WEBVTT - Changes for Mackay! 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 This is Pat Cummins. This is Australia. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.200 One of the worst things I have ever seen done 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:07.400 on a cricket field. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.200 Hello everyone, welcome to the Unflavorable Podcast, Coming to your 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.040 wife from Grey Barry Reef Arena. Here and Mackay, head 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.239 of a second Test match between Australia and Bangladesh, play 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:20.759 on the line. My name is Josh on a Finger. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:21.880 Luie Camerontre. How are you going? 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.400 I'm good, Josh, how are you very well? Thank you? 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.280 I wanted to just start by thanking our listener. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.440 You want to start with a scripted intro and you 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:33.159 told me to be ready for that, so I just 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.520 wanted to throw you off. Well, I know that sounded weird. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.880 You've got to get your obligations out, and just wanted 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.120 to thank you. Know, we asked for some Apple reviews 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.640 in the first Test match and we've had some great 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.040 ones coming in from and you want to. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.239 Keep me interested before you launched into the view. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.240 Exactly okay, exactly cool cool. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.879 I'm interested. Now I'm invested in this podcast. I hope 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.000 people who are listening are also still invested. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.480 I hope, but yes, I just wanted to give a 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.279 shout out to NK one seven seven and jelly Boy 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.160 twelve for them wonderful reviews on Apple podcasts, So if 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.560 you want to get in touch with the show, you 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.440 can also do that by getting onto Apple podcasts and 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:08.120 checking it out. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.080 Definitely my favorite of the NKS number the first one 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.280 hundred and seventy six, though a bit overrated. What did 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:14.120 he say or she. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.760 Just that's some very positive feedback. I don't want to 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.280 get too self aggrandizing here, but yeah, we. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.400 Got around you well and you yeah yeah, oh nice. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.120 Okay, so you're going to check out those podcasts and 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:26.280 jelly Beans sixty seven? 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:26.959 What did they say? 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.880 Jelly Boy wanted some tips on how a both fast bowling. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.839 You don't. We've already covered that, Yeah, I mean, he's 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.039 just I mean, you're listening to the wrong, wrong podcast 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.040 if you if you want to get better at cricket, 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.560 we are here to critique those who are. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:40.520 Already good at cricket. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:41.919 Yeah that's right, people who were. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.200 Already better than you, and that you'll never people would 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.080 just never be as good at cricket as I suppose. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.960 So yeah, unless that's one of the members of the 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.240 Australian cricket team well, could bee, Yeah, could bee? 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.400 We better get to this traint cricket team because they 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.280 have made a big change this week after they're lost 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.040 by name, it's to bangaledeshin dah when they have so 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.800 I did to drop Jake Weatherold. He's out of the 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.800 thirteen player squad and in comes Matthew Renshaw. Fourteen tests 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.160 he's played. He hasn't played since twenty twenty three, but 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.120 some strong form for Queensland last season brings him right 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.040 back up to the top. And unfortunately, after a loss 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.520 like that, it feels like the change that Australia had 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:17.799 to have. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.160 It felt like they needed to make a change for sure. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.120 Whether it was the right one, people are going to 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.320 ask some questions. I was really surprised, but really surprised. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.920 I thought that given the scope of the technique changes 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.200 he kind of made that he'd been encouraged to make 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.120 by this Aussie team, or at least endorsed by you 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.680 know this, he wouldn't have been changing these things without 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.000 their endorsement. I thought they'd give him another test. You know, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.320 you can argue both sides of it, like six tests 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.440 into a career is longer than I believe Sam Constant Scott. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.040 He played the two he might have got about the same, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.880 might have played five those two at the back end 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:55.680 of the Yash of. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.360 Summer and then three in the Caribbean. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.760 He was left out for Schlanker in between them exactly right, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.720 and the World Test Championship final as well, and then 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.480 came in when Marnus the opening thing didn't didn't work, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.959 so he got about as long as Sam, give you 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.000 one one more test than him, he got less than Sorry, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.400 he got more than Nathan McSweeney, so double the amount 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.600 of games and performed better than those two. Like I think, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.960 you know, Constas had three poor tests in the West Indies. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.640 McSweeney didn't really ever get going in an unfamiliar position, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.639 so there was enough there to be encouraged, and then 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.000 they pulled the trigger on him early, like you know, people, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.960 I think, if anything, it actually heightens the pressure on 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.040 a few other guys who have either been underperforming for 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.400 some time or had a poor test an outlying test 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.800 in the in Darwin and and and are older just 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.760 in that bracket where we're waiting, not waiting, but were 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.120 We just know that athletes around that age slow down, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.680 So yeah, there's there was a lot you know, it 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.840 was it was a small change, but it also was 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.000 a was a really big one. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.960 Yeah, I guess a lot of listeners will be wondering 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.880 is it as simple as a straight swap Matthew Renshaw 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.720 coming into the eleven for jaqueas always saw him doing 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.120 some practice at first slip today pushing bow webs through 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.600 out of that position which you just got off with mcquajen. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.680 Now he's into third slip. So does that mean we're 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.920 going to see Renshaw straight to the top or is 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.000 it going to be some extra batting eleven shenanigans at 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:22.760 play from the Aussies. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.920 Yeah, I mean that was my first instinct when I 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.760 saw the squad change. I'm like, like, this is this 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.799 would be very on brand for them to do something funny. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.760 You know, Travis Head went up to open. No one 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.159 saw that coming last summer. That was kind of a 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.600 bit of a force change, But you would think it's 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.640 a straight So, I mean, Alex Carey, speaking to the 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.799 media yesterday, said that he was looking forward to renta 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.920 opening the batting with Travis Head. So that's probably a 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.159 pretty good sign that's what's going to happen. Marnas is 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.039 you know the one when I was saying, you know, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.400 in terms of underperformance over a longer period of time, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.560 we're talking about Marnas, right. He has been preparing as 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.440 if he's I'd be surprised if they made a move 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.520 there like a training today. English. English would be the 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.000 only other one who could come in for him. He 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.440 battered kind of at the end of the session. You know, Look, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.440 they have done things like that before, where you know, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.080 we read too much into training and then they pull 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:16.600 the trigger. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.400 It would surprise me. Like Martinus had a. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.200 Really really long hit today and stayed back longer than 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.200 any of the others. You would think his mood would 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.800 have changed if he'd been told that he was out. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.880 So unless he hasn't been told that he's that he's out, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.680 so maybe they're still waiting to have a look at 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.280 the pitch. I know that they do rate Josh Inglis's versatility, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.440 but asking him are expecting him to come straight into 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.720 number three in the Test team would be a big goal, 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.080 wouldn't it. Yeah, that would feel like a like a 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.160 big change. Then if you've changed two of your top 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.000 three after one defeat, it's on Australia really to prove 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.640 it's this isn't this this is an outlier because as 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.720 the stands, you go, eleven of thirteen tests beforehand they 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.800 won and then they've lost to the ninth ranked bangladeshis 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.159 who had the best of the conditions in Darwin. So 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.560 you might be able to kind of say that, but 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.960 you know, a loss here and Makai that would you know, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.279 there'd be no excuses there. So one test defeat to 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.320 Bangladeshi acceptable, you know, not acceptable, but you know, in 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.040 the realm of like you know, people can hack it. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.080 A second one would be you know, disastrous, it would 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.600 be okay, that's a great little set up there. Loo 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.120 Matthew Renchel, let's just touch on him. Fourteen tests so 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.400 far in his career, an average of twenty nine point three. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.919 It just turned thirty as well. As I said, he 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.000 came back in in twenty twenty three, but that was 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.719 in a middle order role. Wasn't ahead of that India series. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.880 I feel like that time didn't really feel like that 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.800 spot was his. This time, it feels like to me 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.120 the selectors are saying, okay, now it's yours take with 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:45.360 both hands and see what you can do. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.000 Is that a really strange career. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.919 Kind Of writing a piece on him yesterday, it was 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.680 instructive to kind of remember what that was like. Yes 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.719 the kind of twenty year old who burst onto the 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.559 scene way back in twenty sixteen. It was this fresh, frace, 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.880 young opener. You know, he was going to be the future. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.440 Came in with the team with rend Nick Madison and 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.160 Peter Hanscombe and by the end of that year they 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.760 were all out of the team. Maybe Hanscom lasted a 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.400 bit into that seventeen to eighteen ashes, but renshawd lost 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.720 his spot twelve months after or maybe even nine months 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.760 after that one hundred of the SCG and then he 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.080 went into the middle order. He lost his Queensland spot. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.080 He kind of came back in for one test after 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.000 the Cape Town debark all the middle order thing in India. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.600 As you mentioned, he's since come into the wap ball frame. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.920 He's dominated the One Day Cup and then had some 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.160 really encouraging and then also maybe some discouraging the ODI performances. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.360 I think people have kind of put the narrative of 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.840 the ode I thing and you know, being this upward 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.920 trajectory of the last little bit well. He made in 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.200 Bangladesh earlier this year he made and Pakistan I think 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.960 was four to zero zero in four consecutive innings. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:51.680 It's a tough run. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.880 Yeah, it's a tough run and so it hasn't been linear. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.400 But then at the end of that tour he made 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.680 eighty nine not out and I think he finished as 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.000 one of their leading we could takers over the course 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.040 of the games, as one of their best bowlers. So 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.880 a really strange tour that kind of encapsulates a really 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.400 up and down kind of career. Let's see if this 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.960 is the kind of second or third or fourth coming 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:17.000 of him that that can really deliver something for Australia. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.200 He's had a bat in the nets last couple of 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.640 days here, always an energetic trainer. You'd say he's got 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.840 that bright green lid on and then I think he's 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.800 just it's extra shiny. Is that a different brand of 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.079 Maybe it's the DSc because he's recently changed bat sponsors, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.600 I believe, so maybe that's how they make their homelets. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.400 But yeah, it's extra shiny. I'm sure the viewers will 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.960 notice that when they see him walk out there in 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.120 the Test match. Let's have a look at what else 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.200 happened in the nets today. Bow Webster and Manus Labish 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.040 and had a long battle both with bad and ball. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.320 I guess they both do a little bit of both. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.360 Now if you say that Manus is you know it's 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.679 condod it. But on the final ball of bo Webster's session, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.880 Labashane actually knocked over his off stump and there were 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.439 a few giggles and laughs all around from his teammates. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.960 Cameron Green just gave him a shake of the head 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.080 to say sorry mate. No one should have to go 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.960 through that sort of thing. So that was interesting. All 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.720 the bowlers were there, they had a quick bowl, not 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.079 all of them bold to batters. They were only Bowland 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.280 and Lion batted to or bold to batters, and lyone 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.080 actually had a long chat to Kumar Damasina, who is 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.199 going to be umpiring in this Test match. Of course, 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.959 he was an off spinner himself, took over two hundred 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.120 wickets for Sri Lanka and so perhaps they were just 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.400 comparing a few notes on the craft of off spin Bolin. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.760 Yeah, potentially, maybe Nathan Lion was giving him some tips 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.200 for his Instagram page. And the dumb scene has really exploded. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.520 Yeah, he's been prolific in that area, hasn't it. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.360 Yeah, Yeah, Sorry, I don't know where I'm going with 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.600 that other than I just wanted that to be noted. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.719 I know more about Nathan lyon the last couple of 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.960 days in the nets, and I do Kuma Damascena's Instagram. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:58.679 I've been watching him closely. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:09:59.079 Line. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.720 There's some suggestion that maybe the you know, the effectiveness 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.080 that we saw in that Adelaide test last summer wasn't 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:10.920 quite there in Bangladesh. So in Darwin against Bangladesh coming 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.480 off a big injury layoff, the reports internally was that 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.120 the fizz and the dip and everything was there. Well, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.760 so windy here, we've just lost our camera. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.080 The reports were that post injury, the fizz. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.560 And the dip and everything were already there. All back 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.760 there for Lion, which is a good sign. He's been 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.640 working quite closely with James Franklin's kind of a bit 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.280 of a new addition to this coaching stuff. He's done 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.200 a few tours, but I believe he's kind of going 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.520 to be here more frequently now that Dan Vattori is 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.360 going to do more franchise stuff over the next little 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:49.120 bit and it's watching line bolted Cary just off a 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:54.120 step in the nets today you could carry was explaining 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:59.720 to Franklin what glove Nathan Lyon watches of his when 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.160 he to right handers. And it was interesting just seeing 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:03.880 Franklin like kind of picked that up. So there's all 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.080 these little because he's ostensibly the kind of bowling us. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.400 So I think Kerry was saying that he line watches 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.080 his right glove religiously when he's bowling to right handers, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:16.360 and that's his. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:17.439 Kind of like aim point. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:18.120 Interesting. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.160 Yeah, so that was this morning. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.640 The morning before that, he kind of laid out a 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.880 little box with his yellow bits of tape on the 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.800 pitch and again was just bowling off step or two, 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.280 just going through the basics. It was remarkable how often 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.760 so this box would have been maybe thirty. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.240 Meters thirty centimeters. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.280 Thirty thirty meters, that'd be a big box even even 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.280 you could a thirty yeah, thirty centimeters give or take 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.480 each side of it. And yeah, so they must have 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.640 run out of handkerchiefs for him to bowl that bigger. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.040 But he like, he landed so many balls in that 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.319 little thing and it was just like a little thing 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.760 that if Old mats listening and wants advice on how 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.960 to become a better cricketer. If you can hit the 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.839 thirty cinemeter as much as Nathan Lyon, you know you're 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.520 gonna be pretty good. So it was interesting that he's 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.360 just working on these basic things. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.800 Well, it's funny you say that because I mentioned today 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.920 that Stark, Hazewlod and Cummins only bowled on empty nets, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.480 but they had cones placed on a good length and 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.640 again taking it right back to basics. I was impressed 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.400 because I know that they're professional cricketers and all that, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.400 but you would expect Cummins and Hazeward to be the 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.080 most accurate. It was actually Starker hit the cones the 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:26.920 most out of the three. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.800 And were they bowling off a full run? 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.160 They were, yeah, off their full run. So interesting stuff. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.680 It's often like the really little things that you look back. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.720 I remember one of the one of our colleagues around 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.719 like the player Content Capture day, was stunned at how 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.960 good these guys were. Like a chipping challenge, and you 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.880 just kind of forget that you're working with the athletes 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.840 who have the best hand eye coordination in the country, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.120 so like, it's not that surprising they pick up another 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.040 ball stick sport and they're really good at it. It's 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:57.880 often the littler things rather than the big things to 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.240 kind of illustrate that. So yeah, with line, you know, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.720 some really basic technical kind of stuff going on. Manas 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.040 similar long hits. You know, you can tell it's a 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.040 team that kind of have been a bit rattled on 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.240 happened in Darwin and they're desperately you know, looking to 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:15.400 looking for ademption. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:15.880 I suppose. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.079 Yeah. I mean when you look back at that border 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.640 Gavasca Trophy that was down under a couple of years ago. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.440 They lost that first test in Perth comprehensively and you know, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.560 the outside noise was, oh, there needs to be changing 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.040 all these sorts of things. But they came back and 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.120 you know, responded really well in that series, isn't there. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.920 So I think they feel like one loss is not 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.120 a time to panic and they'll back their processes to 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:35.320 get them back on the winning list. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.200 It's an interesting one to bring up, and it's been 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:38.959 talked about a little bit in the last week, right 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.800 like the teams, this team's performance after long breaks, I mean, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.720 you're nitpicking or up, but like there was the Ashes 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.280 game against England last year that you know, England could 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.080 have easily won it had they played some smart in Perth. Yeah, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.680 some smarter cricket and then Travis Head has single handedly 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.000 won that game for Australia, the Perth game the previous 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:58.800 year against. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.960 India with our outplay. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.840 And then I've heard others even bring up the World 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.120 Test Championship Final in twenty last year twenty twenty five, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.480 the lost to South Africa. Lost to South Africa, had 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.160 a bit of a lay off their guys coming off 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.839 ipl and then they hit played really good cricket in 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.480 the Caribbean on the back of that. Yeah, yeah, I 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.800 mean it is nitpicking. The thing with those is they 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.080 are all the start of longer test campaigns in Australia. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.640 There was five test campaigns against India in England, you know, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.560 a four test campaign if you want to call it. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:35.880 That WTC final plus Caribbean. Here they've got two tests 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.640 and I know they've got South Africa on the back 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.520 of that, but there's that a six week break between 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.760 the second Test here in Mackay and the first Test 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.680 in Durban, so there's no time like you know, if 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.080 we get a wash out here, there's I don't think 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.760 there's a chance of some small chance of rain, or 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.120 if it's a really fat flat wicket here and there's 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.240 a draw, Bangalsh wins series like you can't. You know, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.480 it's a luxury that Australia have had. They play these 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.120 longest series, even three Test series is long now, right 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.600 that they get to warm into it, so they don't 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.920 have that luxury and they've been rightly pulled up for it. Yeah, okay, Bangladesh, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.120 Well they pulled off perhaps the greatest Test victory in 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.320 their history and they come hear the mackay, We've just 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.480 seen them run around in the field, very energetic and 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.640 full of competitive spirit as well. There were quite a 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.720 few games that they had where they were throwing at 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.080 the stumps and every time the ball hit the stumps 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.760 one team cheered and the other hands on head sorts 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.720 of things. They get their left arm quick shore for 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.440 Islam back. He is available after dealing with a side 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.920 straight and I believe whether or not he gets picked 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.720 there's another question here because it's very hard to change 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.360 that team that comprehensively beat Australia over eleven sessions in Darwin. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.600 Just watching him in the nets. He's literally bowling as 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:53.800 we speak. You can see him. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.360 Over your left shoulder. Josh, I watched him bowl a 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.480 couple of balls to Mominal Huck. I think it was 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.640 on picking him, really him, like on the on the 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.720 evidence of two balls, I'm like, oh right, this this 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.160 bloke's a proper bowler. I might argue he's better than 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.760 the all three of the bowlers they picked in that 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.800 first test. So if he's fit for me, he's in. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.880 He is a he's a proper one thirty plus, you know, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 one thirty five plus left arm tall for you know, 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.240 for these Bangal a really short Bangladesh team. He's a 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.960 tall bowler. He's one hundred percent in. Yeah, you can 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.920 actually he's literally bowling as we speak and bolwing some 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.960 good gas. So I mean, Eberdot would probably be the one. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.040 He was a little bit way with that second innings 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.000 and didn't get much of the ball when the game 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.120 was on the line. That's often a bit of a teller. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.240 Who's who do you turn to when the game's you know, 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.800 really in the in the nutcrunch time, and and I 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.240 think Shanto kind of didn't didn't really trust him in 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.960 that moment. The other option would be to go four quicks. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.960 Keep everto Sato bomb quite well on that first tick, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:58.160 got a couple of wickets and maybe get rid of 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.960 Title Islam and go four quick and Mahedi, who was 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.960 the more effective spinner in Darwin definitely. You know, I 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.560 think Titles are really experienced operator. I'd be inclined, especially 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.119 here Mackay that the ball does, the pitch does take 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.760 a bit of spin towards the end of the game. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.200 The caveat there is a there hasn't been a whole 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.480 lot of first class cricket, and be the first class 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.840 cricket we have had here has normally been in that 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.520 November October November kind of period. I think the weather's 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.360 a lot cooler here. I think that kind of caught 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.240 us a little bit by surprise. So whether it would 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.200 break up quite as much as it does, then that's 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:34.399 all for Bangladesh to decide. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:34.800 I suppose. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.600 Yeah, I've seen the suggestion that they might leave Tigle out, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.960 but and he wasn't super effective in there, and you 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.560 have to say, I think just the one we could 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.240 have Labushane in that second innings. But yeah, as you say, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:45.919 he's got so much experience and they like going to 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.680 him to potentially hold up an end. Although Mehetia Sogn 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.120 was much more successful at that in the first Test, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.879 wasn't he. But it's again it's title's first test here 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:56.800 in Australia as well, so like all of them, even 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.960 though he's got nearly three hundred Test wickets under his belt, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.639 he's still probably adjusting to conditions. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.639 Yeah, I mean, the fear into that first Test, unfounded 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.040 as it was, was that you know, the small spinners 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.800 in Australia get eaten up by this country and the 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.840 extra bounce is the kind of thing that you need. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.200 You know, they didn't get eaten up by any measure. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.480 And Mahdi on the contrary, like you know, boldest team 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.480 to victory. So I fear that Mackay being a more 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:27.000