WEBVTT - Pommie's World Cup picks, Doherty's new move 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:03.080 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by quantas the official 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.279 podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia. 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.520 Once again this season, Quantus is proud to be flying 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:17.639 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everyone, 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.080 welcome to the Young Playbook Podcast. Big episode coming out 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.880 for you today with two special guests. But first let's 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.880 bring in our ever reliable co host Kane Richardson. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:26.759 How's it going today? 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:27.000 Mate? 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.720 It's good, Josh. Good to be back. Less to talk 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:30.800 about for Australia this week. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.480 The boys at home and in their own beds unfortunately, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.760 So yeah, looking forward to this and showing the fart 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.480 about some teams who probably don't normally get to talk about. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.480 Yeah, massive episode coming up today. We've got two special guests, 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.320 as I've mentioned off for the top, Pommey and Bangwa, 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.440 the legendary broadcaster from Zimbabwe. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:46.599 He's over there in India, so. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.000 He's going to give us a bit of a lowdown 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.080 on what's happening in that tournament post Australia. And then 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.240 we've also got Xavier Doherty, the World Cup winning spinner. 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.319 Now Match referee. He's going to be joining the show 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.840 a bit later to talk about some state stuff and 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.120 what happened back in his day and his views on 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.040 spin bowling in Australia at the minute, which has been 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.680 a bit of a talking point after the Ashes series. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:07.920 Did you say match referee? 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:08.520 That's right. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.360 I wasn't aware of that. When did that happen? 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:11.319 Just this season? 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.240 He'll fill you in in just a few moments. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:13.479 Rich. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.360 Yeah, he's moved into a new phase of his cricketing life. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:16.800 There you go. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:18.920 Maybe that's something you could look at it down the track. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.160 Hadn't thought about it? That was a David Boone thing, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.400 wasn't it? He for years. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.039 I don't know if he still does, but yeah, there 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.319 you go. Probably guys think about umpiring and media and stuff, 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.720 but probably come for your seats in the match. So 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.760 look forward to hearing from X. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.399 Let's start with the weekly winner. We didn't do it 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.319 last week because there wasn't a lot to cheer about, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.160 but this week I just think we've got a few things, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.000 so why don't we start with your winner of this 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:41.600 week Again? 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.039 This segment's always teetering on the edge of surviving every week, 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.240 so I've given it some thought with that note that 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.360 we want to keep the weekly winner going, so I 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.760 had too just in case you went first. But I'll 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.000 go to Sammy Harper for mine. For his shield exploits. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.960 I don't know if it was in the past week 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.040 since we last recorded, but I'll go with it anyway, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.000 one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and forty one 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.720 not out over in the West, carrying on his BBL 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.360 form where he was striking at obscene numbers and ended 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.000 my career on Boxing Day. So I'll always have a 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:17.680 little sweet feeling for Sammy Harfer about doing that. But yeah, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.320 he's exploits in that game. He's obviously as I said, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.799 continued his form on from BBL, So a worthy weekly winner. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.639 For mine, definitely, and twin tons in shefferd Shard cricket 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.520 is pretty rare. Something happened five times in the past decade, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.400 So can you name them? I did look them up 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.160 earlier in the week. There was Jake Weatherold, Alex Dolan, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.480 Sam Constace and Daniel Hughes. There are only four others 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.160 to do it, so joins a pretty select group, there, doesn't. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.640 He absolutely yeah, and has thrown up to the top 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:47.960 of the order as well, so to do it in 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:53.120 unfamiliar somewhat standing in the order. So he's obviously just 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.680 on the top of his game and he's getting to 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.600 that age now where he can really be confident in 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.560 what he's doing. So Victoria just flying, aren't they, And 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:01.959 just another guy who's batting well. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.400 For them And to all those batters who say, oh, opening, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.679 it's the hardest position. He's gone up there and he's 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.120 just made it look easy. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.200 And on the back of Travor's head basically all summer 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:14.920 talking about how easy it was. So those old rusted openers, yeah, 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.240 they stocks are down at the moment, aren't they? For 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.240 you know, the one hundred years of Kreuger. How they've 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.560 said how hard it is. It's basically everyone's thrown that 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.280 scrap book out and starting again smoking mirrors. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.240 It's dissipated all of a sudden, the smoke screens down. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.679 So sorry, Openers, not a good look my weekly winner 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.360 I've gone for. Mitchell Stark slotted into the Channel seven 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.560 broadcast yesterday as we record this in Brisbane and just 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.480 absolutely looked the piece, didn't there. He just says all 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.960 the right things. He's a smooth, smooth, smooth operator. And 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.000 when he does eventually hang up the boots in all 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.200 three formats, he's got that commentary gig lined up. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.960 I Reckon naturally lends itself done. Know the greats always 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.520 tend to have a good insight into the game. But also, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.200 I mean he's for the women's side of the game. Well, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.640 to have your wife who's played as much cricket as 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.560 a Lissa has, so he's got good insights into, you know, 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.400 the different forms of male and female crickets. So he 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.800 just loves cricket, doesn't He retires from t twenties and 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.480 then I'm not going to stay at home and unwind. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.680 I'm going to go hit the com box and too 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.800 around with the females. Obviously he's doing it to see 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.640 a Lissa as much as he can. So yeah, but 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.880 you're right, natural, I'm not sure he loves the attention though, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.120 so maybe we'll have to work on that. He always 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.679 tends to know, likes, you know, kind of just flying under. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.760 The radar a little bit, so. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.240 Maybe he wants to get himself out there a bit more. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.040 So good stuff for Starcky. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.640 Well, he can get the co commentator is to you know, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.080 ask him good questions about his career and stuff, but 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.520 he normally tends to you know, yeah shy away from 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.640 that sort of stuff, doesn't he. So maybe he'll be 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.960 looking to do the lead calling in future. Go down 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.559 the Adam gilchristpath. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.640 The captain of the commentary team. Yeah, a similar to 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.800 you and this set up. I don't think you have 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.440 to give him some tips and advice on that. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.520 It's stucky. I know he listens to it. To the 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.200 fold car. All right, let's take a quick break and 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.200 to get a word from our sponsors and when we 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.480 come back, we'll be talking to broadcaster Pammy and Bangwa 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.719 all the way from Mumbai. Well, interest has diminished in 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.480 Australia since Australia were knocked out of the T twenty 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.040 World Cup, but there's still plenty going on in India 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.960 and Sri Lanka. So we've called in broadcasting royalty Pommy 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.000 and Bangwa to give us the update. Welcome to the 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:27.279 Unplayable Podcast, Pummy, Hey Joe, a very well, thank you mate. Now, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.360 this tournament has already thrown up quite a few surprises, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.000 but it must be tough to go past Zimbabwe beating 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.800 Australia in terms of your favorite so. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:40.840 Far, Yeah, it would be a favorite, but kind of 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.360 I wouldn't and I'm not diminishing that in any way 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.960 when they say it's kind of doubly good in that 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.320 they then beat Sri Lanka and top that group with 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:56.560 nobody even talking about them prior to the tournament. And 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.839 I suppose correctly so, because I mean, if you are 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.000 to pick out which sides would come out of that group, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.880 you'd go for Sri Lanka, who are at home, and 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.359 you'd go for Australia, both who are former champions. And 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.960 Zimbabwe struggles, you know, in terms of the tournaments and 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.560 so forth, have been there for all to see. So yeah, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.440 expectation of maybe an upset, but then not a couple 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.400 of wins like that and then ending up being the 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.400 team that kind of qualifies as number one. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.599 Yeah, it was absolutely fantastic to say from a neutral 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.839 point of view. There's also that incredible super o double 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.440 super over between South Africa and Afghanistan. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:37.320 Who saw that coming? 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.600 Nobody did, and I wonder if that kind of hardened 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.840 South Africa just a little bit. And not to say 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:51.400 that they needed to aren't tough enough as a side, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.520 but I think because they've got so much experience and 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.320 because when anyone looked at that group, they would have 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.720 felt that, you know what, there's the expectation that Afghanistan 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.240 could also go through with the World Cup being in 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.719 the subcontinent, and you kind of needed to get past them. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:13.840 And yeah, I reckon the most most exciting TEA twenty 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.560 World Cup game ever because even if it was there 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.840 astrue it just a drama, was ridiculous, And I was 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.000 actually doing another game. I was over in Colombo doing 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.640 another game and could hardly keep a watch what was 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.400 going on in our game as the other one went from. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.000 Like, Okay, this one's done, they're going to win and then. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.400 Hold on super over, hold on another super over and 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.720 what's good? Only can we stop this one? Can we 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.520 watch that One's a yeah? Fantastic game. And South Africa 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.480 have gone on from strength to strength from that. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.520 Yeah, And what's your of you? Do you think this 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.880 could be South Africa's you? They've been getting closer and 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.720 closer at all these i SA tournaments. Obviously won the 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.600 World Test Championship final. Are they just getting close to 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.040 that white ball title? 0:07:58.080 --> 0:07:59.680 As well, I. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.720 Think you look at their team. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.560 You could have said this of them last time around, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.920 but I think gets kind of reinforced this time around, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.440 where if you look at their team, what they have 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.800 is the experience of the conditions here in India because 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.520 many of them play in IPL and they're not bits 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.320 and pieces players. And when by bits and pieces of that, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.080 I mean they don't kind of get bits and pieces 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:29.000 of opportunities when they're in the teams in the IPL teams. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.160 They're actually big players in all the IPL sides that 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.920 they're in and they get actual opportunity and are relied 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.959 upon to try and win games for them. So they've 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.160 been in the big boads. They've been in just about 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.360 every stadium that they're playing in, and they've therefore been 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:49.199 able to somewhat appreciate and try and handle the pressure 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.760 that's before them with the big crowds, and that's what 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.560 they're going to have to handle the year. They seem 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.920 to handle it pretty well against India despite being you know, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.280 before one hundreds and twenty thous on people. So yeah, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.400 you could say that, but you know how there's tournament 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.480 cricket that you've got to put it together. When accounts 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.559 knock out all of that is when we're really going 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.560 to see whether they can. But coming here, actually I 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.840 felt that India, South Africa, West Indies, I think. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.240 Now and it's just a long way out still, I 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:21.400 believe now. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.480 The other team that you're looking at and they're going 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.240 hold on they'll be dangerous is probably England because they're 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.520 not playing as well as they'd like, you know, yeah, 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.680 but they're still coming through games and. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.640 They might well they might well win win in the edge, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.040 you know what I'm saying. So yeah, let's see how 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:39.400 they go. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.040 Yeah, if things click for England, it could really be 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:43.680 danger signs for the rest of the tournament. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:44.240 I suppose. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.840 In terms of India, they had that big loss to 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.680 South Africa that you alluded to there in a meta 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.960 bad it's the first tournament without row here to without Koli. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.920 Is this a danger sign for India or is that 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.679 the nature of T twenty cricket where you can have 0:09:58.720 --> 0:09:59.160 an off. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:04.720 Day side But I think they'll admit that they're not 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.320 necessarily playing as well as they kind of a couple 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.720 of players not quite informed. Their skipper wasn't informed when 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.199 they came in to the tournament. But he's finally got 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.800 some runs. But the tournament hasn't gone as well as 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.720 they'd lie. I mean, you think about that first game 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.920 against the USA. They were put under the pump, and 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.280 if Sky doesn't get those runs and they don't, they 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.840 don't win. And I hate saying things like that because 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.160 of course he's supposed to get them. Someone's supposed to 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:29.640 bail them out. They're all in the team. They were 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.400 all supposed to try and perform and get their runs 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.839 and then you know, kind of formulate the win then, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.839 but it's a first loss for them in you're trying 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.160 to walk up since last year, since two years ago 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.199 they went and beaten and won it, and we're kind 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.840 of just carrying on and suddenly they've taken it and 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.240 it wasn't a slight beating. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:48.439 They were absolutely well. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.480 So can they come back from that is the question, 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.120 and not just a question from a you know, they're 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.200 good enough players. Of course, they are fantastic players, but 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:02.240 suddenly the pressure is on them and they can't put 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.480 a foot wrong. And unlike in the group stage, even 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.839 when playing against Zimbabwe, if they give Zimbabwe an opportunity, Zimbabwe, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.000 you know, might turn them over. So can they kind 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:19.120 of tread well, tread surely and ensure that they win 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.280 against Zim and then they still have to win against 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.480 a West Indiest side that's looking particularly good. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.560 Yeah, absolutely, so, yeah, let's see how that goes. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.040 Yeah, the West Indies put on a huge score against 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.760 Zimbabwe just the other night, but to make the Super 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.760 rights must be a massive thing for Zimbabwe. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:38.920 What will this do for crickets? 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:43.000 Do you think in the country, You're just always trying 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:44.200 to take steps forward. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.840 You want to be at the at the big table, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.679 the big boys table, and winning. And by that I 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.720 don't mean I mean Zimbabwe's not tested or they've had 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.960 tested us since nineteen ninety three, but they've kind of 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.120 fits and starts in terms of momentum for a little bit. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.360 You know, do well in one and people sort of 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.560 look and then you don't and people avert their eyes. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.600 And so you want to kind of be playing at 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.640 this level, even though the West Indies actually the chances 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.000 inm batwere, but that's the pressure you want to be under. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.439 And here they get an opportunity in three games. Now 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.600 there's the possibility it happens that way in three games 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.760 in a row. But it still does a great deal 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.360 for the players that are there to understand and feel 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.360 the intensity of playing against those sides. And you want 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.920 it to not remain as something foreign, but something that 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.640 you're continually experiencing, because then you raise yourself to the 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.120 level and you don't have an option. You have to 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:53.320 something that is impossible to simulate or to replicate, and 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:58.640 in practice is you know the pressure of big teams, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.920 good teams and the level that you're supposed to be at. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.959 So you think you're stretching this out. You think you're 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.800 going as hard and as well as you can, but 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.040 it's not quite there. And then suddenly, I mean, you 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.800 can't find a legislate for adrenaline, for instance, you can't 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:18.000 do twenty five thirty thousand people in a stadium. You 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.280 know you've got to be there for that to be 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.680 able to experience that. So, yeah, I think it'll do 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.079 good things. It'll get people, more people interested, it'll get 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.960 more people wanting to get a taste of bad and yeah, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.960 I hope the team can go from strength to strength 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:33.240 with this. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.439 Yeah, they've got some absolute matchment. It is always good 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.320 to watch the sort of players playing. Now everyone in Australia. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.480 He has had their say on what went wrong for 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:41.800 a Stridia, So it might be good to get an 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.440 objective point of view from someone like yourself. Where did 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.079 things not quite go right for Stride do you think? 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.120 And look at the Australian side, I mean champion players, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.160 but perhaps just no form. Again, Travis's head goes into 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.120 the tournament without form, then you go with the injury. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.240 Such an important part of that Australian side is Travis 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.920 Headen and Mitchell Marsh at the top and then the 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.360 injuries also, like to to Hazel Ward is such an 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:11.200 important player. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.440 So hold this joint to the fair as they go in. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.000 And I don't think that. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.560 The start in Sri Lanka was helpful to the Australians. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.760 I think the planning might not quite have been up 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:29.320 to par and maybe just from a slight oversight, which 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.360 I believe is right from the US. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.400 He's actually a slight overside. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.800 If you look at the team that they had, they 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.920 kind of had some resources and we want ployees who 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.720 can play spin. Smith was left behind because of that. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.280 You know, they had the top okay, because that's where 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.400 he'd been batting, and so they didn't want to go with, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.120 you know, with the same sort of players, so. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.720 He marsh they're going to play every time. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.800 And if you have Smith as well, if you kind 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.920 of to bat you know, number one or number two, 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.360 because that's where he's been dating, you probably could put 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.400 him in at number three, which would have probably been 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.720 a better move now when you think about it in hindsight. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.160 But that's easy, right, we can. We can say that now. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:14.920 But when I. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:20.560 Look at Cameron Green, when I look at the hitters 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:26.360 that are in the side, they need the harder, faster wickets, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.200 even if I say harder than Sri Lanka, which exists 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.680 here in India. That's kind of what they would have 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:40.440 wanted and would have felt rightly. So championside that they'll 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.120 get through the group and then they'll deal with all 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:48.760 of that when they get to India and play at 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.080 one kid Is and play at Chennai which has got 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.080 lots of runs this time around, and play at Delhi 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.400 which is small, hard and you can wax sixes, but 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.240 you got to get through the slower of. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:01.320 Sri Lanka first. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:06.600 So yeah, that kind of it happens, man, like you 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.200 can get derailed it even to the best of them. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:14.040 Think of football World Cups where main teams pop, you know, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.200 pop out of the group stage. What's going on and 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.920 all of this, it's perhaps an opportunity to kind of 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.880 just have a look one to know that come in 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.200 Stark Hazelwood, that trio who've been so fantastic. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.360 It's coming to an and it comes to an end 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:31.200 for everybody. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:36.920 Think back to Gillespie Lee McGrath together, you know, and 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.880 when that happened, it was like, oh what And as 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.800 I think about it, actually from them to these guys, right, 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.160 So yeah, so that's a long time going and that 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.920 happens whether it's the bowling side or the or the 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:50.600 batting side. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.360 And maybe Australia is in that time. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.880 Man, Tommy, really appreciate your time. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:56.080 Mate. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:57.520 Before we let you go, do you want to stick 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.320 your neck out and tell us who are the two 0:16:59.360 --> 0:16:59.920 teams are the game? 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:00.640 The final? 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.320 I started off before the tournament, I said, India, South Africa. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:11.840 I'm wondering now, I'm not sure now I think South 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:16.919 Africa has still be in the final. I'm not too 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.879 sure about West Indies. But the three teams are the 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.160 four teams I'm looking at. I can't do too I'm 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:34.919 gonna go West Indians, South Africa, England, India. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.480 Yeah, those are the four teams I'm looking at. Might 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.920 be wrong, I mean, you coming wrong. I don't mind 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.120 be knowing because. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.399 I always think I wonder Paki style you sneak up 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:48.960 on everyone. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:52.320 I don't know, but that's. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.119 Why we love it, right, because you go according to 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.040 the fore or whatever. But in tournament picket, it's not 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.000 how you start, it's what happens right at the back end. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:03.760 So yeah, that's how it goes. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.040 Amazing. Thank you for your time, mate, and enjoy the 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:06.760 rest of the tournament. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.879 All right, cheers job, So there you go. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.520 Thanks to Pommy and Bangala for joining us from the 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.680 breakfast room at his hotel there. He was just about 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.680 to jump on a flight to Chennai, so we appreciate 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.000 him making the time. And yeah, those scrambled eggs they 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.240 sounded good in the background. But yeah, I'm interested your 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.640 thoughts here, Richo. He's a big fan of England, big 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.320 fan of the West Indies. Does that sort of line 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.760 up with what you're thinking as far as this tournament goes. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.640 Well, it's anyone's now, isn't it, Especially with what we've 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.800 seen in the last few days with India's first game 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.520 against South Africa in the group stages, so it's really 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:41.680 blown the race wide open. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.800 They were my pick last week South Africa. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.200 So I did had a bit of a head webb 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.439 when I saw that scorecard when I work up. But 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.000 I also stupidly said Nicholas Puren was batting well for 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.600 the West Indies. He actually isn't playing in the World Cup, 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.720 is he. So I've riscen that comment. I think I 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:58.639 might have had a dream that he came out of retirement, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.960 but obviously that was someone else. Yeah, boots on the 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.640 ground tend to know a bit better than what we 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.480 do back here, so I dares England surprised me a 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.120 little bit. But you're also what he said was they're 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.280 not playing that well and they're winning, which is always 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:12.800 a good sign. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:13.400 And that's. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.159 Historically Australian teams have always had that motto as long 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.240 as they're doing enough in this stage of World Cups 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.240 and then you kind of want to play your best 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.920 cricket when the whips are cracking in the finals. So 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.160 hurst to say, but he's probably right. I think, yeah, 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.280