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Speaker 1: to the Unplabled Podcast. Well Australia, they are out of
Speaker 1: the TEA twenty World Cup, they haven't made the Super
Speaker 1: eight phase.
Speaker 2: They won't make the semifinals for the third year in.
Speaker 1: A row or third tournament in a row, and now
Speaker 1: we have to discuss how it happened and why it happened.
Speaker 2: My name is Joshu and I finger.
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to be back in the studio with
Speaker 1: now former player Kane Richardson.
Speaker 2: Richo, how's it going mate.
Speaker 3: Former player, current critic. No, it's good. We're in a
Speaker 3: beautiful studio by the way, So no expense spared on
Speaker 3: the Unplayable Podcast these days. But yeah, disappointing circumstances to
Speaker 3: be talking about this week.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're up all night on Tuesday night watching
Speaker 1: the rainfall down in Palla Kelly.
Speaker 2: No match was played between Island and Zimbabwe.
Speaker 1: Needed as Australians for Ireland to win that match, but
Speaker 1: the draw the split points is enough as Zimbabwe to
Speaker 1: go through to the Super Eights.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost a fitting way for it to happen,
Speaker 3: isn't it. Just to watch the rainfall for a couple
Speaker 3: of hours, and I know the guys would have been
Speaker 3: sitting in the hotel room just watching watching the rain
Speaker 3: and hoping that the sun would have come out or
Speaker 3: the moon would to come out and they would have
Speaker 3: been able to play. But unfortunately, when you put yourself
Speaker 3: in these positions and you're rely relying on the weather
Speaker 3: not playing a part, then you probably don't deserve to
Speaker 3: go through. And as you say, to three World Cups
Speaker 3: in a row now where not only semi final the
Speaker 3: last two editions, to not make it through to the
Speaker 3: Super Eights or the next stage is so disappointing.
Speaker 4: So no doubt those guys are hurting.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately either have to front up for one more
Speaker 3: game and finish their World Cups super early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've still got Aman on Friday night, so that's
Speaker 1: coming out. But before we get into the Australian analysis.
Speaker 1: Last week we asked for some of the best moments
Speaker 1: in t twenty World Cup history. This one probably won't
Speaker 1: go down from an Australian point of view, but we
Speaker 1: had to great responses, including one from Kashi who said Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: South Africa just this tournament an amazing double souper over
Speaker 1: that we saw, which included Stubbs hitting the last ball
Speaker 1: for six to take it to the souper over, and
Speaker 1: then David Miller hitting two sixers and then goerba Is
Speaker 1: hitting three sixes in a row in the second super rover.
Speaker 2: I mean, have you ever seen anything like that?
Speaker 3: I don't think a double no, that's that is worth
Speaker 3: recency bias, but it's definitely a worthy nomination to go
Speaker 3: to double super rovers free cricket, as they say, so
Speaker 3: a worthy nomination. But there's been quite a few over
Speaker 3: the time, and obviously I think has an Australia. What
Speaker 3: are the Australian ones? But I'm sure the listeners got
Speaker 3: involved in probably weren't favoring Australian performances in the past.
Speaker 2: No they weren't.
Speaker 1: But I mean, doesn't the super over when it goes
Speaker 1: to a second superover, doesn't make you wish that we
Speaker 1: had the countback still as it was in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the way to go, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Well? The bowl off? Bring back the bowl off always.
Speaker 3: I remember watching as a kid and I was like,
Speaker 3: I want to be involved in on it, or maybe
Speaker 3: I don't because it'd be so embarrassing if you're missed.
Speaker 4: Can we bring that back? Maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe if the super is tired, then we go to
Speaker 2: a ball of.
Speaker 3: Fall off back for the count back. Do you think
Speaker 3: the count back or maybe we just have an arm
Speaker 3: wrestle or two up.
Speaker 1: Kartik said that Koli is aded too not out versus
Speaker 1: Pakistan in Melbourne. I was lucky enough to be there
Speaker 1: for that game. It was an incredible, amazing atmosphere, one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand, very very loud ground. Balal said the twenty
Speaker 1: seventy to twenty World Cup Final his most heartbreaking moment
Speaker 1: as a Pakistan fan.
Speaker 2: Miss Burl Hark tried to ramp and got bught.
Speaker 1: Tommy Flanners said Wady and Stein at the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one semi final versus Pakistan.
Speaker 2: Again another ramp. This one was successful for many way though,
Speaker 2: wasn't it?
Speaker 1: And then we had plenty of people saying remember the
Speaker 1: name Carlos Brathwaite. You've raising six six's and Mike Hussy's
Speaker 1: sixty not out of twenty four against Pakistan back in
Speaker 1: twenty ten.
Speaker 3: That's probably most, isn't it. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 3: any off the top of my head that I had
Speaker 3: the Stillness and Wide one, but it is pretty famous
Speaker 3: now going back five years, I can't think of too
Speaker 3: many more that capture the you know, capture the world audience,
Speaker 3: like you know, the six sixers, remember the name ones
Speaker 3: that live in folklore now.
Speaker 4: So a good list, very good list.
Speaker 2: Right, We're gonna take a short break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, let's talk about the straight T
Speaker 1: twenty World Cup and what went wrong. So it's been
Speaker 1: back to back losses Frustralia at the T twenty World Cup,
Speaker 1: which has seen them knocked out of the tournament. They
Speaker 1: fell to Zimbabwe by twenty three runs and then they
Speaker 1: lost to Schlanka by eight wickets. Only took four wickets
Speaker 1: across those two matches and the batting didn't quite click either,
Speaker 1: did it.
Speaker 4: Rich Oh.
Speaker 1: Although Mitch Marsh came back into this side for the
Speaker 1: SriLankan game in Pala Kelly and got put on one
Speaker 1: hundred run partnership with Travis Head. They were going at
Speaker 1: twelve runs and over at the start of that inning
Speaker 1: and things were looking pretty positive. But from there they
Speaker 1: lost a couple of clumps of wickets. They lost four
Speaker 1: wickets in five overs after that opening partnership and then
Speaker 1: lost five to seven at the end, and then it
Speaker 1: was on this Sanka master class with the bat, wasn't it?
Speaker 4: I think? Yeah? Disappointing to two losses in a row.
Speaker 3: If you look back to the Zimbabwe one, that's probably
Speaker 3: the nail in the coffin. Having to rely on beating
Speaker 3: Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka is always going to be tough,
Speaker 3: especially when you're defending in the jew So, as you said,
Speaker 3: the stuff you're talking about there, when you talk about
Speaker 3: teach winning cricket, you need the flip side of that
Speaker 3: to You need that stuff going well to win. So
Speaker 3: to finish an innings well with the bat and then
Speaker 3: flowing onto the bowling innings sounds obvious, but you need
Speaker 3: to be taking wickets. And was a four wickets in
Speaker 3: two games. I mean you're never gonna win. You're never
Speaker 3: gonna win games not taking wickets. So two different ways
Speaker 3: they lost the Zimbabwe game chasing different. It was a
Speaker 3: day game, so they're under some asking rate pressure on
Speaker 3: a a wicket that was slowing up. And then, as
Speaker 3: we just said, the Shrilankan game with a bit of
Speaker 3: due around trying to defend a score that should have
Speaker 3: arguably been forty or fifty runs higher, which who knows,
Speaker 3: may have not made a difference, but yeah, just so
Speaker 3: disappointing that that group will be hurting. The riding was
Speaker 3: probably somewhat on the wall after the Pakistan games. If
Speaker 3: we're looking if you're looking for answers now you go
Speaker 3: back to the lead in Yeah, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: of guys missing. But I feel like T twenty and
Speaker 3: especially from the bowling side of things, is such a
Speaker 3: hard game. You need your roles laid out, and the
Speaker 3: best teams I've ever seen and been in part of
Speaker 3: the bowling group had such clarity around what time we're
Speaker 3: going to bowl, who's going to bowl, when, what their
Speaker 3: plan is going to be. And that felt like from
Speaker 3: the outside looking at this team that they never really
Speaker 3: were able to get that sorted. And injuries obviously played
Speaker 3: a part, with Hazwood and Cumbs not being there too,
Speaker 3: but the guys who were selected were coming off the
Speaker 3: Big Bash.
Speaker 4: They'd been playing T twenty crickets, so there's no excuse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was going to ask, is the
Speaker 1: Big Bash, which had another great season, is that adequate
Speaker 1: preparation for a T twenty World Cup in foreign conditions
Speaker 1: or should there have been more of an emphasis to
Speaker 1: get all those players over to pack start for those
Speaker 1: two matches and then the warm up games.
Speaker 3: I think, well, there is always going to be the
Speaker 3: argument with the Big Bash. You want the guys playing
Speaker 3: the finals. We've seen instances in the past where guys
Speaker 3: have flown off to play like a one day series
Speaker 3: overseas and they're not playing Big Bash finals, and we
Speaker 3: want them playing Big Bash finals. But also we need both,
Speaker 3: I think, especially coming into a World Cup, and as
Speaker 3: you said, in foreign conditions that are always a challenge
Speaker 3: for an Australian team to play in. So I don't
Speaker 3: know what the answer is. Well, yeah, scheduling is always
Speaker 3: going to be tough. There's always so much content in
Speaker 3: the calendar. But I think that's where that's those three
Speaker 3: games in Pakistan, take the three losses out of it.
Speaker 4: I just don't think they were able to get their
Speaker 4: best team sorted.
Speaker 3: They had basically five or six guys leave after that
Speaker 3: Pakistan series, come back and play Shield cricket and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, you're into the thick of
Speaker 3: a World Cup.
Speaker 4: You're trying to qualify with guys that have had two.
Speaker 3: Or three weeks out of the game more in Tim
Speaker 3: David and Nathan Elison's case, even longer.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, the writing was on.
Speaker 3: The world You could kind of sense that things weren't
Speaker 3: going well, and then all of a sudden you have
Speaker 3: a really bad loss Zimbabwe and things you panic, don't you.
Speaker 4: So that just seems the way it's gone.
Speaker 3: And it's so disappointing because at their best, you know,
Speaker 3: their form in twenty twenty five was great leading into
Speaker 3: this and it's almost like that were over prepared.
Speaker 4: You know, they were ready for the World Cup in
Speaker 4: November last.
Speaker 3: Year, weren't they, And then they're kind of sitting around
Speaker 3: waiting and things just haven't gone well.
Speaker 4: So super disappointing.
Speaker 1: Well, everything in cricket's about timing, isn't it, And just
Speaker 1: felt like maybe they were just flying at the wrong
Speaker 1: point of the calendar. But on the bowling point of view.
Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned there's no Hazeler, there's no comments.
Speaker 1: Of course, Dudy injury starts retired, and then all the
Speaker 1: wickets in the past two games have come from Stuness
Speaker 1: and Green. Very unusual to see Ellis and Zampago without wickets.
Speaker 2: But then you've got your.
Speaker 1: Connolly's and your Bartlett was there and Cooneman as well,
Speaker 1: I think played that first game.
Speaker 2: So there just hasn't been the wickets.
Speaker 1: And you said you need to take wickets to win
Speaker 1: matches and win World Cups.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you do.
Speaker 3: And I think the Zampa ls part is big, But
Speaker 3: I think those two it at their best, are the
Speaker 3: defensive They're the defensive side of that bowling attack. If
Speaker 3: the team is the team he went out in the park,
Speaker 3: They're the two that are going to bring the They're
Speaker 3: not going to go for more than you know, in
Speaker 3: Ellis's case bowling the hard overs, but going for more
Speaker 3: than thirty five. Zampa's case is probably hardly ever going
Speaker 3: over thirty with the overseas bowls, and then you fit
Speaker 3: you're attacking around that guys who do get wickets. You know,
Speaker 3: we've again we've spoken about the Big three in the past,
Speaker 3: but to never taken for granted, and this just shows
Speaker 3: you know, when you haven't got Mitchell Stark there to
Speaker 3: take wickets with the new ball, Hazeswood doing the same
Speaker 3: impact coummens plugging holes around that it makes it really hard.
Speaker 3: And we've seen Zavia Barallett do it for the heat
Speaker 3: he had a bad game. Drshes comes in to play
Speaker 3: that same role, doesn't get it sworted and they go
Speaker 3: back to Barlow. It just makes it so hard. And
Speaker 3: again it just showed that there wasn't clarity at all
Speaker 3: with that bowling attack and it does leave a lot
Speaker 3: to do on Adam Zamper and Nathan Ellison's shoulders, and
Speaker 3: rightly or wrongly, they haven't performed the last two games.
Speaker 4: But again I don't think that was their role.
Speaker 3: Their role was to all the hardest overs, to be
Speaker 3: the hardest to hear, and then hopefully the guys around
Speaker 3: them kind of filled those holes. But yeah, they're all rounders.
Speaker 3: Off had to do some heavy lifting and it hasn't
Speaker 3: paid off.
Speaker 1: And then the big talking point ahead of the Shranker
Speaker 1: game was bringing in Steve Smith into the squad. Everybody
Speaker 1: was finally cheering because there was a lot of ground
Speaker 1: swell to get Smith in after his big, big Big
Speaker 1: after his big Big Bash campaign, and then they left
Speaker 1: him on the bench and they left out Matt Renshaw,
Speaker 1: who in the leading run scorer from the first two matches.
Speaker 1: It was obviously a team that wanted to stick to
Speaker 1: their guns, of the big hitting team that had been
Speaker 1: so successful over those past twelve months. But in the
Speaker 1: end it's sort of one of those decisions that you
Speaker 1: look and you say, well, maybe that was the wrong call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this hindsight, I definitely involved with that,
Speaker 3: isn't there When they picked the squad was the Big Bash,
Speaker 3: you know it when Smith was going nuts in the
Speaker 3: Big Bash again, so you know, timing probably didn't work out.
Speaker 3: I think the way they started with Abaut the other night,
Speaker 3: with Head and Marsh, that's the way they played in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, right, and that's the identity they set
Speaker 3: up him. They be coming in at four, Green at three,
Speaker 3: and then the all rounders through the middle order. So
Speaker 3: I don't think he can argue with that when things
Speaker 3: are going well. But when Steve's playing well in the
Speaker 3: Big Bash, they changed the squad with Matt Short dropping
Speaker 3: out of the squad pre real close to the World Cup,
Speaker 3: which showed they are open to making changes, and then
Speaker 3: with Hayzwood going down, they kind of waited the while
Speaker 3: to replace him and then replace him with Steve Smith,
Speaker 3: who doesn't end up playing it is. It does just
Speaker 3: show I don't think they knew how bad Mitch Marsh
Speaker 3: was going to be because Steve Smith has to open
Speaker 3: the batting if he's playing for Australia. You could argue
Speaker 3: in those conditions he can batman the laughter about him
Speaker 3: and his best in teach and he creators open the
Speaker 3: batting and that's where probably our two best batters, although
Speaker 3: Hetty hasn't been in the best of form for a
Speaker 3: little bit. So there's so many unknowns now and it'll
Speaker 3: be interesting to see this last game what they do,
Speaker 3: whether they do go the same again or whether they
Speaker 3: go we've got to start planning for the next World
Speaker 3: Cup because fortunately, unfortunately these things come around pretty quickly.
Speaker 3: So do you start planning and you know, pick an
Speaker 3: order that you think and you can't fly guys in
Speaker 3: for it, and you've got your squad, But do they
Speaker 3: start trying to change things up for the next edition,
Speaker 3: or do they just double down and finish the tournament
Speaker 3: as well as they can well.
Speaker 1: So rare for Australia to play a dead rubber at
Speaker 1: a global tournament.
Speaker 2: But what would you do if you're in the selector seat?
Speaker 2: Who are you picking?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't know, because obviously again you need I mean,
Speaker 3: Martian Head will be there in two years time. Mitch
Speaker 3: is getting older now, but again he's more. He's a
Speaker 3: better only now, so they're going to age. Will age fine?
Speaker 3: Will Steve smith be there in two years time? You
Speaker 3: could probably say you will. I know he wants to
Speaker 3: get to the Olympics, doesn't he? So all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you've got three guys in that top two. Can you
Speaker 3: find a way to get Smithy a game in a
Speaker 3: different role and he can play in the in the future.
Speaker 3: Ren Shaw's the one that you know he had to
Speaker 3: have been playing the other night. I think just his adaptability.
Speaker 3: He's going to play a lot more in the next
Speaker 3: he'll be at that World Cup, but he's got to
Speaker 3: play a lot. He'll basically play all the way through
Speaker 3: now to that next World Cup and make his position
Speaker 3: his own. But he was the standout better that Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was in the toughest position to Bart in the
Speaker 3: middle order, and he's just shown how much his game
Speaker 3: has grown. So yeah, for him not to play that night,
Speaker 3: was he question that? Now again it's in hindsight, but
Speaker 3: it didn't make any sense at the time, And the
Speaker 3: selectors are going to have to own that, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure they will. They'll come out and explain their thought
Speaker 3: process and we'll judge them on that, and obviously they
Speaker 3: know that. But yeah, there's so many questions going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and of course we're in Australia lose, you know,
Speaker 1: we want to pick apart all the decisions that these
Speaker 1: selectors have made a lot of great calls over the
Speaker 1: last twelve twenty four months, haven't they, even with the
Speaker 1: ashes and those sorts of things. Do you think though,
Speaker 1: we're at a time where there's all these and this
Speaker 1: isn't a selector based vertion, but with all the injuries
Speaker 1: around the fast bowlers and players in general. Now with
Speaker 1: obviously Tim David doing that hamstring and coming back, but
Speaker 1: Hazer would commins then the young guys Beard Mean and Viidler,
Speaker 1: Lance Morris and Aaron Hardy, all these other guys, like
Speaker 1: is there too much cricket or are we do we
Speaker 1: need to look at how we're managing the most important players,
Speaker 1: which are fast bowls.
Speaker 3: In other cases, is there too much cricket? There's a lot,
Speaker 3: isn't that? And you would know from covering the game
Speaker 3: like you can't. You almost can't keep up with everything
Speaker 3: that's going on across obviously both male and female. But
Speaker 3: it just shows how hard it is for a management
Speaker 3: to manage those guys. And again we're talking about three
Speaker 3: of the best fast balls that we've ever produced and
Speaker 3: how much cricket they've played. So selectors, backroom staff, coaches,
Speaker 3: their plan for those guys over the last five years
Speaker 3: has been massive tick and unfortunately Starky probably retired at
Speaker 3: the worst possible time for.
Speaker 4: Us into joining cregut. Our selfish back a little sos.
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan out of retirement, but I think he's enjoying
Speaker 3: his time, his downtime. So again, you can't rely on
Speaker 3: those guys forevery when we spoke about this month ago.
Speaker 3: But now the question is going to be on the
Speaker 3: guys in between those twenty five to thirty year olds,
Speaker 3: who's going to take yourpportunity? And that's that's a pleasing
Speaker 3: thing as a selector and as a coaching group. You've
Speaker 3: got you know, you're going to see in the next
Speaker 3: World Cup edition, who's going to you know, who's going
Speaker 3: to put their hands up and be the next guy
Speaker 3: for Australia.
Speaker 4: And there's guys in the early twenties.
Speaker 3: But I don't think he can rely on those guys
Speaker 3: yet because they're missing, you know, Beard Minute is injured again.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately Vidler hasn't played it all this season. And then
Speaker 3: there's that good nineteen's crop that are coming through, but
Speaker 3: you can't really pencil them in for a World Cup
Speaker 3: in two years time. So it's that twenty five thirty
Speaker 3: year olds. Ji Richardson's the one that I think his
Speaker 3: white bull stuff has gone under the radar because he's
Speaker 3: put such an emphasis on Test cricket and getting back
Speaker 3: fifth for that. But I think if he's playing Test
Speaker 3: Creed and Forte Kriger, he'll be he'll be ready and
Speaker 3: I think his white bull skills are as good as
Speaker 3: anyone in Australia. So I think he's the one that
Speaker 3: really needs to take on that mental piece, you know,
Speaker 3: take on that I'm going to lead this bowling attack
Speaker 3: going forward into twenty cricket and hopefully Dayes would still
Speaker 3: around two years time, but again we can't bank on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe, I like that he hasn't sort of been
Speaker 1: in there one day reckoning for a while as he
Speaker 1: but definitely put his name down and now I know
Speaker 1: t twenty cricket hasn't really been a focus or it
Speaker 1: hasn't seemed like a focus for a straining cricket. Obviously
Speaker 1: the focus on the ashes and Test cricket, which makes sense.
Speaker 1: But then maybe you can speak to this from your
Speaker 1: own career having to bounce between formats. Do we need
Speaker 1: to get to a point where we are just having
Speaker 1: players play one format? Is it too difficult to go
Speaker 1: between the two and dominate at both? Do you need
Speaker 1: to just delineate the two and really focus it on
Speaker 1: what you're good at.
Speaker 3: I'm probably the wrong guy to ask, because I really
Speaker 3: had a good format.
Speaker 1: But you had a career or a part of your
Speaker 1: career where you were bouncing between red.
Speaker 3: Ball and I think the cricket's different though, because it
Speaker 3: is such a laid out schedule now where it is
Speaker 3: mainly shield cricket. You played the odd one day and
Speaker 3: then it's Big Bash exclusively, whereas these test guys, these
Speaker 3: all format guys are bouncing all and they are overseas
Speaker 3: doing it, they're coming back like there's a lot going on.
Speaker 3: I think ideally the answer would be yes. But I
Speaker 3: think at the end of the day, especially World Cups,
Speaker 3: you want your best team. You're always going to pick
Speaker 3: your best team, and if it's a guy who's played
Speaker 3: in the ashes, just gone and so be it. And
Speaker 3: I always felt, you know, being behind those big guys,
Speaker 3: always felt like, oh, in these you know, I was
Speaker 3: always like T twenty specialists, you know, and whenever things
Speaker 3: would go wrong and badly, people would suggest that. But
Speaker 3: then when you know, twenty twenty one came around and
Speaker 3: they led us to a World Cup win, there's no
Speaker 3: there's no argument about that. You know, they're our best
Speaker 3: bowlers no matter what format. So again, I think you
Speaker 3: want as many bowlers as possible to pick from and
Speaker 3: all formats of the game that are bowling well and
Speaker 3: playing well and upskilling. And that's the answer. So it's
Speaker 3: never going to be a perfect science. It's never going
Speaker 3: to be one or the other. And I don't think
Speaker 3: you want that either. Like you look at other countries
Speaker 3: that they're in the same boat. They're bowling attacks. You know, England,
Speaker 3: they've got guys who just played in the Ashes that
Speaker 3: are playing in the T twenty World Cup and doing well.
Speaker 4: So it's just everyone's in the same boat. Really.
Speaker 3: You just got to hope you've lucky that you get
Speaker 3: generational quicks but also some back up depth behind them
Speaker 3: that fill in those roles in the lead ups to
Speaker 3: World Cups, and then when you get your World Cup,
Speaker 3: you know they're going to be verry rapped them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Australia seem to have the test cricket stuff pretty
Speaker 1: well worked out. Whenever a one day World Cup comes around,
Speaker 1: they're generally very competitive. Do we need to focus more
Speaker 1: on the T twenty stuff or is that just is
Speaker 1: it just the afterthoughts?
Speaker 3: But again I think this is hindsight, and I think
Speaker 3: this is because things didn't go well that we're saying that.
Speaker 3: I think we have focused on it, like our twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five form. Again, we're sitting here saying they looked
Speaker 3: ready to go to win a World Cup and then
Speaker 3: things haven't gone well since then. So I think it's
Speaker 3: it's very in the moment now that we're saying that
Speaker 3: that we haven't focused on T twenty cricket.
Speaker 4: I think we have.
Speaker 3: I don't think those guys Andrew McDonald will come out
Speaker 3: and say that they have. But you know, things haven't
Speaker 3: gone to plan, and that's the way it goes sometimes,
Speaker 3: like important players got injured, whether or not they didn't
Speaker 3: even go over in the case of Hazwood and Cummins,
Speaker 3: but also Ellis and David, their leadings were They're two
Speaker 3: very important players and their leadings were basically, you know,
Speaker 3: non existent. So you take four of the real, real
Speaker 3: dependable guys in T twenty cricket out of your team,
Speaker 3: it's going to be hard. So I think they had
Speaker 3: their eggs in the T twenty basket after the ashes.
Speaker 4: And it's a World Cup.
Speaker 3: We've got a proud history in World Cups, and we
Speaker 3: don't ever go they think we're not going to win it,
Speaker 3: So that's why it is so disappointing. But the narrative
Speaker 3: that we don't care about T twenty is very wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: It obviously was a disappointing result in Colombo against Zimbabwe
Speaker 1: for Australia, but a golden day for Zimbabwe quick and
Speaker 1: we've also had some other golden moments throughout this tournament
Speaker 1: so far, one of my favorites being Italy beating the
Speaker 1: poul by ten wickets. We had the Mosca brothers from
Speaker 1: Sydney Gray Cricket getting the job done by themselves. Ben
Speaker 1: Minenti absolutely killing it on the international stage, which is
Speaker 1: great to see. He's actually the leading run scorer by
Speaker 1: all Australians at the tournament, so that's great from Ben.
Speaker 4: Can we draft him into our team for the last.
Speaker 2: Game maybe a tree?
Speaker 1: And then Italy also took England all the way as well,
Speaker 1: so they've shown some really good science. India took care
Speaker 1: of Pakistan. We touched on that double souper over. I
Speaker 1: must admit at the start of the tournament, I wasn't
Speaker 1: really looking that much forward to it. But now that
Speaker 1: the games have started and we've had some great matches,
Speaker 1: like I am fully invested in this tournament.
Speaker 3: And I think again the benefit of having those associate
Speaker 3: nations or the lower seeded nations, you know, that's the benefit.
Speaker 3: Like there's games we spoke last week how I think
Speaker 3: Nepal pushed England, USA pushed India like it just shows
Speaker 3: on and Zimbabwe betting Australia shows in the right conditions,
Speaker 3: the right circumstances, it's a competitive environment and yeah, Italy,
Speaker 3: like it's great seeing these stories and it is such
Speaker 3: a small like it's a week and a half, two
Speaker 3: weeks of cricket before the Super Eats start and it
Speaker 3: gets really serious. But it's great to see. You know,
Speaker 3: you've got more players involved, you've got storylines everywhere, you've
Speaker 3: got extra kids.
Speaker 4: We love the World Cup kids.
Speaker 3: But it's just again it is more content, but it's
Speaker 3: more opportunity for players to put their names up in lights.
Speaker 3: You know, Ben Menenti making sixty off twenty balls against England, brilliant, Like,
Speaker 3: that's incredible, he's struck it, you know, two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty against Yeah, Rush, I suppose. So we're always going
Speaker 3: to love stories like that. So and again, growing up
Speaker 3: as a kid, I always remember Zimbabwe being at World Cups,
Speaker 3: the Flower Brothers, you know, Andy Blin, like they used
Speaker 3: to tour Australian Test cricket.
Speaker 4: We want that again.
Speaker 3: We want as many countries involved as possibly. We want
Speaker 3: to grow the game and have it being bigger, bigger
Speaker 3: than ever. So yeah, I'm I'm a fan. Of this format.
Speaker 3: But again for people who do follow the game and
Speaker 3: cover it every night, it's probably make sure job a lot,
Speaker 3: a lot harder having to follow everything.
Speaker 4: That's going on as well.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is maybe down the track we
Speaker 1: could be looking at it one day tour to Italy
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 3: Well, no one's going to say no to that, are they. Well,
Speaker 3: it used to be what they wanted to. I remember
Speaker 3: the guys used to talk about one of like a
Speaker 3: euro Bucks trips. It'd be like Amsterdam, Dublin and then
Speaker 3: Edin ruff for Scotland. You know, you get that trifector
Speaker 3: and it's almost like bring your best mates with the
Speaker 3: If one of them is getting engaged, come along.
Speaker 4: We'll have a little Bucks weekend.
Speaker 3: So yeah, again, if you can get those guys back,
Speaker 3: we'll go to Milan for talking like I'm a player,
Speaker 3: maybe have to get the coaching stuff.
Speaker 4: Well we can go on there.
Speaker 3: You go on assignment as a journalist definitely gets Milan.
Speaker 3: I think that they're talking Milan Florence maybe Rome and Rome.
Speaker 3: I think they're dust bowls there. So again we've got
Speaker 3: to start planning.
Speaker 1: Five match to absolutely, yeah, and West Indies India, South Africa, Srilanka.
Speaker 1: At the time of recording, all those teams undefeated. Who's
Speaker 1: going to win this tournament won't be Australia.
Speaker 4: Who's going to well?
Speaker 3: I think in those conditions in you are going to
Speaker 3: be hard. But I like South Africa. I think again. Okay,
Speaker 3: they played offrom the final, didn't they in the last?
Speaker 3: So I think they're coming again off the back of
Speaker 3: winning the World Test Championship as well.
Speaker 4: I like their team.
Speaker 3: I think they got the batting and the bowling down
Speaker 3: pat To this point, things are going well, so I
Speaker 3: think they'll be a worthy.
Speaker 4: Challenger of India.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Well, West Indy started the last tournament really well as well.
Speaker 1: That they're at home, they sort of crumbled a bit
Speaker 1: at the end of the tournament. I think that might
Speaker 1: happen again to them. Unfortunately Sri Lanka. I have a
Speaker 1: sneaky suspicion they could challenge a few sides, maybe cause
Speaker 1: an upset or two first down the track. Things will
Speaker 1: change obviously when we get to Indian conditions. But I
Speaker 1: like it there squad. I like who they've got in
Speaker 1: there at the minute, and like Sath Joy three and
Speaker 1: charge of them as well.
Speaker 2: It's another great name and good return to form for them. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: so watch out for the Lancans.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it is it is important to know the Indian factor,
Speaker 3: the conditions like it does play a part chasing under
Speaker 3: in the jew that kind of thing. So you talk
Speaker 3: about the West Indies could fall away, but if they're
Speaker 3: in the position where they're chasing a you know, one
Speaker 3: seventy under Lights with their batting order, with poor and
Speaker 3: flying you know that kind of thing, then you'd never
Speaker 3: rule them out. So T twenty cricket is that way
Speaker 3: that it is going to be hard to pick a winner.
Speaker 3: India do look pretty hard to beat, but again, if
Speaker 3: you get them in the right conditions, anyone can do.
Speaker 1: It's possible that these Indian conditions might suit the West
Speaker 1: in these more than the West Indian conditions suited their
Speaker 1: team two years ago, isn't it? So all comes down
Speaker 1: to where they're playing, and I guess who wins the
Speaker 1: toss is so crucial in.
Speaker 2: India, Well, isn't it exactly? All Right?
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the women's cricket side of things.
Speaker 1: The Scoop podcast has just restarted up as well. So
Speaker 1: if you want to get the inside scoop from Rana
Speaker 1: Hussein and Molly Strano, head over there now just search
Speaker 1: for the Scoop Cricket podcast. But the Aussie women, they
Speaker 1: had a loss in their opening tea twenty unfortunately the
Speaker 1: rain came down in Sydney and they weren't probably quite
Speaker 1: at their best. But we did have rich Oh some
Speaker 1: medal winners two announce throughout the week. Unfortunately we're not
Speaker 1: having this year the presentation night of Alan Border Medal
Speaker 1: Blenda Clark Award, which you might be able to share
Speaker 1: some stories from your experiences of going.
Speaker 2: To those events.
Speaker 1: But we did have Annabelle Stublind win her second back
Speaker 1: to back Blenda Clark Award for the best women's cricketer
Speaker 1: in the country. Beth Mooney won the T twenty player
Speaker 1: for the fourth time, and the one day player also
Speaker 1: went Annabelle Sublan. So congratulations to those two. They're just
Speaker 1: stars of the game at the minute.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are.
Speaker 3: Annabel's kind of gone to another level, hasn't she since
Speaker 3: well Louis Cameron said she was going to be the
Speaker 3: breakout player going back a few months, so he's probably
Speaker 3: sitting in drinking.
Speaker 2: Pretty happy.
Speaker 4: He's pretty happy with with what went on.
Speaker 3: So yeah, in terms of their content going forward, obviously disappointing.
Speaker 3: It's been a disappointing week for Arian Krigets. It's nice
Speaker 3: to have some awards to definitely think about and hopefully
Speaker 3: they bounce back and get back into the series against India.
Speaker 1: The domestic Player of the Year was Nicola Carey. She's
Speaker 1: been incredible for the Hurricanes and Tasmania and she's a
Speaker 1: special guest on this week's Scoop episode. So jump over
Speaker 1: there if you want to have to listen to Nick
Speaker 1: and the rest of the story and the women's side
Speaker 1: of the game. So we'll take a quick braag will
Speaker 1: come back with the Big Four, answer them, listen to
Speaker 1: questions for it.
Speaker 4: Jo.
Speaker 1: Okay, Richard, it's time for the Big Four. We debuted
Speaker 1: this segment last week. I'm still not totally solid on
Speaker 1: the name, but you gave us your top four associate
Speaker 1: players of all time. Think Dirk Nana snuck in there
Speaker 1: at the end, didn't he?
Speaker 4: But that was Captain's cool from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this week you're gonna be captain and okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to list off. But today's topic is Steve
Speaker 1: Smith mannerisms because I thought him coming back into the
Speaker 1: squad during the week. Now, I was full of hope
Speaker 1: and optimism and he was back in the scored Australia.
Speaker 1: They're still going to qualify. It didn't matter that they
Speaker 1: lost Zimbabwe anyway. We get here now and we know
Speaker 1: what we know. But I'm still going to stick to
Speaker 1: this topic. Steve Smith mannerisms. The Top four or the
Speaker 1: Big four. We'll so we start with number four and
Speaker 1: it is no run. This sort of originated a few
Speaker 1: years ago and he doesn't really done it a lot recently.
Speaker 1: But and then I think Minus took it to another level.
Speaker 1: But block the ball, no run, nice and loud at
Speaker 1: the bowler.
Speaker 2: That's my number one because that's a classic, isn't it.
Speaker 4: So that's the number one.
Speaker 2: Oh that's my number four? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 2: is a classic classic.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: He should have trademarked it because, like you said, some
Speaker 3: other guys, it's kids are saying it now, everyone's saying.
Speaker 4: It, so he should have put the little scene next
Speaker 4: to him. But very very iconic Smith call.
Speaker 2: Imagine if he could get royalties for every time it's
Speaker 2: not sure.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. I'm not sure he needs it. He's fine.
Speaker 1: At number three is his umpiring. When he gets struck
Speaker 1: on the pad, he often gives you, umpire a little signal,
Speaker 1: a little helpful. That's going to miss, that's going to
Speaker 1: be too high. I think he does it subconsciously. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure he's aware that he does it these days.
Speaker 1: But he gets struck and he's already deciding that too high.
Speaker 1: Forget about it. And I know that Louis Cameron, and
Speaker 1: now another mention for Luis.
Speaker 2: He hates it.
Speaker 1: He hates when the batter is trying to influence the
Speaker 1: umpire's decision. And you might have some thoughts about that
Speaker 1: being a form of fast by yourself. You probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: have liked it or appreciate it.
Speaker 4: He was never out, even when it was like three
Speaker 4: reds it come the rooms. Never out.
Speaker 3: So again, I don't think he knows he's doing. It's
Speaker 3: almost muscle memories. But he's going to make a great umpire.
Speaker 3: So once he does retire.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 3: Look for him getting fast tracked into umpire and can't
Speaker 3: wait to see it's going to be great.
Speaker 1: At number two, I've got Steve's extravagant leaves. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it'll be at going down the league side and
Speaker 1: he'll still put the bat all the way in the
Speaker 1: air as if to say, I'm not an we're going
Speaker 1: to think about touching that. Yeah, bowllet into my off
Speaker 1: stump or at least on the stumps, because that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And so he does that, he gets to go and
Speaker 1: I think when the extravagant leaves are really flying, that's
Speaker 1: when you know he's in the zone and he's really
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 4: Well, we spoke about that pre ashes that that's in
Speaker 4: the Shill game.
Speaker 3: He was up and about with his mannerisms, which is
Speaker 3: always a good sign, and it was wasn't it the
Speaker 3: way he performed?
Speaker 4: So I thought that would be number one for sure,
Speaker 4: did you Yeah, I thought that would be number one.
Speaker 2: Well, number one.
Speaker 1: It's only come to light this summer, even though there
Speaker 1: is footage of him.
Speaker 2: Doing it for years prior. But it's the hand signal,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's the little cupped hand and maybe a U shape
Speaker 1: that he's making. He claims it's not anything to do
Speaker 1: with the bowler. It's more where his hand is on
Speaker 1: the bat and He's always spoken about finding his hands,
Speaker 1: isn't he When he's found his hands, that's when it works.
Speaker 2: But it's the sea.
Speaker 1: Now we see kids when they hit the power surge button,
Speaker 1: they're doing the sea. We see my Loo cricket kids,
Speaker 1: they're doing it. It's part of meme culture out of
Speaker 1: the sea. So again he's just influential and it's this
Speaker 1: new mannerism that we love and hopefully.
Speaker 4: It continues well.
Speaker 3: Jake Weatherorld had an interesting take on it as well,
Speaker 3: the origins of that hand signal going back to the
Speaker 3: South Stralian dressing room. Yeah, that's right, whether or not
Speaker 3: that is the same. But I know Joffre did it
Speaker 3: the other night at the World Cup, so did he miss?
Speaker 3: I actually cop that from Smithy, didn't he that night?
Speaker 3: That's right at the game too fast champion, when there's
Speaker 3: nothing going on. He just went out the other day.
Speaker 3: Daniel Drew actually, who is rumored to be the origin,
Speaker 3: the originator of that hand signal, put it on his Instagram.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, we need to do we need
Speaker 3: to delve into this more.
Speaker 1: I think we do, because so Jake on the Unplayable
Speaker 1: podcast before the Adelaide Test told us that was a
Speaker 1: Daniel Drew signal for have a spell, champ or have
Speaker 1: a rest. Can you shed any light onto that? Inside
Speaker 1: the South Australia dressing.
Speaker 3: Room, it was I was back end of my career
Speaker 3: there being a a lot older. I do remember guys
Speaker 3: doing that to each other, but again being older, I
Speaker 3: was not paying any attention to what the young kids
Speaker 3: were doing. But yeah, it was. It was definitely a thing.
Speaker 3: And then it was in Club Creed as well. Guys
Speaker 3: were doing that to each other all the time.
Speaker 2: So and everybody knew that man have a spec.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like aunt a strange thing.
Speaker 3: Jake Frais mcgurth does it quite a lot and says
Speaker 3: that quite a lot too to the bowler.
Speaker 4: No, it's more of phil.
Speaker 3: They say it to each other if someone says something
Speaker 3: stupid though, right, that's how they kind of pin them down.
Speaker 1: So is it just it could have been a coincidence
Speaker 1: that these two things have merged, and.
Speaker 3: I think so, But I think Smithy, knowing Smithy, would
Speaker 3: have put a cricket spin on it, and then it
Speaker 3: would have been to do with his hands, fining his hands.
Speaker 3: He saw Sydney smash, he hit that one out of
Speaker 3: the ground or on the roof and then did that
Speaker 3: in the dressing room or whatever. So knowing Smithy, he
Speaker 3: would have no idea what it actually meant originally, and
Speaker 3: he would have been like he would have been tapping
Speaker 3: his bat look in his hand. It would have been like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's the same signal, and then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. The rest is history there.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people thought Jake might have been
Speaker 2: making up, but there's a lot of hard Yeah. I
Speaker 2: think it is also truth to what's Steve stay.
Speaker 3: Actually, you see Steve Smith playing live golf in the
Speaker 3: round in the lead up to live Golf, I.
Speaker 2: Saw a little bit of inst see the mannerisms.
Speaker 4: They translate to golf. So after we hit a shot,
Speaker 4: he would.
Speaker 3: Which which is my favorite mannerism, when he yes, when
Speaker 3: one bounces a bit more than a shure, if it
Speaker 3: seems a bit more than it should, it's always that
Speaker 3: and he did it. He did it when we played
Speaker 3: warm up soccer volleyball for six if one bounced a
Speaker 3: bit much, he would do the same like that. He's
Speaker 3: done that since he was like sixteen at the Academy.
Speaker 4: I remember him doing that.
Speaker 3: So that's worthy mentioned for me as Captain nice a
Speaker 3: number number five. I can't take the mannerisms out of
Speaker 3: Steve Smith exactly. It translates all borders, all sports and
Speaker 3: again will be a great umpire.
Speaker 1: If we've missed any let us know podcasts at crickets
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Speaker 1: Instagram page. Joe, let's go around the grounds quickly. The
Speaker 1: Shepherd Shield, of course is underway again round eight and
Speaker 1: there have been some interesting scores so far. We are
Speaker 1: talking mid round so this will date fairly quickly, but
Speaker 1: hundreds to Sam Harper and Will Sutherland and a ninety
Speaker 1: nine to Sam Fanning. Over in the West, things are
Speaker 1: looking pretty good for batting over there. It's the only
Speaker 1: place in the country where runs are flowing.
Speaker 3: It's the only place everywhere else everyone's winning the toss bowling,
Speaker 3: aren't they on green ones again? So Sam Harper interesting
Speaker 3: opening the batting and playing the same way that he's
Speaker 3: kind of just flowed from the Big Bash and taking
Speaker 3: it on, striking it well over one hundred. So he's
Speaker 3: in some form and coming to the right age of
Speaker 3: his career where you start to see a really good
Speaker 3: putch of performance. So Victoria look amazing. Don't know, they're
Speaker 3: starting to really break away. They had a loss last week,
Speaker 3: but they look like well and truly establishing themselves as
Speaker 3: the team to beat and having a home final.
Speaker 4: So it's going to be who can challenge them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even that loss last week, Even with that loss,
Speaker 1: they've still got a big buffer on the second place,
Speaker 1: and that was without Scott Boland, Will Sutherland, without Matt Short,
Speaker 1: without Oly Peak, and they brought all those fallback into
Speaker 1: this round. Amazing depth that they've got there at the minute.
Speaker 1: Campbell Thompson is one who made his debut for South
Speaker 1: Australia this round. Left armor looked very good on a yeah,
Speaker 1: sure it was a helpful wicket up at the Gabba,
Speaker 1: but had Ozma Quadra in a lot of trouble early on.
Speaker 1: It took a couple of wickets as well, so great
Speaker 1: science for him. We've got some runs from the Shield
Speaker 1: veterans Jake Lehman and Jimmy Pearson.
Speaker 2: G They're so reliable, aren't they. They get runs no
Speaker 2: matter the situation.
Speaker 3: Well, so handy coming in that middle order when teams
Speaker 3: are under the palm like to have that guy who's
Speaker 3: always just going to find a way to get a
Speaker 3: seventy Jimmy Pearson. I think every time I ever played
Speaker 3: him in child cricket, he would always do that, would
Speaker 3: never miss out.
Speaker 4: Only if they were going well, he'd miss out.
Speaker 3: I swear he's that guy who just back against the wall.
Speaker 3: Typical Queenslander, isn't He just never never, never says die.
Speaker 3: So that's going to be again, like you say, this
Speaker 3: will date, but it's going to be an interesting end
Speaker 3: to that game with again, as we say, who's challenging
Speaker 3: for second Queensland look like they could, but that that
Speaker 3: result is going to really dictate that definitely.
Speaker 1: And for South Australia five wickets who all around it,
Speaker 1: Liam Scots he's had another good yep, another tick to
Speaker 1: his name. He's had a great season and did it
Speaker 1: with the bat as well for the Strikers in the
Speaker 1: big bat.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it's been the Summer of Scotty for you and
Speaker 3: for him and for South Australia and the Strikers. So
Speaker 3: he's really put his name up in lights heading forward
Speaker 3: and as we say, as we were talking about before
Speaker 3: with Australia going forward in White Bull cricket. I know
Speaker 3: there's some good all arounders in terms of you know,
Speaker 3: Cam Green's probably the same age, but you know there's
Speaker 3: some other guys that are aging now. So for someone
Speaker 3: like that to be performing in the Big Bash under
Speaker 3: crowd pressure and TV pressure and now going back to
Speaker 3: Shield crege and just really honing his craft, he is
Speaker 3: great to see. So, yeah, he's going to be one
Speaker 3: of those guys who has a big future for Australia.
Speaker 2: And New South Wales.
Speaker 1: They're in a good position against Tasmania and New South
Speaker 1: Wales can still make the final as well.
Speaker 2: They've sacked their coach, Greg Sheppard.
Speaker 1: He's going to coach until the end of the season
Speaker 1: and so maybe there's a bit more on the line
Speaker 1: for him and his charges.
Speaker 2: This season. Liam Hatcher took five in the first things.
Speaker 1: He's now the leading we could take it in this
Speaker 1: year Chef Goodchield at twenty nine and he's having a
Speaker 1: career best season, isn't.
Speaker 4: He He is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he interestingly didn't play a lot in the Big Bush.
Speaker 3: I've always been a fan of yours. I just think
Speaker 3: he comes He's one of those guys who just runs
Speaker 3: in the same pace all day bowls, the same pace,
Speaker 3: real big heart, flat wickets all the same. He would
Speaker 3: just never go away. So yeah, worthy to be at
Speaker 3: the top of the wickets and interesting. Jackson Byrd's hundredth
Speaker 3: games for Tasmania as well, so shout out to him
Speaker 3: playing against his first date but also his former states.
Speaker 4: It's funny how things work out.
Speaker 3: So he'll be looking to get in the wickets and
Speaker 3: get his Tazzi team back into interaction.
Speaker 1: Absolutely congratulations to Jackson Bird, one of the great servants
Speaker 1: of Sheffield child cricket. So hopefully there's going to be
Speaker 1: a day where he's not running in from at balret
Speaker 1: Voval and it's not just is there though, it.
Speaker 3: Won't feel right if there is a day with forever
Speaker 3: I'm being thirty five, I get out of bed sore.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you know him. Peter Siddle, this guy,
Speaker 3: I don't know how they do it. Sis is over
Speaker 3: forty now, isn't he is? He's not playing shield cricket,
Speaker 3: but he's still bowling one hundred footy. I couldn't do that,
Speaker 3: So heads off to those guys. But Jackson Burd I
Speaker 3: just feel like he's just going to play till these eighties,
Speaker 3: he's going to run him from that same end and
Speaker 3: just plug away, and why not?
Speaker 4: Why not do it exactly?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: We're going to finish with a couple of questions for
Speaker 1: your rich Oh we've got one from a listener and
Speaker 1: one from me. Because you've eased into retirement, we're not
Speaker 1: just going to let you off the hook.
Speaker 2: Okay, that easily.
Speaker 1: So I want to maybe drill down into a certain
Speaker 1: aspect of your career each week, and for this week,
Speaker 1: I want to look at what was the biggest six
Speaker 1: you were hit for?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, that's my question for you.
Speaker 4: Do you want to drill down into my career? Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well how long we got because again, this is
Speaker 3: pretty big catalog.
Speaker 2: There must be one or two.
Speaker 3: There's definitely one or two come to mind. I think
Speaker 3: I've told one before about Rohu Chama as indoor.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know if we have, didn't we So.
Speaker 3: Playing in indoor the city pull shot out of the ground,
Speaker 3: small ground, but he hit it out of the ground,
Speaker 3: and the.
Speaker 4: Boys like, he just hit you outdoor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 4: That's that sticks.
Speaker 3: That's a classic. It was a classic. And that ball
Speaker 3: come back out of the ground.
Speaker 4: He charged.
Speaker 3: I dug it in and he just wrote it chum
Speaker 3: a pool shot. Just all the stars aligne. It was
Speaker 3: just perfect timing. So I dropped the cap. Well, I
Speaker 3: wasn't wearing a capture.
Speaker 4: I was bowling.
Speaker 2: But I hats off to him with no getting hit
Speaker 2: for six.
Speaker 4: But he did that to me.
Speaker 3: Plenty of times again, lots of people have. The other
Speaker 3: one is Martin gup to at Auckland at eden Park.
Speaker 2: That's a small ground too.
Speaker 3: It is, but he again, they're not just hitting me
Speaker 3: over the over into the first right, they're hitting me
Speaker 3: out of the ground, so right, yeah, straight hit, not
Speaker 3: big but basically the top of eden Park Stadium which
Speaker 3: is high bang into that.
Speaker 1: So wow, were you playing in that game at eden
Speaker 1: Park where Australia chased down two hundred and sixty or whatever.
Speaker 4: It was forty five? Was were you there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, great game, great game forgot him in.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah I played that so yeah, numerous times been
Speaker 3: hit for big ones. Chris Gale at Bangalore remember hit
Speaker 3: me for austraight one hit kind of the corrugated iron
Speaker 3: off the and it came off right back onto the field. No,
Speaker 3: just straight down not the ball, the steel around the ground.
Speaker 3: The sign that hit fell. It was almost like it
Speaker 3: ruined the stadium. That's a danger for the crowd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 3: Where the side screen was, so luckily no one was there,
Speaker 3: but it was literally traceable.
Speaker 4: It's straight into the you know the what is it?
Speaker 2: What do we call it here in Australia sign agel?
Speaker 4: No, you know the it's like what we put in
Speaker 4: our rooms.
Speaker 2: I can't even think color bond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, color bond than straight down. So it would have
Speaker 3: hurt someone if it fell on them. Yeah, they're probably
Speaker 3: three that stand out. But again I've got a law.
Speaker 1: Well, at least there's no travelers there, like you've got Sharma,
Speaker 1: Gayale and Guptil.
Speaker 2: There three of the big names of big hitters.
Speaker 3: So there's been there's been tailings that have got me
Speaker 3: so well, we don't have to doubt. We won't go
Speaker 3: into that, not today.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, And now the question that we've got from
Speaker 1: Brady in Van Dua. He says, Richo, what is the
Speaker 1: most embarrassing moment of your career and why was it
Speaker 1: the mist runout versus Tasmania?
Speaker 4: Well, do I need to do? I need to divulge in.
Speaker 2: Some people won't know the story.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a famous story.
Speaker 3: It's quite quite high on the YouTube algorithm if you
Speaker 3: put my name in. But look, I'll go through what
Speaker 3: I felt at the time and you can you can judge.
Speaker 3: So beautiful Yorka. That's probably the most important piece of
Speaker 3: the story. It was great Yorker. It was last over
Speaker 3: the game. I think they needed eight beautiful Yorker. Ben
Speaker 3: Hilfanaws just chunked it back to me and my follow
Speaker 3: through Ben Laughlin turns out was started running as if
Speaker 3: it was a single and then gave up started walking.
Speaker 4: To the change room. I picked the ball up.
Speaker 3: I think I turned the opposite way to Ben, so
Speaker 3: I didn't know that he was walking off the ground.
Speaker 3: I thought it was under a bit of runout pressure
Speaker 3: under arm, which was never a strength of mind knowing
Speaker 3: just a training where we used to do under armed drills.
Speaker 4: Never was good.
Speaker 2: Clipped leg so it's hit the starm.
Speaker 3: I will argue that till the day I die, and
Speaker 3: I want some forensics on zoom in. But it clipped
Speaker 3: leg right, deviated down to long on for one balls
Speaker 3: didn't come off.
Speaker 4: So when I say it clipped it must have been
Speaker 4: the smallest.
Speaker 2: But you do see that, don't you these days when
Speaker 2: the all consume parts.
Speaker 4: Are you making me feel better?
Speaker 3: Because I was about that far away from the stumps,
Speaker 3: not maybe a meet, we're the danger's own kind of area, right,
Speaker 3: So I thought it was under more pressure than what
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's that's basically harder to miss than to hit,
Speaker 2: is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, but again not a strength of my game.
Speaker 3: Anyone out there. We don't practice under especially under pressure. Ever,
Speaker 3: it's not an area of our game.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure you would have gone on to win
Speaker 2: the game Regardland.
Speaker 3: No, we lost, So that's also why, Yeah, that's why
Speaker 3: it starts so embarrassing moments if everyone drops catches everyone,
Speaker 3: but no, not many people misrunouts from that close with
Speaker 3: three stumps that in the last over a game then
Speaker 3: going to lose.
Speaker 4: But it was, it was. It was a one day
Speaker 4: game against Tasmania at Bankstown.
Speaker 3: So I think we should close the record on that
Speaker 3: and burn that record and never talk about it again
Speaker 3: because what a pointless game.
Speaker 4: Again, now I'm retired, I can say, yeah, that's right, pointless.
Speaker 2: I think that's a good way to end.
Speaker 3: It's been great. Thanks for bringing both those those two
Speaker 3: segments up. It's always nice to talk about my old
Speaker 3: cricketing career.
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Speaker 4: Thanks Josh,