WEBVTT - Melbourne D1: CARNAGE! 20 wickets tumble on wild day 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.239 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by Quantus, 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 proud will be flying 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:17.360 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everybody, 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.959 Welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. We're catching our breath after 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.759 a manic day of Test cricket. Twenty wickets feil. Both 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.000 teams had a good bat, well, a short bat, and 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.240 then they were all out. It's the fourth Test, Australia 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.440 hold a forty six run lead and they're starting their 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.199 second innings on the start of day two. My name 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.080 is Joshnathinker. Louis Cameron's with me. All a bit of 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:38.840 a rush at the end of the day today given 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.800 how many wickets fell. So where do we begin dissecting 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:42.120 this one? 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.400 Yeah, well almost it feels like we're back to the 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.800 first day of the series right where we had a 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.040 similarly kind of frantic moment where you're trying to process, 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.000 you know, what you think after so many wickets fell 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.600 in a day. We had nineteen on day one of 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.240 this series in Perth. We had twenty today it would 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.520 have been twenty one if Jacob Bethel had hung on 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.240 to a low one hander in the last over the day. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.920 It was weird. Someone came over to us, Josh and 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.319 asked the question, you know, is the crowd happy with 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.679 what they've seen today? And I think they are, like, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.240 you know, they saw entertaining cricket. No point was it dull, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.800 but it did kind of feel like we were robbed 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.000 of the opportunity to watch some good batting as well 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:18.720 as some good bowling. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.200 Definitely, And well, I guess that's because the pitch was 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.360 doing plenty, wasn't it. We heard that the curator had 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.720 left ten millimeters of grass on this pitch, which wasn't 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.959 unusual for this sort of wicket. But there was plenty 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.640 of movement earlier, and Michael Nsa said, especially with that 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.280 new ball if you got it in the right spot. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.360 So it was going to do plenty. So tough work 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.520 for the bat is only a couple of guys got 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.959 out of double figures. In fact, there were eleven players 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.800 who were dismissed in single figures across the two innings. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:47.880 Harry Brook was the top scorer for the whole day 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.920 with forty one and Michael Nsa with thirty five for Australia, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:52.800 so not much to look at on the batting card. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.440 It was crazy, yeah, I mean it felt a bit 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.160 like a Sheffield Chield pitch in all and see like 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:58.760 these are the kind of wickets that you get a 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.440 lot in domestic cricket where teams pushed for results and 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.360 teams have to bat aggressively to score runs and it 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.639 can flatten out after you know, you have to get 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.880 through a tough first day. One of the interesting bits 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.520 I heard from Alissa Heely she said she was out 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.840 in the middle before play. She said she kind of 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.360 ran her hand over the pitch and she could feel 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.799 the grass kind of lifting up with her hand, which 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.640 I thought, was you know, really telling because from Afar 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.799 you looked at it and it had a nice kind 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.360 of brownish color from you know, obviously tinges of green, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.399 but it wasn't like a green mat that you kind 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.400 of saw for the Gabba Test a couple of years 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.960 ago against South Africa, you know that just looked green 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.239 and grassy the whole way through. This one kind of 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.360 gave the appearance of, you know, potentially you know, just 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.480 being a good fair wicket do a bit day one, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.639 flatten out by the end of day one and you're 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.840 on for some good cricket. Remember the last Test we 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.720 had here against India went to the fifth day and 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.880 was pretty balanced. A bit early Sam Con was ramping Boomera. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.800 But you know it did again feel a bit like 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.440 that when Harry Brook was now playing like a man possessed. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.760 But I mean I think England have you know, well 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.400 some of England's batters have basically looked at this Australian 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.320 bowling attack and gone, well, these guys are not missing 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.040 their lengths and they probably thought, well, we've played on 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.160 three flatter wickets and them and we couldn't really you know, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.720 what their high score of the series was in the 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.400 in the low three hundreds. We had to we just 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.240 have to try something differently, and I think Brooke kind 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.480 of embodied that today. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.800 Question without notice. So we're heading for another two day 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.600 finished here. Do you think or will we get into 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.400 a third for this one? Because it's shaping up a 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.520 very similar situation to Perth. Yeah. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.240 Well, Michael Nissa, who was sitting right where we're sitting 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.400 a few minutes and a few moments ago, we're again 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.440 in the in the in the press conference room, which 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.520 is an interesting spot at the MCG because ye're between 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.400 the two dressing rooms. So we're hearing a bit of 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.080 applause from the England dressing room. So I'm not sure 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.320 what all that's about, given they probably don't ever holdleave. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.080 To it, maybe to a FINALES meeting or something like that. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.800 Yeah, yeah, possible. Possibly. What was the question again, two 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.560 days tests? Two day tests? Yeah, yeah, Michael Nice was 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.200 sitting here and got asked a good question about whether 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.600 there were divots in the pitch, right like, because this 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.280 can be the danger you leave too much juice. And 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.240 at day one you kind of get little indentations on 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.560 the wicket. When that pitch kind of hardens up under 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.040 under a baking sun, you know, good luck because it 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.320 gets even harder to back because the pitch gets quicker. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.160 And then there it's not a not an even surface. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:29.760 It didn't seem to think, so I don't think it 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.360 was a juicy wicket. I think it was just a 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.040 grassy wicket. And then you know, just some of the 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.919 balls that we saw were just jagging, jagging a mile. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.720 We can go into some detail on that, but two 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.840 days I mean, look, look it could, especially if it 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.880 does quicken up and Australia kind of get off to 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.320 a you know, if England takes some early wickets tomorrow, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.200 then you know it's game on. Definitely England chasing a 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.560 you know, a small total in the last innings. Who 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.200 knows what could happen? Yeah, absolutely could. If I was 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.320 holding tickets for day three of this tea, it's let 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.640 alone day four, I'd be pretty nervous. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.360 The apologies to my parents who got in late with 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.800 their requests for this Test match and I could only 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.320 get them day four, So not looking great for their 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:11.080 hopes of seeing. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.000 So I've got family members in the exact same boat. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.680 So good luck to them. I want to let's go 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.560 back to five forty eight this afternoon. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.200 Lewis too much team. There are many days where you 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:23.880 could say let's go back to five to forty out 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:24.880 or who either team? 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.920 Well, I was actually talking about the clock five forty 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.080 eight ps. Yes, yes, So England have taken the last 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.000 so I have lost their last wicket, which means we've 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.200 only got two minutes left of batting to come. And 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.599 this is my liquor. Land choose to that moment in fact, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.480 because we didn't know which Ossie Opener would come out 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.880 for that one over to face. We were thinking, or 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.000 do they keep Travis Head in the sheds or do 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.720 they go with a night watchman. As it turned out, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.240 we saw Scott Bowland walk up the race and there 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.080 probably were still seventy thousand fans in the g at 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.760 that time, to raucous applause. He had to face all 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.400 six balls, only caught it slip and then he got 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.520 a four away of the final ball. It was a 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.120 great theater at the end of the day, not that 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.839 we needed anymore, but it was a great way to. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.560 Finish Steve boy your heart out the final day or 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.520 a final over sorry final ball boundary from Scott Bland. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.360 This wasn't quite quite as elegant as stroke as what 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.000 would managed off Richard Dawson. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:19.920 I think that's good. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.280 Well those years ago, that was two three ashes, I think, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.080 but yeah, he'd been given a life, you know, having 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.279 edged that one, and he was just hanging on for 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.960 dear life Scotty. But that was I felt like the 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.360 loudest roar of the day was, you know, of all 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.839 things a guy he nearly faced out of Maiden. It 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.320 wasn't for that for that, Nick, and yeah, just a 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.400 really nice moment. It's an interesting one from the night 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.880 watchman's perspective because you made the good observation that when 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.680 England went to seventy and I think that was a 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.400 wicket of Ben Stokes or Will Jackson, potentially we saw 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.919 Jake weatherilld on the on the pitch. He you know, 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.880 Australia celebrated the wicket and was shadow about him, so 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.880 he was clearly expecting to. But then they've got back 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.360 to the change rooms after Green gets that final wicket, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.640 and you know, obviously someone you know, Jake's probably asked 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.720 for a night watchman. You know, I guess Travis has 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.520 probably said, oh, I'll go out, But you know, I'm 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.160 just doubted that the non striker's end. It would have been interesting. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.240 It'll be interesting to find out exactly how that little 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:19.600 that little bit played out. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.800 Yeah, definitely, And I guess from Head's point of view, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.880 he can come out because with only one over a manning, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.000 if a wicket falls, that stumps that's right. So he's 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.720 not going to take a single left ball and hits 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.840 it into the gap. He's gonna say no, and just 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.040 that the non striker's end so low risk. Thereforehead and 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.480 I guess that explains to some of the fancy would 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.080 have been watching why he was the one and not 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.760 necessarily risked because he was at the non striker's end. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.040 I'm my own thinking. We've now had five different Australian 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.239 openers in this series. We had Weather, old Head, Kauwadi 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.880 did it one innings in Perth, Laboushine did at one 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:53.680 innings in Perth. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.040 I don't think we had Quadri in Perth. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.800 Yeah, oh no, you're right he didn't. So of all 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.280 the you know, because he is remarkable. That whole thing 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.200 about who's going to partner? Was he in Perth in 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.040 the first Test? And then they've had four or five 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.280 different openers and so we've had Head, Weather, alled Lavishane 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.720 for one innings and now bowling, so it's only four 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.679 and none of them have known it was been quite. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.840 That's pretty remarkable stuff. So let's go back to the 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.600 start of play. Ben Stokes won the toss, chose to bowl. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.160 England had three wickets in the first hour. We were 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.640 saying in the press box we didn't think they'd bowled 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.800 super well. But they certainly got their lines and lengths 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.480 right in the second session, especially Josh Tungue magnificent. We 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.120 get to get rid of Steve Smith with a full 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:37.840 ball that did a lot. In fact, he was the 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.920 pick of their bowlers today with five fur and finished 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.840 off the innings with two in two as well, so 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:44.920 when he hit his stride he was close to one 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:45.800 playable on this bitch. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.320 Yeah. I thought England's opening bowlers, especially the first four 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.880 or five hops, were awful broaden cast in particular, lots 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.880 of balls on the thigh pad, lots of balls down 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.599 leg side, questionable tactics in terms of cast, trying to 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.440 bowl beautiful in swingers back into the left and on 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.559 a pitch that you know is going to be doing everything, 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.360 just stand the same up Webb'll seehim. Whatever you can 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.120 do to just you know, bash a length and eventually 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.280 they got there. Atkinson warmed into it in the back 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.680 half of that first spell and then Tongue really came 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.040 on and showed him how to bowl. So he gets 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.600 said earlier bit of luck with strangling Jake Weather all 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.439 down the leg side, but then the lengths he hit 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.960 to get Martus Labushane and Steve Smith out perfect full 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.680 length deliveries, probably both around the four or five meter 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.000 mark away from the batter. He gets one that just 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.560 nips away from Marnus Labushane. He pushed too hard, he's 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.839 caught behind, and then to Steve Smith, the jags the 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.080 other way comes back in off the scene, bowls him 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.360 for nine off thirty one. Interesting stat that was on 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.800 the Fox broadcast at the time that ball nipped back. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.040 I think eleven centimeters by the time from a four 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.480 meter length. That's that's a lot of same movement, So 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.440 it was eleven centimeters by the time it passed Smith's 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.440 bat by Tommy hit the stumps, hit middle something just 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.959 about halfway up in a deva fourteen centimeters away from 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.560 where it would have gone without deviation. I always kind 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.400 of look at that as a pretty good indication because 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.320 when you watch the you watch those replays, and they 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.240 showed them without deviation, it's always the purple line and 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.240 it's always going through the middle of the bat of 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.880 whoever was whoever was swinging the bat. So yeah, that's 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.120 impossible to play. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.839 Yeah, Tongue didn't play the first two tests of this series, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.200 but he's come in and made an instant impact and 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.400 now he's probably also going to be seeing the ben Stones. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.520 Look give me the new ball as well, because bride 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.360 Cast was very ineffective with it today and tongue Can 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.200 has shown that he could pitch it up, get it 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.280 in the right spots and even move the ball around. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.480 So there's definitely going to be that conversation as well. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.319 We will give Cass a little bit of credit though, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.640 because he did execute an excellent run out today of 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.040 Cameron Green that sort of sparked him and he collapsed Frustralia. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.320 They lost their last four wickets for nine runs after that, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.120 and there was a good piece of athleticism from the 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.080 big fil. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.240 Another puzzling decision for Cameron Green in while brighton Cass 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.000 is bowling right. So we had the one at the 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.240 Gabba when he was on forty off just about as 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.040 many balls backs away tries to him through the off 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.520 side gets bold. Well hear he'd done really well with 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.320 Michael Nissa to kind of get get Australia back to 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.200 on track and it looked like they were probably going 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.560 for you know something at least with the two in 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.400 front of it, you know, a two hundred score and 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.840 he's on the back foot, so he's camp right back 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.960 and then he kind of looks to Nissa for a 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.240 bit of guidance on you know, is this a run 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.240 quick single that we can take. I wouldn't blame Nisa 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.360 in that situation, like you know, Nissa, he's looking at 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.080 Nisa to think, well, can you make it at your end? 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.880 It's on Green to think whether he can make it 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.360 from his end, and he would have had to set 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.280 off absolutely straight away given the weight was all all 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.920 the way on his back shoe. But yeah, credit to cast. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.920 You pick up and throw and hit the non strikers 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.560 and stumps. You know, you can see why they like 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.920 brighton cars like he's an athletic bowler who bowls wicket 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.319 taking deliveries, who's a good batter and a good fielder. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.040 But you just feel like they haven't quite read the 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.160 conditions right. And then the scheme of things in Australia 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.000 only made one, five two. He's gone for forty two 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.200 off his twelve os. It doesn't look terrible, but just 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.040 the way Australia Bold was just absolutely relentless. None of 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.000 those guys gave him an inch. And I think like 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.960 that selection could really come back to haunt them. A 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.200 guy like you know, I'm not saying that he's a 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.040 world beater and he would have changed a series for him, 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.240 but a guy like Matthew Potts, it really surprises me 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.240 that we haven't seen him before in this series, let 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.560 alone on this pitch that's Taylor made for a guy 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.880 who from what I've seen in test cricket, he hits 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.520 nibbles the ball around at about one hundred and thirty 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.000 low one thirty Columbus per hour. That's what this pitch 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.600 is perfect for. That's why Michael Nisa was the best 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.920 bowler today on it. Scott Bowland probably and Josh Tungue, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.199 you know, not far behind him, but they needed those 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.400 kind of guys. Atkinson's also that guy, you know, slightly 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.160 quicker but just hits a good length. He got into 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.000 his work and you know he wasn't perfect, but yeah, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.360 you just feel like even though they've rolled Australia for 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.480 one hundred and fifty two, like the amount of seed 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.400 movement that the balls were getting that might have been 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:04.040 slide overs. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.040 Well, as you said, Australia got one fifty two and 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.840 when Mitch Stark was out there it looked like he 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.559 didn't want to be batting out at any time at all. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.880 He wanted to be bowling, and for good reason, because 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.720 after he was out for one of six, Australia got 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.920 the new ball in their hands and had England in 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.600 all sorts very early. They were four for sixteen after 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.640 eight overs. The wickets went stark nissa, stark nissa to 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.240 get things underway, and either side of the tea break. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.320 So at the end of the Austrain innings and the 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.240 start of the England innings, both sides lost eight for 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.600 twenty five in sixty seven balls total carnage. We were 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.640 on the live blog trying to collectively that've lost eight 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.199 for sixty that's right, collectively, so the combined scores. We 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.800 were trying to keep up with the updates on the 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.400 live blog and trying to describe all these wickets and 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.560 adding the videos and all those sorts of things. It 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.200 was pretty tough work. Not going to lie, but yeah, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.080 it was just you can understand why Australia so Kender 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.080 get out there and bolted absolute carnage. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.600 And you saw kind of both ways of attacking from 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.920 a batting perspective, both methods not working. I mean, Joe 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.600 Route a painful fifteen ball. Duck barely plays a shot. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.000 He's just thinking, get through, get through, get through slightly 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.719 older ball, I'll be able to score. Then he kind 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.800 of plays a half hearted defense and he's out again. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.720 You know, since that hundred and Brisbane, it's gone downhill 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.800 for him in this series. And then Brooke complete opposite approach. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.280 You know, they were batting together for a bit and 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.080 it was just chalk and cheese. You know, you had 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.640 when Brooke was on strike, you had a deep point 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.720 and a deep long off and a fine leg and 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.160 a deep square leg. And then when Route was coming 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.040 on strike, it was, you know, three slips of galley, 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.480 normal kind kind of cricket. You know, Brook, apart from 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.560 the absolutely wild shot that he's played off Stark first up, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.640 after that, I felt like he kind of got his 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.200 rhythm a bit and I reckon honestly, that was probably 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.760 not a bad way to the bat on that pitch. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.000 He had a couple of six as he got an 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.320 enormous one over long off off Bowland I think was 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.400 and you know, really hit his straps. He hit the 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.720 high score for the days. So who are we to 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.360 question how he battered, and you know, people will criticize 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.000 how aggressively he batted today, but at the end of it, 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.440 he got out playing a defensive shot off Bowlin, so 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.160 maybe there was some merit in how he was approaching it. Yeah. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.480 Absolutely, Stark and Niss obviously did well off the top, 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.200 but then Scott Bolin came in in front of that 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.840 home crowd and didn't disappoint. Nine overs on the bounce 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.160 from him today, three for thirty and some really good delivery. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.480 It's tough to play, including a crack to get rid 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.040 of Brook that jagged in a long way. It's probably 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.280 maybe didn't them and bounced as much as Brook was expecting, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.840 and normally you would see that one of the top 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.600 batters from the opposition review that decision. Even out of 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.840 a bit of hope, Brooke thought that's got to be 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:48.840 out and just walked off. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.840 And he was right. I was thinking, like, surely, yeah, 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.840 like he looked like the most dangerous batter. They were 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.880 already that would have been their fourth or fifth winking down, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.120 So surely you just use your three reviews because you're 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.240 going to get the chance to use them. But he 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.720 knew that that was hitting the stumps half way up. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.400 And yeah, if it wasn't for Atkinson again, you know 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.720 he whacked twenty eight of thirty five balls, they wouldn't 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.640 have even got into into triple digits. Yeah. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.120 Well it's England's lowest score in Test cricket since they 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.960 were here last year. That's a stat you uncovered Loo 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.040 sixty eight they were bowled out for that day when 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.720 Scott Bowling got six for seven last ashes series. Yeah, 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.680 and today I saw last ash of series and today 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.400 one hundred and ten wicket fell today every twenty two 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.400 point nine balls, so less than four overs total carnage 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.400 across all facets today. And yeah, Australia batting again. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.160 And you think back to when the last time England 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.120 fans would have been able to come to this to 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.720 the MCG on Mass twenty seventeen eighteen, I reckon, you know, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.400 a wicket every twenty two point nine overs that would 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.840 have been twenty three point three overs, twenty two point 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.920 nine balls got into twenty three points. Yeah, got yeah, yeah, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.920 terrible overs maths there, you know, like it was just 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.200 the flattest weekend ever, right, so it's complete turned around 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.400 for the MCG I know which one i'd prefer to watch, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.840 but I can also see the flip side. If you've 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.320 got tickets to day three and four, you'd be very nervous. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.480 Just before we wrap up, Ji Richardson made his return 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.879 two Test cricket. In fact, it's his first Test match 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.480 in four hundred and sixty seven days Louis four years 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.560 almost to the day, but since that Adelaide Test he 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.400 played against England. What did you make of his return? 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.160 And yeah, hopefully we might get to see a bit 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:28.760 more of him tomorrow with the ball. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.119 That's right, Yeah, well only four overs so you can 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.840 see what they've risked him here, Like they might have 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.040 gone this wicked is really green. We don't think it's 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.600 going to go the journey. We're going to get more 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.800 use out of an impact kind of bowler like him 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.040 as opposed Todd Murphy. So it's hard to argue with 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.560 that decision either way. And the other side, I can't 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.480 remember if we brought it up on this podcast, but 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.639 he's throwing His remains an issue, like he still just 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.600 can't throw properly after three shoulder surgery, so I know 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.960 it's something he's worked hard on to try and get 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.359 back that strop of strength, but what Bowling's find his 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.240 shoulders really no good in the field, so they've obviously 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:06.919 made a decisions. They can kind of carry him in 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.159 the field and they're just gonna if he gets a 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.000