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Speaker 1: Australia have wrapped up the Ashes series with a three
Speaker 1: nail victory inside eleven days, Lou. They won by eighty
Speaker 1: two runs here today at the adelaide O.
Speaker 2: Will.
Speaker 1: Took them until the middle session of the fifth day,
Speaker 1: but they got there in the end, which Stark took
Speaker 1: a couple towards the end to finally break the back
Speaker 1: of their resistance and then Scott Bolland and Manas Laborshane
Speaker 1: combined for the final wicket before jubilant celebrations from this
Speaker 1: Aussie side. Lou. It's another great performance from this Australian
Speaker 1: team and maybe their toughest winner of the series so far.
Speaker 2: Maybe not.
Speaker 3: There's a whole lot to beat quite possibly, and everyone's
Speaker 3: you know, claiming the death of bads ball. Well I'm
Speaker 3: actually saying this is a great day for England. This
Speaker 3: was their best ever performance in Australia or best ever,
Speaker 3: the best performance in Australia in their last eighteen goes
Speaker 3: by margins of victory, and that just sounds what a
Speaker 3: miserable time it's been for England in the Ashes. You know,
Speaker 3: we heard so much chess beating about what this basball
Speaker 3: brand was going to bring out to Australia. England coming
Speaker 3: into this series through thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty one,
Speaker 3: twenty two had never gotten within one hundred runs in
Speaker 3: terms of the margin of victory, so their margins were
Speaker 3: victory like two hundred runs, three hundred runs innings victories
Speaker 3: and by wickets they'd never got within lower than eight
Speaker 3: So Australia had never done worse than losing two wickets
Speaker 3: in the chase. And today the margin was eighty two runs.
Speaker 3: That's the first double digit loss margin they've had on
Speaker 3: these shorts at sixteen losses out of eighteen their last
Speaker 3: eighteen tests in Australia, and this was their best performance.
Speaker 4: Can you believe that? I can't.
Speaker 1: That is hard to believe, but also does probably back
Speaker 1: up the fact that they have been so bad over
Speaker 1: those last few tours. I thought you were going to
Speaker 1: say it's a good day for English cricket because the
Speaker 1: death of basball means that they something else can be
Speaker 1: reborn and they could start a new passage.
Speaker 4: From the ashes.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, I mean there's so much, so much
Speaker 3: metaphors you're can work with with ashes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a really positive day. This is
Speaker 3: probably their best test of the tour. I suppose they
Speaker 3: showed the fight that Stokes wanted from them. You know,
Speaker 3: you just go back to the first innings. They only
Speaker 3: put up what was a two hundred and eighty six.
Speaker 3: They got the bat during forty degree heat.
Speaker 2: That's just not good enough.
Speaker 3: And we're going to start. Can we start the pylon yet?
Speaker 3: Because I'm ready, I'm equipped. I mean, Brendon McCallum's gone on,
Speaker 3: you know, done some media after this and said, oh, look,
Speaker 3: in hindsight, we probably weren't prepared that well.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that may well be true.
Speaker 3: But they've now played, you know, coming into this game,
Speaker 3: they've now played two tests. They're get used to the conditions,
Speaker 3: they maybe understand the bound a bit more. They're now
Speaker 3: playing in conditions as extreme as Perth and Brisbane in
Speaker 3: terms of the bounce and they put up two hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty six, you know, batting the best conditions of
Speaker 3: the series, and they'd lost you know six there was
Speaker 3: six for one hundred and seventy hundred and eighty. Like
Speaker 3: they're in a shocking position. So they'd had four they batters,
Speaker 3: they had four innings to get used to things. Their
Speaker 3: bowlers are the same, and they still kind of put up,
Speaker 3: especially the batting group, still put up really poor performances.
Speaker 1: You do wonder what would have happened if the series
Speaker 1: started here in Adelaide, don't you if England came out
Speaker 1: all guns blazing first test of the series here. But
Speaker 1: they've gone into their shallow after those two losses. They've
Speaker 1: asked for more fight and even Pat Cummen said that
Speaker 1: he was happy that they batted slowly on that second
Speaker 1: day and supreme heat, because if they were making it
Speaker 1: was his run around in the field and chased leather, well,
Speaker 1: it would have been even tougher for them in extreme conditions.
Speaker 3: I think it's gotten to the point where they've second
Speaker 3: guessed their methods so much that they're now triple guessing.
Speaker 3: Yeah well there, yeah, quadruple guessing queintuple I mean, they
Speaker 3: are not reacting the moment where they should be attacking.
Speaker 4: They're going into their shells.
Speaker 3: And that's been the most surprising bit is because they've
Speaker 3: had these stepbacks went especially in Perth when they played
Speaker 3: some some awful shots to kind of to lose that
Speaker 3: series and then Bold Paul did it to Travis Head
Speaker 3: on that last day, that second day. They now don't
Speaker 3: know when to attack, and there have been moments that
Speaker 3: that fourth morning in Brisbane or fourth afternoon in Brisbane
Speaker 3: when they were way behind in the game, Ben Stokes
Speaker 3: and Will Jacks block the crap out of it. Let's
Speaker 3: be honest, that was a moment where they need to attack.
Speaker 4: To get back in it.
Speaker 3: And then you know the latter part of probably you know,
Speaker 3: the middle part of day two that was that was
Speaker 3: a time where they really could have got back into
Speaker 3: it with by putting some pressure back on Australia against
Speaker 3: an attack that had you know, Mitchell Stark and Scott
Speaker 3: Bowland who were coming off pretty big workloads in the
Speaker 3: first two tests, and Pat Cummins and Nathan Mind who bow.
Speaker 4: Two hovers between them for the series. Easy said and done.
Speaker 3: I know they were magnificent, you know, but England really
Speaker 3: didn't fire a shot when the game counted, you know,
Speaker 3: albeit a good a really fourth in exefit we've got to.
Speaker 1: Say definitely Now the England pile on is fund but
Speaker 1: we can circle back to it at the end. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Nathan Lyon. Obviously it was confirmed
Speaker 1: that he's injured his hamstring today diving for a ball
Speaker 1: down at fine leg. He got up and he sort
Speaker 1: of threw the ball back in and then immediately clutched
Speaker 1: at his right hand string, left the field on his
Speaker 1: own accord, went down, got some scans pretty quickly, and
Speaker 1: then the news came through, Yeah, also quite quickly that
Speaker 1: it was a confirmed hamstring injury. It means that Boxing
Speaker 1: Day and the Sydney Tests are definitely in doubt for him,
Speaker 1: and it does beg the question who comes in as
Speaker 1: the spinner? Now I've got some stats on the shield,
Speaker 1: but what's your first thought of sort of thought straight
Speaker 1: off the bat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first thought is it really sucks for Nathan Lione,
Speaker 3: a guy who felt like had shown in this test
Speaker 3: that he hadn't lost any of the that beautiful stock delivery.
Speaker 3: You know, when he gets in the right conditions, when
Speaker 3: he gets on a strap, bouncy Australian wickeds, he can
Speaker 3: be a real threat. He was fantastic, cracked the game
Speaker 3: open for them. Late last night manus Lavishane said that
Speaker 3: they don't win this Test potentially without him, so huge endorsement.
Speaker 3: You know, he kind of shown if there were any doubts,
Speaker 3: he kind of proved them wrong. He's mid spell bowling
Speaker 3: to get Australia to the second new ball, and he
Speaker 3: bowled more than fifty overs I think in the Test
Speaker 3: by that point. That's when his his hamstring went kind
Speaker 3: of an unusual one like often not a big soft
Speaker 3: tissue expert, but I reckon it's often the ones we're
Speaker 3: chasing balls to the boundary that you really extend the hamstrings,
Speaker 3: especially with some fatigue, that's when they go. This was
Speaker 3: a he had to kind of set off quickly quite late,
Speaker 3: like it was he didn't have that far to go.
Speaker 3: The ball went really fast to him down at fine
Speaker 3: leg and he's made the stop and it's just kind
Speaker 3: of gone in the dive potentially or as he's he's trying.
Speaker 4: To dive.
Speaker 3: Bigger picture, you wonder has he got the you know,
Speaker 3: the if it is a really serious injury. Has he
Speaker 3: got the appetite for a big rehab? Again, we know
Speaker 3: he had the huge you know, i'd suspect it probably
Speaker 3: wouldn't be as bad as the calf injury that he
Speaker 3: did at Lord's two and a half years ago.
Speaker 4: But you know, when you're thirty.
Speaker 3: Eight going on thirty nine, it gets harder and harder
Speaker 3: to come back from top tissues. So yeah, that's my
Speaker 3: first question is, you know, does he have the appetite
Speaker 3: to do that? We know he wants to get to
Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven, and then yeah, the three spinners, I'm
Speaker 3: interested to hear the numbers on who you've got in
Speaker 3: line to replace him.
Speaker 1: Well, if we just look at the injury in terms
Speaker 1: of football terms, I mean, it's not like for lack
Speaker 1: of course, but.
Speaker 4: That's always how I think of injuries just as a rule.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, hamstring injuries are generally between
Speaker 1: three to four weeks, so it's not as if they're
Speaker 1: on the longer end of things. So hopefully it's not
Speaker 1: too bad and he can be back bowling by the
Speaker 1: end of the summer. But we'll just have to wait
Speaker 1: and see whon't we on that front? In terms of
Speaker 1: the Sheffield Chield numbers a bit skewed because some players
Speaker 1: have played more matches than others, but Corey Rocacola he's
Speaker 1: played six matches and taken twenty wickets at twenty eight,
Speaker 1: so that's probably the best record of the group. Todd
Speaker 1: Murphy's also bowled well from what I've seen this season
Speaker 1: so far, he's got ten wickets at twenty three from
Speaker 1: four matches. And then Matthew Cuoneman, who's been the go
Speaker 1: to in subcontinental conditions. He's only played the two matches
Speaker 1: for Tazzi so far their season, taken four wickets at
Speaker 1: thirty six. And then in terms of pure numbers, Mitch
Speaker 1: Swepson has the most out of all spinners in the
Speaker 1: tournament at the minute twenty one at thirty six.
Speaker 2: He's played all six matches to day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well ten of those came here at the Adelaide Oval,
Speaker 3: so he might be thinking that the injury came one
Speaker 3: Test too late for him.
Speaker 4: He would be a long shot. You know.
Speaker 3: They like the control that finger spinners offers, so it
Speaker 3: probably narrows it down to the other three Rocket Rollie Murphy, Koneman.
Speaker 4: I mean, they all in their own.
Speaker 3: Respects have having a strong case to kind of make
Speaker 3: and you wouldn't really surprise you to see any three
Speaker 3: of them from a pure Test numbers point of view.
Speaker 3: Coneman's the guy right like he took sixteen wickets bowling
Speaker 3: with a broken thumb in Sri Lannka this year in
Speaker 3: turning conditions. If you were if you're playing at the
Speaker 3: Whacker or you know, potentially per stadium, I think Rocket
Speaker 3: Cholie would would probably be your guy. Phenomenal record bowling
Speaker 3: on bouncy wickets over in the West, and I think
Speaker 3: he's held his own kind of around the country as well.
Speaker 3: Would have to kind of dig into the numbers with him.
Speaker 3: And then then Murphy looks like he the stuff I've
Speaker 3: seen from him as a you know, I'm a Melbourne guy.
Speaker 3: I go down to the junction over to watch him bowl,
Speaker 3: probably a bit more, see him a bit more than
Speaker 3: the other guys, and he looks to have gotten something
Speaker 3: back that I reckon he lost a little bit probably
Speaker 3: in the in the years I'm just trying to get
Speaker 3: my timelines, but in the years after the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three ashes, when he played two Tests when line was out,
Speaker 3: I think he did a phenomenal job in that series
Speaker 3: standing up for line and he's had some shoulder problems
Speaker 3: over the last season or two in the in the
Speaker 3: Sheffield Shield, but he's looked like he's right back to
Speaker 3: his best for Victoria. And you know, only ten wickets
Speaker 3: but a really good average. I reckon, he's economy rate
Speaker 3: would be really good and he's done really well on
Speaker 3: what are mostly fast bowling friendly wickets. So I could
Speaker 3: I could see them going any of any of three ways.
Speaker 1: I reckon, is there a chance that they bring a
Speaker 1: couple into the squad just to cover all bases, depending
Speaker 1: because they might not know what they're going to get
Speaker 1: at the MCG And.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's yeah potentially right, Like would you and would
Speaker 3: you even look at what England have done and look
Speaker 3: to getting a guy who none of those guys are batters, right,
Speaker 3: All those guys are frontline spinners England. You know, if
Speaker 3: England had kind of gotten over the line today with
Speaker 3: you know, the way will Jack spattered, they might have
Speaker 3: been telling everyone that you know, look we told you so,
Speaker 3: like playing a batter at yea an all rounder at
Speaker 3: number eight was the way to go. Who would be
Speaker 3: in the conversation if they wanted, you know, a number
Speaker 3: eight and he's the one who can.
Speaker 4: Of course he is for you.
Speaker 3: I mean Cooper Connelly played a Test match earlier this year,
Speaker 3: He's had a phenomenal start to the Big Bash season.
Speaker 3: He'd be a guy they'd probably look at for that
Speaker 3: role out. I think it'd be unlikely. I think it
Speaker 3: probably raised the prospect. They've already done it once in
Speaker 3: this yeraries are potentially playing four quicks again in Melbourne
Speaker 3: as potential. I mean that Wicked has been a real
Speaker 3: seema in recent times. It's not the not the flat
Speaker 3: thing that we our English friends that have seen on
Speaker 3: previous to us. Although the first I reckon the almost
Speaker 3: the start of this seeming pictures era was that scott
Speaker 3: Bowland Test where it was England lost within two and
Speaker 3: a half days. So yeah, you'd think they I think
Speaker 3: the style of this Australian team is to pick the
Speaker 3: guy they think will play or think will be you know,
Speaker 3: we'll play if they do pick a spinner, and they
Speaker 3: probably don't want the drama of you know, if it
Speaker 3: was a rocket Trollie and Murphy and those two bowling
Speaker 3: in tandem and the drama around who's going to get picked.
Speaker 3: I think they'd like to avoid that kind of thing, and.
Speaker 1: The for use last year's boxing their test when right
Speaker 1: until the end of day five didn't that, so it
Speaker 1: looked like it might happen here as well as will
Speaker 1: Jackson Jamie Smith. In a bit today, Smith got on
Speaker 1: a run as he passed fifty, hit four fours in
Speaker 1: a row and then was out trying to hit a
Speaker 1: fifth basically straight up in the air off Stark caught
Speaker 1: by Cummings and that was the one that sort of
Speaker 1: broke the Kemel's back. It all happened pretty quickly after that.
Speaker 1: It was a long partnership between those two. After we
Speaker 1: had a bit of rain here this morning, pat Comes
Speaker 1: admitted that he did his mind did wander too previous
Speaker 1: times when the England batters have got away, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure he would have been as relieved as anyone to
Speaker 1: hold onto that catch.
Speaker 2: At mid on.
Speaker 3: He said his mind went back to Lord's, didn't he,
Speaker 3: and that he had to remind himself that when Lyne
Speaker 3: went down at Lord's and they were without their front
Speaker 3: line spinner, that they actually did win that best despite
Speaker 3: Stokes playing one of the best easily the best innings
Speaker 3: in a losing cause I've ever seen it. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it was some guys for England have been under
Speaker 3: the pump, right. Jamie Smith hasn't had a great tour.
Speaker 3: I think he was averaging fifteen coming into this innings.
Speaker 3: He easily had his best knock of the series will Jack.
Speaker 3: So I think he's been really solid with the bad
Speaker 3: and I reckon, you know, going forward for them, can
Speaker 3: you get him up the order because he's performing a
Speaker 3: lot better than some of the some of the other
Speaker 3: guys in that lineup. And then Broaden Cass, who you
Speaker 3: know might have been thinking I might actually go even
Speaker 3: below Josh Archer after the way archerbat it in the
Speaker 3: first innings and his bowling has been under the microscope
Speaker 3: as well well.
Speaker 4: He was fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Smith and Jack's put on ninety one together and you know,
Speaker 3: just played it beautifully like they saw off that that
Speaker 3: early little bit where Australia were just kind of plugging
Speaker 3: time essentially to get to the second U ball, and
Speaker 3: then they played it sensibly and then Smith kind of
Speaker 3: sensed his opportunity when Stark can come and come back
Speaker 3: on and you realize they're going to be They might
Speaker 3: be a little bit wayward, or you might be able
Speaker 3: to bash him off their length given how many overs
Speaker 3: they'd bowled in the Test, and yeah, played it pretty
Speaker 3: well until he just went for one too many off
Speaker 3: off Mitchell Stark. But really, yeah, it's very hard to
Speaker 3: be critical of those guys. Those they if they you know,
Speaker 3: if Jamie Smith and Will actually kind of come together
Speaker 3: when they needed one hundred left around two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty or whatever it was the other night, then England
Speaker 3: would have been right in with the shop.
Speaker 1: That's a good point, Will jacks He's now faced the
Speaker 1: sixth most deliveries in the series, even though he missed
Speaker 1: the first test, so amazing time at the crease from him.
Speaker 1: Does beg the question, and we have touched on it
Speaker 1: a bit, how do England reshape that top seven if
Speaker 1: they dare tinker with it, because they've only got really
Speaker 1: Jacob Bethel in reserve here in the squad to come in,
Speaker 1: and maybe Will Jackson's putting his hand up to say, well,
Speaker 1: I can bat in the top seven and then you
Speaker 1: can bring in potentially Bisheer or another Seema or someone else.
Speaker 1: But they have to change something eventually, because they haven't
Speaker 1: moved to that top seven at all.
Speaker 2: Three out down. You have to change something now.
Speaker 4: You would think so, Yeah, you would think so.
Speaker 3: I mean it's hard to see how they keep going
Speaker 3: back to the well with some of these guys. I mean,
Speaker 3: the one who's going just as bout as bad as anyone's,
Speaker 3: Ben Duckett. I think his averages down to fifteen or
Speaker 3: sixteen huge surprise to me. I thought he could really
Speaker 3: threaten in these conditions.
Speaker 2: And a couple of drop catches in Brusberg rather.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, he seemed like the much more
Speaker 3: solid opening option out of those that will. Crawley has
Speaker 3: shown great growth, as we spoke on yesterday's podcast, and
Speaker 3: Ducket's kind of the winder everyone gets into Olipope from
Speaker 3: the English side. I don't think he's going any worse
Speaker 3: than say Harry brook. Yes, he's got a few more
Speaker 3: runs on the overall tally, but you know his dismissal
Speaker 3: is any more frustrating the Brooks, you know, I don't
Speaker 3: think so. I think, yeah, you've got to be looking
Speaker 3: at Jack's in potentially you know, a five or a
Speaker 3: six six spot. The way Stokes is battered. It would
Speaker 3: be asking so much of him, but he would be
Speaker 3: the perfect number three. I think the way he's kind
Speaker 3: of operating at the moment, he would, you know, just
Speaker 3: just a settled the fact that Duck one of duck
Speaker 3: at or Crawley is basically always going out in the
Speaker 3: first few overs, combined with having just a jack in
Speaker 3: the box Olipope who looks you know, just doesn't look
Speaker 3: he hasn't really looked like it, and even when he
Speaker 3: kind of has looked a bit like it, you know,
Speaker 3: if he gets it, gets an awesome ball from Pat Comings,
Speaker 3: I just think that that Stokes will be a better
Speaker 3: option there, But it's asking so much of a guy
Speaker 3: who bowls as many overs as he does. You know,
Speaker 3: Jacob Bethel is kind of a guy they've they've shielded
Speaker 3: from County cricket over the year. This year I'm talking
Speaker 3: about and you know he has his cricket gone forward
Speaker 3: since they kind of identified him. You know, big question
Speaker 3: mark there never made a first class hundred. Missed a
Speaker 3: chance to do that in the A game the other day.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you're buttressing your top order with a guy
Speaker 3: who hasn't made a first class hundred. That's seems remarkable
Speaker 3: to me that he's there one backup better? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. So we'll wait and see. Because's not
Speaker 1: long until that boxing day test begins, in fact only
Speaker 1: five days, so they will have to quickly shuffle the
Speaker 1: deck chairs and something that Australia did quite well. So
Speaker 1: they shuffled their slips called in deck chairs and this
Speaker 1: test match, didn't they know? Steve smith Manus Labershane took
Speaker 1: the spot at second slip and he took another worthy today?
Speaker 1: Was this better or worse than yesterday?
Speaker 4: I think the one yesterday just shades it. Okay, what
Speaker 4: do you think?
Speaker 1: Well? This one, I don't know because he's so far forward.
Speaker 1: It's rare that you see your first slip, take it
Speaker 1: in front of the keeper, isn't it? And carry I
Speaker 1: think would have probably snaffled it up, but you never
Speaker 1: know once it flies past. I think I'm giving it
Speaker 1: to yesterday, just a bit lower to the ground and
Speaker 1: maybe went a little bit quicker the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this was a kind of catch like
Speaker 3: of a guy on a heater, like I reckon if
Speaker 3: he hadn't taken.
Speaker 4: The one the previous day.
Speaker 3: In his mind he would have gone, oh, Kerry's got that,
Speaker 3: like this is a brand new ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The difference was here he was standing.
Speaker 3: At a wider first rather than second the second, where
Speaker 3: for the other one, which would have been diving in
Speaker 3: front of it, wouldn't have made it to Nudger. So
Speaker 3: I think if he hadn't taken the previous one, he
Speaker 3: would have known, oh, that's going to carry, I'll leave it,
Speaker 3: and Kerry had it covered. You see the replay and
Speaker 3: he's right there red to catch it. But because you
Speaker 3: had taken that other one, it was just like, no,
Speaker 3: I've got this. My left hand is absolutely on fire.
Speaker 3: And yeah, incredible formance. I mean, they stood up as
Speaker 3: well as they possibly could of in the absence of
Speaker 3: Smith in the court and with the bat, Cowadra has
Speaker 3: made a really strong case to play for the rest
Speaker 3: of the series. I think, you know, the big question
Speaker 3: marks over how he was going to go in this series,
Speaker 3: given how he's gone against high pace coming into this
Speaker 3: into this tour, you know, massive tick and I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be hard for them to leave him out
Speaker 3: when when Smith comes back.
Speaker 1: And they're bowling takes not getting any quicker at this
Speaker 1: stage of the series either is it. So there's also
Speaker 1: that factor as well, especially with Mark Wood ruled out,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't a good chance to play, he would
Speaker 1: assume now, Lou, the series is all wrapped up in
Speaker 1: eleven days, which is the fastest and ashes series has
Speaker 1: been decided nineteen fifty one or nineteen fifty and fifty one,
Speaker 1: which you said you love that series, and then there
Speaker 1: was also the two thousand and two three series, both
Speaker 1: victories to Australia. Where does this team rank and this
Speaker 1: performance rank in terms of actually series gone by, because
Speaker 1: it's rare that things get wrapped up this quickly, even
Speaker 1: though it's a familiar sort of script to do it
Speaker 1: at this rate, Well, it's sort of unchartted territory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you look back at that twenty thirteen to fourteen
Speaker 3: team is probably the obvious comparison at this point if
Speaker 3: you think that they might be on track for a whitewash.
Speaker 3: I mean, the bowling attack was just so settled during
Speaker 3: that third and fourteen one like you have it. You
Speaker 3: had a younger Nathan Lyon just really starting to hit
Speaker 3: his straps, Mitchell Johnson on the all time heater Harris
Speaker 3: and Peter Siddle.
Speaker 4: As Harris was great in that series, but you know,
Speaker 4: just four bowl was no real all rounder from what.
Speaker 1: Pay a little bit, but the whole team didn't change
Speaker 1: the whole series.
Speaker 4: That was pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3: Whereas you know, Australia have had fourteen to fifteen guys
Speaker 3: play already, They've had I think six guys who have
Speaker 3: taken five plus wickets in the series already.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, compared to that thirteen to fourteen when just four
Speaker 3: guys basically played the whole series.
Speaker 4: So you know, the batting, I just think like the
Speaker 4: batting is still.
Speaker 3: Hasn't clicked for this Australian team and keep saying it,
Speaker 3: but I just don't think they're not a world class
Speaker 3: batting unit. They are a world class bowling unit and
Speaker 3: the batters are just doing enough.
Speaker 4: So look, let's give them the full series.
Speaker 3: Let's see if the batters can really hit their straps
Speaker 3: in Melbourne and Sydney. Until that happens, I'd say that
Speaker 3: they're not quite one of the great Australian teams because
Speaker 3: this is far from a great English team. Like it's
Speaker 3: hard to overstate how disappointed we all are with what
Speaker 3: they dished up so far on this tour all right, Well,
Speaker 3: we better circle back at the end of the series
Speaker 3: just to see how the Ossies are doing.
Speaker 1: It's a three no lead to Australia and the Asher
Speaker 1: series move on to Melbourne and we'll catch you soon
Speaker 1: on the Unplayable podcast.