1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Here at Two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: the traditional owners of the land on which we record 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: this podcast. There were innerie people. This land was never seated, 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: always was, always will be. Hello, They're welcome to two 5 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: Good Sports and sports news told differently. 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 2: I'm Georgie Tawn and I'm maybe Jelmy and I've got 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 2: a head cold. So if you think I sound more 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 2: like a bloke than usual, I do, and I apologize, 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 2: And I know that this is an audio medium, so apologies. 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 3: We need to we need to get you in a 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 3: bubble so that you don't catch this. But I wasn't 12 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 3: going to miss it. But no, if I do sound 13 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 3: particularly nasal, apologies to. 14 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: Your love it though I would love to sound a 15 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: little bit more nasally, so maybe actually breathe on me. 16 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 2: A bit, George, I don't have octaves to go lower 17 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: than my usual voice, so that when I do it 18 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: genuinely scares more children. So anyway, anyway, but bad sport 19 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 2: is the allergy that's going around Melbourne at that moment, but 20 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 2: also bad sport for me, this is always what we 21 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: do off the top every media organization that went with 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 2: the headline that made me believe that Ashbarty was making 23 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 2: a comeback. 24 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 3: Didn't get you, It got me. 25 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 4: It did. I remember so vividly. 26 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: I was just scrolling Instagram as I do, and I 27 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: saw the headline pop up Ash Barty coming back, and 28 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: I was like, it's happening. 29 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 3: It's happening. 30 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 4: If I could have a siren, I would have like. 31 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 4: I was like, where is the button? 32 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,639 Speaker 2: Could come back to Wimbledon where she won in twenty 33 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 2: twenty one, so it wasn't It's not such a long 34 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 2: boat to things. She went and had beautiful, hated and 35 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: has decided to make a return. And I was like, 36 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: the greatest good sport has returned finally, don't the demon's 37 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 2: doing well, welcome to He's now seventh in the world. 38 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 2: Love that bad, Love that for you, the demon. 39 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 3: But Ash is. 40 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 4: Back, our greatest, greatest. 41 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: Invitational fun little doubles thing. Yeah. 42 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: Look, I had to keep scrolling because of it was 43 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: like Ash Barty back. I was like, amazing. Next post 44 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: under in doubles. I was like, still amazing, next post. 45 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: We finally got the invitational word and I was like, 46 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: my life is once again. 47 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, very excited to see thrilled what 48 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: they call themselves is abcd in Ashbudy, Casey Jlaqua back 49 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 2: in doubles. 50 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: Don't you think though, that we're gonna watch them though, 51 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: and you know what I'll be doing. I'll be like, gosh, 52 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: it looks fresh, it looks fresh, looks like that Ash Barty, 53 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: she could just keep parents the US open. 54 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 2: She's one of those ones that famously because I've read 55 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: a book and I love her. She said that when 56 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 2: she sort of stopped tennis, she was like, and the 57 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 2: racket goes on the rack and I just haven't thought 58 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 2: about it, but I just one day. 59 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 3: She gets wimbleden. 60 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 4: Just that smell of Pims, the royals, the royal. 61 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 3: Won this not long ago. Little man can go to 62 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 3: daycare and we can. 63 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 4: Just get back. 64 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: Imagine, imagine, but I can't. My god, the misleading headlines. 65 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: They just got me hook climb. 66 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you're right, You're right, that is 67 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: that is a bad sport because it did make our 68 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: heart stop for all the wrong reasons. 69 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 4: Really, I also have a bad sport this week. 70 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 3: Shock. 71 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: I know, it's very on brand, very on brand for me, 72 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: and it was a different headline which made my brain 73 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: stop because. 74 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 4: I was like really really, we're talking about. 75 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: This and it is, of course, your delightful colleague, Abby Holmes. 76 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: And the headlines that have been sprouting up in the 77 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: last month about a kiss on the cheek that she 78 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: received from Locking Neil on the field after a postgame 79 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: interview during an AFL game, and it's blown up right 80 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: with people making I think poor comparisons to an incident 81 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: maybe like don't Blush Baby with mel McLachlin, so different, 82 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: so different, and Chris Kallee it was so different, and 83 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: I just hate that we are damned if we do, 84 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: damned if we don't in sports journalism, if you are 85 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: a woman still and it's twenty twenty four, and it 86 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: just makes me I rate, Why is this something that 87 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: should be talked about? 88 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 3: How are we to talking about it? The game was 89 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 3: what three weeks ago? 90 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: Three weeks ago, and then it's happened again since with 91 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: like some other players who've kissed her on the cheek 92 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: after their interview, And I just don't understand why people 93 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: are like, oh my god, is that the right look? 94 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 4: And I'm like, what do you want? 95 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 3: It's from it And it's. 96 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 2: Also like a kiss makes it even sound more sinister 97 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: than what it is like. 98 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 3: It was a peck on the cheek, peck on the check. 99 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 2: And even Abs has said herself that Jules Neil, who's 100 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 2: Lockie's wife, was like, I can't believe this stuff, are 101 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: you okay? Like has actually messaged her to reach out 102 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: and Abs has worked so hard and to establish these relationships, 103 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: and they are relationships where professionally, when you get to 104 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 2: know these people and look. 105 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 4: See them every single week. You see these people every. 106 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: Week, but you also don't because and that's the thing 107 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: is that Lockie plays in Brisbane. 108 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 4: That's true. 109 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 2: She wouldn't regularly do a Brisbane game. So you've seen 110 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: a friend that you haven't seen for a long time 111 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 2: and you go, hey mate, nice to see you, and 112 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 2: you give them a kiss on the cheek. 113 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 3: That's just a normal greeting. 114 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 2: And look, it's one of those ones that I don't 115 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 2: even want to give it breath. And the fact that 116 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: people keep talking about it keeps going. It is upsetting 117 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 2: that a colleague of mind that's worked so hard has 118 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 2: to feel anything and uncomfortable in a workplace about something 119 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: she can't really control if that's how people greet her 120 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: or not. 121 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,559 Speaker 1: And that this is what the headlines are. No one's 122 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: talking about what a great question that Abby has asked 123 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: Lucky Neil. No one's asking what great analysis from Abs 124 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: on the boundary. No one is focusing on any of that. 125 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: And it makes me so mad because it's like, go 126 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: be friends with the players. It's like, no, you can't 127 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: be too friendly with the players. Go make analysis. Wait, 128 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: you don't know anything about it. 129 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 3: Oh, we've lived this over again. 130 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 2: You're either not part of clearly not part of the 131 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 2: gang because you're not a bloke and you never played football, or. 132 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 4: Your clubs are bad. But then also you keep trying. 133 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 2: Too hard to be part of it, which has its 134 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: own inferences for different people, and you have to cop that, 135 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 2: or you try to stay out of it and keep 136 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 2: hardline professional, and then you don't have those connections where 137 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 2: people feel like they give you more an interview. Yes, 138 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 2: you genuinely cannot win. 139 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and it just I'm sick of it. It's 140 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: bad sport. Abs, We're with you, this is annoying. 141 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 4: Let's stop talking about it. I hate it. 142 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 2: Hopefully everyone moves on, and I just really again, as 143 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: someone who I really care about, I hope that she 144 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:26,119 Speaker 2: knows that the large silent majority thing. This is absolute rubbish, yes, 145 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: but it's just fodder. And unfortunately we live in a 146 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 2: social media where where people want to say things about it. 147 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: But oh, let us move on to anything else, because 148 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 2: this week's topic is one it's been making a few 149 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 2: little headlines and we've seen this growth over time. 150 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 3: But I remember saying to you, George. 151 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 2: Can you believe that cricket is going to be an 152 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 2: Olympic sport? We saw our girls win Commonwealth Games gold, yes, 153 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 2: but now in lap there are going to be people 154 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 2: atop the dice for T. 155 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 4: Twenty cricket twenty twenty eight. 156 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: And this all correlates with America getting on board. 157 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 3: Are they on board? 158 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 2: And of course we need to look into that headline 159 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: that might be one of the upsets. 160 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 3: Of the century. USA beat Pakistan at cricket? 161 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 5: What is happening? 162 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 4: Jell me, you know what was not on my bingo 163 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 4: cart for twenty twenty. 164 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 3: So many answers to this, but sure, well. 165 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: Right now, it's that America maybe falling in love with cricket. 166 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: What since when could that possibly be a thing? How 167 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: does America even know the word cricket? 168 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: How does America have room for cricket. 169 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 4: I don't. 170 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 3: They're already very full schedule. 171 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 2: And the beautiful thing about America is that I can't 172 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 2: wait to visit one day. 173 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: I've never been, but it's. 174 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 4: A wild time. 175 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 2: But no matter when you go, there's going to be 176 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: a sporting event that you've grown up thinking, my god, 177 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 2: that would be fun. Yes, like I want to go 178 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 2: to baseball. I want to have a hot dog with 179 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 2: my novelty hand. 180 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 4: I want to go. Do you ever spare fifteen hours? 181 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 4: Because how long a baseball game goes? 182 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 2: Well, maybe that's why T twenty cricket could be the 183 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 2: answer for Americans because we have seen essentially the growth 184 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: and the change of cricket obviously a sport that's so 185 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 2: beloved here in Australia from the Test format to one 186 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: day to T twenty and what it's done for sport 187 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: and entertainment. 188 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: It continues to dominate the world, doesn't it. T twenty. 189 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: Like you and I, we are Test cricket lovers. We're 190 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: going to put that out there. However, you have covered 191 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of the shortest form of 192 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: the game. Thank you, thank you, I really have, Yeah, 193 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: you have, and it is it is you know, it's 194 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: Bash blast fun. 195 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: Before I did Cricket and a lot of boundary for 196 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 2: Big Bash, I also did Courtside for the MBL and 197 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 2: it's the greatest parallel that I can raw in that 198 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 2: there's music playing, there's novelty, like there's always there's not 199 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 2: a second to yourself. No, there's not one second where 200 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: you have a thought to yourself because it's like color 201 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 2: and movement. 202 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: There's something happening over here. You're like, oh, what's going 203 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: on over there? It's perfect for our current society with 204 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: our fragmented. 205 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 2: I genuinely believe the creators took ten year old kids 206 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: and sat them down and thought, can we entertain you? 207 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 2: It's an entire game of sport. Because you're not going 208 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 2: to be engaged in this, what can we get you 209 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 2: to love? And T twenty is that product and it's 210 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 2: been that. We've seen it go gangbusters all over the world, 211 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 2: namely in India with the IPL and now how lucrative 212 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 2: that league is in that there's ten teams that are 213 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 2: all valued over a billion dollars. You know, how we 214 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 2: talk about football has been like, oh, he's a million 215 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 2: dollar man. Mitchell Start got four point four to two 216 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 2: million dollars for the latest IPL season, which ain't that 217 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 2: long from memory. IPL seasons, you know they're not they're 218 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 2: not a full year. And more the point, he's sat 219 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 2: out for many seasons because he wanted to support his wife, 220 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 2: who happens. 221 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 3: To be the Australia captain, Lisa Heally. 222 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 2: But anyway, you can see why it is very appealing 223 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 2: for these two twenty specialists to travel around the world, 224 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:12,599 Speaker 2: but why. 225 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 4: It's a very profitable product. 226 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 2: And now we've seen Australian players taking to the US 227 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 2: to join the Unicorns and all the different franchises that 228 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 2: we're seeing over there with Major League Cricket, which coincides 229 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 2: with the fact that we have the World Cup at 230 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 2: the moment being hosted in the US, and these are 231 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 2: just things that we never thought that we'd see. 232 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: Yes, and it's in across the US. I think that 233 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: there has been look, let's call it for what it is, 234 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 1: a struggle to understand what cricket is. There have been 235 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: so many media organizations that really have I mean to 236 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: be fair to them, they have embraced the World Cup 237 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: that is happening on their shores. 238 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 3: As soon as you say world anything that like World champions. 239 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 3: That's us, that's us, that's us. 240 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,719 Speaker 4: Sorry, ready, sorry, we want that. Let's go what's going on? 241 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: But they actually when you dive a little bit deeper 242 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,839 Speaker 1: and them just trying to figure it out, they're like, okay, 243 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: so it's like baseball, and it's like, yes, but quicker 244 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: and more entertaining. Would be my argument I would actually 245 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: like in it. If I was going to explain it 246 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: to an American, I would say, it's kind of like baseball, 247 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: but with the energy and fun of basketball basketball, but 248 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: then also with the potential for addiction, like paddle ball. 249 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 4: What is that tennis thing that they do? 250 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 3: Oh, they all love it. 251 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 4: They love it, they love it, that paddle ball whatever it. 252 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 2: Is, pickleball, pickleball in some countries. 253 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: In Sweden of course, pickleball. So I think it's more 254 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: like baseball, basketball pickleball in one. That's what you're getting 255 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: at the T twenty World Cup Entertainment Squared. 256 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 3: And do you know what? America got massive upsets. 257 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 2: Firstly, their first game, they beat Canada, which America always 258 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 2: loved beating Canada. They love them, but they love having 259 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 2: a win. And then it was their headline that the 260 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 2: entire world went. 261 00:11:58,040 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 4: Wait, what what? What? 262 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 2: USA beat former World Cup winner Pakistan? I just cannot 263 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: and some of the reactions. 264 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 3: Let me find it. 265 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 2: Well, we've we've got to have a listen because I 266 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 2: found a random and I went for a deep dive 267 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 2: and found it's an American sports podcast. They talk about baseball, 268 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 2: but they've stumbled across this headline and this was what 269 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: Americans have taken away from it. 270 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 3: Let's have a listen. 271 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 6: I saw this headline Jerry on ESPN, so you know 272 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 6: it's a real sports thing. Hopefully US stuns Pakistan at 273 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 6: cricket World Cup. That's right, Pakistan, we beat you at 274 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 6: your own game. I assume cricket was started in Pakistan 275 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 6: or something like that. 276 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: I have no idea. 277 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 6: We won one fife slash three. I don't know. Sorry, 278 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 6: did we whoop them one fifty nine to three? No? No, 279 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 6: our score. Our score was one fifty nine slash three 280 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 6: whatever that means. 281 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 4: What did they get? 282 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 6: It says they got one slash seven, but we won. Okay, 283 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 6: it's odd, so take that Pakistan don't understand, But that's cool. 284 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 6: Be Pakistan at their own game. If that's what we're 285 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 6: calling it, That's what I'm doing. Jerry, that's all I 286 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 6: care about. Here's what I care about, pride in the USA. Okay, 287 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 6: And when I see someone from Pakistan today in a 288 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 6: cricket shirt, you know what I'm going to say. 289 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 2: Us A Sometimes I worry that we typecast our dear 290 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 2: American friends and how they react to things. 291 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: And then there's it's really good to say that they've 292 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: kept a lid on earth and they're not getting ahead 293 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: of themselves. 294 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 4: My favorite would. 295 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 3: We we warp them? 296 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 2: But I think this is I think what we can 297 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: take away from that is firstly, it's hilarious, but secondly 298 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 2: that if there's winning, and we discuss this with the 299 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 2: storm and how successful they've been in Melbourne, if winning 300 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 2: comes first, the fans fall. 301 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 4: They do follow, and this is I mean, that's the headline. 302 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: They could not the organizers of this tournament and the 303 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: people who made the decision to base it in the 304 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: US and across the West Indies, there could not have 305 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: been a better headline for them than US defeats Pakistan. 306 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: And we say the term US loosely because there is 307 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 2: nine American on that side. 308 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 4: Yes, no we don't. We don't really see the same team. 309 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 3: Given that. 310 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: There's a few more parameters around who can compete for 311 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: which country? 312 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 4: True? 313 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: True, So the US team is currently made up of 314 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: a lot of ethnicities, a lot of expats, five players 315 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: around the world. 316 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 4: Of course, of course. 317 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: Five players in the squad born in India, two players 318 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: born in Pakistan, so what an occasion that would have 319 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: been for them, three born in Jamaica. And there was 320 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: a couple of them that do have experience playing in 321 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: the IPL which is huge, and one was a member 322 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: of the under nineteens World Cup winning team for India, 323 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: so look, there is some experience there. Of course, they're 324 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: probably not necessarily shall we say, an American from the 325 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: age of one that's grown up watching cricket. 326 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 2: No, but I think when you say watching cricket, America's 327 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 2: not starting from a baseline. There are more people in 328 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 2: America that watch cricket than in Australia. Yes, while while 329 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 2: doing this research really shocked me in the fact that 330 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 2: it obviously goes India daylight, the UK and then America 331 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 2: in terms of engagement because there is a massive xbat community. 332 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 2: And what we do know about particularly Indian culture is 333 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 2: it's part of your blood, it's part of who you are. 334 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 3: It is and you take that with you. 335 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 2: So can you imagine when it becomes available to them, 336 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 2: it'd be able to go and watch the game that's 337 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 2: so linked to their culture. 338 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: In the States, it's a soul sport. Yes for them, 339 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? It is part of 340 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: who they intrinsically, who they are as a person. And 341 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: also I think that I saw a stat someone it 342 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: was like two hundred thousand people are playing cricket in 343 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: the United States like they do that regularly across like 344 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: four hundred leagues or something around the country, which is 345 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: actually quite unfathomable for me. 346 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 3: I was like, what And the. 347 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 2: I estimates that it's around thirty million cricket fans that 348 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 2: are in the US, Yeah. 349 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: Which is a gigantic that's more than the population of Australia. 350 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 4: Where are we at in Australia? 351 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 2: Do you hear when they hear that dollar sides, they're like, 352 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 2: how do we just get the product to you? 353 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 3: Yes? 354 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,119 Speaker 2: And also there's been a bit of change of legalization 355 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 2: of gambling in the US, which would make a massive 356 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: difference as well across sport. And as much as we 357 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 2: don't necessarily like to think how inextricably linked. The two are, 358 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 2: but they are particularly with sport, and you're thinking about 359 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 2: international borders and different things like that. But all of 360 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: this then crescendos into Los Angeles having cricket as an 361 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 2: Olympic sport. 362 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: Yes, a number of new sports that are going to 363 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: be added to twenty twenty eight, including the cross as well, but. 364 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 3: They're already prevalent in the US. 365 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 2: Nay, You've get a home games where cricket is going 366 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 2: to be shown. And I just think, and especially when 367 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 2: we're seeing videos of Steve Smith being like I can't 368 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: wait to join Washington and you're like, wait, what. 369 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 3: When when is there a gap under Ricky Ponting? Yeah? 370 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 3: Is he is here the White House? I'm very is 371 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 3: what is happening? 372 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: My gosh, imagine when they get to visit the White 373 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,479 Speaker 1: House like the will you know they think they're going 374 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: to they're going to play cricket at the front of 375 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: the White House there like under the they will on 376 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: the horn like the. 377 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 3: Prime Minister's eleven. 378 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 2: Yes, they'll just have just have one hundred presidents even 379 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 2: think about. 380 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: That, the President's the President's eleven. They're gonna do it. 381 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: They're gonna it. Will it will happen. It's America, Land 382 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: of the Free. They can do whatever they want. 383 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 2: Apparently cricket actually originated in the US. This is the 384 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 2: plot twist of it all is that America, very very 385 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 2: early on, was part of what was apparently it's where 386 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 2: cricket all started in the eighteen hundreds, and then they 387 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 2: got over it. Because I was actually a link somewhere 388 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 2: and I was listening to wonderful podcast ABC Sports Daily 389 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: and they had a guest on and he was saying 390 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 2: that they have a president in the United States because 391 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 2: there used to be presidents of cricket clubs, that there 392 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 2: was a correlation there. 393 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: Or really, well everything old is new again, So this 394 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: is actually the prime time for to make it come. 395 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,479 Speaker 2: This is not a political podcast, and for good reason, 396 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 2: but we've ducked into it. But basically, I think, firstly, 397 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 2: it's amazing for Australian athletes to have a sport that 398 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 2: Australians play from a very young age and are four 399 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 2: point four to two million Mitchell Stark very good at it. Yes, 400 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 2: to become a game that perhaps could be as prevalent 401 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: as the world game soccer in terms of opportunities that 402 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 2: if you show talent as a young kid in Australia 403 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 2: that you can then go and be in development squads 404 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 2: in the US. 405 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and really have a genuine state in that oversaturated 406 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: market that already exists in the US. 407 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 4: It's available. 408 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't these promoters and these marketers and these organizers 409 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: be trying to tackle it. It makes complete sense and 410 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: I actually think it's going to work, like having Team 411 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: USA into the Super eight finals or however they're branding 412 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: it now with the T twenty. The competition is so flashy. 413 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: For that team to have made it into the top 414 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: eight against all of the other cricketing countries that are 415 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: pretty well versed in this sport, it's huge and it 416 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: has to be counted. 417 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 4: As a big success. 418 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 2: And we were also talking about when we're talking about 419 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 2: a World Cup in rugby and what interest to World 420 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 2: Cup could bring. You then need new fans to be 421 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 2: able to go, oh, okay, where's my team? 422 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 3: Yes, how do I support this? 423 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 2: Well? Now they do have major league cricket that they 424 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 2: can support and with one eye on the Olympics in 425 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 2: four years time. So there seems to be the infrastructure, 426 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 2: although my god, the infrastructure being built and then torn down. 427 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 3: That doesn't seem like a great idea. 428 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: So there is one stadium that they've constructed in New 429 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: York in Long Island, a temporary stadium, thirty two thousand 430 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: seat stadium. 431 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 4: It took five. 432 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: Months of them to construct it, thirty million US dollars. 433 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: It's hosting only eight matches and then it will be 434 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 1: pulled down at the conclusion of the tournament. There's part 435 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: of me, though, that has to really applaud the ingenuity 436 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: of this, because I mean, as a Brisbanian heading into 437 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: an Olympics in twenty thirty two, we don't even we 438 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: can't even we don't even have a stadium to put them. 439 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, we just build one. They can bro don't. 440 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 3: Tear it down. Can you put it on a ship? 441 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 3: We need it. 442 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. It's wild what they have been able to do 443 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: with this tournament, I think. And I just also the timing. 444 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: You're so right in that you do need if you're 445 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: going to create a bandwagon, you need somewhere for that 446 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: bandwagon to go. At the conclusion of the T twenty 447 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: World Cup, that's when the Major League cricket season starts 448 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: will be very very soon afterwards. 449 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 2: Will we start seeing American jargon infiltrate TA twenty, will 450 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: a six be a homer? Like? 451 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 3: Will they try to explain? 452 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: I can't wait for them to try and figure out 453 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: what a wicked is. That a wicket is a wicket, 454 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: but it's also the pitch sometimes. 455 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Like, there's so many wicket. 456 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 2: Play I don't know there's two of them? Are they 457 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 2: any different than usual? 458 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: Who's winning? They love winning Americans? So I can just 459 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: only imagine. I mean, you and I we have been 460 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: asked this question, oh countless times over the course of 461 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: our lives. 462 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 4: Who's winning in cricket? 463 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 3: Difficult sport? 464 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 4: Sport. 465 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: I've tried every other answer. When someone goes who's winning, 466 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 2: you go me and the day I've got nothing Like 467 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 2: you can't explain that there isn't a winner until there 468 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 2: is a winner, and that's the beauty of cricket. 469 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 4: Yeah. Will Americans be able to understand that, Oh. 470 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 3: If they can get their head around baseball? 471 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually think it's genuinely such a better product 472 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: than baseball. I am anti baseball somewhat because I just 473 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: think that it is. Why would you need sixteen thousand 474 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: hours for these? However, many countless innings, like I don't understand. 475 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: I don't understand. Baseball is made for baseball movies. 476 00:21:59,359 --> 00:21:59,719 Speaker 3: That's it. 477 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 2: I think that given the short attention spans of humanity 478 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 2: at the moment, it's like when you're trying to explain 479 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: a new card game, and honestly, it's like my brain 480 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 2: leaves my head when they're explaining the rules. You're just 481 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 2: like I that this is way too much for me 482 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 2: to get my head around. And that's where T twenty 483 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 2: will need to be so simplified, because there are some 484 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 2: rules that you need to know on others like off 485 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 2: spin and things that you don't necessarily need to understand. 486 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 3: You just watch the ball go. 487 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 4: I think, I think what they do? 488 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 3: You forget they're super overs. 489 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's so. 490 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 3: Many the power play again, all this sounds very American. 491 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 3: It does. 492 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: Actually, I was like, hang on a second, maybe this 493 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 1: was the end game this whole time. 494 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably was. 495 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 4: It probably was because they're just gonna love it. 496 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: Like imagine a Dave Warner type just smacking that ball 497 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: around like Americans. 498 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 3: Are going to be like what they He was also 499 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 3: made for American meeting? 500 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, actually that's something that our lovely 501 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,639 Speaker 1: cricketers might need to just be a little bit more outgoing. 502 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: That's how they'll make their break. Steve Smith, come on, 503 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: you've got to be a little bit more like on 504 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: the front foot there, I say with the American media 505 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: to make it work. 506 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:24,919 Speaker 2: But just don't say don't blush baby. 507 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 4: Gell me you'll love this fun fact. 508 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:19,919 Speaker 3: I already do. 509 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 4: Always always preloved. 510 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: Because we did talk about earlier how the US may 511 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: be the birthplace of cricket. 512 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 4: Right, well, it seems that cricket may be in their dna. 513 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: Indeed, the start of this T twenty World Cup, the 514 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: opening clash was between Team USA and Canada. You mentioned 515 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 1: that earlier, but in eighteen forty four, that was when 516 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: those two teams first played each other. What and that 517 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 1: match took place thirty three years before the first Test match, 518 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: making it the oldest international cricket match and possibly the 519 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: oldest in any sport. 520 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 3: Tell me, tell me, do you want to know what 521 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 3: my brain just went to? 522 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 4: Where did it go? 523 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:05,120 Speaker 3: I wonder if there's any foot I just thought, Oh, 524 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 3: I wonderful they were worrying. 525 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 7: Oh google it, Oh my god, they've got one of 526 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 7: those those things we go, someone's. 527 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 4: Constructed a flat game. 528 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 3: I just can't believe. 529 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 2: I haven't seen any foot of that for we haven't 530 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 2: dug that out of the archives. 531 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 3: Probably wasn't prevalent in the eighteen forties. 532 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: Oh, apparently this is continue with the fun fat This 533 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: is a fun little bit of information here. Apparently for 534 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: a while that fixture USA v Canada was an annual match. 535 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 4: However, it started as a practical joke. 536 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: A man claiming to be a Canadian player called George 537 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: great name Philpotts challenged the Saint George's club, Sorry have 538 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: I created Cricket in New York to a match against 539 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: his own Toronto Cricket Club. The Americans traveled to Toronto 540 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: for the match, only to find the invitation. 541 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 4: It was a oaks you never remember them to come, 542 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 4: but the. 543 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,719 Speaker 3: Two teams would have been hard. That would have been 544 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 3: hard via c. 545 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 4: It took nineteen years, but they got there. 546 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 1: They played the match anyway, since the Americans had got there, 547 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 1: and Team USA one. 548 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 2: For shadowing the results we saw in twenty twenty four. 549 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 4: It's in their blood. 550 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 2: So maybe there's just all these dormant cricket fans that 551 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,360 Speaker 2: have been waiting there two hundred years to come out 552 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 2: of the woodworks and just support gym uso. 553 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: So ironic that vampires would be the perfect audience for 554 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: this sport, but yet it could kill them really easily. 555 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 5: Bah. 556 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,959 Speaker 4: And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I have killed Jommy. 557 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: And that is the end of of Two Good Sports. 558 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 4: Thank you once again for listening. 559 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: As always, please follow us on socials at two Good 560 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: Sports podcast. 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