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Speaker 1: Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hey everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Unplayable Podcast. We've got
Speaker 1: a big show for you today as always, Kane Richardson here,
Speaker 1: josh On I think is my name? And rich O
Speaker 1: being told to move on by any former Australian lead spinners.
Speaker 1: This week, I hasn't been a pretty quiet week for you?
Speaker 2: Pretty quiet week? Yeah, I'm all about the podcast Love today.
Speaker 2: There's been a little bit going on where, you know,
Speaker 2: people have been bickering and even other other hosts have
Speaker 2: been throwing their mates under the bus. So I'm all
Speaker 2: about just us being as tight as we can be today.
Speaker 2: Friendship Podcast Love. So it was actually my weekly We
Speaker 2: know you've jumped the gun there, but that was going
Speaker 2: to be my weekly winn, just bringing back the love
Speaker 2: in podcasting. Oh you know what, when my kids would
Speaker 2: dream about doing this one day and we do it
Speaker 2: for the love Okay, So let's remember that friendship. We're
Speaker 2: here together, we're a team. We work together at all time.
Speaker 2: So thanks for the segue.
Speaker 1: But wow, okay, yeah, yeah, that was not set up
Speaker 1: at all, So it wasn't.
Speaker 2: We actually haven't spoken until we got in here. We're
Speaker 2: saving our material for this podcast. But I just wanted
Speaker 2: you to know that I want to get on the
Speaker 2: front foot and get it out there for everyone, but
Speaker 2: for yourself, that we're a team, we're equal.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yep, you're welcome anyway, move on.
Speaker 1: I think it's about the third time you even wanted
Speaker 1: it to me as well, So nice that's to us.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to give it to us.
Speaker 1: I like that. And because cricketers always say that they
Speaker 1: play get the best results when they're enjoying the game,
Speaker 1: and they you know, they haven't fallen out of clubs,
Speaker 1: so that makes sense. We're going to get our best
Speaker 1: results on this pot if we're just feeling the love like.
Speaker 3: We did when we're kids, and we did this.
Speaker 1: Absolutely my likely winner. I'm going over to New Zealand
Speaker 1: first class cricket. Did you see this during the week
Speaker 1: Brett Randell Randell sorry, Brett Randall, got to get his
Speaker 1: name right. Five wickets in five balls, the first time
Speaker 1: that's happened in first class history. Central Stags against the
Speaker 1: Northern Districts. He finished with seven to twenty five, three
Speaker 1: handy figures. But five in five doesn't get much better
Speaker 1: than that, does it?
Speaker 3: Well in six from six would be better. I did.
Speaker 2: I actually watched it because you sent it to me
Speaker 2: because I wasn't following the live stream.
Speaker 3: Actually just turned it off before that happened.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, the way the mode of dismissal,
Speaker 2: and I've read the comments is a little bit of
Speaker 2: conjecture over the hat trick dismissal. But he had it moving,
Speaker 2: he had the ball talking, didn't he. So remember the name.
Speaker 2: You actually got it wrong there, So let's make sure
Speaker 2: from now on we never get his name.
Speaker 3: Wrong, which is Rendell.
Speaker 2: Randell made the same mistake, Remember the name, But pretty
Speaker 2: impressive start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe the umpire got a little bit caught
Speaker 1: in the moment with that third one, But you know
Speaker 1: that's okay, isn't it, Because at the end of the
Speaker 1: day he goes and gets two more.
Speaker 2: So part of history. Yeah, I actually was surprised that's
Speaker 2: never been done. Like you think of how long we've
Speaker 2: been playing first US cricket. Isn't there records back in
Speaker 2: the thirteen like thirteen hundreds or whatever it was, We
Speaker 2: had pictures with where guys take fifteen hundred wickets over
Speaker 2: their career and average one point two with the ball.
Speaker 2: So I'm actually surprised that that never happened. So yeah,
Speaker 2: at least the umpire is part of history. Whether that
Speaker 2: dismissed was wrong or right, it's in the in the
Speaker 2: record books forever.
Speaker 1: Amazing. One of the comments I saw, can you imagine
Speaker 1: the at a confusion and chaos in the change rooms
Speaker 1: when the number sevens padding up even though it wasn't
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of overs into the match.
Speaker 3: It's like that bad dream.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever had it, but a
Speaker 2: lot of cricketers have had that dream where you're next in,
Speaker 2: you're not even padded up, you're wearing like flip flops
Speaker 2: walking around there outside of the ground. That's that's that
Speaker 2: running between the wickets, when you're stuck in the mud.
Speaker 2: That's the cricketers get. So you're right, that probably would
Speaker 2: have been a real life bad dream for a lot
Speaker 2: of that middle order.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because getting timed out. We don't see that a lot,
Speaker 1: but I mean this is a prime case.
Speaker 3: Is that how the sixth wicket felt?
Speaker 1: Maybe we had some responses to our Big four from
Speaker 1: last week, which was the best part time bowlers. So
Speaker 1: thank you to everyone who got involved on Instagram and
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Speaker 1: podcast at cricket dot com dot. You'll get that right.
Speaker 1: One day, Travis Head was mentioned a lot and a lot.
Speaker 1: We didn't give him any laugh. He was, he was
Speaker 1: in the notes, He was in the notes, but we
Speaker 1: didn't officially nominate him. Michael Clark of course, Michael Bevan
Speaker 1: left risties and Steve Spith of course, with right wrist
Speaker 1: spin he got a lot of bluff, as did Sashinton Duoka,
Speaker 1: who yeah, took a lot of wickets, But of course
Speaker 1: he's known for his batting xpos, isn't he.
Speaker 2: So they're interesting. Michael Bevan under an under used bowler,
Speaker 2: but I wouldn't. He didn't bowl March, did he like?
Speaker 2: Even in white Pool Cricket not a he Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: just going off without looking at stats, but I feel
Speaker 2: like I never really got to see him, but I
Speaker 2: remember him bowling but not, it wasn't It wasn't enough
Speaker 2: to even be a part timmy. He was, what's what's
Speaker 2: the next category? Well, yeah, what's below part timer? Minimal
Speaker 2: time occasional.
Speaker 1: We have an answer from Dawsy as well. He said
Speaker 1: I want to see Manus bowl Moore, but hear me
Speaker 1: out more as an off spinner.
Speaker 3: An off spinner. Yeah, has he even bowled that before?
Speaker 1: I think we saw him did a little bit for
Speaker 1: Glamorgan maybe a year raw ago.
Speaker 2: That's on the counter ground. Anything, it's a different game.
Speaker 2: Anything can happen and acceptable. Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 2: Declaration bowling in counting cricket is a common thing, so
Speaker 2: maybe he was declaration bowling.
Speaker 3: We don't want that.
Speaker 1: That's a bad look. So and of course one other
Speaker 1: shout out to Curtis Patterson, the new South Wales veteran
Speaker 1: who got his first wicket in professional cricket last week.
Speaker 1: It was a can't really say an unplayable delivery to
Speaker 1: get rid of base and Sanger, but it was a
Speaker 1: full toss and Sanger, who was one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: at the time, hit it straight to Charlie Stobo at
Speaker 1: short leg sorry square leg, but it doesn't matter, doesn't It.
Speaker 2: Does not matter that it must have been an amazing feeling,
Speaker 2: like he clocked up one hundred first GUSS games to
Speaker 2: New South Walest recently and you said it's first week
Speaker 2: in all fourmats and he's yeah, mid approaching mid thirty.
Speaker 2: So he probably would have those sleepless nights thinking is
Speaker 2: it ever going to happen? And there you go to do
Speaker 2: it to get his ex team made out. They lost
Speaker 2: the game, but I think he would have been the
Speaker 2: happiest man in Australia when they hit the postgame drinks.
Speaker 3: So well done, KP.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well on KP. And we'll touch a little bit
Speaker 1: more on KP in New South Wales as we get
Speaker 1: into the One Day Cup preview that's coming up after
Speaker 1: this short break. There's also been a T twenty World
Speaker 1: Cup Women's cricket and a Shield final to come up,
Speaker 1: so after this we'll be right back. It's the One
Speaker 1: Day Cup Final this week. Rich O March eleven on
Speaker 1: Wednesday's Tasmania hosting New South Wales. A great chance of
Speaker 1: the Tigers to win their first title in sixteen seasons.
Speaker 1: They haven't won it since two thousand and nine. To
Speaker 1: ten and they've got some big inclusions as well, Nathan Allis,
Speaker 1: Matt Koneman and Matthew Waiter all in the equation to
Speaker 1: return to the eleven. They've had a great season so far.
Speaker 1: They won their first five games, a little bit of
Speaker 1: a stumble just after Christmas, losing their last two, but
Speaker 1: you'd have to say they've been the most dominant side
Speaker 1: this year and they were nominated by you right at
Speaker 1: the start of the season to be run up there
Speaker 1: at the end of the At the end of the.
Speaker 2: Year they were probably wasn't for the One Day Cup,
Speaker 2: but when you look at their team and the inclusions
Speaker 2: to come back in, you can see why they started
Speaker 2: the season so well. Jordan Silk was joking over the
Speaker 2: Big Bash that is the Hobart Hurricanes Academy, and he's
Speaker 2: one of the overseas being from the Sydney Sixers, so
Speaker 2: Matt Cooeman is obviously the other. I don't think there's
Speaker 2: anyone else that plays for another Big Bash team. Wow,
Speaker 2: okay off the top of my head, but again, a
Speaker 2: team that's pretty well put together for the for the
Speaker 2: Big Bash in terms of that Hobart squad, So to
Speaker 2: keep that team together to play one day cricket, which
Speaker 2: isn't the same, but it can correlate pretty well to
Speaker 2: fifty overs. So they're going to put a really strong
Speaker 2: team on the on the on the park and going
Speaker 2: to be hard to beat, especially in their conditions. So
Speaker 2: I will claim that if they win that it was
Speaker 2: my thought process back in September, but I definitely thought
Speaker 2: that they would be around the mark for the Shield.
Speaker 2: So if they can win a One Day Cup, I'm
Speaker 2: sure they'll put the season together as a positive and
Speaker 2: move along for the last Shield game for the year.
Speaker 1: Definitely. Silki also suggested to you that we might see
Speaker 1: Mitchell and opening this Shepherd. We didn't quite see that
Speaker 1: this year, did we didn't. He's been doing it in
Speaker 1: the One Day came.
Speaker 2: Well, there's one game to go, and we just joked that,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like the end of term when you
Speaker 2: get to March, and you know, if there's one game
Speaker 2: to go and there's nothing to lose, or that's a
Speaker 2: gain or there could be something to gain, let's put
Speaker 2: unleash in. Yeah, you put it out there, You told
Speaker 2: me to put it on the podcast. He made me
Speaker 2: look silly, so back it up. He's got one chance,
Speaker 2: one chance. See what happens New South Wales.
Speaker 1: They won't have Steve Smith, and they won't have Mitch
Speaker 1: Stark or Josh Hazel would of course, but they do
Speaker 1: have obviously plenty of players who have been in and
Speaker 1: around a strange selection of recent years. Sewn Abbott, Ben
Speaker 1: Dorsies are going to be available, and Adam Zampa, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: well maybe fortunately for TANV is saying up. I think
Speaker 1: Sampa has put his hand up to play, but given
Speaker 1: that tam V has been in and around, he's sort
Speaker 1: of said, well, he's the leading we could taker in
Speaker 1: the competition. I'm going to let you play. It's unlikely
Speaker 1: to play two spinners down at Hobart, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably the last place you would pick two
Speaker 2: legies for a fifty over game. So yeah, again from
Speaker 2: Adam's point of view, I'm sure he'd love to play,
Speaker 2: but also very what's.
Speaker 3: The word very selfish?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably the word that you know, TAMV has
Speaker 2: been there the whole year, so give him his opportunity.
Speaker 2: And he's obviously a player coming through that has been
Speaker 2: identified as possibly having a really long career in White
Speaker 2: Book cricket, especially for Australia, so to get a final
Speaker 2: under his belt, his age is beneficial and probably the
Speaker 2: opposite of how Tazzi you're doing it. They're loading up,
Speaker 2: aren't They're getting a forty year old back from Australian
Speaker 2: coaching duty to that in the middle order. But I
Speaker 2: mean he's obviously a an amazing player as well, so
Speaker 2: why wouldn't you do that? But you can't fit all
Speaker 2: leg spinners into the eleven. So yeah, very noble of
Speaker 2: zants and I'm sure TMB is very happy that he
Speaker 2: gets the opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as much as we'd love to have six legs
Speaker 1: spinners in the team, which just doesn't happen, does it.
Speaker 1: Curtis Patterson, he has hit five hundred and thirteen runs
Speaker 1: in this competitions, the most out of anybody, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to flag that if he passes six hundred
Speaker 1: runs this season, so if he gets eighty seven or more,
Speaker 1: which you wouldn't put it past him, he will join
Speaker 1: only two players to hit six hundred runs in a
Speaker 1: One Day Cup season Brad Hodge in twenty nine ten
Speaker 1: and Phil Jakes in two thousand and five six And
Speaker 1: those were the days they were playing ten or eleven
Speaker 1: games a season. We only play six or seven now,
Speaker 1: so incredible stuff from Curtis. Of course, Manus lavish and
Speaker 1: is hit four centuries, but Curtis still has more runs
Speaker 1: than him, and it's just been one of those all
Speaker 1: time seasons it has.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like you said, they played a hell of
Speaker 2: a lot more so it's pretty steen company just off
Speaker 2: the back of that. But then to do it in
Speaker 2: half the half the games or a bit over half
Speaker 2: the games is such an amazing achievement. So hopefully he does.
Speaker 3: That's been good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a history love we love recent
Speaker 2: recent history being included with the you know, the greats
Speaker 2: of the competition. So have they named the one Day
Speaker 2: Player of the year. Did Manus get that or have
Speaker 2: they not named that?
Speaker 1: Yeahs Manus is pretty.
Speaker 2: Unlucky to miss out Curtis when you rattle off those numbers,
Speaker 2: but insane. I mean, Malnus has obviously had a great
Speaker 2: season as well, but Curtis's team are in the final
Speaker 2: where it matters, so Coinsland are chasing the Shield final.
Speaker 2: But at least again there's only two trophies up for
Speaker 2: grabs for state teams. As such, So to be in
Speaker 2: the running for one is what you want.
Speaker 1: And Curtis he was the driving force in the most
Speaker 1: recent victory over Tasmania. Just a week or so ago,
Speaker 1: new had the Bells chase down Tasmaniu's two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four in only thirty one overs. Patterson hit one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five not out from eighty nine balls,
Speaker 1: and Greg ship had said after the game, this performance
Speaker 1: deserves a bit more attention because to chase down mat
Speaker 1: at what nine and over? Yeah, I mean, yes, it's
Speaker 1: at Bell Reeve where scoring can be pretty good, but
Speaker 1: even so nine over is incredible.
Speaker 2: It's tough to do so and that that would have
Speaker 2: been that would have got him into the finals, and
Speaker 2: they got there with nine. They almost got a triple
Speaker 2: bonus point, didn't they. So yeah, to do that to
Speaker 2: get to make a final is yeah. I mean Greg
Speaker 2: Schippard's talking there. This is his kind of last cracket
Speaker 2: with him moving aside at the end of the year
Speaker 2: and then being out of the Shield running. So I mean,
Speaker 2: for him, he must feel so proud of that that
Speaker 2: team for turning it around and being in with an
Speaker 2: opportunity to win a to win a final. And we've
Speaker 2: talked about New South Wales cricket. They've been a little
Speaker 2: bit down the last few years, so for them to
Speaker 2: turn it around since the Big Bushes has finished, yeah,
Speaker 2: it must make him really proud that he's leaving that
Speaker 2: stayed in. Well, what you would say is a better
Speaker 2: they're in better shape than when he took over and
Speaker 2: in a few years ago, and he's he's had a
Speaker 2: great track record wherever he's been bringing success. So yeah,
Speaker 2: hopefully I mean hopefully for him he wants to win,
Speaker 2: but also Tazzy do as well, So there's some good
Speaker 2: storylines approaching this One Day Cup final.
Speaker 1: Now that you're a new South Wales resident, have you
Speaker 1: been approached about the vacant gig at all?
Speaker 3: I haven't.
Speaker 2: I've just been compiling my coaching experience, which is minimal
Speaker 2: at this stage. So maybe in about fifteen to forty
Speaker 2: five years I'll look at that. When I say forty
Speaker 2: five years, it's probably how old ship he is and
Speaker 2: he's put together forty five years of it. Yeah, so yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I haven't thought about that one.
Speaker 1: And of course, if we go right back to the
Speaker 1: start of the season, Tazzy defeated New South Wales by
Speaker 1: two wickets. It was that match where Brad Hope and
Speaker 1: Matt Cooneman put one hundred RUMs for the ninth wicket.
Speaker 1: So they've already played twice this season when yeah, you
Speaker 1: only play every team once and then yeah there's one team,
Speaker 1: so it'll be their third matchup for the year and
Speaker 1: it's one to one at the minute.
Speaker 2: And with Koneman back in the team that well, bowlers meeting,
Speaker 2: their bowler's meeting is probably going to go over time.
Speaker 3: Now how do we get him out?
Speaker 2: So vital inclusion for Tassy maybe maybe just as much
Speaker 2: for his batting as his bowling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in terms of the bowling for Tasmania, their leading
Speaker 1: wicket taker this year was a bit of a surprise
Speaker 1: to me. Nikil Chowdury eight wickets. He's got the most
Speaker 1: for them, just ahead of Billy stan Lake and Mitchel
Speaker 1: and on seven apiece. But Chowdery we see him bowl maybe
Speaker 1: over here and then over there in the Big Bash,
Speaker 1: but he's turned out to be an effective we could
Speaker 1: taker for them in this for.
Speaker 3: The Big Bash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe a bit.
Speaker 2: More, well obviously a bit more and fifty over cricket,
Speaker 2: but definitely a bit more. I'm sure if he played
Speaker 2: for a team that didn't have the bowling depth that
Speaker 2: Hobart has, he'd probably I'm not saying he's bowl for
Speaker 2: every game, but he definitely bowl more than what he does,
Speaker 2: so very handy, very handy option. I mean as a
Speaker 2: cricketer in general, I think he's improved out of side
Speaker 2: in the last couple of years. But yeah, to be
Speaker 2: leading the wicket takers in a one day comp just
Speaker 2: shows his growth. So again there'll be more on the
Speaker 2: horizon for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And of course ten Vier saying as we touched on,
Speaker 1: he's got eighteen wickets. It's the most in the competition,
Speaker 1: just ahead of Mitch Swebson who's got fifteen. Took that
Speaker 1: incredible seven for twenty eight a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: which is the third or fourth best figures in the
Speaker 1: competition's history. So leg spin is doing well.
Speaker 2: So he's got eighteen wickets for the year in six games,
Speaker 2: pretty good going. And for ten Va he had a
Speaker 2: pretty tough Big Bash in terms of wickets for a
Speaker 2: leg spinner spent some time out of the Thunder team
Speaker 2: and for a young guy that would bat your confidence
Speaker 2: around a little bit, so for him to then come
Speaker 2: back out of that and pre big Bash in a
Speaker 2: different form, to just be taking wickets like that and
Speaker 2: leading his team along with Curtis Patterson to a final.
Speaker 3: As I said, he's got a big career in his future.
Speaker 2: Once Adam hangs up his boots, if he ever does,
Speaker 2: from the One Day and T twenty teams ten V
Speaker 2: will be ready to go. So it's great for him
Speaker 2: to be yes showing so much form through a fifty overseason.
Speaker 1: There have been a couple of other guys who have
Speaker 1: made cricket dot com dot Who's unofficial Team of the
Speaker 1: Tournament who it's worth shouting out as well. I reckon
Speaker 1: Joel Curtis from Wa four hundred and thirty one runs.
Speaker 1: He's been opening over there in the West. He's made
Speaker 1: his maiden one hundred and a couple of other fifties
Speaker 1: as well, and he's a keeper, so he brings a
Speaker 1: lot to the table, doesn't he. Joel Curtis just sort
Speaker 1: of arrived on a domestic scene last season, but this
Speaker 1: year is really Cashtume made it. That's what his own.
Speaker 1: When Josh Englis has been out of the team.
Speaker 2: Well that's a key point, isn't it. So that's kind
Speaker 2: of that role that Josh Philip he filled for a
Speaker 2: long time and decided that he wanted to be somewhere
Speaker 2: where he can play every game, and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden wa as they have done for the last
Speaker 2: ten years, just found another guy that can obviously play
Speaker 2: to the level. So it's amazing when you get an opportunity,
Speaker 2: consistent opportunity. Josh Englis is always away, so yeah, embarrassment
Speaker 2: of riches really.
Speaker 1: And speaking of embarrassment of riches, the West always produced
Speaker 1: fast bowlers. Seems like they got another one in Bryce
Speaker 1: Jackson with fifteen wickets as well to his name this season.
Speaker 1: Tall bowler obviously, he runs and looks like he hits
Speaker 1: the bath hard, yes, every ball. But have you seen
Speaker 1: much of Bryce and what have you made of him
Speaker 1: so far?
Speaker 2: Action Jackson? Yeah, I like he's set up great one
Speaker 2: day numbers to start. I was actually disappointed he didn't
Speaker 2: get a game in the Big Bash because I thought
Speaker 2: there would be at some point a role to play.
Speaker 2: But again, when you talk about the depth of fast
Speaker 2: bowling and what led to another BBL title, it probably
Speaker 2: shows that he might have to look for opportunities elsewhere
Speaker 2: to get an opportunity in the Big Bash. But as
Speaker 2: we said, it can correlate One day form to T twenty.
Speaker 2: There's similarities in terms of bowling at the death and
Speaker 2: power play and that kind of stuff. So to be
Speaker 2: taking wickets like he has done in fifty other cricket
Speaker 2: shows that he's got a future in T twenty.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like I like him.
Speaker 2: It's just got you look at him and you go
Speaker 2: that you know when you see team warming up, if
Speaker 2: you didn't know who that.
Speaker 3: Guy bowls fast, Yeah, he's a fast bowler.
Speaker 1: So he's got the look.
Speaker 3: He's got the look. Yeah, he's got the pedigree.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if anybody nominated Tim Ward as
Speaker 1: their breakout player for this season, but he has all
Speaker 1: formats been in fantastic form me. He's among the top
Speaker 1: round scorers in the Sheffield Shield, he's among the top
Speaker 1: rubscrews in the One Day Cup with three hundred and
Speaker 1: five runs and two hundreds, and then he had a
Speaker 1: couple of really impressive innings for the Hurricanes did and
Speaker 1: he seems to bat all through the order as well.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he opens, sometimes he's three or four. Adaptability, very
Speaker 1: flexible and very productive player this year.
Speaker 2: Again, Jordan Silk's getting a good run here. But he
Speaker 2: did say at the start of the Big Bash I
Speaker 2: asked him about him. I think maybe played a game
Speaker 2: or two and I said, but to tell me about
Speaker 2: Tim Wooden and he goes, nah, good, like watch him,
Speaker 2: he'll fly. And I think next game he got that
Speaker 2: eighty I think it was an eighty nine and a
Speaker 2: chase or ninety nine chase against the Thunder almost Matt
Speaker 2: Renshall like in terms of the way he approaches for
Speaker 2: day cricket. Old Matt Renshaw how it used to be like,
Speaker 2: you know, grind you out, but then puts the colors
Speaker 2: on and then all of a sudden, turns into an
Speaker 2: expansive you know, strikes it over one hundred and one
Speaker 2: day cricket. So again, I'm not sure the age profile,
Speaker 2: probably mid twenty, so a lot of growth to go
Speaker 2: for him, and no doubt a three format kind of
Speaker 2: guy who's going to switch between and excel at all.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think anyone mentioned him on the breakouts.
Speaker 2: I was actually looking at those notes just before, so
Speaker 2: we all missed that trick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's Silky's getting a lot of love, so.
Speaker 2: Maybe should be a list manager Silks. He's all over
Speaker 2: the place, isn't.
Speaker 1: He definitely in retrospective At the very least. The Shield
Speaker 1: final round is coming up round ten. It's down to
Speaker 1: three teams who can make that final. Victoria already locked
Speaker 1: in and then we've got South Australia currently sitting in
Speaker 1: second spot, Queensland there in third. Queensland need Victoria to
Speaker 1: beat South Australia this week and then queens And they're
Speaker 1: going to have to take care of Tazzy down at Hobart,
Speaker 1: so that's not going to be easy. But South Australia
Speaker 1: at this point in time, they're in the box seat
Speaker 1: to have a crack at back to back for the
Speaker 1: first time in their history.
Speaker 3: They are.
Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting because they're playing Victoria at
Speaker 2: the Junction, which is going to be the final. And
Speaker 2: will Victoria just put the Q in the rack and say, wow,
Speaker 2: we don't really care about this week. Give them the
Speaker 2: opportunity Southustralia to win and come back. But then is
Speaker 2: that going to or do the Victoria just approach it
Speaker 2: like another game and it's actually going to be harder
Speaker 2: for South Stralia to take some points and win. So
Speaker 2: therefore Queens end's in the box seat against Tazzy who
Speaker 2: have nothing to play for and what could be an
Speaker 2: underdone wicked you know, they might win the One Day Cup.
Speaker 3: I'm going through.
Speaker 2: Some hypothetical the celebration if they win a One Day Cup,
Speaker 2: who cares about that last year game. I'm not saying that,
Speaker 2: but I'm saying, you know, let's just get through this game,
Speaker 2: put a green wicket up, let's get through it in
Speaker 2: two days and be done with it. So's it's going
Speaker 2: to be interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: If you're Victoria. Do you want to play South Australia
Speaker 1: or do you want to play Queensland?
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. I do not know.
Speaker 2: I think, well, say one last year, so I'm not
Speaker 2: sure you'd want to experience. And again it's not like
Speaker 2: the old Chield Finals where a draw you just bat
Speaker 2: them out and take a draw and win. But then
Speaker 2: Queens are looking at Queensland, there's still so many players
Speaker 2: in that team that you don't want to play in
Speaker 2: the final. No guys that had such a Nasa Labashane
Speaker 2: like Kwaja Kwajah Renshaw like there's there's guys throughout that
Speaker 2: team that in one game can turn it. So I'm
Speaker 2: not sure there's I'm not sure they're picking. I think
Speaker 2: they're just happy to hopefully have both those last games
Speaker 2: go for the duration and get lots of overs into
Speaker 2: the bowlers and they're all chasing that win for southtral
Speaker 2: and coincidence, so they're going to be throwing everything at it.
Speaker 2: So tune into that last round of Shield cricket. It's
Speaker 2: going to be fascinating, definitely.
Speaker 1: Of course it's all live and free on the Cricket
Speaker 1: Australia Live app and cricket dot Com. Today it feels
Speaker 1: like they're with Victoria. They could rest Bowler and Sutherland
Speaker 1: and Perry and then they've still got O'Neill and Elliott
Speaker 1: and Murphy and a few others who McClure who seemed
Speaker 1: to take wickets, so they've got an embarrassment of riches.
Speaker 2: They do it and again, will will they underprepare a
Speaker 2: wicket just to get through the game. Not? You know,
Speaker 2: you don't want to, You don't want to get forty
Speaker 2: five overs into each each year quicks on the flat one,
Speaker 2: but then you do want to if it's South Australia
Speaker 2: making it through the final.
Speaker 3: You do want some toll on their bowlers as well.
Speaker 2: So there's so many mind games to be played out
Speaker 2: and pitch doctoring and all that stuff. Not saying it happens,
Speaker 2: but the funn and games is shell cricket. It's a
Speaker 2: live and well going into last round. What a broadcasts delight.
Speaker 2: Absolutely all results possible for the top.
Speaker 1: Three definitely and the live ladder in the Shepherd.
Speaker 3: Yeah, following it ladder predictor.
Speaker 1: Definitely the Aussie women. Well, they signed off in fine
Speaker 1: style in the Alyssa Healy. After two hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine games, she's played her last one. They won the
Speaker 1: Test match in Perth by ten wickets, which means they
Speaker 1: won the series over India twelve to four on the
Speaker 1: points table. There great to see the hero signed off
Speaker 1: like that. I've saw some stuff on the socials about
Speaker 1: the great team song rendition and a human pyramid on
Speaker 1: the outfield of the whack of ground as well. So
Speaker 1: she's got to be missed, isn't she. I mean we'll
Speaker 1: hear her in commentary and her thoughts on the games.
Speaker 1: We'll still be there. But in terms of her personality
Speaker 1: and her performances. Yeah, Wow, she's going to leave a
Speaker 1: big hule.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, generational players. It turned out the way her
Speaker 2: exports throughout that Golden generation that won so many trophies.
Speaker 2: She was front centers, you know, opening the batting, being
Speaker 2: such a key cog of that that kind of that
Speaker 2: team for so long. As you said, she'll still be
Speaker 2: around the game and her insights, I think you know
Speaker 2: on com so I think she's taken to that really well.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that that stuff is what she'll miss. I
Speaker 2: reckon that that that those stories that you spoke about
Speaker 2: as after they won that that seriesn't And I think
Speaker 2: that's what a lot of guys miss when they do retire,
Speaker 2: is that that you can't really do that in the
Speaker 2: combox anymore, can you. At the end of a series,
Speaker 2: you know you've been part of the media.
Speaker 3: You probably haven't.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe after our last podcast this year, have some celebrated.
Speaker 2: Okay, get out in the outfield and take our shoes
Speaker 2: off and maybe, but yeah, it's not just different.
Speaker 3: It's different, isn't it.
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: But yeah, what a career.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have the words to sum up
Speaker 2: what she did, but yeah, she's going to leave a
Speaker 2: massive gap. And it's funny how cricket moves on. They're
Speaker 2: off on a tour pretty shortly on to the Caribbean
Speaker 2: and someone else gets an opportunity to take her spot
Speaker 2: and make a career of their own.
Speaker 3: But yeah, amazing career a Lissa.
Speaker 1: And they've got already made keep her replacement in Beth
Speaker 1: Mooney who's already taken the gloves and started that transition.
Speaker 1: So yeah, cricket moves on very quickly, doesn't it. Annabel
Speaker 1: Sutherlan got her fourth Test century in this match as
Speaker 1: well her starts at the Whacker ground in tests. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you saw them, but she's averaging one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty nine with the bat and eight point
Speaker 1: seven with the ball.
Speaker 3: So good.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to play every game there?
Speaker 3: That's probably first pick.
Speaker 1: This is a breakout player?
Speaker 2: Perhaps, Well should I check the notes?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I well, I was going to mention one name, Lucy Hamilton.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, deb what she takes six for sixty three.
Speaker 3: Over the game.
Speaker 2: Fantastic And I thought you had as a breakout but
Speaker 2: you didn't. It was Jack, Louis and Laura.
Speaker 1: Did they all? They all did so they saw it coming.
Speaker 2: It comes that time of the year, the report cards
Speaker 2: coming out for those would probably have to go through
Speaker 2: them in next week, I think so. But there's one
Speaker 2: that they all got right and big tick for l
Speaker 2: massive tick and what a place to debut as well
Speaker 2: for tat cricket to debut there and do as well
Speaker 2: as she did at nineteen years old, like.
Speaker 1: No sign of nerves at all when out there, looked
Speaker 1: like a professional, like as if you'd been playing at
Speaker 1: the top level for ten years.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very few loose balls from what I saw on
Speaker 1: the money got it to swing, Like how good is
Speaker 1: It's everything you want?
Speaker 3: That's everything you want, isn't it.
Speaker 2: So you talk about cricket moving on, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you've got a nineteen year old who looks like who's
Speaker 2: going to be there for the next fifteen years. So
Speaker 2: again that's the product of Australian cricket pathways in both
Speaker 2: male and female that hopefully there's always just someone pushing through,
Speaker 2: isn't there to you know when these greats of the game,
Speaker 2: and the same with the men, we're going to be
Speaker 2: under that pressure at some point where our list is
Speaker 2: better half, you know that kind of thing. When they
Speaker 2: move on, they leave the big hole, but hopefully there's
Speaker 2: people pushing through that are ready to take it.
Speaker 1: And in terms of Lucy Hamilton, well, last year's Under
Speaker 1: nineteen World Cup, she's batting top order, so it's not
Speaker 1: as if she's just the bowler. She's genuine all around
Speaker 1: her and we'll see her slowly move up that order
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: I reckon, it's kind of like at least Perry started
Speaker 2: that way did she was more of a bowler and
Speaker 2: then I mean look at the exploits she's turned out
Speaker 2: Sutherlands the other one. So it's a pretty good there's
Speaker 2: a pretty good little lineage there of how careers start.
Speaker 2: And I mean Steve Smith's another one in the Males
Speaker 2: that started as a leggie and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden it's the best, that's second best bats move produced arguably.
Speaker 2: So yeah, watch this space with their batting shout out
Speaker 2: to the dawn. Is that what I was talking about?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: And now Australia move on to yea, the West Indies,
Speaker 1: as you touched on, they won't play a Test match
Speaker 1: there anymore, which was originally scheduled, but that's been scrapped.
Speaker 1: They are going to play three oudios and three T
Speaker 1: twenties that'll be quickly followed by the T twenty War
Speaker 1: Cup in England. Unlessa herely said Australia might be sneaking
Speaker 1: under the radar at that T twenty World Cup, I
Speaker 1: think that's maybe asking a little bit too much. This
Speaker 1: is the US training women's team after all, even though
Speaker 1: the T twenty format is looking like their weakest format,
Speaker 1: and I say weakest in a very relative sense because
Speaker 1: there's still a strong team, but they do have a
Speaker 1: few question marks to answer in that side, so it
Speaker 1: will be a fascinating little build up towards that big
Speaker 1: tournament for them.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, but I think that's great lead in going
Speaker 2: to the Caribbean so quickly after this home series and
Speaker 2: as we said, giving opportunity now to the next group
Speaker 2: coming through and T twenties again, anything can happen in
Speaker 2: the World Cup. So you say it's not probably not
Speaker 2: their strongest format, but anytime a team has had experience
Speaker 2: winning well, especially fifty other World Cups that they've dominated
Speaker 2: for so long, there's proven match when it's throughout that
Speaker 2: are still there, so they'll be right in the running again.
Speaker 2: But also I'm predicting that, and we've shown we're not
Speaker 2: always the best at predicting World Cup winners? Are we
Speaker 2: all semi finalists or finalists? So maybe the less we
Speaker 2: say about that.
Speaker 1: The better I think so. Yeah, But people who know
Speaker 1: a lot about the women's game of Runner Hussein and
Speaker 1: Molly Strano, they're on the Scoop podcast now if you
Speaker 1: want to go over there and check them out. They've
Speaker 1: got Amanda Jade Wellington as their special guest this week,
Speaker 1: the leading we could take here in the women's National
Speaker 1: Cricket League and she's always a good listener as well,
Speaker 1: so jump over there, give it a subscribe, listen to
Speaker 1: the Scoop podcast. And well there's a big Pokemon fan
Speaker 1: as well, which is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year, Richo,
Speaker 1: are you into that or your kids into the Pokemon?
Speaker 2: My son was for a bit, but I've got him
Speaker 2: a lot of Pokemon cards and a little folder.
Speaker 3: But he's for some race. He's gone off it, so
Speaker 3: I might have to get myself back.
Speaker 1: In celebrate thirty years the Tea twenty World Cup final, Richo,
Speaker 1: we should touch on of course, that was happening India,
Speaker 1: big victory over New Zealand almost by one hundred runs.
Speaker 1: They piled on two hundred and fifty five in front
Speaker 1: of eighty six thousand adoring fans at the range FROMODI Stadium.
Speaker 2: Is that right? Is that in the numbers?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: The final official figure is eighty six.
Speaker 3: So not a sellout. What's capacity.
Speaker 1: I did have a little bit of feedback after last
Speaker 1: week's sow which I'm happy to address, and I think
Speaker 1: the numbers sort of back up my theory there that
Speaker 1: there are one hundred and twenty thousand in the stadium
Speaker 1: when Australia won there in twenty twenty three, ninety two thousand, right,
Speaker 1: people were there and there was not a spare seat
Speaker 1: in the house. I did a bit of a wander
Speaker 1: during that match and even the aisles were full of people.
Speaker 1: So there's nowhere to sit. I mean that's great. You
Speaker 1: want seem to be full. In terms of spare seats,
Speaker 1: there were not so ninety two on that occasion, eighty
Speaker 1: six when they defeated New Zealand just a couple of
Speaker 1: nights ago.
Speaker 3: So they conquered their demons, didn't they.
Speaker 1: They certainly certainly did.
Speaker 2: We spoke about it last week and said, they've you know,
Speaker 2: the twenty three World Cup final, but also the game
Speaker 2: this during this World Cup that they lost, so that
Speaker 2: maybe there were some nerves going back, but obviously not.
Speaker 2: They packed on Turner in fifty five or Turner fifty six.
Speaker 2: As you said, batting first in a T twenty World
Speaker 2: Cup finals is a pretty good position to be in,
Speaker 2: especially when you've got Boomera in your team. So it's
Speaker 2: basically sixteen over game for the opposition. In their reply,
Speaker 2: so we say that we're mentioning in it now. Neither
Speaker 2: of us picked them to make the final, but I
Speaker 2: mean it's no surprises is that that? Now when you
Speaker 2: actually sit back and look at their team in their
Speaker 2: own conditions, they win the game. I said the last
Speaker 2: few weeks that toss would come into it, but it didn't.
Speaker 2: They did it batting first. They did it in the
Speaker 2: semi as well, didn't they batting first? So when you're
Speaker 2: packing on runs.
Speaker 1: Like that, I don't believe.
Speaker 2: All, yeah, it doesn't matter, So well done, India. Worthy winners.
Speaker 1: Abashik Sham fifty two off twenty one. He'll be partnering
Speaker 1: with Travis Head again during the IPL. The everyone was
Speaker 1: fun to watch Isham Kishan fifty four off twenty six.
Speaker 1: I mean a breakout tournament for him as well. And
Speaker 1: Sandrew Sampson, who was your weekly winner last week, finishes
Speaker 1: the tournament with ninety seven not out to beat the
Speaker 1: West in these, eighty nine to beat England in the
Speaker 1: semi final, and then eighty nine again in the final.
Speaker 1: I mean, talk about a big game play. We'll touch
Speaker 1: on those in just a second. But he has come
Speaker 1: to the four when the pressure is at its highest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mister Samson step up.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 2: He was under some pressure as well through the early stages,
Speaker 2: so what a turnaround. Then you kind of write your
Speaker 2: name up in Indian cricket folklore with that, So yeah,
Speaker 2: incredible to put three knocks together in a row of
Speaker 2: that statue. It's pretty hard to do in fifty over cricket,
Speaker 2: let alone ten twenties. So yeah, and he'll be spoken
Speaker 2: about forever. Is that that kind of got a shining
Speaker 2: light leading him to that World Cup. So I actually
Speaker 2: had some experience with him when he was a young
Speaker 2: kid at just on early days and such a mild,
Speaker 2: mild down to earth kid like I doubt this would
Speaker 2: even go to his head. So he probably head back
Speaker 2: to his town. He's like from the country, so just
Speaker 2: a really nice young kid. Boy he's older now, that
Speaker 2: was like ten years ago. But it's always nice to
Speaker 2: see the ones who when the kids in India under
Speaker 2: the big shining lights, the ones who don't get overawed
Speaker 2: by the by the occasion and get carried away with
Speaker 2: little things. And that probably shows him in his performances
Speaker 2: when it mattered in a semi final and final and
Speaker 2: what was a must win last game.
Speaker 1: As well effectively quarter final.
Speaker 3: Basically they've played.
Speaker 2: Three finals in a row and he's he's led them
Speaker 2: to wins in each one. Shows that it's not really
Speaker 2: bothered by the situation and he probably should be including
Speaker 2: the big game players kind of yeah, station.
Speaker 1: Well, that'll be the big four that's coming up after
Speaker 1: the break. But before we get to that jasper woman,
Speaker 1: we do have to touch on him. You said it's
Speaker 1: reduced to a sixteen over game, and that's because you
Speaker 1: can't score off him, and he takes wickets four to
Speaker 1: fourteen or for fifteen, sorry, off his four overs. I
Speaker 1: think all those wickets were with slower balls, just deceiving.
Speaker 2: Basically all bold I think when they.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, he had revenge record in the
Speaker 1: deep as well, and I mean where did even start
Speaker 1: with him? I mean, is he is he unplayable?
Speaker 3: He probably is? He's is he the person is his name?
Speaker 2: Though, I think the thing with him is when it's
Speaker 2: over a long period of time and everyone knows what's
Speaker 2: coming when you're facing him, so you know what's coming.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a York or it's going to
Speaker 2: be that dipping slowble, but he still can't play it
Speaker 2: and still the Sampson making the runs. But he's still
Speaker 2: what the game is going to be decided on. And
Speaker 2: there's very few times where he's going to go for
Speaker 2: more than thirty. And even if he does, it's okay,
Speaker 2: like because the overseat bowls should be going for more
Speaker 2: than thirty. But he goes for twenty, or he goes
Speaker 2: for fifteen. He takes four for or it takes three
Speaker 2: for ten, like it's generational. It's it's almost up there
Speaker 2: with some of the you know, he's probably arguably one
Speaker 2: of the greats now of T well T twenty international,
Speaker 2: but T twenty cricket, but all formats. Now he's starting
Speaker 2: to become a conversation of across all three formats international level.
Speaker 2: Is he one of the greatest fast balls ever? And
Speaker 2: he'd be in the conversation. So maybe that's a Big
Speaker 2: four for another time. But there's no words that can
Speaker 2: captulate how good he is and how great he's been.
Speaker 3: For a long time.
Speaker 1: Definitely, I think you've swed that up pretty well. Then
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back with this
Speaker 1: week's Big four, where we're looking at the best big
Speaker 1: game players. Okay, welcome back to the un Playable Podcast
Speaker 1: Big Game Players. San Ju Sampson. He's the talk of
Speaker 1: the town at the minute after finishing the World Cup
Speaker 1: with three half centuries, three arguably match winning half centuries,
Speaker 1: and it got us thinking, who are the best big
Speaker 1: game players in cricket past or present? Rich Oh, you're
Speaker 1: leading us off this week, So who immediately comes to
Speaker 1: mind when you think of those who step up when
Speaker 1: the pressure is at its hottest.
Speaker 2: Well, so, when thinking of this, I found it a
Speaker 2: really hard exercise because the guys I thought of that
Speaker 2: have done well in say, World Cups, they are every
Speaker 2: four years, fifty over. World Cups are every four years,
Speaker 2: so over a space of a career you might get
Speaker 2: two or three World Cup final. That's if you're lucky
Speaker 2: enough to make a final, so you might get one opportunity,
Speaker 2: two opportunities. So on that note, if you've done well
Speaker 2: in one World Cup final, for me, you're a big.
Speaker 3: Game big tick yep.
Speaker 2: So I've gone back to my childhood and thought, when
Speaker 2: the Aussi is winning World Cup.
Speaker 3: So Ricky Ponting two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and three World Cup one hundred, one hundred at
Speaker 2: johannes Berg, I remember watching that game and they polled
Speaker 2: on high three hundreds against India. I think it was
Speaker 2: from memory, So Ponting one next World Cup final four
Speaker 2: years on. Who had the opportunity to be a big
Speaker 2: game player? Adam Gilchrist?
Speaker 3: What did you make?
Speaker 2: One hundred and whatever? It was chasing? It was setting
Speaker 2: and then they defended in darkness, didn't they against your
Speaker 2: Lanka with the squash ball? So and then we go
Speaker 2: on twenty fifteen James Faulkner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, player with the match in the final, wasn't he
Speaker 3: he was?
Speaker 2: So again, who had the opportunity in these games to
Speaker 2: be a big game player? Twenty twenty three we know
Speaker 2: Travis Head He's also done it in the World Test Championship, final.
Speaker 1: So therefore, yep, that's another one.
Speaker 3: He got a big hundred in a absolutely.
Speaker 2: World Test final, so he's all of a sudden he
Speaker 2: got two ticks. What else am I missing? That's that's
Speaker 2: on the international stage. You can go guys in big bash.
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking international because again they're every year, so
Speaker 2: maybe I should be thinking of those. But when World
Speaker 2: Cup finals are every four years, t twenties are every
Speaker 2: two years, aren't they, So it's a bit more common.
Speaker 1: One and a half of teams.
Speaker 2: So thrown over to you, captain, I found it really
Speaker 2: hard to think of anyone else I.
Speaker 1: Like those ones. Well, Steve Smith is one who you
Speaker 1: could mention. I suppose he had the World Test Championship final,
Speaker 1: he had a World Cup semi final, one hundred in
Speaker 1: that twenty fifteen to one, and then he hit the
Speaker 1: winning runs maybe in the finals, so he's probably got
Speaker 1: to be up there. We had some good feedback on
Speaker 1: our Instagram question as well for that. Rudra Karthur said
Speaker 1: Gilchrist because not only for that hundred, but he played
Speaker 1: in three World Cup finals and he scored fifty plus
Speaker 1: in all of them, so definitely a big tick for
Speaker 1: Gilly Shannon says, obviously, Alyssa Healy in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two Eardio World Cup, she hadn't done much for the
Speaker 1: whole tournament, and then in the semi cracks out one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine against the West Indies and then
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy against England in the finals.
Speaker 3: So that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: And then Agnes says, Alex Carey has proved himself this
Speaker 1: Ashes with seven big knocks. Maybe not in terms of
Speaker 1: the big trophy winning moments, but he's been there when
Speaker 1: the match has been on. The lining test matches a lot.
Speaker 2: Good point because you could you could say the waiting
Speaker 2: for an ASHES test is you know, they're pretty pretty
Speaker 2: pretty high, high pressure environment, so especially if it's a
Speaker 2: game that like he had a knack, didn't he have?
Speaker 2: I mean that that was a career defining Ashes for him,
Speaker 2: but he always seemed to stand up when Australia needed
Speaker 2: So not you what you think of when you think
Speaker 2: of a big game, but it is a big game.
Speaker 2: Every ASHES Test is a big game. Ones that matter,
Speaker 2: especially the first you know, two or three of every series.
Speaker 2: So yeah, worthy nomination.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to shout out Shane Watson who in
Speaker 1: the two thousand and nine Champions Trophy went one hundred
Speaker 1: hundred in the semi in.
Speaker 3: The final Champions Trophies.
Speaker 1: Now against England New d Well, that's not quite well.
Speaker 3: The Trophy Trophy and the Lions.
Speaker 2: The big game is probably not as big, but it's
Speaker 2: still a big game.
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good. Back to back hundreds and
Speaker 1: then I've gone through the stats as well for a
Speaker 1: more impartial view on this. Martin Love in the Sheffield
Speaker 1: Shield holds a record for five hundreds in Shield finals. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive stuff. Brendan Doggett is the only player
Speaker 1: in history to have three five wicket hauls in Shield finals.
Speaker 2: So he did one for Queens End when they won
Speaker 2: and then to last year for US.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and apparently according to some reporting by Will
Speaker 1: Taylor from Cricket dot com dot or you, he could
Speaker 1: be fit.
Speaker 3: He's coming back.
Speaker 1: So the final specialist, final specialist, Brenda Doggett, he's coming back.
Speaker 1: In terms of One Day Cup, well, you probably don't
Speaker 1: have to go far to guesst. Michael Bevan is of
Speaker 1: course the one who comes to mind here in One
Speaker 1: Day Cup finals averages ninety seven with eight fifties from
Speaker 1: fourteen in so yeah, ha many not out, Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of them a lot. And then in terms of
Speaker 1: the Big Bash, so I've included all finals here, like
Speaker 1: the qualifying and the eliminator and all those sorts of things,
Speaker 1: Sean marsh comes out on top there. From nine finals,
Speaker 1: he averages eighty five with six fifties.
Speaker 2: So SOS, now you say, it does make sense that
Speaker 2: they come from teams that always were making finals. You
Speaker 2: can't really be a big game player if your team
Speaker 2: finishes eighth or sixth in the Shield. So yeah, that
Speaker 2: does check out, and those names are worthy of being
Speaker 2: called big game players under they're not just once off.
Speaker 2: So again I found it a really hard exercise because
Speaker 2: there's probably not a guy that stands out like in
Speaker 2: other sports, you know, best on ground in the Grand Final,
Speaker 2: such as well, Dustin Martin's the famous one of footy,
Speaker 2: isn't he that three Norm Smiths? So there's not that
Speaker 2: that one guy that we think of in cricket. There's
Speaker 2: a range of guys as we've just spoken about, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure people listening to this will think of some
Speaker 2: more so sending them me but yeah, found a founded
Speaker 2: the tough exercise.
Speaker 1: Send them in to podcasts at cricket dot com dot
Speaker 1: au or send us in a DM on Instagram if
Speaker 1: you're so inclined.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll read them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we'll read them and we'll read out the best
Speaker 1: ones on the show. So rich, I think that does
Speaker 1: just about does this for this week. Quick shout out
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Speaker 3: But it could be a future future sponsor.
Speaker 2: Why not As we run the credits at the end
Speaker 2: of the show, who were we addressed by Hollywood cricket?
Speaker 3: It'd be nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So for those who are listening and not watching,
Speaker 1: Richo's in a blue T shirt, not a T shirt,
Speaker 1: but a button up shirt. Doesn't button all the way either,
Speaker 1: does it.
Speaker 2: I think it's based off the old World Cup shirts
Speaker 2: they used to wear in the eighties.
Speaker 1: A pocket top left, and he's got a blue hat
Speaker 1: which has some sort of like.
Speaker 3: I think there's some must be a native flower of
Speaker 3: that region.
Speaker 1: It's not Yorkshire related.
Speaker 2: Well, it is a very white rose, isn't it. But
Speaker 2: maybe that's a similar kind of thing.
Speaker 3: In Looks, California.
Speaker 1: Okay, so something to look out for from reesetop.
Speaker 2: He's toply Lucky Ferguson, Lucky Ferguson, Adam Zamper and some others.
Speaker 2: But they're they're the cricket centric guys that you would know,
Speaker 2: so keep an eye out.
Speaker 1: Is there a Kay Richardson involved in this?
Speaker 3: I'm just from you know.
Speaker 2: I'm busy with my media commitments now, so I didn't
Speaker 2: want to add my finger in too many pies. And
Speaker 2: as you said, maybe a possible coaching career. That's right,
Speaker 2: So I don't want too much going on, so I'll
Speaker 2: just sit. But I thought i'd give him give him
Speaker 2: a shout out today.
Speaker 1: Very good. All right, we'll catch you next week.
Speaker 2: I'll bring this shirt for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: See then