaves for the series with ten, so probably more 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.440 than you'd think actually considering that reputation he has. But 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.160 I went back and had a look at a few 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.280 of them. Some are, you know, swaying out of a 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.880 lay of bouncers. So we're counting those as leaves because 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.400 he's not trying to cook or pull. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.000 But you could you could probably discount them, really. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.280 You could in a sense, Yeah, it's those ones outside 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.760 off that we're looking for, aren't we And there was 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:42.920 only a handful. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.320 Of those so well, And I mean he would have 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.439 been warned, but you know, the kind of pitches they've 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.080 been playing on, you don't really need to leave the 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.480 ball because you can always trust the bounce. And he 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.120 would have been worn that. It wouldn't work in Australia 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.360 and it hasn't worked in Australia. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:55.800 You know, absolute absolute shock. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.160 So you have to change your game when you when 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.600 you go to different conditions the best players do. No 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.760 one bats the same way in every single conditions. Bethel 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.720 was up here just now saying that he opened up 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.959 his stance from his first test at the MCG of 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.160 the series compared. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.480 To test too. The best players are always. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.680 Tinkering with their game, adjusting and making changes on the move. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.520 You touched on the Boland to Root thing there. Boland 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.920 was just at his accurate best, wasn't he? And in 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.520 fact that little passage of player that he had two 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.320 Joe roots. He bowled twenty four balls at the former 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.280 England captain Rude didn't score off any of them before 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.520 he was trapped LBW and it looked like Rut didn't 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.760 want to review that, or at least that he took 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.200 some convincing from Bethel his partner. But then when the 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.800 ball tracker showed that it was just clipping the top 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.640 of the baiales, he looked furious that he had been 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.520 given out in that fashion, or maybe it was just disbelief. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.800 He sort of threw his head back and then dropped 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.920 his bat, although I don't think that was a deliberate act. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.400 Maybe he just fumbled it as he was turning around 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.360 to head to the sheds. But that was a big 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.360 moment in this game because Rute batted so well on 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.520 that first innings and then he's out for six off 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.440 thirty seven. Here. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.560 He looked furious, didn't he. And I think the dropping 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.640 of the bat was almost a metaphorical kind of addition 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.800 to it, just added to the theater and the drama 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.920 of it. He was a guy who's maybe played his 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.880 last ashes Test innings in Australia. I have to say 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.560 ashes before Test innings because there is the one hundred 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.319 and fiftieth Test he next year. I think people forget that. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.000 You'd be surprised if route he isn't playing for England, 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:30.000 you know, within the next fourteen months, so he might 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.000 get another another go out here. But yeah, his last 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.240 last knock in Sydney certainly, And yeah, he shaped as 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.400 a danger man after his first inning century. And yeah, 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.439 I mean the fact that the fact that Brook and 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.439 Bethel got going despite him, despite him, you know, not 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.240 making too many runs. You know, budded really well for England, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.959 and then there was some even more infuriating kind of 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.160 stuff to follow, wasn't it. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.239 There was so Brooke and Bethel put one hundred partnership, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.959 they've restored parody, they're building a lead now for England. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.480 And then yeah, bo Webster is throwing the ball of 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.520 Bosom off spin, which he's done most of his careers. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.640 The medium pace is just a recent sort of edition, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.280 so he says he doesn't practice it a lot. It's well, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.240 here's the words he's got off he's on tap, just 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.320 in case they're ever called it. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.480 A pint, and that him and Travis had agree that 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.200 the less you practice them, the better they are. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.000 I don't know if the coaches would agree with that, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.280 but that's certainly their philosophy. And then in his second 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.800 over he gets one to turn sharply into Brook that 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.960 Webster didn't even think was going to hit the stumps. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.400 Alex Carey did and thankfully, frustrating Kerry was able to 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.640 convince Smith to take The review was only one second 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.600 on the clock and three reds. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.160 I think the whole thing probably proves that both teams 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.200 were wrong in not picking a specialist spinner. It's a 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.600 hard one because Todd Murphy probably would have played in 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.960 the bow Webs spot. Yeah that's right, but yeah, like 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.160 I mean, and you know, bow Webbs has been one 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.040 of their best players, and it's maybe their best player 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.200 and in the match, maybe the most impactful with seventy 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.840 one not out and three really crucial wickets. So I 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.960 don't know how you kind of shake that all out. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.320 You probably would have him instead of Green really, if 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:08.839 you know, if they wanted to get Websit into the team, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:09.720 I think they would have looked. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:10.040 At that way. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.520 But yeah, it was great bowling to get Brook and 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.079 then geez Will Jacks like what a test that he's having, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.040 like to come down second, second ball and try to 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.040 mow him over. I guess he was trying to get 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.080 him over midwicket mid on. He's just got to you know, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.320 too little of it and squirt it out to Cameron Green, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.080 ironically the exact same bound he'd put down Travis Head 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.800 the previous day. I think there were about twenty people 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.560 ready to make that point in the press box as 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.520 soon as it happened, but it just felt like a 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.000 mindless wicket at that point. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.280 Ricky Punting said, you know, what do you say to 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.080 you teammates and you walk back into the sheds and 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.480 you've played a shot like that. I'm sure he was 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.240 promoted ahead of the injured Stokes and ahead of wicket 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.920 keeper Jamie Smith because of his ability to bat for 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.080 long periods of time, which he's shown in Brisbane and 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.720 in Adelaide. Here he comes out and does that. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.720 It was baffling. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.640 Well, I don't know what he supposed to be as 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.960 a Test cricketer. He hasn't had a bad series like 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.840 I think there's been. He's bold as well as he 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:07.800 could have. Like I don't think, you know, he's done 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.120 what he would have said on the sorry with the ball, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.880 he's done what he said on the tin. With the bat, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:13.760 he's done the opposite. I mean he's supposed to be 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.080 this t twenty ye blaster, come in number eight, counterattacking. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:18.280 Whatever it is. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.920 His strike rate for the series, his twenty runs lower 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.840 per hundred balls. And it was mcguaja, who's, you know, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.000 probably the most watchful of the Australian batters. I think 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:31.040 it stood at forty coming into this inning. So a 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.800 really puzzling move from him, and caps are you know 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.320 he's placed in the line on the line going into 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.800 this Test. So that was a frustrating one. And then, 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.600 I mean even more frustrating was Jamie Smith saidsit because Yep, 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.640 he's scoring quite quickly, as as he always does. Again 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.920 it's at the hands of Barnas Lavisha. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.320 Yeah, Marnus was bowling, came on to bowl the short 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.800 stuff to him and then a bit of a mix up. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.560 I'm interested to get your take on this. It was 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.960 nice work, must be said from Jake Weatherold. Yeah, square 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.960 leg or just in front of square had to come 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.600 around to his left hand side, so non preferred got 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.120 onto his right and was able to pinpoint the throw 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.760 to Laboshine, who, as he always does, gets right over 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.320 the top of the stumps. It looked like Smith had 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.640 gone beyond halfway of the pitch before turning around. Bethel 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.600 was sort of ball watching. Whose fault does that go 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:21.480 down to? Yeah? 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.280 I think some responsibility has to go to Bethel, but 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.840 I don't think all of it. Look, maybe it's sixty forty. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.440 Bethel's way would have been a good one to ask 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.720 him a second go whether he felt some responsibility, because yeah, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.480 you're right, he's kind of ball watching. He's unsure. It's 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.720 one of those ones just out of reach of the field. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.840 If they had taken the run, I think he would 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.400 have been scrambling. But he so I guess you know 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.000 your junior cricket coaches would say, anything in front of 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.000 the wicked is the striker's call, Anything behind the wicked 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.400 is the non strikers call. I think that's not always 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.640 the case when you've got a good line of sight 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.600 on the ball. So he would have known, Okay, that's 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.600 gone to weather, it's left. How far to his left? 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.040 I suppose it's a question, and it is going to 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.359 his non preferred side. So you know, Smith was probably 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.439 doing the right thing by trying to get down the 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.280 other end, but he's just overcommitted a bit. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:13.840 I think. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:20.240 Yeah, certainly, certainly Bethel could have called more clearly, I think. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.600 But in the same boat, I don't think Smith really 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.760 should have been that far down the wicket, but excellent 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.280 fielding and it would just something if you're an England fan. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:29.879 It would just frustrate, you know. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.479 End. Yeah, And if you look at that replay, Bethel 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.520 as sort of he's got his hands on his knees. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.320 He looks as devastated as Smith that he played a 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.760 part in that runout, but it didn't face him. He 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.800 kept going, didn't he even when he's injured. Captain Ben 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.280 Stokes came out and lasted five balls, couldn't really run 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.600 too well between the wickets. He's obviously hobbled by that adductor. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:56.440 We're saying, a doctor, a double duc which is why doctor, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.320 that's the inside of the groin. I believe the abductor 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.240 is on the outside, kind of more your hip flexa area. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:03.560 Okay, have I passed that test? 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:04.080 Job? 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:04.360 No? 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:05.520 No, I'm not. I'm asking. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:06.080 I don't know. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:06.640 Yep. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.840