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Speaker 1: Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everybody,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. We're catching our breath after

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Speaker 1: a manic day of Test cricket. Twenty wickets feil. Both

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Speaker 1: teams had a good bat, well, a short bat, and

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Speaker 1: then they were all out. It's the fourth Test, Australia

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Speaker 1: hold a forty six run lead and they're starting their

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Speaker 1: second innings on the start of day two. My name

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Speaker 1: is Joshnathinker. Louis Cameron's with me. All a bit of

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Speaker 1: a rush at the end of the day today given

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Speaker 1: how many wickets fell. So where do we begin dissecting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well almost it feels like we're back to the

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Speaker 2: first day of the series right where we had a

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Speaker 2: similarly kind of frantic moment where you're trying to process,

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Speaker 2: you know, what you think after so many wickets fell

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Speaker 2: in a day. We had nineteen on day one of

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Speaker 2: to a low one hander in the last over the day.

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Speaker 2: It was weird. Someone came over to us, Josh and

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Speaker 2: asked the question, you know, is the crowd happy with

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Speaker 2: what they've seen today? And I think they are, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, they saw entertaining cricket. No point was it dull,

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Speaker 2: but it did kind of feel like we were robbed

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Speaker 1: Definitely, And well, I guess that's because the pitch was

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Speaker 1: So it was going to do plenty. So tough work

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Speaker 1: Harry Brook was the top scorer for the whole day

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Speaker 2: It was crazy, yeah, I mean it felt a bit

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Speaker 2: these are the kind of wickets that you get a

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Speaker 2: through a tough first day. One of the interesting bits

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Speaker 2: I heard from Alissa Heely she said she was out

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Speaker 1: So good luck to them. I want to let's go

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Speaker 2: Lewis too much team. There are many days where you

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Speaker 1: Well, I was actually talking about the clock five forty

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Speaker 2: Finish Steve boy your heart out the final day or

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Speaker 2: This wasn't quite quite as elegant as stroke as what

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Speaker 2: dear life Scotty. But that was I felt like the

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Speaker 2: wasn't for that for that, Nick, and yeah, just a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, And I guess from Head's point of view,

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