WEBVTT - Melbourne D2: Young gun shows the way as England win historic two-dayer 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 prouds will be flying 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:17.400 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello and 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.760 welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. England have won a match 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.160 in Australia, the first in almost fifteen years loo and 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.040 unfortunately the series isn't still alive, but it was a 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.320 fantastic day at the MCG for all England fans and 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.760 England team members. The Barmeur is going wild. They got 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.360 the win by four wickets and now we just talk 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:38.720 about too little, too late. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.000 Fourteen years and eleven months and like fourteen days, I 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.360 think it is five four hundred and sixty eight days 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.920 they'd gone without winning a Test match in Australia and 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.440 some club cricketers, you know, would be listening to this 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.160 and think, well, how does this relate to my cricket, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.520 because that's what you do as a club cricket watching 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.920 Test cricket. In this series we've had two two day 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.040 red ball games. That's very familiar for club cricketers. Both 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.600 of them have been reverse outrights, so the team that 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.120 was behind on the first innings has one on the 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.560 second innings. Most club cricketers would go, you know, two 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.400 three four hundred game careers without playing in a reverse outright, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.400 and we've had two in Test cricket. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.760 In an ASH series in four games. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.240 As you say, this was effectively the reverse of Perth, 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.839 wasn't there that? I mean Australia had a first things 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.520 deficit there and one. England had a first things deficit 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.200 here and one. They never really looked like they weren't 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.360 going to get their total. They came out really strong. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.760 It was Crawley and Duckett who have been under so 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.800 much pressure, especially Duckett throughout the week with those videos 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.680 that surfaced in NUSA and Crawley, who has been under 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.320 a bit of pressure himself given he's had such a 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.040 long career to day and delivered not quite as much 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.520 as England fans would have wanted. Those two really set 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.760 the tone and eventually they got the win by four wickets. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.840 But what does this mean for Stokes and for bastball? 0:01:59.920 --> 0:02:01.760 Is it alive and well. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.320 Well, it shows that there's a method that can work 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.200 on pitches that that give a bit. I think we 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.480 thought before this series, will you know, the way bads 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.959 ball operates it, it should do better on Australian pitches 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.400 that are better for you know, you have to elevate 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.120 your risk profile on wickets that seem around. They've been 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.120 playing on wickets that are suited to their style and 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.000 you kind of thought that approach might be one that 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.119 would be suited. And finally it did kind of work. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:30.400 I mean, it looked like a tired Australian team by. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:30.800 Kind of the end of it. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:32.800 There was some some pretty questionable batting that will I'm 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:33.920 sure we'll go into. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.480 And the bowling attack just didn't you know. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.160 I mean, it's hard to criticize the bowling attack that 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.480 bowled England out for what was that under two hundred 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:40.079 in the first. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.799 Innings, yeap one hundred and ten. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.519 Yeah, well I'm not going to criticize them, but you know, 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.200 second second time around, it just you know, Mitchell Stark 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.600 has been phenomenal in this series and he was just good, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.959 you know, like and that's he's just been at this level. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.360 And England, you know, to their credit, kind of hit 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.440 Australia with some with some good good batting on on 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.280 on a tough I mean, you know, Ben Duckett, he 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.640 kind of got played into formal a little bit the 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.400 way Stark bowl to him early. There's a lot of 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.680 wide stuff, a lot of short stuff, a bit of 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.480 stuff on his pads and that kind of just got. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.080 Him going because he did look really rusty early. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.720 And Crawley I think has been pretty good all series 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.560 once he got over that pair in Perth, the one 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.240 I think England fans are going to be walking away 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.919 from the game wondering about is Jacob Bethel like this 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.440 guy looked phenomenal. Not only has he not played in 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.320 the first three tests of this series in a run 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.760 chase that kind of looked Taylor made for him, especially 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.680 after duck and Crawley got off to such good start, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.040 they bloody demoted him down to number four, So you know, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.000 you just got to be wondering what, you know, why 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.400 didn't we see this guy when the. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:45.000 Series was live? 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.080 Yeah, and it's been Oli Pope's position for a long 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.920 time at number three role. He was back at the 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.680 start of this series and now finally he's been moved on. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.080 And Jacob Bethel, although as he said, he didn't bat 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.200 at number three and that second innings, but his forty 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.360 or forty six he looked very composed. He got a 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.920 good ball in the as England sort of capitulated, but 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.880 there was composure there. He's only twenty two. He was 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.760 only seven the last time England won a Test in Australia. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.640 So he's the start of this new brigade for them. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.720 And there's also that aspect of their bowling, which is 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.880 looking like a very fresh attack compared to what we've 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.880 seen in years past. They're a little bit of a 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.600 concern about Gus Atkinson as well. Got to be in 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.640 a bit of doubt for Sydney there. He didn't reappear 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.520 after injuring his left hamstring mid delivery today, which was 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:29.279 a bit of a weird. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.880 One, it was, yeah, and you'd fear for him playing 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.839 in Sydney, especially with you know, nothing potentially. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:34.760 On the line. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.080 We know England don't really rate the World Test Championship 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.200 and also you know they're not going to be playing 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.400 for that, you know, winning in Australia. The difference between 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.839 a four to one and a three to two score 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.720 line is significant in terms of how people look at 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.800 this going forward, So you know, there are jobs on 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.239 the line really, so you know, you'd think that they'd 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.599 want to put their best foot forward there. But yeah, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.240 i'd be surprised Atkinson if it looked like what you 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.240 know, it looked like a handstring strain and that's you know, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.919 at least three four weeks. But yeah, a bit of 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.919 a sour note on what was otherwise, you know, a 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.520 big moment like Ben Stokes sat where we are right 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.880 now just you know, a few moments ago, and you 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.760 know he just said, what what a moment this was 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.239 for him and Joe Root in particular, two thirty plus 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.560 guys who have been out here quite a bit like 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.440 they were back here in twenty thirteen fourteen, the pair 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.719 of Them'm pretty I think that was roots debut series 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.080 potentially and maybe Stokes as well. Both you know, showed 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.800 some glimpses and you know they've played a lot of 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.599 cricket out here and endured a lot of punishment. That 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.640 shows a lot of mental resilience to come out here. Yep, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.279 thirteen fourteen again seventeen eighteen, sorry just for Root. Stokes 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.800 missed that series. Then both of them in twenty one, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.520 twenty two and had the tough COVID series. You know, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.280 there's a lot of demons floating around when you come 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.360 back to somewhere for a third or a fourth time, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.360 and they finally conquered it. So it's good to see. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.000 Good to see that for two of the elder Statesmen. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.360 Before we get into the blow by a blow of 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.240 the game, big talking point will be the pitch two 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.560 day test, the second of the series, only the first 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.160 time that we've had a series with two two day 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.360 tests since the nineteen hundred, so over one hundred and 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.520 thirty years since. That pretty remarkable stuff, and it's going 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.480 to come into question again. We heard the Fox commentators 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.520 say that there were little indentations left on the pitch 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.880 which made it extra hard to bat. On day two, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.279 there was lots of grass left on a thatchiness that 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.200 was described as sponginess. Steve Smith described it as when 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.240 he sat and spoke to us here. So what happens 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.760 now in this situation, Lou, I mean, obviously the ICC 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.719 will give it a rating and Cricket Australia will probably 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:36.599 ever say as well. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.039 Yeah, it will be I'm really interested to hear the 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.880 mcc side of the story and Funnily enough, they're putting 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:47.159 up Matthew Page and Stuart Fox, the curator and CEO 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.200 respectively tomorrow morning here at the MCG. So you know, 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.200 Fair played it for getting on the front foot because 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:53.960 it was really hard to get on the front foot. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.919 Tim on that wicket out there, I mean, you know, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.600 interesting comments already. I was interested, said first of all 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.520 to hear from Steve Smith. The guy's made more than 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.200 ten thousand Test runs. He's basically said that the way 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.320 to score on this wicket was about like Harry brook 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.720 in the first innings, which was forty one or thirty 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.360 four balls. It was chaos. It was charging Stark first ball. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.640 It was hitting sixers over mid off. If a guy 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.560 who knows batting then better than any of us, says that, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.760 you know, like the best batter was probably him, and 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:23.720 that's how you should. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.280 Go about it. Was it a good wicket? 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.680 You know? Stokes said that if this, I think the 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.760 exact quote was, if this game had been played in 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.120 a different part of the world, we'd be asking different questions. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.560 I'm paraphrasing him there, but he did get us. As 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.680 a follow up, is the inference there are you talking about? 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.280 You know Asian pitchers and specifically Indian pitchers, right like 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.400 every time Australia or England go to India, there's a 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.520 sense of, you know, these guys are getting stitched up 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.840 and India are doing something dodgy with a wicket that 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.440 plays out on every tour over there. And I think 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.640 that's and that was put to Stokes and he didn't 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.080 disagree with the with the sentiment. I think he said 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.880 it was your words, not mine. So he had the 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.320 opportunity to clarify that. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.080 And he you know virtually you know, all that kind. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.160 Of confirm that's what he was saying. So that's that's 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.840 going to be, you know, the big headline out of 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.080 the pitch stuff. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:15.640 Yeah. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.680 I mean I don't think it was like dangerous or 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.440 disgraceful or absolutely diabolical. It was just a really really 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.680 hard wicket to bad on against guys bowling good wobble, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.800 seeing balls around the top of the stumps. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:30.800 It was pretty quick the whole way through. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.640 There was you know, quite a bit of same movement 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.599 and a lot of the batters just got balls that 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.000 they that had their names on it. So yeah, do 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.720 we you know, I think this is a question our 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.640 bosses are going to be asking Josh right, like, we've 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.120 had two two day tests. That's the one in Perth 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.079 cost five million, cost Cricket Australia five million bucks. I 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.200 dare say this one will cost the a even more. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.440 Given this venue as twice the size of Perth Stadium, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.000 they would have sold more tickets Day three was we 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:01.760 got ninety two thousand here to onto ninety five thousand yesterday. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.480 You know it probably would have got another ninety thousand 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:10.160 plus crowd tomorrow day three. So you know, that's a 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.520 lot of Money's a lot of tickets, a lot of 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.160 corporate beer's not drunken, a lot of breakfast not eat, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.920 and it's a lot of hot chips not sold. So 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.480 that has ramifications and I think ultimately, you know, Todd 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.840 Greenberg was on radio today and all but said that 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.440 they need to do something about it because they can't 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.600 financially kind of keep having tests like that. That's the 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.120 uncomfortable truth of it. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.400 And when you talk about beers not drunk, the Barmy 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.120 Army do drink more than any other supporter group in 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.480 the world. And they're on fire at the end of today, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.920 especially as England near that total, the pitch seemed to 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.240 play in England's favorite bit towards the end of the 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.160 day is the ball softened. I've got a stat here. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.840 There were seventeen players and misses in the first twelve 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.240 overs of England's innings and then only four in the 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.280 next twenty overs, so they really got to a sage 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.720 where it was comfortable the crowd could sense that something 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:00.920 sure it was going to happen. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.760 And that's a great stat josh around the seventeen players 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.080 and misses in the first twelve overs, because one of 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.600 the interesting things Smith said was that the big difference 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.520 in this final innings was England hit some massive shots 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:18.640 into the led boards and that softened you know, first 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.640 of the blow of bat on ball, you know, softens 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.280 the ball a little bit and softens the scene, but 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.640 also the whack into the led maybe on the fall 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.000 for that one that Crawley hit off that ball six, 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.600 and then there was that other one where duck At 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.920 ramped in for six, kind of scooped him for six. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.960 So that takes a big chunk of the ball, that 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.680 makes it softer, and all of a sudden you're bowling 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.160 with a softer ball. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:41.600 Yeah, it's a good point. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.600 And when you have a having the stat here on 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.040 how many balls per weekend, it was only twenty four 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.400 balls for every weekent across the Test, which is the 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.120 second lowest in all ASHES matches. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:51.520 Geez. 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.440 So then when they finally when they ball started stopped 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.920 doing stuff, obviously, it felt like a different game all 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.120 of a sudden. Let's go back to the start of 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.600 the day. Australia had a forty six run lead, they 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.800 were none down and then they just lost clumps of wickets. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.319 They lost three for six at one stage, Head quadr 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.199 and Kerry fell in quick succession. Then they lost four 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.679 for thirteen to finish their innings, including three for two. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.720 When things happened quickly, when things sorry, when things happened, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.360 it happened quickly, and Steve Smith was unbeaten at the 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.920 end twenty four not out of thirty nine deliveries. Didn't 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.000 decide not to shield the strike from the tail there, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.719 even though you know it did happen quickly, But he 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.520 had looked like he had the chance to decided not to, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.199 And maybe that's come back to bite them in the end. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.600 Yeah, it's undoubtable that if this game was played you know, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.400 let's say fifteen years ago, because. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.360 That's the number one being banning around that. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.600 This test goes into at least a third day, you know, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.680 potentially a fourth because just the way teams game this situation, 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.360 they kind of go they look at it like Smith 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.760 just did and go, well, Harry Brook made the or 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.800 the second highest score in the game, and he badded 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:57.800 like an absolute maniac. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.680 So you know, we should have all done that. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.760 You know, slog forty off thirty balls, you know that 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.640 equals a total that's more than two hundred and fifty. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.840 So you know, and that's not always going to come off. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.800 But I reckon the ball that cast bolt travers head 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.480 was a really big one because it kind of looked 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.280 like things it might be settling into a bit of 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.720 a normal days cricket after bowl and nicks off. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.760 Early and you've got weather al than head. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.839 The two supposed to be, you know, whether it was 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.560 supposed to open with head and would of if not 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.319 for the weird circumstances. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:31.520 But you kind of got those two going. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.360 Whether it's a leaving a lot of balls, he gets 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.120 one that nips back into him, and you know, he's 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.000 pretty unlucky to kind of get a ball like that and. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:39.760 Then Marmas goes. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.599 But then you've got Smith and Head batting together, and 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.360 Head looked as good as anyone he I think he 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.240 got kind of stitched up a bit by the long 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.520 outfield is quite slow, and all those cuts and pools 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.640 that were going four and six in Adelaide just you know, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.199 they were going for threes, and you know they might 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.480 have been all run fours as well if he wanted 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.320 to run them, but he wasn't running him that hard. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:03.800 But yeah, so he kind of gets out to this 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.960 ball that nips, you know, violently off the pitch away 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.640 from him, casts hits you off bail and I reckon 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.080 the middle order that followed kind of go, well, if 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.240 Travis our best better, if he's going to get a 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.440 ball with his name on it, we need to get 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.800 one before it gets us. And there was a bit 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.080 of a carnage that kind of set enough that it was. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.040 But the England balls got it right. Brun Cass has 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.480 had plenty of criticism throughout the series three his way 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.520 we're bowling, but he got things right in the end. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.439 Today's final two spells for two for twelve and two 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.480 for eleven. He finished with four for thirty four, which 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.319 I think is his best of the series. So far, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.760 he's taken nineteen wickets. His strike rate is right up 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.679 there as well with the best in the series. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.640 So his strike rate might be one of the best 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.960 of all times in a series. But he's also gone 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.600 it before this series was something like five and overs. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.920 That's right, Yeah, that's kind of England's philosophy has just 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.200 get ten wickets at all costs. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.880 I suppose that's all right Australia by that. For one 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.079 hundred and thirty two set in England one hundred and 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.240 seventy five runs to win. As we sort of touched on, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.920 they came out all guns blazing. Mitchel Stark probably bold 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.880 his most way would speller the series. You'd say, a 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.920 few wide off and a few on the pads as well, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.040 and Ben Duckett was able to cash in with a 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.720 few early wickets and then we saw the pinch hitter, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.280 Bright and car so things were happening even when they 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:20.480 weren't supposed to be happening. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:22.480 Just one of those Test matches alone. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.000 Yeah, and interesting reasoning from Stokes. He actually wanted to 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.040 send Gus Atkinson out there, and then he remembered that 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.160 he wouldn't be able to bat until the till number 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.400 eight or until a certain amount of time had elapsed. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.280 The ladder was never going to happen, given how quickly 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.840 this game was moving. So cars gets sent out. I 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.400 just thought, like obviously made the decision to send in 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.880 this pinch hitter, probably in anticipation of the duck at 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.840 Crawley Partnership again not paying off. Well it did this time. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.640 They made fifty in as many balls and that were 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.600 ideal situation for Bethel to kind of come in at. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.520 And yeah, we've touched on how well they kind of 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.080 battered there. I want to go back to Australia's first innings, Josh, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.080 because I thought, you know, just kind of going back 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.760 to when Travis Head gets out, like Kauwhaja Carey Green. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.800 I think they all went out in successive over. It 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.320 was Kowaja He's called a fine leg off tongue carry 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.360 the next over and then there was a bit of time, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.080 but Green put in a bit of I think. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.400 I'm getting confused with the previous innings when it all 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.480 happened pretty quickly. I know it's hard to remember, so. 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.480 You did have Travis Head there, so they lost three 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.080 for six in that period. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.160 Kwaija Carrey, that's right, yeah, and Kwaja So the Kawaja 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.000 Carrey Green one three wickets. I'm kind of lumping together 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.120 because they're all out to I reckon short deliveries or 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.840 balls that certainly weren't hitting the stump. So Tongue surprises 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:47.960 Kawaja with the short ball that he hits down fine 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.480 league's throat. I don't think he was expecting that, I reckon. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.800 He was expecting to get challenged, and all of a sudden, Oh, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.440 I got to get something under it, hits it down 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.240 to fine leg and clever bowling and then Green and 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.520 carry both balls that they just kind of ended at 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.680 that they didn't really need to, I think, And I 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.840 think that goes back to your point before. Could they 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.440 have Australia found someone to just hang in there with 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.360 Steve Smith because it didn't look that trouble like, Yes, 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.680 he played and missed, but it was always controlled right. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.680 He was letting the ball seem and misses outside edge. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.640 It looked like he was in the element today there 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.400 with all their extra big stuff around, the movements and 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.600 glances and gestures to the bowler with the scarecrow at 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.920 one point, So when he does that, you feel like 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.400 he's on he's in the zone. But yeah, he just 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:33.480 wasn't really troubled today. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.200 It seemed like, yeah, and he just couldn't find someone 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:35.960 to hang around with him. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.760 And I reckon Kerry and Green would be you know, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.880 Carry's given a lot to Australia this year, so it's 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.440 hard to hang him for how he's battered. But Green 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.240 would kind of be thinking like I could have got 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.920 to nineteen. He'd faced twenty nine balls, hit a couple 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.360 of boundaries and all of a sudden, like he's walking 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.520 at the bowlers and I think it was a ball 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.680 before he went out, he kind of tripped over himself 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.440 against Ben Stokes and got in a funny position. He 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.800 kind of walks at him again, I think, probably trying 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.840 to gate the wider line. Stukes's coming was coming to 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.399 him at and just getting outside so he can't be 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.879 out at LBW. But he kind of threw off his 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.480 balance and he's ended up throwing his hands at a 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.240 ball that he didn't really need to. So I think 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.439 Australia will probably regret that. They will regret how they 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.520 went about in their first sinnings and here we are. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.520 The crazy thing is that Australia could potentially make changes again. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.240 They've made i think three changes for every test or 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.040 close to it this series. England, meanwhile, have been pretty 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.920 you'd say that eleven hasn't changed a whole lot. So 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.119 it's just funny how the things can play out to 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.320 spite the score line in the series. And also, i 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.200 mean this test over in two days a bit of 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.840 a losshry. You'd say the same with Perth. Both of 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.800 these could have gone either way. So as much as 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.800 we want to dissect and put a binary win loss 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.720 on it, there's probably a bit more to look at, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.760 isn't there in terms of how this one will play 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.960 out leading into Sydney. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.919 Yeah, I think so, Like you go back to Perth 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.000 and that's one on the bat of one player. You know, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.280