WEBVTT - Adelaide D5: Ashes won, England smashed by record-equalling Aussies 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.239 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by quantas the official 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.399 podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.799 Once again this season, Quantus is prouds Toby be flying 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:10.920 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.119 Welcome to the Young Playbole Podcast. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.240 Australia have wrapped up the Ashes series with a three 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.239 nail victory inside eleven days, Lou. They won by eighty 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:25.800 two runs here today at the adelaide O. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:26.000 Will. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.560 Took them until the middle session of the fifth day, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:30.920 but they got there in the end, which Stark took 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.400 a couple towards the end to finally break the back 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.320 of their resistance and then Scott Bolland and Manas Laborshane 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.960 combined for the final wicket before jubilant celebrations from this 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.840 Aussie side. Lou. It's another great performance from this Australian 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.239 team and maybe their toughest winner of the series so far. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:47.760 Maybe not. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.960 There's a whole lot to beat quite possibly, and everyone's 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.920 you know, claiming the death of bads ball. Well I'm 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:55.800 actually saying this is a great day for England. This 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.520 was their best ever performance in Australia or best ever, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.320 the best performance in Australia in their last eighteen goes 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.399 by margins of victory, and that just sounds what a 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.120 miserable time it's been for England in the Ashes. You know, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.920 we heard so much chess beating about what this basball 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.199 brand was going to bring out to Australia. England coming 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.360 into this series through thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty one, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:26.280 twenty two had never gotten within one hundred runs in 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.240 terms of the margin of victory, so their margins were 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.480 victory like two hundred runs, three hundred runs innings victories 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.320 and by wickets they'd never got within lower than eight 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:40.880 So Australia had never done worse than losing two wickets 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.760 in the chase. And today the margin was eighty two runs. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.160 That's the first double digit loss margin they've had on 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.080 these shorts at sixteen losses out of eighteen their last 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.040 eighteen tests in Australia, and this was their best performance. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:57.520 Can you believe that? I can't. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.520 That is hard to believe, but also does probably back 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.040 up the fact that they have been so bad over 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.080 those last few tours. I thought you were going to 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.640 say it's a good day for English cricket because the 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.160 death of basball means that they something else can be 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.880 reborn and they could start a new passage. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:12.079 From the ashes. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.720 That's right, Yeah, I mean there's so much, so much 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.400 metaphors you're can work with with ashes and stuff like that. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:19.919 I mean, it was a really positive day. This is 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.640 probably their best test of the tour. I suppose they 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.840 showed the fight that Stokes wanted from them. You know, 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.160 you just go back to the first innings. They only 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.160 put up what was a two hundred and eighty six. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.680 They got the bat during forty degree heat. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:36.800 That's just not good enough. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.320 And we're going to start. Can we start the pylon yet? 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.760 Because I'm ready, I'm equipped. I mean, Brendon McCallum's gone on, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.600 you know, done some media after this and said, oh, look, 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.400 in hindsight, we probably weren't prepared that well. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.280 Well, yeah, that may well be true. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.239 But they've now played, you know, coming into this game, 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.440 they've now played two tests. They're get used to the conditions, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.000 they maybe understand the bound a bit more. They're now 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.720 playing in conditions as extreme as Perth and Brisbane in 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.040 terms of the bounce and they put up two hundred 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.200 and eighty six, you know, batting the best conditions of 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.200 the series, and they'd lost you know six there was 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.640 six for one hundred and seventy hundred and eighty. Like 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.320 they're in a shocking position. So they'd had four they batters, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.079 they had four innings to get used to things. Their 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.040 bowlers are the same, and they still kind of put up, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.000 especially the batting group, still put up really poor performances. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.919 You do wonder what would have happened if the series 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.799 started here in Adelaide, don't you if England came out 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.600 all guns blazing first test of the series here. But 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.400 they've gone into their shallow after those two losses. They've 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.360 asked for more fight and even Pat Cummen said that 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.800 he was happy that they batted slowly on that second 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.520 day and supreme heat, because if they were making it 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.600 was his run around in the field and chased leather, well, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.200 it would have been even tougher for them in extreme conditions. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.600 I think it's gotten to the point where they've second 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.640 guessed their methods so much that they're now triple guessing. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.120 Yeah well there, yeah, quadruple guessing queintuple I mean, they 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.320 are not reacting the moment where they should be attacking. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.360 They're going into their shells. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.440 And that's been the most surprising bit is because they've 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.280 had these stepbacks went especially in Perth when they played 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.640 some some awful shots to kind of to lose that 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.840 series and then Bold Paul did it to Travis Head 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.920 on that last day, that second day. They now don't 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.080 know when to attack, and there have been moments that 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.320 that fourth morning in Brisbane or fourth afternoon in Brisbane 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.000 when they were way behind in the game, Ben Stokes 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.920 and Will Jacks block the crap out of it. Let's 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.440 be honest, that was a moment where they need to attack. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:30.839 To get back in it. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.800 And then you know the latter part of probably you know, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.840 the middle part of day two that was that was 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.400 a time where they really could have got back into 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.760 it with by putting some pressure back on Australia against 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.679 an attack that had you know, Mitchell Stark and Scott 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.159 Bowland who were coming off pretty big workloads in the 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.920 first two tests, and Pat Cummins and Nathan Mind who bow. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.120 Two hovers between them for the series. Easy said and done. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.640 I know they were magnificent, you know, but England really 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.120 didn't fire a shot when the game counted, you know, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.280 albeit a good a really fourth in exefit we've got to. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.800 Say definitely Now the England pile on is fund but 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.599 we can circle back to it at the end. I 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.120 want to talk about Nathan Lyon. Obviously it was confirmed 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.839 that he's injured his hamstring today diving for a ball 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.240 down at fine leg. He got up and he sort 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.480 of threw the ball back in and then immediately clutched 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.760 at his right hand string, left the field on his 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.360 own accord, went down, got some scans pretty quickly, and 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.040 then the news came through, Yeah, also quite quickly that 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.360 it was a confirmed hamstring injury. It means that Boxing 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.360 Day and the Sydney Tests are definitely in doubt for him, 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.720 and it does beg the question who comes in as 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.799 the spinner? Now I've got some stats on the shield, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.520 but what's your first thought of sort of thought straight 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:38.960 off the bat. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.560 Yeah, first thought is it really sucks for Nathan Lione, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.839 a guy who felt like had shown in this test 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.400 that he hadn't lost any of the that beautiful stock delivery. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.320 You know, when he gets in the right conditions, when 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.160 he gets on a strap, bouncy Australian wickeds, he can 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.880 be a real threat. He was fantastic, cracked the game 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.520 open for them. Late last night manus Lavishane said that 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.960 they don't win this Test potentially without him, so huge endorsement. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.080 You know, he kind of shown if there were any doubts, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.719 he kind of proved them wrong. He's mid spell bowling 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.440 to get Australia to the second new ball, and he 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.800 bowled more than fifty overs I think in the Test 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.440 by that point. That's when his his hamstring went kind 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.719 of an unusual one like often not a big soft 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.440 tissue expert, but I reckon it's often the ones we're 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.479 chasing balls to the boundary that you really extend the hamstrings, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.280 especially with some fatigue, that's when they go. This was 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.920 a he had to kind of set off quickly quite late, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:37.440 like it was he didn't have that far to go. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.279 The ball went really fast to him down at fine 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.240 leg and he's made the stop and it's just kind 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.320 of gone in the dive potentially or as he's he's trying. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:46.720 To dive. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.800 Bigger picture, you wonder has he got the you know, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.400 the if it is a really serious injury. Has he 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.320 got the appetite for a big rehab? Again, we know 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.960 he had the huge you know, i'd suspect it probably 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.359 wouldn't be as bad as the calf injury that he 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.679 did at Lord's two and a half years ago. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.600 But you know, when you're thirty. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.200 Eight going on thirty nine, it gets harder and harder 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.160 to come back from top tissues. So yeah, that's my 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.040 first question is, you know, does he have the appetite 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.720 to do that? We know he wants to get to 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.320 twenty twenty seven, and then yeah, the three spinners, I'm 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.760 interested to hear the numbers on who you've got in 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:26.800 line to replace him. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.320 Well, if we just look at the injury in terms 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.120 of football terms, I mean, it's not like for lack 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:33.840 of course, but. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.240 That's always how I think of injuries just as a rule. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.120 Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, hamstring injuries are generally between 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.080 three to four weeks, so it's not as if they're 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.160 on the longer end of things. So hopefully it's not 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.080 too bad and he can be back bowling by the 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.960 end of the summer. But we'll just have to wait 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.920 and see whon't we on that front? In terms of 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:54.000 the Sheffield Chield numbers a bit skewed because some players 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.600 have played more matches than others, but Corey Rocacola he's 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.720 played six matches and taken twenty wickets at twenty eight, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.400 so that's probably the best record of the group. Todd 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.200 Murphy's also bowled well from what I've seen this season 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.920 so far, he's got ten wickets at twenty three from 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.480 four matches. And then Matthew Cuoneman, who's been the go 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.840 to in subcontinental conditions. He's only played the two matches 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.440 for Tazzi so far their season, taken four wickets at 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.960 thirty six. And then in terms of pure numbers, Mitch 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.880 Swepson has the most out of all spinners in the 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.840 tournament at the minute twenty one at thirty six. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.280 He's played all six matches to day. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.720 Yeah, well ten of those came here at the Adelaide Oval, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.480 so he might be thinking that the injury came one 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.080 Test too late for him. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.600 He would be a long shot. You know. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.760 They like the control that finger spinners offers, so it 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.880 probably narrows it down to the other three Rocket Rollie Murphy, Koneman. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.720 I mean, they all in their own. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.439 Respects have having a strong case to kind of make 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.560 and you wouldn't really surprise you to see any three 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.199 of them from a pure Test numbers point of view. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.000 Coneman's the guy right like he took sixteen wickets bowling 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.840 with a broken thumb in Sri Lannka this year in 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.599 turning conditions. If you were if you're playing at the 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.400 Whacker or you know, potentially per stadium, I think Rocket 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.319 Cholie would would probably be your guy. Phenomenal record bowling 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.600 on bouncy wickets over in the West, and I think 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.520 he's held his own kind of around the country as well. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.080 Would have to kind of dig into the numbers with him. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.920 And then then Murphy looks like he the stuff I've 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.840 seen from him as a you know, I'm a Melbourne guy. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.760 I go down to the junction over to watch him bowl, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.200 probably a bit more, see him a bit more than 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.480 the other guys, and he looks to have gotten something 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.240 back that I reckon he lost a little bit probably 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.040 in the in the years I'm just trying to get 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.040 my timelines, but in the years after the twenty twenty 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.040 three ashes, when he played two Tests when line was out, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.280 I think he did a phenomenal job in that series 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.360 standing up for line and he's had some shoulder problems 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.440 over the last season or two in the in the 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.000 Sheffield Shield, but he's looked like he's right back to 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:58.320 his best for Victoria. And you know, only ten wickets 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.640 but a really good average. I reckon, he's economy rate 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.360 would be really good and he's done really well on 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.080 what are mostly fast bowling friendly wickets. So I could 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.760 I could see them going any of any of three ways. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.679 I reckon, is there a chance that they bring a 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.440 couple into the squad just to cover all bases, depending 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:17.800 because they might not know what they're going to get 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:18.880 at the MCG And. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.480 Yeah, that's yeah potentially right, Like would you and would 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.880 you even look at what England have done and look 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.400 to getting a guy who none of those guys are batters, right, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.360 All those guys are frontline spinners England. You know, if 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.160 England had kind of gotten over the line today with 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.439 you know, the way will Jack spattered, they might have 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.360 been telling everyone that you know, look we told you so, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.840 like playing a batter at yea an all rounder at 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.480 number eight was the way to go. Who would be 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.000 in the conversation if they wanted, you know, a number 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:49.800 eight and he's the one who can. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:51.360 Of course he is for you. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.000 I mean Cooper Connelly played a Test match earlier this year, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.320 He's had a phenomenal start to the Big Bash season. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.480 He'd be a guy they'd probably look at for that 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.839 role out. I think it'd be unlikely. I think it 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.360 probably raised the prospect. They've already done it once in 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.560 this yeraries are potentially playing four quicks again in Melbourne 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.440 as potential. I mean that Wicked has been a real 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.000 seema in recent times. It's not the not the flat 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.840 thing that we our English friends that have seen on 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.040 previous to us. Although the first I reckon the almost 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.240 the start of this seeming pictures era was that scott 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.360 Bowland Test where it was England lost within two and 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.640 a half days. So yeah, you'd think they I think 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.720 the style of this Australian team is to pick the 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.520 guy they think will play or think will be you know, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.880 we'll play if they do pick a spinner, and they 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.120 probably don't want the drama of you know, if it 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.079 was a rocket Trollie and Murphy and those two bowling 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.560 in tandem and the drama around who's going to get picked. 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.079 I think they'd like to avoid that kind of thing, and. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.000 The for use last year's boxing their test when right 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.160 until the end of day five didn't that, so it 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.000 looked like it might happen here as well as will 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.000 Jackson Jamie Smith. In a bit today, Smith got on 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.920 a run as he passed fifty, hit four fours in 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.319 a row and then was out trying to hit a 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.920 fifth basically straight up in the air off Stark caught 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.200 by Cummings and that was the one that sort of 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.320 broke the Kemel's back. It all happened pretty quickly after that. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.040 It was a long partnership between those two. After we 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.400 had a bit of rain here this morning, pat Comes 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.040 admitted that he did his mind did wander too previous 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.439 times when the England batters have got away, so I'm 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.120 sure he would have been as relieved as anyone to 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:29.880 hold onto that catch. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:30.280 At mid on. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.120 He said his mind went back to Lord's, didn't he, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.760 and that he had to remind himself that when Lyne 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.520 went down at Lord's and they were without their front 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.120 line spinner, that they actually did win that best despite 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.320 Stokes playing one of the best easily the best innings 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.800 in a losing cause I've ever seen it. Yeah, I 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.800 mean it was some guys for England have been under 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.640 the pump, right. Jamie Smith hasn't had a great tour. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.240 I think he was averaging fifteen coming into this innings. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.880 He easily had his best knock of the series will Jack. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.640 So I think he's been really solid with the bad 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.880 and I reckon, you know, going forward for them, can 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:05.840 you get him up the order because he's performing a 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.400 lot better than some of the some of the other 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.760 guys in that lineup. And then Broaden Cass, who you 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.280 know might have been thinking I might actually go even 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.520 below Josh Archer after the way archerbat it in the 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.359 first innings and his bowling has been under the microscope 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.120 as well well. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.720 He was fantastic. Yeah. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.000 Smith and Jack's put on ninety one together and you know, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.720 just played it beautifully like they saw off that that 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.959 early little bit where Australia were just kind of plugging 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.960 time essentially to get to the second U ball, and 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.240 then they played it sensibly and then Smith kind of 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.000 sensed his opportunity when Stark can come and come back 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.800 on and you realize they're going to be They might 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.280 be a little bit wayward, or you might be able 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.560 to bash him off their length given how many overs 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.000 they'd bowled in the Test, and yeah, played it pretty 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.079 well until he just went for one too many off 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.680 off Mitchell Stark. But really, yeah, it's very hard to 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.000 be critical of those guys. Those they if they you know, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.960 if Jamie Smith and Will actually kind of come together 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.240 when they needed one hundred left around two hundred and 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.280 fifty or whatever it was the other night, then England 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:07.400 would have been right in with the shop. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.480 That's a good point, Will jacks He's now faced the 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.640 sixth most deliveries in the series, even though he missed 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.320 the first test, so amazing time at the crease from him. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.320 Does beg the question, and we have touched on it 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.400 a bit, how do England reshape that top seven if 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.000 they dare tinker with it, because they've only got really 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.920 Jacob Bethel in reserve here in the squad to come in, 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.440 and maybe Will Jackson's putting his hand up to say, well, 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.240 I can bat in the top seven and then you 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.720 can bring in potentially Bisheer or another Seema or someone else. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.800 But they have to change something eventually, because they haven't 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.160 moved to that top seven at all. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.480 Three out down. You have to change something now. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.400 You would think so, Yeah, you would think so. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.560 I mean it's hard to see how they keep going 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.840 back to the well with some of these guys. I mean, 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.720 the one who's going just as bout as bad as anyone's, 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.320 Ben Duckett. I think his averages down to fifteen or 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.440 sixteen huge surprise to me. I thought he could really 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.160 threaten in these conditions. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.400 And a couple of drop catches in Brusberg rather. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.320 Yeah, but you know, he seemed like the much more 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.960 solid opening option out of those that will. Crawley has 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.360 shown great growth, as we spoke on yesterday's podcast, and 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.360 Ducket's kind of the winder everyone gets into Olipope from 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.520 the English side. I don't think he's going any worse 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.680 than say Harry brook. Yes, he's got a few more 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.960 runs on the overall tally, but you know his dismissal 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.680 is any more frustrating the Brooks, you know, I don't 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.680 think so. I think, yeah, you've got to be looking 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.440 at Jack's in potentially you know, a five or a 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.440 six six spot. The way Stokes is battered. It would 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.640 be asking so much of him, but he would be 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.200 the perfect number three. I think the way he's kind 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.320 of operating at the moment, he would, you know, just 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.760 just a settled the fact that Duck one of duck 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.600 at or Crawley is basically always going out in the 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.640 first few overs, combined with having just a jack in 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.560 the box Olipope who looks you know, just doesn't look 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.520 he hasn't really looked like it, and even when he 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.600 kind of has looked a bit like it, you know, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.840 if he gets it, gets an awesome ball from Pat Comings, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:04.640 I just think that that Stokes will be a better 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.400 option there, But it's asking so much of a guy 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.200 who bowls as many overs as he does. You know, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.480 Jacob Bethel is kind of a guy they've they've shielded 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.760 from County cricket over the year. This year I'm talking 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.360 about and you know he has his cricket gone forward 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.320 since they kind of identified him. You know, big question 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.280 mark there never made a first class hundred. Missed a 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.120 chance to do that in the A game the other day. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.440 So yeah, you're buttressing your top order with a guy 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.760 who hasn't made a first class hundred. That's seems remarkable 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.320 to me that he's there one backup better? Right? 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.200 Yeah, that's it. So we'll wait and see. Because's not 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.440 long until that boxing day test begins, in fact only 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.480 five days, so they will have to quickly shuffle the 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.760 deck chairs and something that Australia did quite well. So 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.120 they shuffled their slips called in deck chairs and this 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.200 test match, didn't they know? Steve smith Manus Labershane took 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.880 the spot at second slip and he took another worthy today? 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.960 Was this better or worse than yesterday? 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.479 I think the one yesterday just shades it. Okay, what 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:07.119 do you think? 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.040 Well? This one, I don't know because he's so far forward. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.080 It's rare that you see your first slip, take it 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.760 in front of the keeper, isn't it? And carry I 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.360 think would have probably snaffled it up, but you never 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.840 know once it flies past. I think I'm giving it 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.280 to yesterday, just a bit lower to the ground and 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.560 maybe went a little bit quicker the moment. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.280 Yeah, I mean this was a kind of catch like 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.840 of a guy on a heater, like I reckon if 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:33.840 he hadn't taken. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:34.760 The one the previous day. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.959 In his mind he would have gone, oh, Kerry's got that, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:39.320 like this is a brand new ball. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.160 Yeah. The difference was here he was standing. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.119 At a wider first rather than second the second, where 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.439 for the other one, which would have been diving in 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.080 front of it, wouldn't have made it to Nudger. So 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.000 I think if he hadn't taken the previous one, he 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:56.760 would have known, oh, that's going to carry, I'll leave it, 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.000 and Kerry had it covered. You see the replay and 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.199 he's right there red to catch it. But because you 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:03.639 had taken that other one, it was just like, no, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.480 I've got this. My left hand is absolutely on fire. 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:10.680 And yeah, incredible formance. I mean, they stood up as 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.639 well as they possibly could of in the absence of 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.879 Smith in the court and with the bat, Cowadra has 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.560 made a really strong case to play for the rest 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.480 of the series. I think, you know, the big question 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.159 marks over how he was going to go in this series, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.359 given how he's gone against high pace coming into this 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.800