WEBVTT - Sydney D3: Head's s*** stat, peak Smith at fidgety best 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.239 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by quantas the official 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.439 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 --> 0:00:18.040 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everybody, 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.680 Welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. A very big day for 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.960 Australia at the SCG. They now lead by one hundred 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.120 and thirty four runs. One hundreds to Travis Head and 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.080 Steve Smith highlighted the day and it was another tough 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.519 day in the field for the English bowlers, wasn't it, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.960 lou But where do we start with? We've got to 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.200 start with those hundreds, don't we, Travis Head and Steve Smith. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.760 Yeah, Well, it felt like two kind of icons, current 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.840 icons of Australian cricket just got to be themselves today. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.360 That was my takeaway from it. You know, Travis Head 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.519 begins today adding seventy two to his overnight tally and 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.280 just goes about it in the most laconic way you 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:58.440 could possibly go about it, walking singles, smashing sixers, chatting 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.200 with umpires, just you know, all round lark and good 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.160 bloke that has kind of made him a loved figure 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.039 in the Australian cricket and then Steve Smith just been 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.880 the odd unit that he is, you know, signaling wides, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.760 you know, moving people from behind the side screen, like 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.160 doing his funny hand movements. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.760 It was all there today on that Travis Head a 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.880 bit about being laconic and being relaxed and looking singles. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.560 I know you're big on this that you made a 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:27.000 point of. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:28.720 I thought you might have been starting with something else 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.160 which I want to get to this on Travis Head, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.679 but yeah, there where you're going here? Yep. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.000 Yeah, you've been big on the fact that England have 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.440 allowed him to walk singles. They haven't shied at his 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.920 end when he's just been dawdling through. They've always had 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.080 sweepers on the boundary, it has seemed, so there have 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.080 been lots of options and opportunities for him to do that. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.760 I think in Perth or Adelaide we saw him walk 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:49.480 backwards for. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:50.320 An entire run. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.000 It's been pretty funny stuff, but also from an English 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.760 point of view, you'd probably be annoyed if that was 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:58.240 your team allowing that to happen. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.960 Well, let's start with what Travehead had to say about that, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.000 and then I'll tell you what I kind of think 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.200 about it. What we asked I asked Travis Head in 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.000 the press conference just now, like what did Like I 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.280 felt like it was a bit of a weird question, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.960 but like, did you expect England to maybe throw the 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.320 ball at your stumps a few more times? Like these 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:19.320 are supposed to be high intensity international game of cricket 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.840 and he is walking a lot of singles. You know, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.240 he's hitting to his credit, like he's setting the deep 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.079 fielder is back. I'm not criticizing England for doing that, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.600 like you have to. You have to do it in 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.400 otherwise he's going to score at an even quicker rate 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.720 than he is. But what the deep field is? So 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.239 he kind of says that he walks walks him and 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.519 he does the walking backwards, and he does it to 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.680 elicited response from the change rooms. And it speaks a 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.200 lot too. You know, he's kind of Alarican personality, but 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.880 also like he is a guy who thinks a lot 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.720 about I think team chemistry, team vibes, all these things. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.080 I think he's a very selfless cricketer. And so the 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.079 way he conducts himself does have an eye on his teammates. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.880 Maybe that's giving him too much credit, but that's kind 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:02.320 of basically what he said when I asked him about it. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.720 What I think is like from an England point of view, like, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.560 surely you're picking up the ball at square deep square 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.320 leg or deep third man or wherever and throwing the 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.440 ball at his end every single time. And yes, you're 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:15.960 probably not going to get a run out because it's 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.040 not like he's not looking at the ball when it's 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.440 going down to the fielders. But if you can make 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.120 him exert a little bit, like let's say he runs 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.120 or walks thirty singles in his innings, I reckon it's 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.760 probably fair to say he walked more than that, but 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.560 that's thirty times. You're making him at least run at 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:38.200 a higher intensity, at least half the pitch. Yep, you're 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:39.960 probably not getting a run out, but like over the 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.560 course of a long innings, that is going to wear 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.520 you down. And you know, every hundred in this year 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.320 is they've been big ones. It's been one hundred and twenty. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.240 This one's one hundred and sixty three, and the one 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.680 in brisbanead one seventy Adelaide, exactly. It won's seventy sorry 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.280 in Adelaide. Yeah, so's he's scoring heavily after making one 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.320 hundred despite you know, maybe by his own mission, not 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.240 being the absolute fittest guy in world cricket. That's got 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.080 to be a major cross against what England like surely, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:11.760 and you know it's interesting they don't have a fielding 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.720 coach out here. Surely the first thing the fielding coach 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.200 is saying after the first time he sees that is 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.520 ping the ball at Travis Head's stumps. I just thought, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.000 that's that's basics of cricket that they've allowed him to 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.360 get away with this whole series. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.480 It's a show of intensity in the field as well, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.840 isn't it when you know you're trying to attempt to 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.000 get run outs even if they might be slight chances. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.480 But yeah, and prior, yeah, like you're getting bad at everywhere, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.600 like you know Matthew Potts. You know, Ricky Ponting I 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.919 think said he felt sorry for him today, like and 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.800 that's not a dig at Matthew Potts. That's like a 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.040 guy who's trying his best. And you know, like surely, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.480 as a matter of just backing up your teammates as 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.760 a matter of backing up say Ben Stokes and Brighton 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.000 Cars and Josh Tung who who tried that tried their 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.279 guts out today, you know, like there's no no one's 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.039 saying they're not trying. But you've got to surely have 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.400 a bit of pride in your teammates, you know, the 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.599 way Travis Head looks out for his teammates. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:05.719 It's a good point. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.920 And also the tea break on Fox Cricket, Travis Head 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.960 said he was getting pretty tired as well by the 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.839 time he'd faced one hundred and sixty six balls. So 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.360 what if he's getting tired when he's only faced one hundred. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.480 Or exactly eighty. Yeah, so they could have least I mean, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.440 you're probably not going to eleasset it a wicket, you know, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.800 if he's making if he's facing one hundred balls and 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.440 hitting a hundred off as many of them, you're probably 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.200 not gonna get him out before then by doing that. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:27.800 But yeah, maybe you get him out one hundred, ten 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.640 hundred and twenty. That can be the difference between winning 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:31.440 a game and not. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.680 Now, Travis Head has scored eleven Test centuries, seven of 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:36.960 them over one hundred and fifty. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.680 I asked him a question if he wanted. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.520 To get to a double century, and Test Cricket didn't 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:43.320 quite word like that. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:45.160 Out. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.440 I think seven times between one fifty five did you 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.960 want to get to the last and year after. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.400 The biggest company choose? Is pretty shit started, isn't it? 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:02.640 Yeah? 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.479 Much much rather one hundred and sixty hundred serving than 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.120 zero to ten. So I ain't going to complain about that. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.159 I think he's just got a he's got a brutal 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.920 sense of humor. And you know, for those it's worth 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.680 watching the full press conference on cricket dot com dot au. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.520 When you after you've listened to this, Travis Head went 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.280 back at you, and I think I'm allowed to say 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.200 this on the podcast. I guess if Travis Heads allowed 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.800 to say in the press conference. But he said it 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.360 was a shit stat that you that you've thrown out 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.120 at him, and I thought I thought that was mean, Josh, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.680 because I did not think it was a shit stat. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.119 I think it was reinforcing the point you'd made earlier 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.200 in the question, which was about, yeah, basically, do you 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.160 want to get to that two hundred mark? He didn't 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:41.040 quite see it that way. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.760 There was a little aspect of shit this to it. 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.600 I'll give it that, yeah, because you know if and 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.280 his point was, you can't complain about scoring over one 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.040 hundred and fifty like you'll take it every day of 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.440 the week. I've a scrowing fifteen or twenty. But yeah, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.360 probably the delivery was a bit more brutal than I 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:57.000 was expecting. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.800 Yeah, Yeah, And I don't think anyone's hanging him for 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.680 getting out in the nervous one hundred and fifties, sixties 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:03.239 and seventies. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.480 We have seen players in the past, though. You know, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.279 if they get out in the one hundred and nineties, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.640 you know, get quite frustrated and angry because you hate that. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.240 It's one of the things I hate most about cricket. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.920 Clearly Travis Head is not one of those. But Steve Smith, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.679 he got another century today. He's thirteenth in ashes cricket. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.000 I loved the moment when he brought it up, A 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.960 bit of good game awareness from Bo Webster coming back 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.679 for the third knowing that Smith was on ninety seven. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.720 Webster was running through to the danger end and my 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.960 liquor anches at that moment. Lou Is actually not the 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:41.280 moment itself, but all the idiosyncratic mannerisms around Smith today. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.840 He touched on it off the top. He was doing 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.720 a lot of umpiring. He was even doing a bit 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.560 of sledging. He had the fidgeting going, he had everything going. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.480 And he was the most distracted I think I've ever 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:58.360 seen him. He stopped play for people in the crowd moving. 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.800 I counted six or seven times. He was also distracted 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.360 by Brighton Casta's sunglasses. At one point, he was distracted 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.560 by a flyer on the Sun's screen. He was distracted 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.920 by a woman eating ice creams, so. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.680 She wasn't eating the ice cream she was transporting them 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:14.960 back to her seat mates. I think. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.480 I mean, that's pretty much a royal flush in terms 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.440 of all the distractions you can get at the cricker ground. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.200 I missed the fly the sun cream one. What was 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:22.480 that one? 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.360 That was so you know those signs that people hold 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.680 up in the crowd six on one side and four 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.640 on the other. There was one in the middle of 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.920 the site screen and so one of the Patriots pulled 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.800 across to pick it off. But of course the game 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.680 couldn't start until that was clear. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:38.480 But I mean, it. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.559 Emphasizes the point that Smith. And it's been said many 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.360 times he's a batting savant, isn't it. He needs all 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.240 the conditions to be correct. And today once he got 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.319 them correct, he was on. He wasn't going to get out. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.360 So we I was watching him in the leading to 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.160 this test. I think it was the day before the test, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.400 and he was batting under quite dark skies on the 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.600 day before yet day before the test, in the net 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.120 and it was so dark that some of the television 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.400 reporters had to put their lights on to do their 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.880 live crosses. And so they how they typically do it 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:08.640 is they have you know, Steve Smith or whoever it is, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.760 batting in the background and it's you know, I'm Joe 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.599 Bloggs from Fox Sports or ABC or whatever, and it 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.240 looks like you know, shows that they're there at the venue, 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.120 and you've got to get that light on the on 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.199 the face of the reporter Will Smith while he was batting. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.880 I mean this was even more so today Castles at 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.959 mid off. The reporters were probably at like just the 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.599 forward point, so way out of his eye line, you 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.480 would think. But twice I think he I think he 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.160 got the guy from Fox and you got the guy 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.480 from the lady from the ABC to turn off their 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.000 their lights and he's kind of complaining about having the 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.440 lights in his eyes. If I can continue my rant 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.959 against England the bright and Cast thing with the sunglasses. 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.559 Yes, I know you've got a strong take on this. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.720 Yeah, well, I mean how about no, Steve Smith. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.640 So let's walk this back for those who missed it, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.520 and we will have the video Castle's fielding it mid off. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.400 He had his sunglasses on the front of his England cap. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.400 They were reflecting the sunlight into Steve's vision. Steven asked 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.679 him to just flip the sunglasses onto the back of 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.480 his head, which Casts obliged, didn't he straight away? 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.840 Could you imagine Steve Smith asking Stuart Broad that question 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.480 like he would? Smith, I think would be smart enough 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.280 to know not to ask Broady that question, because if 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.199 he knew about that being being an issue, he'd be 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.920 dancing around and flicking his son. He's up and down 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.920 like that, like there's just and I just thought that 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.760 was a sign of and it's it's really hard to 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.360 criticize Cast because out of everyone he, out of anyone 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.760 from New England team, he's been the one who's you know, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.720 just tried his absolute pants off in this series. So yeah, 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.160 not a slide against him, but like, yeah, how about 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.839 no step Like I'm gonna wear my sunglasses where I 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.079 want to. I'm a mid off. They shouldn't be in 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.920 your eye line. Deal with it, mate, Like it's staggering 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.960 me that you know a competitor like Ben Stokes would 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.880 allow his teammate to kind of go on with that. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.960 Can you imagine and if you asked the opposing medoff 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.240 next Saturday when you're playing to move there. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.400 Could you imagine how much sledging you would kind of get? 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.040 And you know it jars a bit, I think with 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:14.199 what happened with Martus Labushanine last night and what of 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.640 all people, Stuart Broad was kind of retelling on Channel 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.280 seven this morning, so he said that he'd spoken to 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:24.280 Ben Stokes and relaid his version of the story from 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.840 the heated exchange that Stokes had with Labushane. So from 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:33.080 Stokes's retelling, Labashane had said something to Travis Head encouraging 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.679 Travis Head. I think this is more or less what 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.360 we suspected, saying, O great shot, well done, bowling on 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.200 the leg pad on the pads or something so there 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.400 was an element of maybe goading Stokes without actually speaking 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.800 to him, and it seemed to be something. I think 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.480 he must have said something about I was missing leg 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.400 and apparently Stokes said, we don't need three umpires out 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.000 of it, and that's why he had those three fingers 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.839 up when he was kind of sledging him, so that 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.079 that's all that was, and Broad was retelling that and 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.000 then Soaks gets him out the next over Labashane that is, 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:07.840 and apparently there's an England plan to get Labashane out 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.640 of his bubble, so you know, getting getting into the 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.439 contest with him, and Stokes took that opportunity and the 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.959 plan worked. So take that for what what what it is? 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.000 You know they're trying to get in Marnas's face and 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.559 trying to get him out of his bubble. We have 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.800 about trying that with Travis's head, How about trying that 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.880 with with Steve Smith? You know it might be worth 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.960 it to They've tried everything else to Steve Smith, sorry, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.240 tried everything else to Travis Head. You know Bumpers. You 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.679 know they had Matthew Pott's bowling that really hard one 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.080 with over the wicket, trying to bowl wide of off 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.040 stump with a seven two field, maybe getting in his 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.920 face and throwing the ball at his end could be, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:45.920 you know, something they could have tried. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.439 Smith was allowed to run his own show today and 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.160 so his head, weren't they we started about a thing 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:51.839 on on Smith. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.000 Yeah we should should keep going on that because Yeah, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.600 the other one that you hinted at was the beth 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.959 All Jacob Ethel calling throw down. Yeah you were listening 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:02.480 in for that one. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:03.559 I couldn't believe it. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.520 I know Smith likes to talk to himself when he's batting, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.319 but when the keepers up to the stumps and the 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.880 spin bowl was only half a picture, ay, it was 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.640 a surprise to hear him say to himself after he 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.520 hit the ball straight to the field, they're on the bounce. Oh, Steve, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.760 that was awful. That was a genuine throwdown. Now the 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.760 bowler would have definitely heard that. If the stomachs are 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.559 picking it up, I wonder what he's thinking about that. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.000 Yeah, it's classic Steve, isn't it? Because I don't think 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.960 he would have even realized that that was a sledge 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.960 that the bowler was like, like, I'm from my best 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.599 out of here, like I'm just playing my second my 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.880 second ashes test. Yeah, the other one was signaling the 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.319 wide when Pearl Matthew Pott's boulder bouncer on the way 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.520 through the keeper Smith was right and he got the 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.640 call in his favor. Poor Potts had the I think 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:50.719 maybe the fourth or fifth worst wicketless spell ash of 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.839 spell in history. By the closer play, what was that 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.800 none for one hundred and forty one having opened the bowling. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.840 I mean it was a tough one. It just looked 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.080 like he'd lost I mean earlier it looked like he'd 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.880 kind of lost confidence, right, Like heads just absolutely belting 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:07.480 him everywhere. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.160 The first three balls of the day went for for 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:09.800 that's right. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.880 Yeah, So that's you know, you're on hiding to nothing, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.200 having already kind of been bashed around the previous night. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.040 And then by the end of the day it looked 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.200 like a physical challenge, like he was being asked the 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.720 bowl bouncers. He was only really hitting the one hundred 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.760 and twenty five k an hour mark, and that's it 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.080 was a strange ploy for them for Stokes to kind 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.040 of ask him to follow and like we were watching him, 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.360 it looked like his action was kind of falling apart that. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.720 I think that's a more physical thing. You know, he's 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.280 bold about twenty overs, you know, day twenty five for 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.160 the innings. When you haven't played much cricket in the 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.400 last few months, that's you know, it's going to take 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:43.920 a toll on you. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:44.480 Yeah. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.600 So Steve Smith moved past Sir Jack Hobbs for the 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.760 second most ashes runs now and second most ashes centuries, 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.320 behind only the great Sir Donald Bradman lou another guy 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.240 who has knocked off a lot of marlestones in his crew. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.280 It was min Kawaija walked out at number what was 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:00.640 he six? 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.800 Today? Great applause from the home crowd. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.400 It might not be the last time we see him 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.560 bat And I think the way that Osmond walked off 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.000 after we was dismissed today, he was sort of assuming 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.960 again the other crack as well, because he didn't really 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.040 acknowledge the crowd at all, didn't raise the bat nothing 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.840 like that, just walked straight off. So I think he 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.560 feels like he might get another shot in day five. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.840 He's optimistic. I mean, at that point it probably he 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.200 probably wouldn't been thinking that much about how much ahead 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.080 they are and how much they ahead they could get. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.040 I mean England would not only need to make Australia 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.280 bad again at this rate, they would need to set 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.760 them enough runs to mean that Australia would need to 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.400 get three WI gets down. It'd be interesting one like 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.200 let's you know, fast forwarding a bit here and we 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.920 might be getting ahead of ourselves. But if they say 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.760 they set up you know, a chase of twenty or thirty, 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:51.360 I wonder if travs the Ultimate team man would say that, hey, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.120 you want to open that in just one last time. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.760 And I think day four we're also going to have 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.920 some thank you It wasman activations around the ground. Maybe 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.400 I heard her whisper, some signage on the ground, all 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.680 those sorts of things. So tomorrow will be It wasn't 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.640 enquired your day after Today was, of course Jane McGrath date. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.000 Lots of great money raised for the McGrath Foundation, and 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.960 still plenty of time to get your virtual pink seat 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.040 as well. Pink test dot Com Todeo was the place 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.280 to go to get that. So lots of great activations 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:18.120 happening this week. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.200 Yeah, and bold of created Australia to activate anything for 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.080 Day four. But they'll get their wish. I mean you 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.240 probably are going into day five unless England really capitulated 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.560 with the bat on day on day four, but you'd 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.160 think Australia at this rate there one hundred and thirty 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.520 four ahead. You know, Smith is still going, he's a machine. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.720 He could keep batting for a wild Webster, I mean 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:40.720 has about it at six in the Test team is 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.880 at niney and he he's looked very strong. And you've 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.120 still got Mitchell Stark to come who's averaging thirty in 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.000 the series. So yeah, the end could come quite quick 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.000 to this innings because they are already seven wickets down, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.120 but you know it wouldn't absolutely shock you to see 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.880 them put on a mammoth, you know, six fifty seven 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.720 hundred run kind of total here. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.200 Yeah, I mean webstill looked the placed and he sort 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.080 of came in only in the last hour and a 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.440 half of the day and as you have touched on, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.119 the balls were flagging by that point, but there was 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.480 lots of spin for the spinners. Jackson Bethel both getting 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.680 at the ball to rip a little bit, so Webs 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.040 had to do his bid and play second fiddled to Smith. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.160 But he's on to forty two, not out. So again 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.760 he just always contributes when he comes into this Australian 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.000 team and they say he won't be batting at number 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:25.960 nine much, Yeah anymore. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.159 Yeah, I wouldn't have thought. Yeah, and it's been a 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.840 full year since he made his debut in Test cricket 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.280 against India. And yeah, the point about spins an interesting 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.399 one because Bethel got asked about whether he saw some 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.480 signs of turnout of that seg wicket of it. Neither team, 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.280 of course have picked the front line spinner, and yeah, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:43.960 he said, he said, they said there was when you 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.320 kind of pitched it. In the commentary he said it 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.040 was when you when you pitch in the straight or 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.800 when you're pitching the wider bits, that's when you kind 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.040 of get a bit I think maybe you were saying 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.640 when you're the footmarks, he's getting a bit more turned 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.320 out of there. So that's an interesting one because you know, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.600