Speaker 1: The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by quantas the official
Speaker 1: podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia.
Speaker 1: Once again this season, Quantus is prouds Toby be flying
Speaker 1: Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everybody,
Speaker 1: Welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. A very big day for
Speaker 1: Australia at the SCG. They now lead by one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty four runs. One hundreds to Travis Head and
Speaker 1: Steve Smith highlighted the day and it was another tough
Speaker 1: day in the field for the English bowlers, wasn't it,
Speaker 1: lou But where do we start with? We've got to
Speaker 1: start with those hundreds, don't we, Travis Head and Steve Smith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it felt like two kind of icons, current
Speaker 2: icons of Australian cricket just got to be themselves today.
Speaker 2: That was my takeaway from it. You know, Travis Head
Speaker 2: begins today adding seventy two to his overnight tally and
Speaker 2: just goes about it in the most laconic way you
Speaker 2: could possibly go about it, walking singles, smashing sixers, chatting
Speaker 2: with umpires, just you know, all round lark and good
Speaker 2: bloke that has kind of made him a loved figure
Speaker 2: in the Australian cricket and then Steve Smith just been
Speaker 2: the odd unit that he is, you know, signaling wides,
Speaker 2: you know, moving people from behind the side screen, like
Speaker 2: doing his funny hand movements.
Speaker 1: It was all there today on that Travis Head a
Speaker 1: bit about being laconic and being relaxed and looking singles.
Speaker 1: I know you're big on this that you made a
Speaker 1: point of.
Speaker 2: I thought you might have been starting with something else
Speaker 2: which I want to get to this on Travis Head,
Speaker 2: but yeah, there where you're going here? Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been big on the fact that England have
Speaker 1: allowed him to walk singles. They haven't shied at his
Speaker 1: end when he's just been dawdling through. They've always had
Speaker 1: sweepers on the boundary, it has seemed, so there have
Speaker 1: been lots of options and opportunities for him to do that.
Speaker 1: I think in Perth or Adelaide we saw him walk
Speaker 1: backwards for.
Speaker 3: An entire run.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty funny stuff, but also from an English
Speaker 1: point of view, you'd probably be annoyed if that was
Speaker 1: your team allowing that to happen.
Speaker 2: Well, let's start with what Travehead had to say about that,
Speaker 2: and then I'll tell you what I kind of think
Speaker 2: about it. What we asked I asked Travis Head in
Speaker 2: the press conference just now, like what did Like I
Speaker 2: felt like it was a bit of a weird question,
Speaker 2: but like, did you expect England to maybe throw the
Speaker 2: ball at your stumps a few more times? Like these
Speaker 2: are supposed to be high intensity international game of cricket
Speaker 2: and he is walking a lot of singles. You know,
Speaker 2: he's hitting to his credit, like he's setting the deep
Speaker 2: fielder is back. I'm not criticizing England for doing that,
Speaker 2: like you have to. You have to do it in
Speaker 2: otherwise he's going to score at an even quicker rate
Speaker 2: than he is. But what the deep field is? So
Speaker 2: he kind of says that he walks walks him and
Speaker 2: he does the walking backwards, and he does it to
Speaker 2: elicited response from the change rooms. And it speaks a
Speaker 2: lot too. You know, he's kind of Alarican personality, but
Speaker 2: also like he is a guy who thinks a lot
Speaker 2: about I think team chemistry, team vibes, all these things.
Speaker 2: I think he's a very selfless cricketer. And so the
Speaker 2: way he conducts himself does have an eye on his teammates.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's giving him too much credit, but that's kind
Speaker 2: of basically what he said when I asked him about it.
Speaker 2: What I think is like from an England point of view, like,
Speaker 2: surely you're picking up the ball at square deep square
Speaker 2: leg or deep third man or wherever and throwing the
Speaker 2: ball at his end every single time. And yes, you're
Speaker 2: probably not going to get a run out because it's
Speaker 2: not like he's not looking at the ball when it's
Speaker 2: going down to the fielders. But if you can make
Speaker 2: him exert a little bit, like let's say he runs
Speaker 2: or walks thirty singles in his innings, I reckon it's
Speaker 2: probably fair to say he walked more than that, but
Speaker 2: that's thirty times. You're making him at least run at
Speaker 2: a higher intensity, at least half the pitch. Yep, you're
Speaker 2: probably not getting a run out, but like over the
Speaker 2: course of a long innings, that is going to wear
Speaker 2: you down. And you know, every hundred in this year
Speaker 2: is they've been big ones. It's been one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2: This one's one hundred and sixty three, and the one
Speaker 2: in brisbanead one seventy Adelaide, exactly. It won's seventy sorry
Speaker 2: in Adelaide. Yeah, so's he's scoring heavily after making one
Speaker 2: hundred despite you know, maybe by his own mission, not
Speaker 2: being the absolute fittest guy in world cricket. That's got
Speaker 2: to be a major cross against what England like surely,
Speaker 2: and you know it's interesting they don't have a fielding
Speaker 2: coach out here. Surely the first thing the fielding coach
Speaker 2: is saying after the first time he sees that is
Speaker 2: ping the ball at Travis Head's stumps. I just thought,
Speaker 2: that's that's basics of cricket that they've allowed him to
Speaker 2: get away with this whole series.
Speaker 1: It's a show of intensity in the field as well,
Speaker 1: isn't it when you know you're trying to attempt to
Speaker 1: get run outs even if they might be slight chances.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and prior, yeah, like you're getting bad at everywhere,
Speaker 2: like you know Matthew Potts. You know, Ricky Ponting I
Speaker 2: think said he felt sorry for him today, like and
Speaker 2: that's not a dig at Matthew Potts. That's like a
Speaker 2: guy who's trying his best. And you know, like surely,
Speaker 2: as a matter of just backing up your teammates as
Speaker 2: a matter of backing up say Ben Stokes and Brighton
Speaker 2: Cars and Josh Tung who who tried that tried their
Speaker 2: guts out today, you know, like there's no no one's
Speaker 2: saying they're not trying. But you've got to surely have
Speaker 2: a bit of pride in your teammates, you know, the
Speaker 2: way Travis Head looks out for his teammates.
Speaker 3: It's a good point.
Speaker 1: And also the tea break on Fox Cricket, Travis Head
Speaker 1: said he was getting pretty tired as well by the
Speaker 1: time he'd faced one hundred and sixty six balls. So
Speaker 1: what if he's getting tired when he's only faced one hundred.
Speaker 2: Or exactly eighty. Yeah, so they could have least I mean,
Speaker 2: you're probably not going to eleasset it a wicket, you know,
Speaker 2: if he's making if he's facing one hundred balls and
Speaker 2: hitting a hundred off as many of them, you're probably
Speaker 2: not gonna get him out before then by doing that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, maybe you get him out one hundred, ten
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty. That can be the difference between winning
Speaker 2: a game and not.
Speaker 1: Now, Travis Head has scored eleven Test centuries, seven of
Speaker 1: them over one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: I asked him a question if he wanted.
Speaker 1: To get to a double century, and Test Cricket didn't
Speaker 1: quite word like that.
Speaker 2: Out.
Speaker 3: I think seven times between one fifty five did you
Speaker 3: want to get to the last and year after.
Speaker 2: The biggest company choose? Is pretty shit started, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Much much rather one hundred and sixty hundred serving than
Speaker 2: zero to ten. So I ain't going to complain about that.
Speaker 2: I think he's just got a he's got a brutal
Speaker 2: sense of humor. And you know, for those it's worth
Speaker 2: watching the full press conference on cricket dot com dot au.
Speaker 2: When you after you've listened to this, Travis Head went
Speaker 2: back at you, and I think I'm allowed to say
Speaker 2: this on the podcast. I guess if Travis Heads allowed
Speaker 2: to say in the press conference. But he said it
Speaker 2: was a shit stat that you that you've thrown out
Speaker 2: at him, and I thought I thought that was mean, Josh,
Speaker 2: because I did not think it was a shit stat.
Speaker 2: I think it was reinforcing the point you'd made earlier
Speaker 2: in the question, which was about, yeah, basically, do you
Speaker 2: want to get to that two hundred mark? He didn't
Speaker 2: quite see it that way.
Speaker 3: There was a little aspect of shit this to it.
Speaker 1: I'll give it that, yeah, because you know if and
Speaker 1: his point was, you can't complain about scoring over one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty like you'll take it every day of
Speaker 1: the week. I've a scrowing fifteen or twenty. But yeah,
Speaker 1: probably the delivery was a bit more brutal than I
Speaker 1: was expecting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, And I don't think anyone's hanging him for
Speaker 2: getting out in the nervous one hundred and fifties, sixties
Speaker 2: and seventies.
Speaker 1: We have seen players in the past, though. You know,
Speaker 1: if they get out in the one hundred and nineties,
Speaker 1: you know, get quite frustrated and angry because you hate that.
Speaker 2: It's one of the things I hate most about cricket.
Speaker 1: Clearly Travis Head is not one of those. But Steve Smith,
Speaker 1: he got another century today. He's thirteenth in ashes cricket.
Speaker 1: I loved the moment when he brought it up, A
Speaker 1: bit of good game awareness from Bo Webster coming back
Speaker 1: for the third knowing that Smith was on ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Webster was running through to the danger end and my
Speaker 1: liquor anches at that moment. Lou Is actually not the
Speaker 1: moment itself, but all the idiosyncratic mannerisms around Smith today.
Speaker 1: He touched on it off the top. He was doing
Speaker 1: a lot of umpiring. He was even doing a bit
Speaker 1: of sledging. He had the fidgeting going, he had everything going.
Speaker 1: And he was the most distracted I think I've ever
Speaker 1: seen him. He stopped play for people in the crowd moving.
Speaker 1: I counted six or seven times. He was also distracted
Speaker 1: by Brighton Casta's sunglasses. At one point, he was distracted
Speaker 1: by a flyer on the Sun's screen. He was distracted
Speaker 1: by a woman eating ice creams, so.
Speaker 2: She wasn't eating the ice cream she was transporting them
Speaker 2: back to her seat mates. I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty much a royal flush in terms
Speaker 1: of all the distractions you can get at the cricker ground.
Speaker 2: I missed the fly the sun cream one. What was
Speaker 2: that one?
Speaker 1: That was so you know those signs that people hold
Speaker 1: up in the crowd six on one side and four
Speaker 1: on the other. There was one in the middle of
Speaker 1: the site screen and so one of the Patriots pulled
Speaker 1: across to pick it off. But of course the game
Speaker 1: couldn't start until that was clear.
Speaker 3: But I mean, it.
Speaker 1: Emphasizes the point that Smith. And it's been said many
Speaker 1: times he's a batting savant, isn't it. He needs all
Speaker 1: the conditions to be correct. And today once he got
Speaker 1: them correct, he was on. He wasn't going to get out.
Speaker 1: So we I was watching him in the leading to
Speaker 1: this test. I think it was the day before the test,
Speaker 1: and he was batting under quite dark skies on the
Speaker 1: day before yet day before the test, in the net
Speaker 1: and it was so dark that some of the television
Speaker 1: reporters had to put their lights on to do their
Speaker 1: live crosses. And so they how they typically do it
Speaker 1: is they have you know, Steve Smith or whoever it is,
Speaker 1: batting in the background and it's you know, I'm Joe
Speaker 1: Bloggs from Fox Sports or ABC or whatever, and it
Speaker 1: looks like you know, shows that they're there at the venue,
Speaker 1: and you've got to get that light on the on
Speaker 1: the face of the reporter Will Smith while he was batting.
Speaker 1: I mean this was even more so today Castles at
Speaker 1: mid off. The reporters were probably at like just the
Speaker 1: forward point, so way out of his eye line, you
Speaker 1: would think. But twice I think he I think he
Speaker 1: got the guy from Fox and you got the guy
Speaker 1: from the lady from the ABC to turn off their
Speaker 1: their lights and he's kind of complaining about having the
Speaker 1: lights in his eyes. If I can continue my rant
Speaker 1: against England the bright and Cast thing with the sunglasses.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know you've got a strong take on this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean how about no, Steve Smith.
Speaker 1: So let's walk this back for those who missed it,
Speaker 1: and we will have the video Castle's fielding it mid off.
Speaker 1: He had his sunglasses on the front of his England cap.
Speaker 1: They were reflecting the sunlight into Steve's vision. Steven asked
Speaker 1: him to just flip the sunglasses onto the back of
Speaker 1: his head, which Casts obliged, didn't he straight away?
Speaker 2: Could you imagine Steve Smith asking Stuart Broad that question
Speaker 2: like he would? Smith, I think would be smart enough
Speaker 2: to know not to ask Broady that question, because if
Speaker 2: he knew about that being being an issue, he'd be
Speaker 2: dancing around and flicking his son. He's up and down
Speaker 2: like that, like there's just and I just thought that
Speaker 2: was a sign of and it's it's really hard to
Speaker 2: criticize Cast because out of everyone he, out of anyone
Speaker 2: from New England team, he's been the one who's you know,
Speaker 2: just tried his absolute pants off in this series. So yeah,
Speaker 2: not a slide against him, but like, yeah, how about
Speaker 2: no step Like I'm gonna wear my sunglasses where I
Speaker 2: want to. I'm a mid off. They shouldn't be in
Speaker 2: your eye line. Deal with it, mate, Like it's staggering
Speaker 2: me that you know a competitor like Ben Stokes would
Speaker 2: allow his teammate to kind of go on with that.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine and if you asked the opposing medoff
Speaker 1: next Saturday when you're playing to move there.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine how much sledging you would kind of get?
Speaker 2: And you know it jars a bit, I think with
Speaker 2: what happened with Martus Labushanine last night and what of
Speaker 2: all people, Stuart Broad was kind of retelling on Channel
Speaker 2: seven this morning, so he said that he'd spoken to
Speaker 2: Ben Stokes and relaid his version of the story from
Speaker 2: the heated exchange that Stokes had with Labushane. So from
Speaker 2: Stokes's retelling, Labashane had said something to Travis Head encouraging
Speaker 2: Travis Head. I think this is more or less what
Speaker 2: we suspected, saying, O great shot, well done, bowling on
Speaker 2: the leg pad on the pads or something so there
Speaker 2: was an element of maybe goading Stokes without actually speaking
Speaker 2: to him, and it seemed to be something. I think
Speaker 2: he must have said something about I was missing leg
Speaker 2: and apparently Stokes said, we don't need three umpires out
Speaker 2: of it, and that's why he had those three fingers
Speaker 2: up when he was kind of sledging him, so that
Speaker 2: that's all that was, and Broad was retelling that and
Speaker 2: then Soaks gets him out the next over Labashane that is,
Speaker 2: and apparently there's an England plan to get Labashane out
Speaker 2: of his bubble, so you know, getting getting into the
Speaker 2: contest with him, and Stokes took that opportunity and the
Speaker 2: plan worked. So take that for what what what it is?
Speaker 2: You know they're trying to get in Marnas's face and
Speaker 2: trying to get him out of his bubble. We have
Speaker 2: about trying that with Travis's head, How about trying that
Speaker 2: with with Steve Smith? You know it might be worth
Speaker 2: it to They've tried everything else to Steve Smith, sorry,
Speaker 2: tried everything else to Travis Head. You know Bumpers. You
Speaker 2: know they had Matthew Pott's bowling that really hard one
Speaker 2: with over the wicket, trying to bowl wide of off
Speaker 2: stump with a seven two field, maybe getting in his
Speaker 2: face and throwing the ball at his end could be,
Speaker 2: you know, something they could have tried.
Speaker 1: Smith was allowed to run his own show today and
Speaker 1: so his head, weren't they we started about a thing
Speaker 1: on on Smith.
Speaker 2: Yeah we should should keep going on that because Yeah,
Speaker 2: the other one that you hinted at was the beth
Speaker 2: All Jacob Ethel calling throw down. Yeah you were listening
Speaker 2: in for that one.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I know Smith likes to talk to himself when he's batting,
Speaker 1: but when the keepers up to the stumps and the
Speaker 1: spin bowl was only half a picture, ay, it was
Speaker 1: a surprise to hear him say to himself after he
Speaker 1: hit the ball straight to the field, they're on the bounce. Oh, Steve,
Speaker 1: that was awful. That was a genuine throwdown. Now the
Speaker 1: bowler would have definitely heard that. If the stomachs are
Speaker 1: picking it up, I wonder what he's thinking about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's classic Steve, isn't it? Because I don't think
Speaker 2: he would have even realized that that was a sledge
Speaker 2: that the bowler was like, like, I'm from my best
Speaker 2: out of here, like I'm just playing my second my
Speaker 2: second ashes test. Yeah, the other one was signaling the
Speaker 2: wide when Pearl Matthew Pott's boulder bouncer on the way
Speaker 2: through the keeper Smith was right and he got the
Speaker 2: call in his favor. Poor Potts had the I think
Speaker 2: maybe the fourth or fifth worst wicketless spell ash of
Speaker 2: spell in history. By the closer play, what was that
Speaker 2: none for one hundred and forty one having opened the bowling.
Speaker 2: I mean it was a tough one. It just looked
Speaker 2: like he'd lost I mean earlier it looked like he'd
Speaker 2: kind of lost confidence, right, Like heads just absolutely belting
Speaker 2: him everywhere.
Speaker 3: The first three balls of the day went for for
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's you know, you're on hiding to nothing,
Speaker 2: having already kind of been bashed around the previous night.
Speaker 2: And then by the end of the day it looked
Speaker 2: like a physical challenge, like he was being asked the
Speaker 2: bowl bouncers. He was only really hitting the one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five k an hour mark, and that's it
Speaker 2: was a strange ploy for them for Stokes to kind
Speaker 2: of ask him to follow and like we were watching him,
Speaker 2: it looked like his action was kind of falling apart that.
Speaker 2: I think that's a more physical thing. You know, he's
Speaker 2: bold about twenty overs, you know, day twenty five for
Speaker 2: the innings. When you haven't played much cricket in the
Speaker 2: last few months, that's you know, it's going to take
Speaker 2: a toll on you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Steve Smith moved past Sir Jack Hobbs for the
Speaker 1: second most ashes runs now and second most ashes centuries,
Speaker 1: behind only the great Sir Donald Bradman lou another guy
Speaker 1: who has knocked off a lot of marlestones in his crew.
Speaker 1: It was min Kawaija walked out at number what was
Speaker 1: he six?
Speaker 3: Today? Great applause from the home crowd.
Speaker 1: It might not be the last time we see him
Speaker 1: bat And I think the way that Osmond walked off
Speaker 1: after we was dismissed today, he was sort of assuming
Speaker 1: again the other crack as well, because he didn't really
Speaker 1: acknowledge the crowd at all, didn't raise the bat nothing
Speaker 1: like that, just walked straight off. So I think he
Speaker 1: feels like he might get another shot in day five.
Speaker 2: He's optimistic. I mean, at that point it probably he
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't been thinking that much about how much ahead
Speaker 2: they are and how much they ahead they could get.
Speaker 2: I mean England would not only need to make Australia
Speaker 2: bad again at this rate, they would need to set
Speaker 2: them enough runs to mean that Australia would need to
Speaker 2: get three WI gets down. It'd be interesting one like
Speaker 2: let's you know, fast forwarding a bit here and we
Speaker 2: might be getting ahead of ourselves. But if they say
Speaker 2: they set up you know, a chase of twenty or thirty,
Speaker 2: I wonder if travs the Ultimate team man would say that, hey,
Speaker 2: you want to open that in just one last time.
Speaker 1: And I think day four we're also going to have
Speaker 1: some thank you It wasman activations around the ground. Maybe
Speaker 1: I heard her whisper, some signage on the ground, all
Speaker 1: those sorts of things. So tomorrow will be It wasn't
Speaker 1: enquired your day after Today was, of course Jane McGrath date.
Speaker 1: Lots of great money raised for the McGrath Foundation, and
Speaker 1: still plenty of time to get your virtual pink seat
Speaker 1: as well. Pink test dot Com Todeo was the place
Speaker 1: to go to get that. So lots of great activations
Speaker 1: happening this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and bold of created Australia to activate anything for
Speaker 2: Day four. But they'll get their wish. I mean you
Speaker 2: probably are going into day five unless England really capitulated
Speaker 2: with the bat on day on day four, but you'd
Speaker 2: think Australia at this rate there one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: four ahead. You know, Smith is still going, he's a machine.
Speaker 2: He could keep batting for a wild Webster, I mean
Speaker 2: has about it at six in the Test team is
Speaker 2: at niney and he he's looked very strong. And you've
Speaker 2: still got Mitchell Stark to come who's averaging thirty in
Speaker 2: the series. So yeah, the end could come quite quick
Speaker 2: to this innings because they are already seven wickets down,
Speaker 2: but you know it wouldn't absolutely shock you to see
Speaker 2: them put on a mammoth, you know, six fifty seven
Speaker 2: hundred run kind of total here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean webstill looked the placed and he sort
Speaker 1: of came in only in the last hour and a
Speaker 1: half of the day and as you have touched on,
Speaker 1: the balls were flagging by that point, but there was
Speaker 1: lots of spin for the spinners. Jackson Bethel both getting
Speaker 1: at the ball to rip a little bit, so Webs
Speaker 1: had to do his bid and play second fiddled to Smith.
Speaker 1: But he's on to forty two, not out. So again
Speaker 1: he just always contributes when he comes into this Australian
Speaker 1: team and they say he won't be batting at number
Speaker 1: nine much, Yeah anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't have thought. Yeah, and it's been a
Speaker 2: full year since he made his debut in Test cricket
Speaker 2: against India. And yeah, the point about spins an interesting
Speaker 2: one because Bethel got asked about whether he saw some
Speaker 2: signs of turnout of that seg wicket of it. Neither team,
Speaker 2: of course have picked the front line spinner, and yeah,
Speaker 2: he said, he said, they said there was when you
Speaker 2: kind of pitched it. In the commentary he said it
Speaker 2: was when you when you pitch in the straight or
Speaker 2: when you're pitching the wider bits, that's when you kind
Speaker 2: of get a bit I think maybe you were saying
Speaker 2: when you're the footmarks, he's getting a bit more turned
Speaker 2: out of there. So that's an interesting one because you know,
Speaker 2: if Australia do get to the point where, you know,
Speaker 2: so they try and bat once and bat big and
Speaker 2: they get two hundred two fifty three hundred ahead, you
Speaker 2: know they might be looking to you know, England could
Speaker 2: shut up shop. I mean that that would be an
Speaker 2: interesting one, right, and they might be needing to turn
Speaker 2: to some to some spin and they don't have Todd
Speaker 2: Murphy there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we might see a bit of Travis Head
Speaker 3: with the ball.
Speaker 1: Look just before you finished, they want to get your
Speaker 1: take on that first session that we saw today at lunch.
Speaker 1: You caught it England's worst session of the series. They
Speaker 1: dropped four catches, some obviously harder than others, but the
Speaker 1: Jackson one, which was Travis Head when he was on
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty one, was the clearly obvious one.
Speaker 1: They also maybe missed the half chance for a runout
Speaker 1: and then wasted two reviews on Michael Nissa, both of
Speaker 1: them unsuccessful. Do you stand by that a couple of
Speaker 1: hours later that it was definitely their worst of a
Speaker 1: pretty tough series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it was their worst session they I mean,
Speaker 2: I thought the last two sessions they at least stuck
Speaker 2: at it a bit more. They held their catches. Duck
Speaker 2: it could caught a good one on the square league
Speaker 2: fans after being on it was a shocker that first one,
Speaker 2: like the Will Jacks catch, the Zach Crawley catch that
Speaker 2: went down at leg slip. He just looked like he
Speaker 2: wasn't low enough and you know, you just got to
Speaker 2: be ready for if you're in its leg slit. That's
Speaker 2: a position that Alex Carey has gone out three times too.
Speaker 2: Now he just wasn't in a good catching position a
Speaker 2: little bit. You've got to be a little bit more
Speaker 2: easy on cast dropped a really tough catch down, you know,
Speaker 2: to call it even a drop catch, it's probably a
Speaker 2: little bit unfair. And then Will Jax drops one off
Speaker 2: his own bowl and it was a little bit more
Speaker 2: gettable but hit pretty hard. Yeah, But like if you're
Speaker 2: going to come back into a Test like this, I
Speaker 2: mean even at that point they weren't really that far
Speaker 2: behind in it, so you're going to kind of need
Speaker 2: something spectacular. And I think I saw something saying that
Speaker 2: England had taken only about seventy five percent of their
Speaker 2: catches this year, so that's not going to win you
Speaker 2: many games in Australia with a record like that. The
Speaker 2: other bit that you brought up, like the two reviews,
Speaker 2: like it's hard to go too hard on anyone who
Speaker 2: wastes who you know, the reviews are hard, right, Like
Speaker 2: it's hard to know exactly what's in line with what.
Speaker 2: But if it's a fifty to fifty call, Are you
Speaker 2: going to use him on Michael Nissa, who really like
Speaker 2: he was probably the worst worst innings I've seen him play.
Speaker 2: He looked really frustrated with himself, like he just couldn't
Speaker 2: hit the ball off the square. He played and missed
Speaker 2: a lot. You know, when it comes to those fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty calls, surely you're not using my Michael Nice.
Speaker 2: Surely you're waiting for Travis ed or Steve Smith or
Speaker 2: Alex Carey. But yeah, bird reviews.
Speaker 1: That's the other point in England, no reviews remaining. They
Speaker 1: need to get three obosly. We gets tomorrow pretty quickly
Speaker 1: to stay in this match. That's been the unplayable podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you for Day four at the SAG was
Speaker 1: mcquie day.