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Speaker 1: Now we know that's cricket fever. Well, I think it's

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Speaker 1: already set in in the Northern Territory, but even more

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Speaker 1: so this weekend and there's going to be a fan

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Speaker 1: day happening ahead of the return of international cricket to Darwin.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me in the studio is Northern Territory Cricket

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Speaker 1: CEO Gaven Dovey. Good morning, Gas, Katie. Mate, how exciting

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Speaker 1: You've got so much going on.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited, so excited. This has been a long

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Speaker 2: time coming, and we are literally on the cuffs.

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Speaker 1: So how are you feeling just days out from international

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Speaker 1: crickets returning to the Northern Territory. Like it's massive?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's huge. Yeah, so much energy at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It's so much excitement and South Africa's already been training.

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Speaker 2: Ossie's already yeah, drip feeding in Yeah, I think I

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Speaker 2: think fel the boys are actually out fishing at the moment.

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Speaker 2: I think if you've come in early to have a

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Speaker 2: fish and the rest arrived tomorrow and yeah, just building

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Speaker 2: the excitement towards.

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Speaker 1: Sunday, Mate, remind us what he is planned for Sunday?

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Speaker 1: First off, for the actual match.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Sunday, first T twenty ever held in the

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Speaker 2: Tea Ritory. International cricket back first time seven nine years

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Speaker 2: and we're officially starting the Australian summer cricket right here

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Speaker 2: in Darwin. Yeah, so amazing. So that's a trifecta to

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Speaker 2: put into perspective how big it is and the Aussie

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Speaker 2: team that's coming is so good. Just chatting some before

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Speaker 2: Glenn Maxwell, Josh hayes Wood, Mitch Marsh, Tradhead, Cam Green,

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Speaker 2: like you know, superstars of the game. So it's going

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Speaker 2: to be such an amazing night on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: People just going nuts, like how the ticket sales looking unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: We will be sold out for Sunday by tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So how many people is that?

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Speaker 2: Ten thousand? So there'll be ten thousand packed in there.

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Speaker 2: That's the official capacity for a cricket game at the venue.

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Speaker 2: And I reckon we've got four hundred tickets left for Sunday,

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Speaker 2: so that they'll be gone by tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I've never been to a game of international cricket. What

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Speaker 1: is it like the footy where you've got fireworks and

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Speaker 1: stuff going off?

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Speaker 2: Well, particularly T twenty cricket, you know, like a Test match,

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Speaker 2: is a long, slow, sort of good book that you

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Speaker 2: can sort of ease into and you don't have to

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Speaker 2: sort of catch every moment, whereas T twenty it's just

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Speaker 2: action pack for three hours. So I'm already even though

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Speaker 2: I've consumed an extraordin amount of cricket in my life

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Speaker 2: too much, I just can't wait to get there on

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Speaker 2: Sunday and have Cagizo Robata, who's like one of the

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Speaker 2: world's best bowlers Forst of Africa, steaming in boiling to

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Speaker 2: Glenn Maxwell or Trapehead and just six is flying everywhere

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Speaker 2: with a full house. It's going to be amazing, how.

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Speaker 1: Good and that the crowd is going to go berserk.

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Speaker 1: I reckon. I think Territory is going to absolutely turn it.

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Speaker 2: On, certainly judging by the ticket sales. I mean everyone

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Speaker 2: has been telling the Territorians by.

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Speaker 1: Late Yeah, you know, it's going to be like you've

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Speaker 1: sold about.

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Speaker 2: Already before Sunday, which is just phenomenal. But you know,

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Speaker 2: someone reminded me early today, well, you know this is

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Speaker 2: international sport. Don't know, there's not a heap of international

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Speaker 2: sport here. You know, we get an AFL, we get

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Speaker 2: an NRL and a few things like that, but this

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Speaker 2: is you know, this is international cricket and so I

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Speaker 2: reckon it says that the Territorians, you know, they want

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Speaker 2: a lot more of it, so we're hopefully going to deliver.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be fantastic. Now in the leading as well,

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Speaker 1: there's a few other bits and pieces happening. But there's

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Speaker 1: an actual fan day, isn't there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a fan day on Saturday afternoon down at Darwin Waterfront,

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Speaker 2: so beautiful setting. The whole Australian team is coming down

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Speaker 2: for that, which is again just unprecedented that doesn't happen.

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Speaker 2: So really grateful to Cree Australia to support that event

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Speaker 2: and get all the Aussie boys down there. The event

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Speaker 2: will run from four thirty to seven. I think the

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Speaker 2: Aussi boys are training that afternoon so they won't arrive

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Speaker 2: until about five thirty. But get on to the Anti

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Speaker 2: Cricket website because you need to register, and already we've

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Speaker 2: got over a thousand people that are registered, so it's

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Speaker 2: this is getting quite big.

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Speaker 1: Oh for a giggle mate, because people rock up a lot,

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Speaker 1: people register late and.

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Speaker 2: I know it won't register, but you need to got

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Speaker 2: to register. Yeah, so that's gonna be awesome. So we

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Speaker 2: have all those guys down there that'll be signing autographs,

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Speaker 2: playing some game of cricket stuff to do for the kids.

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Speaker 2: And Westpac, new sponsor of CA, will be down there

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Speaker 2: running activation as well. So yeah, it's going to have

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Speaker 2: been an awesome community event for all the cricket fans,

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Speaker 1: An enormous number of eyes on Darwin internationally as well.

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Speaker 1: Like this is something that's so good for us tourism

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Speaker 1: wise and like sports tourism wise.

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Speaker 2: Yes, huge, and I think we spoke about it last time.

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Speaker 2: This will be the most watched sporting event that's ever

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Speaker 2: been played in the territory. So we're absolutely stoked that

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Speaker 2: not only can we get ten thousand people through the turnstiles,

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Speaker 2: but you're going to have this huge global audience. The

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Speaker 2: Indian broadcaster goo Star has three hundred million subscribers, you know,

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Speaker 2: So it's two big ticks. Great for the territory and

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Speaker 2: we think cricket can really be a vehicle that markets

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Speaker 1: Gave any idea whether you've got like as part of

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Speaker 1: the tickets that have already been sold. Do you have

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Speaker 1: any idea how many of those people are coming from

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in the thousands. That information comes a little

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Speaker 2: bit slower than the sort of the big number, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: I reckon we'll have at least one to two thousand

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Speaker 2: got some people coming from the UK, the US, India,

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Speaker 2: so the overseas visitations there as well, which is again

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Speaker 2: great for the territory.

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Speaker 1: And what do you think it means as well? And

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Speaker 1: I speak to you about this quite often, but what

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Speaker 1: do you reckon it means in terms of local cricket,

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Speaker 1: particularly for our juniors here in the Northern territory when

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Speaker 1: you're seeing these kind of matches, these kinds of players

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it inspires that next generation. And as a parent

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Speaker 2: we talk about it all the time. Just you know

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Speaker 2: the power of being able to take five ten year

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Speaker 2: old along to the cricket to a fanda and be

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Speaker 2: able to meet Glenn Maxl a travhead can just have

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Speaker 2: such a huge impact on someone that sort of loves

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Speaker 2: the hero. So that's really really good. And then we've

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Speaker 2: You know, the territory produces talent and sometimes again getting

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Speaker 2: that opportunity to see these guys up close and see

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Speaker 2: that elite level can be just what kicks them along

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Speaker 2: really important, I.

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Speaker 1: Reckon, it's fantastic. Gave mate. How are you going to

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Speaker 1: be ready to fall in a heap by Monday? You

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Speaker 1: must be Buket.

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Speaker 2: We've got the top ends here is starting you know,

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Speaker 2: on the Thursday, so I've got a couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: from our team who have worked just tirelessly, I think

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Speaker 2: on the opportunity and we've got so much great support

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Speaker 2: either from the community or from the government ant major events,

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Speaker 2: anti tourism, so many people in the community. As you know,

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Speaker 2: besting about this place is everyone just pulls together makes

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Speaker 2: this stuff happen. So we couldn't be more grateful for

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Speaker 2: all the help we've received to sort of make this

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Speaker 2: opportunity possible. And now we just want to see two

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Speaker 2: great nights of sport in the territory and then hopefully

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Speaker 2: that can weet the appetite to get some more here

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Speaker 2: in future years.

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Speaker 1: Now where can people go if they're wanting to register

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Speaker 1: for the fan day as well?

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Speaker 2: Get to the Anti Cricket website to register for the

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Speaker 2: Fan Day four point thirty seven on Saturday afternoon down

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Speaker 2: at the waterfront, and then you know, certainly get to

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Speaker 2: the Cricket Australia website to snap up those last remaining

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Speaker 2: tickets for Sunday. But good news easy if you miss

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Speaker 2: out for Sunday or if maybe you had a great

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Speaker 2: night and you want to go again, there's still tickets

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Speaker 2: available for Tuesday night where I think we're roughly around

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Speaker 2: five thousand for Tuesday, so stell tickets available for Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Well. INTI Cricket CEEO Gavin Dovey always good to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you. Thank you very much for your time

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Speaker 1: and I reckon it's going to be a spectacular a

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Speaker 1: couple of days. Yeah, lots of lots of excitement, I

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Speaker 1: think right across the board when it comes to cricket. Great, thanks,

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Speaker 1: good stuff, Good on you, Gav, thank you,