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Speaker 1: Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. This is

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Speaker 1: The Unplayable Podcast. Big Day of Ashes Cricket to kick

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Speaker 1: off the new summer, and wow, what a way to

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Speaker 1: bring it in. Nineteen wickets. We're here at First Stadium

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Speaker 1: and there was no shortage of action. My name is Joshunafinger.

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Speaker 1: Louie Cameron, you were sitting next to me all day

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Speaker 1: and there was plenty of action to take in.

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Speaker 2: So where do we begin rewriting? Furiously all day I

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Speaker 2: think was the flavor of things. I think everyone's head

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Speaker 2: spinning really like Ben Stokes took five wickets in thirty

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Speaker 2: balls at the end of the day. That feels like

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Speaker 2: maybe the third or fourth mostly interesting thing that happened

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Speaker 2: today was mcgawaja was a really puzzling you know, had

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Speaker 2: a really puzzling impact on the game by not being

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Speaker 2: able to open the batting with Jake weather Ord. Australia

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Speaker 2: had two debutants and that's probably not even in the

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Speaker 2: in the podium of talking points, so I don't know

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Speaker 2: where do you want to start, Josh.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's run through the scores.

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Speaker 1: Because England won the tossachos to bat, which is an

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Speaker 1: unusual thing for them, though especially under Ben Stokes's tenure.

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Speaker 1: They preferred the ball first, but England got one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy two. They were all that after thirty three overs.

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Speaker 1: Stark took your career best seven for fifty eight. He

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Speaker 2: I think the big story of the day is England's

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Speaker 2: this years we heard a lot about how you bas

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, this is what they wanted. They

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Speaker 2: wanted guys, you know, four or five six guys who

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Speaker 2: They played four guys who bowled over one hundred and

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Speaker 2: So that as that was the first part of the day.

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Speaker 2: But then you know, England had two guys who bowled

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Speaker 2: He just bowled so beautifully and to watch him bowl

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Speaker 1: Archer at one point had seven overs two for seven.

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Speaker 1: He was not only was he accurate with his short balls,

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Speaker 2: He did get back on at the fall of the

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Speaker 2: So all of a sudden you got weather or gone

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Speaker 2: England scored a lot more boundaries kind of along the way,

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Speaker 4: Questioning, is this, you know, just reckless batting. In hindsight,

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Speaker 1: Maybe Harry Brook read the conditions really well and he

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Speaker 1: He was giving himself room outside leg and hitting over cover, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's valuable runs because that's the difference between the

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Speaker 4: I think it succeeded.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it was a nineteen wicket Day one

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Speaker 2: So England's one seven two, maybe that's worth more like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting because Bradon car said at his pressure

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Speaker 3: He said, yes, that was a plan.

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Speaker 1: Well that's our app on day one here at Perth Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Spend the Unplayable Podcast, brought to you by Quantus. Tune

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Speaker 1: in tomorrow where we recap Day two and hopefully not

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