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Speaker 1: Tell your wash.

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Speaker 2: There is always a lot happening when it comes to

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Speaker 2: sport in the Northern Territory and cricket, well, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot happening right around the world right now and indeed

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Speaker 2: the Northern Territory when it comes to cricket and joining

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Speaker 2: me in the studio right now, NT Cricket CEO Gavin Dovey,

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Speaker 2: good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Gave morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Are you a bit bleary eyed? Have you been watching

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Speaker 2: cricket all morning?

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Speaker 3: I'm always watching cricket. Yeah, to loss this morning against India.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, the T twenty World Cup currently underway.

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Speaker 1: How like, what are the options now for Australia.

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Speaker 3: It's all all down to this game that's happening now.

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Speaker 3: So Afghanistan playing Bangladesh.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: If Afghanistan win, we're out. So oh no, it's no good.

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Speaker 3: You need Bangladesh to do us a bit of a

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Speaker 3: favor and get the win. But we don't want them

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Speaker 3: to win too well Cosney they could go through, so

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Speaker 3: that's probably the least likely the options.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so win but don't go Yeah that will

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Speaker 1: work for us Australians.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then yeah we'd be okay, I reckon if

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Speaker 3: we got to the semispot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So how are the Aussies feeling sort of earlier,

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Speaker 2: you know, in the early hours of this morning night,

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Speaker 2: doown been disappointment?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're probably sitting around hotel they packed their

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Speaker 3: bags or not.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's.

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Speaker 3: Tough t twenty you know, anyone can win on any

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Speaker 3: day in year. Obviously a powerhouse of cricket. So even

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Speaker 3: though we beat them in the World Cup final for

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Speaker 3: fifty over us, yeah, they were too good this morning.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, and gave I mean you would know, like

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Speaker 2: we all know, you know, as the see of cricket

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Speaker 2: here in the Northern Territory. But you traveled with the

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Speaker 2: Australian team for many years, didn't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, eleven. Yeah, it's big stint, so it seems like

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Speaker 3: a bit of a sort of different life. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: a lot of time in hotels and airplanes and packing bags.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but I mean, yeah, great to be involved

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Speaker 3: at that little of the game and see some world

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Speaker 3: class players up absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of world class players, an announcement this morning nine

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Speaker 2: teams set to compete in the top ends cricket three six, five.

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Speaker 2: Like I understand, we've got quite a bit happening here

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Speaker 2: in the NT. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's fantastic this morning to announce that

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Speaker 3: we've got nine teams participating in the Top End T

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Speaker 3: twenty series, which will take place from the ninth to

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Speaker 3: the eighteenth of August. So that's our marquee event each winter,

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Speaker 3: part of how we promote that we're the only place

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Speaker 3: in the country that plays cricket all year round, and

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Speaker 3: so that event's going from five teams to six last year.

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Speaker 3: And then again we're thrilled that we've now got nine

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Speaker 3: teams taking place. And the big I think the big

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Speaker 3: fish really is we've got Pakistan coming back. We've also

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Speaker 3: got Bangladesh talking to them coming out as well, so

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Speaker 3: that's a huge sort of coup for the event. And

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Speaker 3: we've also got some more big Bash franchises coming so

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Speaker 3: you know, Stars and Renegades have been here the last

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Speaker 3: few years, which has been terrific, but we now got

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Speaker 3: the per Scorches and Adelaide Strikers coming up as well.

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Speaker 1: So is it an increase in numbers on previous years.

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Speaker 3: Increasing teams? I mean, we're trying to grow this event

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Speaker 3: to promote this is just a fantastic place to play

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Speaker 3: cricket in the winter and try and elevate the role

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Speaker 3: we play in Australian cricket. And so yeah, this event's

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Speaker 3: just going from strength to strength and I think ultimately

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Speaker 3: we're going to try and get some Indian Premier League

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Speaker 3: be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: How cool?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, really cool?

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Speaker 1: Lok, what do you.

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Speaker 2: Reckon it means for us in terms of cricket in

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Speaker 3: I mean it's just as all territories know, it's just

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Speaker 3: for sports. So you know, this is a great vehicle

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do we see like, do you see much in

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Speaker 2: we have people travel from other states to come and watch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean putting on the event in itself,

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Speaker 3: it's last year we had over ten and a half

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Speaker 3: just gives you a sort.

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Speaker 1: Of of the interest in our sports.

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Speaker 3: So I think as we keep adding teams and adding

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Speaker 3: we're super excited about it.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome stuff. Now, when does that series get underway?

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Speaker 3: So that's from the ninth to the eighteenth of August,

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Speaker 3: So the thirty t twenty fixtures over ten days playing

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Speaker 3: We've got a community game out at Fred's Pass. And

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Speaker 3: then again the big news, we're putting another dropping wicket

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon, that's awesome. So when does that sort

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Speaker 3: So my very talented curators are building the wickets as

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Speaker 1: I understand.

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Speaker 2: There's also been an announcement with Simon Helmet being announced

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Speaker 3: Great again, a great addition for us to get someone

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Speaker 2: And it seems like there's a lot happening at like

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory really being put on the map. But what

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Speaker 2: like that, I'm imagining that cricket is absolutely booming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, our junior numbers this year have been phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've got an increase across all of our

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Speaker 3: you know, half of them and you so I think

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Speaker 3: seeing huge growth. So there's a sort of bottom up element,

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Speaker 3: order to inspire kids to want to play you sort

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Speaker 3: top end series will play a role. You know, there

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Speaker 3: this is all part of the journey back to getting

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Speaker 1: And do you look, is it on the cards for us?

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Speaker 3: You know that that's a really important part of while

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Speaker 3: got the infrastructure, we're ready to go. So we're sort

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Speaker 3: There's some winter cricket scheduled in the Future Tours program,

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Speaker 3: some one days and T twenties against South Africa. So

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Speaker 3: that's the aim is to try and build a case

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Speaker 3: to get that happening next next winter.

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Speaker 1: That'd be awesome, amazing, absolutely awesome.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope we can have anything else going on

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Speaker 2: we should know about when it comes to cricket and

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Speaker 2: the endt there seems like these heaps happening.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, I mean that's the big the big developments.

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Speaker 3: I reckon that top n T twenty series hopefully get

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Speaker 3: international cricket back. The darn and district's crickets in full swing.

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Speaker 3: So seen some great club cricket going on around the

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Speaker 3: playing or finding out more, just get the Anti Cricket

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Speaker 3: website and saw therefore good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Dovey, the CEO of Cricket here in the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 2: lovely to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning. Stick, Thanks Caddy,

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Speaker 1: thank you,