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Speaker 1: welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. England have won a match
Speaker 1: in Australia, the first in almost fifteen years loo and
Speaker 1: unfortunately the series isn't still alive, but it was a
Speaker 1: fantastic day at the MCG for all England fans and
Speaker 1: England team members. The Barmeur is going wild. They got
Speaker 1: the win by four wickets and now we just talk
Speaker 1: about too little, too late.
Speaker 2: Fourteen years and eleven months and like fourteen days, I
Speaker 2: think it is five four hundred and sixty eight days
Speaker 2: they'd gone without winning a Test match in Australia and
Speaker 2: some club cricketers, you know, would be listening to this
Speaker 2: and think, well, how does this relate to my cricket,
Speaker 2: because that's what you do as a club cricket watching
Speaker 2: Test cricket. In this series we've had two two day
Speaker 2: red ball games. That's very familiar for club cricketers. Both
Speaker 2: of them have been reverse outrights, so the team that
Speaker 2: was behind on the first innings has one on the
Speaker 2: second innings. Most club cricketers would go, you know, two
Speaker 2: three four hundred game careers without playing in a reverse outright,
Speaker 2: and we've had two in Test cricket.
Speaker 3: In an ASH series in four games.
Speaker 1: As you say, this was effectively the reverse of Perth,
Speaker 1: wasn't there that? I mean Australia had a first things
Speaker 1: deficit there and one. England had a first things deficit
Speaker 1: here and one. They never really looked like they weren't
Speaker 1: going to get their total. They came out really strong.
Speaker 1: It was Crawley and Duckett who have been under so
Speaker 1: much pressure, especially Duckett throughout the week with those videos
Speaker 1: that surfaced in NUSA and Crawley, who has been under
Speaker 1: a bit of pressure himself given he's had such a
Speaker 1: long career to day and delivered not quite as much
Speaker 1: as England fans would have wanted. Those two really set
Speaker 1: the tone and eventually they got the win by four wickets.
Speaker 1: But what does this mean for Stokes and for bastball?
Speaker 1: Is it alive and well.
Speaker 2: Well, it shows that there's a method that can work
Speaker 2: on pitches that that give a bit. I think we
Speaker 2: thought before this series, will you know, the way bads
Speaker 2: ball operates it, it should do better on Australian pitches
Speaker 2: that are better for you know, you have to elevate
Speaker 2: your risk profile on wickets that seem around. They've been
Speaker 2: playing on wickets that are suited to their style and
Speaker 2: you kind of thought that approach might be one that
Speaker 2: would be suited. And finally it did kind of work.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looked like a tired Australian team by.
Speaker 3: Kind of the end of it.
Speaker 2: There was some some pretty questionable batting that will I'm
Speaker 2: sure we'll go into.
Speaker 3: And the bowling attack just didn't you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard to criticize the bowling attack that
Speaker 2: bowled England out for what was that under two hundred
Speaker 2: in the first.
Speaker 3: Innings, yeap one hundred and ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'm not going to criticize them, but you know,
Speaker 2: second second time around, it just you know, Mitchell Stark
Speaker 2: has been phenomenal in this series and he was just good,
Speaker 2: you know, like and that's he's just been at this level.
Speaker 2: And England, you know, to their credit, kind of hit
Speaker 2: Australia with some with some good good batting on on
Speaker 2: on a tough I mean, you know, Ben Duckett, he
Speaker 2: kind of got played into formal a little bit the
Speaker 2: way Stark bowl to him early. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: wide stuff, a lot of short stuff, a bit of
Speaker 2: stuff on his pads and that kind of just got.
Speaker 3: Him going because he did look really rusty early.
Speaker 2: And Crawley I think has been pretty good all series
Speaker 2: once he got over that pair in Perth, the one
Speaker 2: I think England fans are going to be walking away
Speaker 2: from the game wondering about is Jacob Bethel like this
Speaker 2: guy looked phenomenal. Not only has he not played in
Speaker 2: the first three tests of this series in a run
Speaker 2: chase that kind of looked Taylor made for him, especially
Speaker 2: after duck and Crawley got off to such good start,
Speaker 2: they bloody demoted him down to number four, So you know,
Speaker 2: you just got to be wondering what, you know, why
Speaker 2: didn't we see this guy when the.
Speaker 3: Series was live?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's been Oli Pope's position for a long
Speaker 1: time at number three role. He was back at the
Speaker 1: start of this series and now finally he's been moved on.
Speaker 1: And Jacob Bethel, although as he said, he didn't bat
Speaker 1: at number three and that second innings, but his forty
Speaker 1: or forty six he looked very composed. He got a
Speaker 1: good ball in the as England sort of capitulated, but
Speaker 1: there was composure there. He's only twenty two. He was
Speaker 1: only seven the last time England won a Test in Australia.
Speaker 1: So he's the start of this new brigade for them.
Speaker 1: And there's also that aspect of their bowling, which is
Speaker 1: looking like a very fresh attack compared to what we've
Speaker 1: seen in years past. They're a little bit of a
Speaker 1: concern about Gus Atkinson as well. Got to be in
Speaker 1: a bit of doubt for Sydney there. He didn't reappear
Speaker 1: after injuring his left hamstring mid delivery today, which was
Speaker 1: a bit of a weird.
Speaker 2: One, it was, yeah, and you'd fear for him playing
Speaker 2: in Sydney, especially with you know, nothing potentially.
Speaker 3: On the line.
Speaker 2: We know England don't really rate the World Test Championship
Speaker 2: and also you know they're not going to be playing
Speaker 2: for that, you know, winning in Australia. The difference between
Speaker 2: a four to one and a three to two score
Speaker 2: line is significant in terms of how people look at
Speaker 2: this going forward, So you know, there are jobs on
Speaker 2: the line really, so you know, you'd think that they'd
Speaker 2: want to put their best foot forward there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: i'd be surprised Atkinson if it looked like what you
Speaker 2: know, it looked like a handstring strain and that's you know,
Speaker 2: at least three four weeks. But yeah, a bit of
Speaker 2: a sour note on what was otherwise, you know, a
Speaker 2: big moment like Ben Stokes sat where we are right
Speaker 2: now just you know, a few moments ago, and you
Speaker 2: know he just said, what what a moment this was
Speaker 2: for him and Joe Root in particular, two thirty plus
Speaker 2: guys who have been out here quite a bit like
Speaker 2: they were back here in twenty thirteen fourteen, the pair
Speaker 2: of Them'm pretty I think that was roots debut series
Speaker 2: potentially and maybe Stokes as well. Both you know, showed
Speaker 2: some glimpses and you know they've played a lot of
Speaker 2: cricket out here and endured a lot of punishment. That
Speaker 2: shows a lot of mental resilience to come out here. Yep,
Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen again seventeen eighteen, sorry just for Root. Stokes
Speaker 2: missed that series. Then both of them in twenty one,
Speaker 2: twenty two and had the tough COVID series. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of demons floating around when you come
Speaker 2: back to somewhere for a third or a fourth time,
Speaker 2: and they finally conquered it. So it's good to see.
Speaker 2: Good to see that for two of the elder Statesmen.
Speaker 1: Before we get into the blow by a blow of
Speaker 1: the game, big talking point will be the pitch two
Speaker 1: day test, the second of the series, only the first
Speaker 1: time that we've had a series with two two day
Speaker 1: tests since the nineteen hundred, so over one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty years since. That pretty remarkable stuff, and it's going
Speaker 1: to come into question again. We heard the Fox commentators
Speaker 1: say that there were little indentations left on the pitch
Speaker 1: which made it extra hard to bat. On day two,
Speaker 1: there was lots of grass left on a thatchiness that
Speaker 1: was described as sponginess. Steve Smith described it as when
Speaker 1: he sat and spoke to us here. So what happens
Speaker 1: now in this situation, Lou, I mean, obviously the ICC
Speaker 1: will give it a rating and Cricket Australia will probably
Speaker 1: ever say as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be I'm really interested to hear the
Speaker 2: mcc side of the story and Funnily enough, they're putting
Speaker 2: up Matthew Page and Stuart Fox, the curator and CEO
Speaker 2: respectively tomorrow morning here at the MCG. So you know,
Speaker 2: Fair played it for getting on the front foot because
Speaker 2: it was really hard to get on the front foot.
Speaker 2: Tim on that wicket out there, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: interesting comments already. I was interested, said first of all
Speaker 2: to hear from Steve Smith. The guy's made more than
Speaker 2: ten thousand Test runs. He's basically said that the way
Speaker 2: to score on this wicket was about like Harry brook
Speaker 2: in the first innings, which was forty one or thirty
Speaker 2: four balls. It was chaos. It was charging Stark first ball.
Speaker 2: It was hitting sixers over mid off. If a guy
Speaker 2: who knows batting then better than any of us, says that,
Speaker 2: you know, like the best batter was probably him, and
Speaker 2: that's how you should.
Speaker 3: Go about it. Was it a good wicket?
Speaker 2: You know? Stokes said that if this, I think the
Speaker 2: exact quote was, if this game had been played in
Speaker 2: a different part of the world, we'd be asking different questions.
Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing him there, but he did get us. As
Speaker 2: a follow up, is the inference there are you talking about?
Speaker 2: You know Asian pitchers and specifically Indian pitchers, right like
Speaker 2: every time Australia or England go to India, there's a
Speaker 2: sense of, you know, these guys are getting stitched up
Speaker 2: and India are doing something dodgy with a wicket that
Speaker 2: plays out on every tour over there. And I think
Speaker 2: that's and that was put to Stokes and he didn't
Speaker 2: disagree with the with the sentiment. I think he said
Speaker 2: it was your words, not mine. So he had the
Speaker 2: opportunity to clarify that.
Speaker 3: And he you know virtually you know, all that kind.
Speaker 2: Of confirm that's what he was saying. So that's that's
Speaker 2: going to be, you know, the big headline out of
Speaker 2: the pitch stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't think it was like dangerous or
Speaker 2: disgraceful or absolutely diabolical. It was just a really really
Speaker 2: hard wicket to bad on against guys bowling good wobble,
Speaker 2: seeing balls around the top of the stumps.
Speaker 3: It was pretty quick the whole way through.
Speaker 2: There was you know, quite a bit of same movement
Speaker 2: and a lot of the batters just got balls that
Speaker 2: they that had their names on it. So yeah, do
Speaker 2: we you know, I think this is a question our
Speaker 2: bosses are going to be asking Josh right, like, we've
Speaker 2: had two two day tests. That's the one in Perth
Speaker 2: cost five million, cost Cricket Australia five million bucks. I
Speaker 2: dare say this one will cost the a even more.
Speaker 2: Given this venue as twice the size of Perth Stadium,
Speaker 2: they would have sold more tickets Day three was we
Speaker 2: got ninety two thousand here to onto ninety five thousand yesterday.
Speaker 2: You know it probably would have got another ninety thousand
Speaker 2: plus crowd tomorrow day three. So you know, that's a
Speaker 2: lot of Money's a lot of tickets, a lot of
Speaker 2: corporate beer's not drunken, a lot of breakfast not eat,
Speaker 2: and it's a lot of hot chips not sold. So
Speaker 2: that has ramifications and I think ultimately, you know, Todd
Speaker 2: Greenberg was on radio today and all but said that
Speaker 2: they need to do something about it because they can't
Speaker 2: financially kind of keep having tests like that. That's the
Speaker 2: uncomfortable truth of it.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about beers not drunk, the Barmy
Speaker 1: Army do drink more than any other supporter group in
Speaker 1: the world. And they're on fire at the end of today,
Speaker 1: especially as England near that total, the pitch seemed to
Speaker 1: play in England's favorite bit towards the end of the
Speaker 1: day is the ball softened. I've got a stat here.
Speaker 1: There were seventeen players and misses in the first twelve
Speaker 1: overs of England's innings and then only four in the
Speaker 1: next twenty overs, so they really got to a sage
Speaker 1: where it was comfortable the crowd could sense that something
Speaker 1: sure it was going to happen.
Speaker 2: And that's a great stat josh around the seventeen players
Speaker 2: and misses in the first twelve overs, because one of
Speaker 2: the interesting things Smith said was that the big difference
Speaker 2: in this final innings was England hit some massive shots
Speaker 2: into the led boards and that softened you know, first
Speaker 2: of the blow of bat on ball, you know, softens
Speaker 2: the ball a little bit and softens the scene, but
Speaker 2: also the whack into the led maybe on the fall
Speaker 2: for that one that Crawley hit off that ball six,
Speaker 2: and then there was that other one where duck At
Speaker 2: ramped in for six, kind of scooped him for six.
Speaker 2: So that takes a big chunk of the ball, that
Speaker 2: makes it softer, and all of a sudden you're bowling
Speaker 2: with a softer ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 1: And when you have a having the stat here on
Speaker 1: how many balls per weekend, it was only twenty four
Speaker 1: balls for every weekent across the Test, which is the
Speaker 1: second lowest in all ASHES matches.
Speaker 2: Geez.
Speaker 1: So then when they finally when they ball started stopped
Speaker 1: doing stuff, obviously, it felt like a different game all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. Let's go back to the start of
Speaker 1: the day. Australia had a forty six run lead, they
Speaker 1: were none down and then they just lost clumps of wickets.
Speaker 1: They lost three for six at one stage, Head quadr
Speaker 1: and Kerry fell in quick succession. Then they lost four
Speaker 1: for thirteen to finish their innings, including three for two.
Speaker 1: When things happened quickly, when things sorry, when things happened,
Speaker 1: it happened quickly, and Steve Smith was unbeaten at the
Speaker 1: end twenty four not out of thirty nine deliveries. Didn't
Speaker 1: decide not to shield the strike from the tail there,
Speaker 1: even though you know it did happen quickly, But he
Speaker 1: had looked like he had the chance to decided not to,
Speaker 1: And maybe that's come back to bite them in the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's undoubtable that if this game was played you know,
Speaker 2: let's say fifteen years ago, because.
Speaker 3: That's the number one being banning around that.
Speaker 2: This test goes into at least a third day, you know,
Speaker 2: potentially a fourth because just the way teams game this situation,
Speaker 2: they kind of go they look at it like Smith
Speaker 2: just did and go, well, Harry Brook made the or
Speaker 2: the second highest score in the game, and he badded
Speaker 2: like an absolute maniac.
Speaker 3: So you know, we should have all done that.
Speaker 2: You know, slog forty off thirty balls, you know that
Speaker 2: equals a total that's more than two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: So you know, and that's not always going to come off.
Speaker 2: But I reckon the ball that cast bolt travers head
Speaker 2: was a really big one because it kind of looked
Speaker 2: like things it might be settling into a bit of
Speaker 2: a normal days cricket after bowl and nicks off.
Speaker 3: Early and you've got weather al than head.
Speaker 2: The two supposed to be, you know, whether it was
Speaker 2: supposed to open with head and would of if not
Speaker 2: for the weird circumstances.
Speaker 3: But you kind of got those two going.
Speaker 2: Whether it's a leaving a lot of balls, he gets
Speaker 2: one that nips back into him, and you know, he's
Speaker 2: pretty unlucky to kind of get a ball like that and.
Speaker 3: Then Marmas goes.
Speaker 2: But then you've got Smith and Head batting together, and
Speaker 2: Head looked as good as anyone he I think he
Speaker 2: got kind of stitched up a bit by the long
Speaker 2: outfield is quite slow, and all those cuts and pools
Speaker 2: that were going four and six in Adelaide just you know,
Speaker 2: they were going for threes, and you know they might
Speaker 2: have been all run fours as well if he wanted
Speaker 2: to run them, but he wasn't running him that hard.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so he kind of gets out to this
Speaker 2: ball that nips, you know, violently off the pitch away
Speaker 2: from him, casts hits you off bail and I reckon
Speaker 2: the middle order that followed kind of go, well, if
Speaker 2: Travis our best better, if he's going to get a
Speaker 2: ball with his name on it, we need to get
Speaker 2: one before it gets us. And there was a bit
Speaker 2: of a carnage that kind of set enough that it was.
Speaker 1: But the England balls got it right. Brun Cass has
Speaker 1: had plenty of criticism throughout the series three his way
Speaker 1: we're bowling, but he got things right in the end.
Speaker 1: Today's final two spells for two for twelve and two
Speaker 1: for eleven. He finished with four for thirty four, which
Speaker 1: I think is his best of the series. So far,
Speaker 1: he's taken nineteen wickets. His strike rate is right up
Speaker 1: there as well with the best in the series.
Speaker 2: So his strike rate might be one of the best
Speaker 2: of all times in a series. But he's also gone
Speaker 2: it before this series was something like five and overs.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, that's kind of England's philosophy has just
Speaker 2: get ten wickets at all costs.
Speaker 1: I suppose that's all right Australia by that. For one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two set in England one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five runs to win. As we sort of touched on,
Speaker 1: they came out all guns blazing. Mitchel Stark probably bold
Speaker 1: his most way would speller the series. You'd say, a
Speaker 1: few wide off and a few on the pads as well,
Speaker 1: and Ben Duckett was able to cash in with a
Speaker 1: few early wickets and then we saw the pinch hitter,
Speaker 1: Bright and car so things were happening even when they
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to be happening.
Speaker 3: Just one of those Test matches alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and interesting reasoning from Stokes. He actually wanted to
Speaker 2: send Gus Atkinson out there, and then he remembered that
Speaker 2: he wouldn't be able to bat until the till number
Speaker 2: eight or until a certain amount of time had elapsed.
Speaker 2: The ladder was never going to happen, given how quickly
Speaker 2: this game was moving. So cars gets sent out. I
Speaker 2: just thought, like obviously made the decision to send in
Speaker 2: this pinch hitter, probably in anticipation of the duck at
Speaker 2: Crawley Partnership again not paying off. Well it did this time.
Speaker 2: They made fifty in as many balls and that were
Speaker 2: ideal situation for Bethel to kind of come in at.
Speaker 2: And yeah, we've touched on how well they kind of
Speaker 2: battered there. I want to go back to Australia's first innings, Josh,
Speaker 2: because I thought, you know, just kind of going back
Speaker 2: to when Travis Head gets out, like Kauwhaja Carey Green.
Speaker 2: I think they all went out in successive over. It
Speaker 2: was Kowaja He's called a fine leg off tongue carry
Speaker 2: the next over and then there was a bit of time,
Speaker 2: but Green put in a bit of I think.
Speaker 3: I'm getting confused with the previous innings when it all
Speaker 3: happened pretty quickly. I know it's hard to remember, so.
Speaker 1: You did have Travis Head there, so they lost three
Speaker 1: for six in that period.
Speaker 2: Kwaija Carrey, that's right, yeah, and Kwaja So the Kawaja
Speaker 2: Carrey Green one three wickets. I'm kind of lumping together
Speaker 2: because they're all out to I reckon short deliveries or
Speaker 2: balls that certainly weren't hitting the stump. So Tongue surprises
Speaker 2: Kawaja with the short ball that he hits down fine
Speaker 2: league's throat. I don't think he was expecting that, I reckon.
Speaker 2: He was expecting to get challenged, and all of a sudden, Oh,
Speaker 2: I got to get something under it, hits it down
Speaker 2: to fine leg and clever bowling and then Green and
Speaker 2: carry both balls that they just kind of ended at
Speaker 2: that they didn't really need to, I think, And I
Speaker 2: think that goes back to your point before. Could they
Speaker 2: have Australia found someone to just hang in there with
Speaker 2: Steve Smith because it didn't look that trouble like, Yes,
Speaker 2: he played and missed, but it was always controlled right.
Speaker 2: He was letting the ball seem and misses outside edge.
Speaker 1: It looked like he was in the element today there
Speaker 1: with all their extra big stuff around, the movements and
Speaker 1: glances and gestures to the bowler with the scarecrow at
Speaker 1: one point, So when he does that, you feel like
Speaker 1: he's on he's in the zone. But yeah, he just
Speaker 1: wasn't really troubled today.
Speaker 3: It seemed like, yeah, and he just couldn't find someone
Speaker 3: to hang around with him.
Speaker 2: And I reckon Kerry and Green would be you know,
Speaker 2: Carry's given a lot to Australia this year, so it's
Speaker 2: hard to hang him for how he's battered. But Green
Speaker 2: would kind of be thinking like I could have got
Speaker 2: to nineteen. He'd faced twenty nine balls, hit a couple
Speaker 2: of boundaries and all of a sudden, like he's walking
Speaker 2: at the bowlers and I think it was a ball
Speaker 2: before he went out, he kind of tripped over himself
Speaker 2: against Ben Stokes and got in a funny position. He
Speaker 2: kind of walks at him again, I think, probably trying
Speaker 2: to gate the wider line. Stukes's coming was coming to
Speaker 2: him at and just getting outside so he can't be
Speaker 2: out at LBW. But he kind of threw off his
Speaker 2: balance and he's ended up throwing his hands at a
Speaker 2: ball that he didn't really need to. So I think
Speaker 2: Australia will probably regret that. They will regret how they
Speaker 2: went about in their first sinnings and here we are.
Speaker 1: The crazy thing is that Australia could potentially make changes again.
Speaker 1: They've made i think three changes for every test or
Speaker 1: close to it this series. England, meanwhile, have been pretty
Speaker 1: you'd say that eleven hasn't changed a whole lot. So
Speaker 1: it's just funny how the things can play out to
Speaker 1: spite the score line in the series. And also, i
Speaker 1: mean this test over in two days a bit of
Speaker 1: a losshry. You'd say the same with Perth. Both of
Speaker 1: these could have gone either way. So as much as
Speaker 1: we want to dissect and put a binary win loss
Speaker 1: on it, there's probably a bit more to look at,
Speaker 1: isn't there in terms of how this one will play
Speaker 1: out leading into Sydney.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, Like you go back to Perth
Speaker 2: and that's one on the bat of one player. You know,
Speaker 2: Apart from that, the two teams were incredibly Even if
Speaker 2: if England somehow snag will win there, then it just
Speaker 2: looks so different going to Brisbane. Yeah, they probably still
Speaker 2: lose under lights because Australia just play those conditions way better.
Speaker 2: But yeah, then it's you know, it's too all if
Speaker 2: they if they'd won that because we'd be coming in
Speaker 2: you know, Adelaide. I think Australia still win that. If
Speaker 2: you get Pack Cummins and Nathan line Back on that wicket,
Speaker 2: you're not losing too many games. So imagine that it
Speaker 2: could have been too all heading into heading into Sydney,
Speaker 2: that would have that might have made up for any
Speaker 2: short form. Let's see I had lost in of course
Speaker 2: of two two day tests.
Speaker 1: So the fifth Test will start at the SCG on
Speaker 1: January fourth. Was meant to be a five day breaks
Speaker 1: now an eight day break for the players, so pretty
Speaker 1: good they'll be happy with that. I think, all things considered,
Speaker 1: what are we expecting changes wise, if anything? Or is
Speaker 1: it a bit too early to speculate on that.
Speaker 2: No, well it's early enough that you kind of go
Speaker 2: will Stark and Bowland to have played every game in
Speaker 2: this series so far, it's a rare it is a
Speaker 2: fast bowler to play five consecutive Tests.
Speaker 3: You know they can probably do it now eight day break.
Speaker 2: That goes back to what do we have you know,
Speaker 2: nine ten day breaks between the first and second Test
Speaker 2: and the second and third Test, so they've essentially got
Speaker 2: that again.
Speaker 3: I think the Perth to Adelaide might.
Speaker 2: Have ended up so the Perth to Brison might have
Speaker 2: ended up being like twelve days to give them the
Speaker 2: two day tests there. So yeah, you're back then to
Speaker 2: kind of to get right. And then Nissa. I thought
Speaker 2: he bowled pretty well and he batted very well in
Speaker 2: the first innings. I don't think you look at changing that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's probably going to be Murphy v. Richardson
Speaker 2: again for that last spot unless they want to. Unless
Speaker 2: they want to do a Murphy v. Nissa and keep gie,
Speaker 2: that'll be an interesting one. Like you know what Smith
Speaker 2: said before about how easy He basically said spin was
Speaker 2: the easiest thing to face on this wicket, so why
Speaker 2: would you bowl it?
Speaker 3: That's a revealing insight.
Speaker 2: So if you get another green seema in Sydney, people
Speaker 2: love talking about you know, you played two spinners in
Speaker 2: Sydney and it's a it's a turning haven.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, teams you know that.
Speaker 2: I think the India Test last year was was an
Speaker 2: absolute rager for seam bowl as that is, and you know,
Speaker 2: you presume something quite similar kind of occur this year
Speaker 2: than the batting perspective. Yeah, green another you know another
Speaker 2: tough Test that it would be hard to hang him
Speaker 2: for that, just given you know, it's a really tough
Speaker 2: batting wicket. Labushane, you know, I think he's his averages
Speaker 2: dipped below twenty five for the series and then Weather,
Speaker 2: I guess they're there. There are probably three question marks
Speaker 2: in the in the top order. You've got English there,
Speaker 2: he didn't shoot the lights out when he had the
Speaker 2: chance and uh and Webs is kind of the one
Speaker 2: who who made his debut in this equivalent test, this
Speaker 2: Sydney Test last year. Do you look at him over
Speaker 2: at Green or one of the other top order guys,
Speaker 2: so they'd be all the questions I reckon kind of
Speaker 2: circling for Australia.
Speaker 3: Lots to wrap up.
Speaker 1: This has been the recap from Day two, the final
Speaker 1: day of the Melbourne Test match. Here in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Ashes series. Will catch you ahead of the
Speaker 1: next Test with hopefully an update ahead of that final
Speaker 1: match and have a great new year. And this has
Speaker 1: been another edition of the Unlabeled Podcast.