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Speaker 1: Big Bash season is heating up, so we're bringing in

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Speaker 1: the hottest team in down. How about Hurricanes captain Elise

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Speaker 1: Forlani is at the desk.

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Speaker 2: She wants to take advantage of this power search.

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Speaker 1: But the fund doesn't stop there. The league's highest ever

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Speaker 1: run scorer, Beth Mooney is joining the Surge.

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Speaker 2: Your good habits where you can start gone.

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Speaker 1: And she's coming in with Australian League spinner and Scorch's

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Speaker 1: teammate Alana King ribes in the air, juggle juggle, juggles.

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Speaker 3: She's got it for King.

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Speaker 1: It's a massive show coming up. This is the Surge.

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Speaker 1: Goody everyone, welcome to the Surge. I'm Adam White. As

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Speaker 1: I said, it's going to be a massive program. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: let's go straight to our co host for this week,

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Speaker 1: Ales Forlani, the captain of the Hurricanes. Elise, thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming in.

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Speaker 4: Thanks very much for having me.

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Speaker 1: You haven't got your hat, you haven't got your drums,

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Speaker 1: you haven't got Molly with you sort of leading the

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Speaker 1: the Hurricanes train. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: I know, Look the girls are resting out ready for

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Speaker 2: a big one. So yeah, come straight from the airport

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Speaker 2: just to spend some time with you and talk all

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Speaker 2: things Hurricanes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, welcome to this these beautiful studios. You must be

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Speaker 1: having a lot of fun. You can tell the way

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Speaker 1: you're playing your cricket, the way you're celebrating, the way

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Speaker 1: you're winning. Except the other night against the Sixers, it

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Speaker 1: sounds it feels like having a great time.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think that's probably the most pleasing thing. We

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Speaker 2: making sure that we're enjoying our cricket. We feel like

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Speaker 2: if we're in a good place, then you know, those

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Speaker 2: being super clear on our processes, our game plan has

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Speaker 2: is having the vibes high in the change room, getting

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Speaker 2: you know, we're constantly, you know, having little mishaps on

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Speaker 1: So you're the captain of the team. Who's the captain

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Speaker 1: of the celebrations? Are you that as well? Or is

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Speaker 4: I think it's a team thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've spoken about that massively obviously. You know, creating

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Speaker 1: Because there are some teams that say, oh no, it's

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Speaker 1: You know, we can't enjoy success until the whole thing's finished.

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Speaker 1: Is it something that's almost a purposeful thing that you've said, no, no, know, win,

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Speaker 4: Well, it hasn't been forced.

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Speaker 1: Why is it going so well? Not the celebrations, the cricket.

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Speaker 1: You've got an experienced team, You've got some world superstars

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Speaker 2: We've got a real team that is the experience that

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Speaker 1: What's it like having the captain of England in your team.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea if she wanted to captain the

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Speaker 3: She says that she enjoys that, so it's good.

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Speaker 1: So that's her. Do you enjoy the captaincy? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've been in the WBBL now forever top five run

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Speaker 2: Captain hard question that Yeah, you are, Look, I do

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Speaker 2: And what I love about it is that I'm really

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Speaker 2: I feel like at times, particularly is it better. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'll get back to what might be possible at the

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Speaker 1: end of the season with the Hurricanes. Just the balance

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Speaker 1: The Hurricanes perfectly put, perfectly put. So just a couple

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is probably very cliche, but we haven't

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Speaker 2: You know, last season we only won the five games,

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Speaker 2: to be completely honest, if you get too far ahead

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Speaker 2: So yeah, look, we're very much, you know, looking to

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Speaker 2: reality is whether we win or we lose, or we

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Speaker 2: whole thing, or you know, regardless of what the actual

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Speaker 2: what we're most passionate about, because we feel as though

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Speaker 1: So you haven't booked the brass band yet, No, not yet.

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Speaker 1: Very good, Very good. All right, thank you for giving

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Speaker 1: to get into the burning questions where you've got to

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Speaker 1: get really controversial and make all these big statements, Jack,

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Speaker 1: and you can do that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'll give it a go.

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Speaker 1: Very good. There is plenty happening in the Big Bash.

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Speaker 1: There's heaps of hot topics to discuss as we get

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Speaker 1: into our burning questions. Brought to you by Weber, and

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Speaker 1: we'll start with former Australian captain Meg Lanning. And that's stunning.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty five against the Sydney Sixers.

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Speaker 5: Flicked away in the air into the gap, raced away,

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Speaker 5: Lanning steps back and slashes and over the top. It

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Speaker 5: Meg Lanning has looked that father time and laughed in

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Speaker 3: Cricket, of world cricket.

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Speaker 5: Lifted out to deep bid wikets, courts villas, hold on

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Speaker 5: Meg Lanning. One hundred and thirty five, the third highest

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into our burning questions brought to you,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to start with Meg Lanning. You just

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Speaker 1: saw some of the highlights from her amazings the other night.

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Speaker 1: Actually got to speak to Meg the other night about it.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember seeing her, not necessarily. I've probably seen

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Speaker 1: her about better maybe, but not as not the dynamic

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Speaker 1: Meg Lanning that we saw the other night. It was amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a few of us watching it now

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Speaker 2: in one of our hotel rooms actually, and yeah, we

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Speaker 2: were just sort of sitting back and clapping and just

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Speaker 2: watching a wonderful show that she put on. She's certainly

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Speaker 2: in really good form. Hopefully not against us, but you.

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Speaker 1: Gonna play them twice, Yeah, we do, we do so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Meg Lanning could be a bit of a headache

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Speaker 2: for me, but look, as a really good friend of hers,

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Speaker 2: I'm just really excited to sing her play well and

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Speaker 2: to look as though she's enjoying it as well.

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Speaker 1: I think that was the thing that stood out to me,

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Speaker 1: to see that smile on her face when she brought

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Speaker 1: up the hundred. We don't see Meg smile too much

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Speaker 1: because she can be super serious, but I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it feels like she's enjoying a cricket. Even listening to

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Speaker 1: her on the coverage, she's giving great insights, great insights

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Speaker 1: out in the out fear. Were sort of feel like

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Speaker 1: we're getting to know her a little bit more and

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Speaker 1: what makes her tick. I think it's been a great

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Speaker 1: tournament for her for this to this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it has and you've got to remember she was

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Speaker 2: given the captaincy of Australia when she was so young,

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Speaker 2: and I feel like, you know, it's probably a bit

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Speaker 2: of a weight off her shoulders now where she can

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Speaker 2: just go out and play cricket and not have the

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Speaker 2: responsibility of captaining every team that she's a part of.

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Speaker 2: And I know that she loves fielding on the boundary

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Speaker 2: and yeah, just sort of at this stage in her career,

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Speaker 2: you know, lessening the meetings and the commitments outside of

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Speaker 2: the field, so to speak, is allowing her to go

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Speaker 2: out there and express herself out there and you know,

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Speaker 2: give a lot to her teammates on the field and

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Speaker 2: lead by example, and it just looks like she's really

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Speaker 2: enjoying it.

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Speaker 4: So it's nice to.

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Speaker 1: See absolutely so she is the BKT Golden Cap leader

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Speaker 1: at this stage with over three hundred runs already for

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Speaker 1: the season. The last question on Meg, do you feel

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Speaker 1: that we're seeing her play different shots? We know how

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Speaker 1: good she is sort of point backward point. I think

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Speaker 1: the other night that had about seven field is in

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Speaker 1: that position, she was still splitting the gaps. But do

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Speaker 1: you feel that we're seeing her played at different parts

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Speaker 1: of the ground a little bit at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like she's been evolving her game probably

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Speaker 2: over the last twelve to eighteen months, and you know,

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Speaker 2: she's sort of spoken about that. She's even brought in

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a ramp and that sort of thing,

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Speaker 2: which is only going to make her more.

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Speaker 4: Difficult to bowl to.

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Speaker 2: But what I like about her as well is that

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Speaker 2: you know, she's got her strengths and she's going to

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Speaker 2: keep making them a strength. She's not shying away from that.

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Speaker 2: But bowlers are then going to bolt something differently to her, right,

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Speaker 2: so it's like they're not going to look to feed

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Speaker 2: her strength. But what she's done is she's been able

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Speaker 2: to develop her game around understanding what the bowlers are

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Speaker 2: going to look to do to her. So yeah, she's

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Speaker 2: very classy, very talented, and it's no surprise that you know,

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Speaker 2: she is being really successful by continuing to evolve her game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think we'll forever be talking about Meg Lanning.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Okay, Now I'm a bit

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Speaker 1: embarrassed by this one because the Sydney Thunder my premiership

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Speaker 1: pick only a few weeks ago, and now we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the fact they might miss the finals. They're two

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Speaker 1: and four with a pretty bad sort of percentage at

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Speaker 1: this stage. Are they gone? Do you think?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't say gone.

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Speaker 2: I would say that you know, they've got an uphill battle,

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Speaker 2: but anything's possible. They've got some really talented players on

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Speaker 2: their list, but it is going to be extremely hard

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Speaker 2: work for them because there's not a lot of room

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Speaker 2: for error now and that's really difficult in T twenty cricket.

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Speaker 2: We're a little bit off the Thunder actually because they

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Speaker 2: didn't want to come to Hobart to play us, and

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Speaker 2: there was a bit, you know, it was a bit

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Speaker 2: on social media, so you know, some great people at

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Speaker 2: Sydney Thunder. But I'm not saying anything. I'm just you know,

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Speaker 2: pointing out that, you know, we were very hurt as

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Speaker 2: Hobart Hurricanes that they didn't want to come to Hobart

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Speaker 2: to players.

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Speaker 1: Sixty four against the Renegades. Only we're talking about a

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Speaker 1: team that I've got some of the best players in

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Speaker 1: the competition or wearing lime green. What happens in that situation,

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Speaker 1: is it just a loss of confidence? Is it trying

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Speaker 1: too hard? Because it can't be the players that are

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Speaker 1: playing because I mean, they're superstars, a lot of them.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, in T twenty cricket, I feel like

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Speaker 2: sometimes things just happen and there's actually no rhyme or reason.

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Speaker 2: It's not sort of worth digging, you know, too deeply

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Speaker 2: in that sort of stuff, because you know, I remember

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Speaker 2: the Hurricanes men last year, their first game.

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Speaker 3: They sort of got skittled pretty quickly.

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Speaker 4: And then they ended up going on and winning the

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Speaker 4: whole competition.

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Speaker 2: So I guess you just never really know, you know,

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Speaker 2: what's going on, you know, behind closed doors. But the

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Speaker 2: most important thing is, yeah, sometimes these things honestly just happen,

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Speaker 2: like you can't put your finger on as to why.

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Speaker 2: But it's certainly not through lack of talent. They've definitely

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Speaker 2: got the talent in the change rooms, and yeah, anything's

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Speaker 2: possible and they can certainly turn it around. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've all been bold out for small totals, and I

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Speaker 2: think when that happens, you just think, just push on

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Speaker 2: and focus on the next game.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit of a strange run to work out

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Speaker 1: the thunder Currently in sixth position on the table, all right,

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Speaker 1: there is a derby coming up a Melbourne Derby coming

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Speaker 1: up between the Renegades and the Stars on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: both teams in finals. Calculations which club will finish higher,

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Speaker 1: the Red one or the Green one?

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Speaker 2: I think current look with Meg in the form that

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Speaker 2: she is, I'm going to say the Stars, but there's

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Speaker 2: probably a more even spread with the Renegades, if that

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Speaker 2: makes sense.

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Speaker 4: I see them both making the finals.

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Speaker 2: To be completely honest, I think they've both got really

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Speaker 2: good lists, and they're both sort of humming at the

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Speaker 2: right time and building really nicely.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, if I had to choose, I would say.

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Speaker 2: Meg Lanning's current form the Stars just ahead of the Renegades.

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Speaker 1: They have so different the two teams, aren't they. You

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Speaker 1: kind of feel with the Stars, you've got Lanning, you've

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Speaker 1: got subtle and so you've got real class there, Whereas

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Speaker 1: when you look at the Renegades, particularly the way it's

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Speaker 1: sort of panned out without Halle Matthews, I've had to

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Speaker 1: rely on many, many different players to be able to

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Speaker 1: stand up at different times. And we see that the team.

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Speaker 1: They were the champions last year, but they're already four

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Speaker 1: and two without really anyone dominating. It's an interesting team.

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Speaker 1: The Renegades well.

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Speaker 2: They've certainly got depth in their list, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: That they've got, you know, top order batters batting at eight.

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Speaker 2: You've got sort of Test flint Off and Nicole Fulton

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Speaker 2: batting really low at the Renegades. And what that allows

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Speaker 2: them to do is to sort of go out and

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Speaker 2: you know, keep sort of swinging in a sense because

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Speaker 2: they've got so much depth behind them, which I think.

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Speaker 4: Is the way that they like to play.

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Speaker 2: They like to go out there, they like to push

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Speaker 2: the boundaries, and it means that no one necessarily has

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Speaker 2: to take a huge amount of responsibility because you know,

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Speaker 2: they can all sort of you know, chip in with

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Speaker 2: twenties and thirties. Georgia Wareham's been in great form with

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Speaker 2: the bat. But it just means that they can keep

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Speaker 2: going and to have all those wickets behind them. It's like,

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Speaker 2: you know, when we played them, we were taking continuous wickets,

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Speaker 2: but the batters that were rolling out, it was like,

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Speaker 2: we've got them six down. But really, if you sort

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Speaker 2: of looked at the caliber of the players that were

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Speaker 2: still coming in, it's sort of just felt like you

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Speaker 2: only had them two down in a sense.

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, they do have.

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Speaker 2: A really interesting list a really deep batting lineup.

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Speaker 1: I know you haven't played the Stars yet. I don't

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Speaker 1: know you've got to play them twice in the next week.

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Speaker 1: But you see anything different from the Stars from previous years.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a real belief in the Stars At

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Speaker 2: the minute, they're playing with a lot of confidence. I

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Speaker 2: feel like maybe potentially, you know, the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: it hasn't looked as though they've got the confidence that

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Speaker 2: they do now, they're sort of humming at the moment.

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Speaker 2: There's great contributions. You've got Kim Garth and Meg Lanning

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Speaker 2: really stepping up. You've got Kimmy leading with the ball,

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Speaker 2: You've got Meg leading with the bats. So they're big

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Speaker 2: players are stepping up and you can see they're hungry

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Speaker 2: for success. And I feel like, yeah, that's probably the

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Speaker 2: biggest thing is that they look like they're confident, they

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Speaker 2: look like they've got the belief, and they look like

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Speaker 2: they're enjoying it. So I feel like that's a pretty

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Speaker 2: good Yeah, there's some good ingredients for success there.

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Speaker 1: And we shouldn't leave out the performance of Marazione cap

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Speaker 1: the other night. No, no, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Trying to forget that because I'm thinking I've got a

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Speaker 2: plan for.

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Speaker 4: Her as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was incredible, unbelievable. Was it six for forty

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Speaker 1: to then go and make ninety on her own, take

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Speaker 1: an amazing catch and then two wickets?

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Speaker 4: Well that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: You think six for whatever it was, and then it's

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Speaker 2: like you've got marazone cap that can put on that performance.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's only going to continue to increase their confidence.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think it's their leaders, their

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Speaker 1: star players that seem to be all performing, which is

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Speaker 1: giving them a better chance at it than in previous year.

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Speaker 1: Is currently sitting third on the table? Now you've asked

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Speaker 1: me to put this question in these are the burning

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Speaker 1: questions brought to you by Weber. Is Heather Graham currently

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Speaker 1: the player of the tournament?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a good question.

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Speaker 2: I think she's up there, whether or not she's currently

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Speaker 2: the player of the tournament. I think she's definitely in

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Speaker 2: the conversation. But I feel like what could potentially be

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Speaker 2: working against her is that she's got other players within

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Speaker 2: our team that are taking votes off her. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I feel like she's definitely up there. A part of

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Speaker 2: the conversation and having a huge season for us so far.

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Speaker 1: Fourteen wickets, strike rate of nine point eighty five, economy

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Speaker 1: rate of seven point eight and with those fourteen wickets,

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Speaker 1: she's the leading b KT Golden Arm performer at the moment.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just the wickets, and we can go

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Speaker 1: through all the stats. She's taking the important wickets, which

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Speaker 1: is kind of setting the tone for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she really is, and she's taking them at times

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Speaker 2: where you don't necessarily think that wickets are going to

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Speaker 2: fall at that point in time. So yeah, how she's

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Speaker 2: getting her wickets, I mean, she's getting a lot of bold,

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Speaker 2: she's bowling great lengths as well, hitting the top of

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Speaker 2: the stumps a lot. So yeah, she's huge for us

650
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: at the moment. And because of our you know, the

651
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: bowlers that we have, it allows her to bowl in

652
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 2: really good opportunities for us where players are looking to

653
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 2: sort of you know, get a hold of you. So

654
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 2: she hasn't bowled in the power play for for us yet,

655
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 2: We've had other people that have done that, which then

656
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: allows me to have four overs of Heather Graham when

657
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: we're looking to take wickets throughout the middle of the inning.

658
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: So that's pretty cool to have.

659
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 2: And yeah, she's been on fire for us, which has

660
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: been great.

661
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: She has been going very very nicely. Now, the Sixers

662
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: your nemesis so far this year, hat how do you

663
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: work them out? All that for forty two and then

664
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Speaker 1: they beat you guys the other night? I mean, we

665
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: know what's in that team. I've said this a few times,

666
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: superstars everywhere, but that's certainly the case with the Sixers.

667
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: How do you work them out?

668
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if you can, but yeah, I

669
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: don't know if you can work them out. I think

670
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: they're a team that can never be discounted. I guess

671
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 2: the huge talent in their team. They've got proven performers.

672
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: Ash Gunn has been on fire with the ball, you know,

673
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 2: and with the game where it is, things can change.

674
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 4: Really quickly as well.

675
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 2: So you know, they showed great resilience again starts and

676
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 2: you know, we fell over where you know, there was

677
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: still I felt like we were in an opportunity, were

678
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 2: in a place to still win that game, but felt short.

679
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 2: And the Sixers, as soon as they got that momentum

680
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 2: that they'd wrestled back, they absolutely took advantage of that.

681
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you can work them out.

682
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: I think it's just a matter of you know, they

683
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: can be absolutely anything on any given day, and so

684
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: too can other teams, to be completely honest, but a

685
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 2: lot will probably come down to their batters.

686
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 4: They're sort of big players.

687
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 2: Probably haven't scored that the runs that they would have

688
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: liked to as of yet, so I think their bowlers

689
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 2: have been pretty good, but I think it's their batters

690
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 2: that are probably looking to get a few more runs

691
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: on the board.

692
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: I think it's a good point. I think it's quite

693
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: scary to think that, really, AlSi Hilly hasn't fired at

694
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: all to this point in the competition. If she starts

695
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: scoring runs and others start to follow from there, I think,

696
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: what that's what makes them a bit scary. I think

697
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: that they're going okay, but they're still inside the top

698
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: four and really two games off top.

699
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 4: See it what I mean?

700
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 2: They'd be sitting in their change rooms thinking, we haven't

701
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 2: played our best cricket yet. You know, we've done some

702
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: really good things, but we know that we're capable of

703
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 2: so much more, and absolutely right there in finals contention

704
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 2: at the moment, and they've still got so much in

705
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: their ceiling as well, So it is pretty scary for

706
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: the teams that they're coming up against.

707
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: All right, a big watch the Sydney Sixers. Those were

708
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: the burning questions brought to you by Weber. Yeah, I

709
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: think you did quite well. Thanks did very well. Now

710
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: we've got you've got to go out of the studio

711
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: because we've got I'd like you to be here, but

712
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: the studio is not too big. We've got two Perth

713
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: scorchious stars coming in, Australian stars really, Beth Mooney and

714
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: also Alana King. Now what I want to know is

715
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: what should I What should I ask them?

716
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 4: I don't know.

717
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: You've got if you've got a.

718
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: About her finger, because it's all I've heard the last

719
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: couple of weeks about a little finger. So that alone, Yeah,

720
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 2: I don't know. Let's ask you some other questions.

721
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well what give me? Give me one?

722
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. How are you other nine digits

723
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 4: going on?

724
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: And then what about Beth? What makes her so good?

725
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: So she's scored more runs than anyone in the history

726
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: of the WBBL. What makes her such a great player?

727
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 3: Oh?

728
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: Look, I think when you're talking about players in this format.

729
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: It's really hard to use the word consistent, but she

730
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 2: is literally a consistent performer in T twenty cricket and

731
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: that's quite remarkable because that's incredibly difficult to do. So, Yeah,

732
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: the fact that she can be so consistent in this format, yeah,

733
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 2: just sort of sets her apart from anyone else that

734
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,959
Speaker 2: have sort of come across. You know, you've got your

735
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 2: destructive batters, you know you've got your impactful batters, but

736
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 2: there's probably not many you could say ultra consistent in

737
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: this format, and for me, that is Beth Muroney. So

738
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: that's probably what makes her so good is that she's

739
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 2: so reliable.

740
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: And fifteen runs in an average of forty five four

741
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: hundreds and forty four to fifties kind of francs what

742
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: you're saying when it comes to consistency, right, So you

743
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: jump out and then you can come back and wrap

744
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: up the show very well, thank you, Soleise. Blani will

745
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 1: come back in. But next on the Surge, as I said,

746
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 1: two stars of the competition, two stars of the Australian team,

747
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: Alana King and Beth Mooney. Then I think it's pretty

748
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: similar conditions.

749
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 5: Not much in it.

750
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 2: We're going to hold you there, Grace Harris because with

751
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 2: that two, that's three two.

752
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: Best body has bet across to it for w BBL

753
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: one hundred drives in the air, Jugle juggle, juggles, She's good.

754
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: Broken finger on all the.

755
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: King, Alana King juggling it, little Rebucks. Well done and

756
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: welcome back to the surge. Alis Fallani's headed out for

757
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: a break. And I've got two guests in the studio here.

758
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm out numbered, biting Tim. I've got

759
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: Beth Moody and also Alana King from the Perth Scorches

760
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: in the studio. Not only Scorches but also Australian players. Girls.

761
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: Thank you for both coming.

762
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 3: In, Thanks for having us, happy to be here.

763
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to ask you straight up, Beth, have

764
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: you calmed down from your celebrations from the other night,

765
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: because I don't think I've ever seen you celebrate so aggressively.

766
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I think it was a bit of a

767
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 6: tight game. We'd probably let them back in at different points,

768
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 6: so it was really nice to get over the line.

769
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 6: I felt a little bit sorry for Darcy, she obviously

770
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 6: buttered very well for them, and you never like to

771
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 6: be on the wrong side of that result, So yeah,

772
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 6: pretty pumped to get that one.

773
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: There's a bit of chaos going at the end there.

774
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, did bridget actually was she almost trying

775
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: to distract you? The arm sort of came out there?

776
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: Is that ball was in the air?

777
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been a bit of a fascinating topic the

778
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 6: last couple of days. I think, you know, I wonder

779
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 6: if she's looked back at that and thought she probably

780
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 6: made it a bit too obvious that she was trying

781
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 6: to knock me out of the way. But yeah, I

782
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 6: guess I took the catch. Might have been a different

783
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 6: story if I didn't. Probably would have gone up for

784
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 6: obstructing the field, I guess. But yeah, you can't get

785
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 6: away with too much these days. It's all on TV

786
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 6: and on social media. So yeah, lucky I called it.

787
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: Well, were you thinking aloud of watching the dramatic final stages?

788
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 6: I was standing at short forty five and I've not

789
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 6: seen Moons celebrate like that for a wicket before. He

790
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 6: almost took a bit of the dozers celebration and b

791
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 6: line for page and just absolutely bare hugged her. But

792
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 6: I think in the context of the game, last or

793
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 6: second last ball to get the win, and yeah, probably

794
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 6: shouldn't shouldn't have got that close given the position we

795
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 6: were in. But it's always nice to have a win

796
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 6: in front of our home crowd and I think that's

797
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 6: what we're pretty proud of as well.

798
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: It shows you're still very much emotionally invested in it all.

799
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: You've been playing in the WBBL, you both have been

800
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: for the same amount of time, about twenty five years,

801
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: I think, isn't it.

802
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, it definitely feels like sometimes, but yeah, I think

803
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 6: it's a really fun time of year. It means a

804
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 6: lot to come back from international to ring and pull

805
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 6: on the orange of the scorches and get amongst the

806
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 6: fans back home and obviously the fans around Australia who

807
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 6: get to see us play. So yeah, it's a really

808
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 6: special timing year. I think it's pretty easy to get

809
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 6: up for these games because they are always a lot

810
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 6: of fun. They always go down to the wire and

811
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 6: there's always a different way you can contribute.

812
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: I've got to ask you just so much of the

813
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: elephant in the room, but fatigue levels for you guys,

814
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: having gone through what you went through in India to

815
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: then pretty much get straight up a plan and get

816
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: straight into a w BBL. Has Has it been challenging,

817
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: I'll ask you first to one.

818
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, it has been at times, but I just think

819
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 6: we had a few days at home and I think

820
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 6: that's what has helped everyone just to buck you for

821
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 6: some but I just think just a couple of days

822
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 6: in your own bed in a bit of normality and

823
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 6: a bit of what you what you're comfortable with and

824
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,439
Speaker 6: a bit of home is always good for the soul

825
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 6: and I would take that over no days at home

826
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 6: or in our own beds. So lucky after scal was

827
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 6: in Perth and I had a few more extra nights

828
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,479
Speaker 6: than Moons did, but she was on the first flight

829
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 6: out of off Perth when we had to come over

830
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 6: east then play Brisbane. But it's just unfortunately the nature

831
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 6: of it. But we all love the WBBL and we're

832
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 6: really excited to play here. But after this there's a

833
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 6: little bit of a break before international duties recommenced.

834
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: This is the problem when you play for your country

835
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: and you're so good, you're people in demand. You just

836
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: got to keep playing Creed. You just got to get

837
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: back on the horse.

838
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we've obviously been crying out for more

839
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 6: create for a number of years and I've certainly found

840
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 6: a way to fill the schedule. But there's always a

841
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 6: different opportunity out there as well. Obviously we get the

842
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 6: chance to play on lots of different teams now, not

843
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 6: just in Australia but around the world, so for me

844
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 6: it's pretty easy to switch back on. I would like

845
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 6: a little bit less travel in the WBBL, maybe a

846
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 6: couple more home games and make everyone else come to Perth.

847
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,479
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's been a lot of fun.

848
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 6: Certainly, the five twenty alarm this morning wasn't great to

849
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 6: get on the plane, but I was probably running the

850
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 6: gaunt on a bit compared to some of them who

851
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 6: sat their alarm in the force. Yeah, that is ridiculous

852
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 6: that you left your room in five minutes from when

853
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 6: your alarm went off.

854
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 3: So that is not me.

855
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 6: I'd love to give myself a bit more time. So

856
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 6: I'm not a mad rush. But now that's how moons rolls.

857
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 6: And if that works for you, man's go for it.

858
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 6: And if you make the plane on time.

859
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: Was it good that you actually got to play cricket

860
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: straight after the World Cup rather than sort of not wallow?

861
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: But but think too much about what didn't happen through

862
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: the World Cup that you can actually just get to

863
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: the next tournament and sort of look forward a bit more.

864
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 3: Well, you're not short of cricket, I guess.

865
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 6: And I think when we had a couple of days

866
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 6: at home, everyone switched off from cricket, so we had

867
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 6: a bit of leeway with our clubs in making sure

868
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 6: that we came into camp a little bit later than

869
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 6: everyone else, just because we've been away for it for

870
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 6: two months with two big series and tournaments to be played.

871
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 6: So yeah, I switched off from cricket completely until I

872
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 6: needed to when I joined up with the Scorches, and

873
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 6: as a mental refresh, as a physical refresh, I thought

874
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 6: it was pretty important. But everyone did it differently, whether

875
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 6: they went down to the beach or went saw family.

876
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 6: Everyone just tried to fill their bucket as much as

877
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 6: they can before we get going again. How did you

878
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 6: find it, Beth, I think it's always disappointing when things

879
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 6: end very differently to how you thought they would, so

880
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 6: certainly for us coming home, it was a bit of

881
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 6: a somber a couple of days trying to get out

882
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 6: of India, And I guess move on to the next thing.

883
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 6: As humans, we move on pretty quickly whether you win

884
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 6: or lose, and there's always something else to talk about.

885
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 6: So I didn't mind the WBBL starting pretty quickly. I

886
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 6: thought there was going to be some more Create content

887
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 6: out there and we'd stop getting asked how it felt

888
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 6: to lose. So from my point of view, I think

889
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 6: it was a really good thing for people to go

890
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 6: back to their clubs a bit of time at home,

891
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 6: and you know, one thing I will say is the

892
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 6: clubs are really respectful. We're very lucky at the Scorches

893
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 6: with Becky Grundy as a coach and Kate Harvey as

894
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 6: the HP manager, who are really flexible with us in

895
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 6: what we can show up for and what's probably a stretch,

896
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 6: a stretch for us given how much Create we play.

897
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: I promise to ask any more about the World Cup.

898
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: So I want to ask you about this Scorch for

899
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: both of you, for different reasons, what does it mean

900
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: to play for the Scorches. You obviously played at another

901
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: club as well, but now you've sort of entrenched in

902
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: the orange of the Scorches. Does it does it feel

903
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: like you know this is your club, this is your

904
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: state now almost.

905
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 3: Yeah.

906
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously I was pretty lucky to come through

907
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 6: the Queensland set up and the Brisbane Heat setup at

908
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 6: a pretty young age and got given plenty of opportunity there.

909
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 6: But I always heard really good things about the Whacker

910
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,760
Speaker 6: and the Scorches, so when it came to make a decision,

911
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 6: it was a pretty easy one in the end for me.

912
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 6: I think the appeal of Christina Matthews, the CEO. Shelley

913
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 6: Nichki was the coach when I first moved over and

914
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 6: working closely with Grunners, So from my point of view,

915
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 6: it feels likeming home when wbbl's on.

916
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 3: Don't quite live in Perth just yet, maybe one day,

917
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 3: but we'll get it there.

918
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 6: There's a few other girls getting in my ear about that,

919
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 6: so yeah, as I said, they look after me really well.

920
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 6: I feel like they look after the rest of the

921
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 6: players really well and give us plenty of opportunity to

922
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 6: be successful. So you're always worry when you move clubs

923
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 6: am I going to be as good as I was?

924
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 6: Or am I going to be able to contribute like

925
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 6: I did? And I feel like I've been able to

926
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 6: return the favor a little bit to the Scorches, but

927
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 6: I still feel like I've got plenty left in me.

928
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: What about you Orlana?

929
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 3: Very similar to moves.

930
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 6: In the way we kind of saw Oh, I saw

931
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 6: an opportunity our first US for State and moved so

932
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 6: over to w A, but still had I still had

933
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 6: a year on my contract with the Stars and I

934
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 6: love that. And it was more so just to make

935
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 6: sure that I'm really set up in Perth and making

936
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 6: sure that I play all my cricket in Perth. Having

937
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 6: Shelley Nitchkei as head coach of the Scorches was a

938
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 6: big It was a big bonus as well to work

939
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 6: with the Australian spin coach, just to tap into her

940
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 6: Nol and Moons and sofas well international players. So I

941
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 6: just wanted to pretty much base myself in one part

942
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 6: of the country for a little bit.

943
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: And yeah, I've absolutely loved it.

944
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 6: And yeah, as Moons has alluded to before, like I

945
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 6: feel as though I've tried to return the favor to

946
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 6: the Scorches of taking a leap of faith and getting

947
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 6: me over and putting the Orange. But Perths tone for

948
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 6: me and we'll be for the foreseeable future. So I

949
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 6: absolutely love it and it's.

950
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 3: A great time of year and we've got a great group.

951
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 6: Yes, there's always movement every season with players coming in

952
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 6: and out, but I think the core group of our

953
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 6: group has stuck together and we've won a title together

954
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 6: and hopefully there's another one on the cards very soon.

955
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think it's just the culture that we

956
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 6: have built over the last few years and the scorches

957
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 6: is something that I love.

958
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 3: I love living and playing the tournament.

959
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: I guess so about the tournament as I say, reject

960
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: that you've been playing for twenty five years, but how

961
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: much have you changed as a bowler from when you

962
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: first started to where you are now?

963
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 4: Oh?

964
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 6: I probably used to toss them up a lot more

965
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 6: when I was a bit younger, even in the first

966
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 6: first edition off the WBBO, when I was at the Stars,

967
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 6: still a very inexperienced bowler, but got given an opportunity

968
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 6: by Crew Victoria and the Melbourne Stars to play in

969
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 6: this amazing competition.

970
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 3: And I think not too much has changed for me.

971
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 6: I've probably become a bit more tactically aware and tweaked

972
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 6: a few things with my action, and definitely a speed

973
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 6: on the ball has definitely come along a long way

974
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 6: since I first started eleven years ago, so and just

975
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 6: probably my consistency over the last probably three or four

976
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 6: years is something that I've really worked on and tried

977
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 6: to hone in as soon as I've got that opportunity

978
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 6: to play for Australia, I just wanted to make sure

979
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 6: I can keep evolving my game and keep being up

980
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 6: putting my hand up for selection and hopefully contributing to

981
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 6: a lot of wins for Australia.

982
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: And do you look back at any old film of

983
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: when you first started playing to see what you were

984
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: like compared to what you are now.

985
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've seen a little bit, and to be honest,

986
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 6: nothing has changed dramatically in terms of like what my.

987
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: Action looks at look a lot different.

988
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've tweaked a few things. Maybe with my

989
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 3: front arm.

990
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 6: I used to be quite low with my front arm,

991
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 6: so I was just getting a bit getting a bit

992
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 6: higher and getting a bit more drive through my back legs.

993
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 3: But from a whole leg spin point of view, not.

994
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 6: Too much has changed, which is great because I've always

995
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 6: got told that I had a really nice, fluent action

996
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 6: from a young age and had some great mentors growing

997
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 6: up with especially in premium cricket. Bryce and me again

998
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 6: when I worked with that Paran so he helped me

999
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 6: a lot. And then yeah, I've obviously evolved as a

1000
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 6: player and as a person and continue to tweak things

1001
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 6: no matter who I'm working with.

1002
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: He's like a proud dad Bryce. When he watches you

1003
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: play for Australia, I often get clips of you and

1004
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: watch a look at this ole of this bowing. Now

1005
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: you're bowing bowl balls of the century and all sorts

1006
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: of things now to just gone leaps and bounds.

1007
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 3: Well, it's been nice.

1008
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 6: But Bryce helped me a lot for the few years

1009
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,919
Speaker 6: that I was at Paran and got me actually moved

1010
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 6: over to Paran from Danny Long, which is another big

1011
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 6: move that helped shape my career so far. But yeah,

1012
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 6: Bryce was awesome and just to chat legs beIN with

1013
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 6: him was was unbelievable.

1014
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: What about you bet the change in the tournament through

1015
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 1: the years. Now we've now got all the best internationals playing,

1016
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: which probably hurts us in a World Cup. Now we

1017
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: give them all this extra practice, but have you seen

1018
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: it change over the years?

1019
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 6: The WBBL probably on an esthetic kind of level where

1020
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 6: we wear uniforms at Fittis, which is a good start

1021
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 6: compared to WBBLO once. So I think we're in male

1022
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 6: uniforms in the first year and played two games in

1023
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 6: a day and four games in a weekend, So from

1024
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 6: that point of view, it's got a lot more professional

1025
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 6: from that sort of amateur now let's give the big

1026
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 6: bush to go and see what happens type era. But

1027
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 6: in terms of the standard of creet in the style

1028
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 6: of play that's evolved, it's been really exciting to see

1029
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 6: for me the domestic players and how quickly they developed.

1030
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 6: Now in our competition, you know, they improve significantly quicker

1031
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,439
Speaker 6: than Keing and I probably did at their age, which

1032
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 6: is scary for us. We've got to keep evolving as

1033
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 6: senior players in that international setup and also the Scorches.

1034
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 3: But it just goes to show that if.

1035
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 6: You build it, it can grow the game, and that's

1036
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 6: what's happened with the WBBL. I think it's an attractive

1037
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 6: competition for obviously international players, but it's now a really

1038
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,399
Speaker 6: attractive proposition for young girls around the country who might

1039
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 6: grow up and want to play for the per Scorches

1040
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 6: or the Melbourne Stars or whoever it might be. So

1041
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 6: I think that's been the exciting change that I've seen.

1042
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 6: And another one is probably dads bringing their young boys

1043
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 6: to the games. The fans of the game have probably

1044
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 6: evolved as well. Ten years ago you probably wouldn't have

1045
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 6: seen that. There would have been fifty two one hundred

1046
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 6: people in the crowd and not too many males, And

1047
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 6: now you see dads and they're two young boys wanting

1048
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 6: to get someone's autographed and getting excited to see their

1049
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 6: favorite player or whoever it might be. So yeah, the

1050
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 6: evolution's been, but it feels quick. I'm the allowed to

1051
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 6: say I'm old, so I'd say the experienced players that

1052
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 6: have been around for a long time have certainly reaped

1053
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 6: the rewards of that. But it hasn't always been smooth

1054
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 6: sailing either. We've had to really work hard for and

1055
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 6: challenge the the the people that make the big decisions.

1056
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: So you've set the bar extremely highly yourself personally. But

1057
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: when you see some of the younger players coming through,

1058
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: whether it's a Phoebe Lichfield with what she can do,

1059
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: whether it be in a World Cup or whether it

1060
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: be just on a regular basis for the Sydney Thunder

1061
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 1: Recee McKenna, some of the things that she's now doing.

1062
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: As the younger players coming through, do you do you

1063
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: get surprised with what you see and the capacity of

1064
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: these younger players. Do you feel like I've got to

1065
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: keep up with them? How do you how do you

1066
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:48,959
Speaker 1: see that that younger generation coming through?

1067
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 3: It doesn't surprise me at all.

1068
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 6: I think they sort of have there coming through now

1069
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 6: and not having to want for anything, and that's not

1070
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 6: in a disrespectful way.

1071
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 3: I think. I think about some of the coaches that

1072
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 3: are floating aroud WBBL, and you know, they get.

1073
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 6: Access to excellent coaching, good resourcing, good facilities, a very

1074
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 6: tailored program that suits them if they want it to.

1075
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 6: So there's no reason that our players shouldn't develop into

1076
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 6: some of the best players in the world across the board,

1077
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 6: especially that generation, which is hugely exciting, and in terms

1078
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 6: of being worried, I don't think so. I think we're

1079
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 6: all going to get kicked out at some point, so

1080
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 6: you may as well get it done by players that

1081
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 6: have come through the WBBL and been amazing in their

1082
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 6: own rights. So for me, it's just exciting and it

1083
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 6: creates an amazing brand of create that people get to

1084
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,919
Speaker 6: watch coupled with a lot of experience out there as well.

1085
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: What about for you Alatave seeing the youngert spinner's coming through.

1086
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 1: There's plenty of wilely old spinners still playing the WBBL

1087
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: as well, But are you watching other players to see

1088
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: tricks that you can pick up or trends that you

1089
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:56,919
Speaker 1: see in the game.

1090
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, And it's just great to see that young,

1091
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 6: young girls are actually picking up legs spin. There wasn't

1092
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 6: a lot when I was growing up. There was only

1093
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:06,840
Speaker 6: a handful of us. But to see a.

1094
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 3: Few more, not just at the WBBL level.

1095
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 6: But at the Pathways level as well, to pick up

1096
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 6: leg spin, that's that's something that excites me. And we've

1097
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 6: got a gem over in w A with with Tigus

1098
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 6: and she's she's been unbelievable. She's had a bit of

1099
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 6: an injury off late, but I think she's someone who

1100
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 6: I can go back home and when I'm when I'm

1101
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 6: in WA and around the w A girls, I can,

1102
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 6: you know, help her out it and get her to

1103
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 6: ask any questions. I can ask her questions about what

1104
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 6: she does. It's just nice to see different, different people

1105
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 6: trying to pick up the beautiful art of leg spin

1106
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 6: and no doubt I'm trying to learn new tricks and

1107
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,319
Speaker 6: trying to get better, and I think you can learn

1108
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 6: off the younger generation. You can just pick their brains

1109
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 6: on why they do things and how they're trying to

1110
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 6: set up a better and it's just organic conversations like

1111
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 6: I guess are going to help me stay young, I

1112
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 6: would say, and try to stay ahead of the game.

1113
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 6: So pass on, pass on knowledge. We're not going to

1114
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 6: be here forever, and we want to make sure that

1115
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 6: the next crop of young talented cricketers coming through are

1116
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:10,720
Speaker 6: going to take the world by storm.

1117
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: You've got the best view in the house watching Alana bowl.

1118
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: What are you seeing? What are you liking from her?

1119
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: At the moment?

1120
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 3: It's certainly challenging being in that position.

1121
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 6: I think I'm still okay about twenty five beers for

1122
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 6: missing catches and stumpings from few years ago when I

1123
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 6: wasn't wearing my white gloves. But yeah, it's exciting, it's

1124
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 6: it brings people to the game. I think when you've

1125
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 6: got exciting players like King and obviously everyone else in

1126
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 6: the competition, where you just think something's always going to happen,

1127
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 6: you know, it's really it's I find the problem solving

1128
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 6: side of the game really fun. So trying to you know,

1129
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 6: knowing what King can do and seeing how a batd

1130
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,760
Speaker 6: a response to that, I really enjoy from the position

1131
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 6: I'm in behind the stumps.

1132
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 3: But yeah, she's got a few wickets, you had one hundred,

1133
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 3: one hundred and something do something like that.

1134
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 6: It only came up on the school school board at

1135
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 6: the whack of the other day and I was.

1136
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 3: Like, Oh, that's nice to know. But I do like

1137
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 3: to rib King you for watching her highlights.

1138
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 6: So yeah, but you like to watch highlights as old

1139
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 6: moons but you're bowling.

1140
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh okay, can you pick it?

1141
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: Like everybody? All the variations she's got. Is there ever

1142
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: a time where I didn't get that one? I didn't

1143
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: read that one out of the hand.

1144
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 3: I don't really think. I haven't really thought about it. It

1145
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 3: kind of just happens.

1146
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 6: Well, the Aussie players I bowled you like, obviously those

1147
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 6: girls a lot more than anyone else. So it's always

1148
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 6: a hard tussle when you come up to them against

1149
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,919
Speaker 6: in the w BBL because you've bowled them so much,

1150
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 6: they've obviously faced you a lot. So I actually get

1151
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 6: more excited when I get a wicked from one of

1152
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 6: the fellow Aussie teammates, because I'm like, enough of you

1153
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 6: whack me around the nets and everything.

1154
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 3: But now I've got Moons with those.

1155
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 6: Beautiful white gloves behind the stumps, which I've been crying

1156
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 6: out for a few seasons and they're back, which has

1157
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 6: been great. But yeah, I think, as Moon said, with

1158
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 6: the problem solving things, she sees things from a different lens,

1159
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,399
Speaker 6: not just from a keeping point of view, but from

1160
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 6: a batting point of view. And we'll come together in

1161
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 6: mid over and she'll have a suggestion and I'll be like, no.

1162
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 3: This is what I'm trying to do.

1163
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 6: And it is very respectful in that regards, but is

1164
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 6: always open to suggest anything, to see it from a

1165
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 6: different point of view, and I'll take it on and

1166
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 6: I'll be like, actually, that works, and this is the

1167
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 6: right thing to do. Give them the situation and trying

1168
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 6: to put us in the best position going forward.

1169
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 1: What's it like being such good friends to be teammates

1170
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: for Perth, to be teammates for Australia and know each

1171
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: other so well, not just as cricketers but as people

1172
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: traveling the world together.

1173
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 6: I think it makes it a lot easier. We're obviously

1174
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 6: on the road a lot and traveling a lot of

1175
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 6: days of the year now, so to have some familiarity

1176
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 6: around the place, I think is certainly makes traveling a

1177
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 6: lot easier. I don't know, kN you probably get sick

1178
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 6: of me by the end of eight weeks in India,

1179
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 6: but not at all. Yeah, I think it's it's meant

1180
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 6: to be the best time in your life playing crecket

1181
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 6: and traveling the world, And if you got people like

1182
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 6: King in your life, it's pretty easy to enjoy it,

1183
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 6: that's for sure.

1184
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: A little bit from your point of view.

1185
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 3: Nice same goes.

1186
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 6: I think you get to know each other so well

1187
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 6: because you live in each other's back pockets.

1188
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 3: No matter where you are.

1189
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 6: In a place like India where there's not a lot

1190
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 6: of freedom in what you can do, like somewhere like

1191
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 6: you can go to New Zealand or England where you

1192
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 6: can just go about your normal, everyday routine life, it's

1193
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 6: a little bit harder.

1194
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 3: So you want to make sure.

1195
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 6: That you're surrounded by the people who know how you tick,

1196
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 6: who you get on really well with, who can go

1197
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 6: for a walk and get a coffee or find a

1198
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 6: good cafe, which Moons is always on the hunt for

1199
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 6: a new sandwich place anywhere in the world. So yeah,

1200
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 6: it just makes it a lot easier. And the transition

1201
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 6: into different colors is pretty seamless. So we on ours

1202
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 6: corch had pretty much as soon as we got off

1203
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 6: the plane. And yeah, I think it also helps us

1204
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 6: because anything that we say or not criticize each other,

1205
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 6: but we're trying to give each other as much feedback

1206
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,240
Speaker 6: as pods possible comes from a good place.

1207
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 3: It's never to tear each other down.

1208
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 6: It's trying to keep each other honest and.

1209
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 3: And get better as as cricketers and as people.

1210
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,799
Speaker 6: And I think that's the most amazing thing when you

1211
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 6: travel with people frequently and for a long periods of time,

1212
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 6: that's what you can the relationships you can develop with

1213
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 6: I don't know, I reckon she was a bit up

1214
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 6: so the other day when I was giving her grief

1215
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 6: about a finger.

1216
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:35,240
Speaker 1: I was just about to ask.

1217
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 6: You, I'm not I'm not that empathetic and qualking e

1218
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 6: cops it a little bit, but you realize at the

1219
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 6: end though, like it takes you some time, but then

1220
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,240
Speaker 6: there's always a sorry or an arm around the shoulder

1221
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 6: or or a beer next to me that you know,

1222
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,280
Speaker 6: Moon's it's just in the heat of the moment things

1223
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 6: we want to win and we're trying to do everything

1224
00:55:57,960 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 6: we can to win.

1225
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 3: So I take with a pinch of salt and then

1226
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,240
Speaker 3: crawling back Normally.

1227
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: Alise Blani, who is the co host of The Surge

1228
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: in this particular episode, as she can't fit in this

1229
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: room so she's out the back at the moment, I

1230
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: have to ask about the finger, she said, that's the one,

1231
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: the one question I had to ask, and I have

1232
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,439
Speaker 1: noticed a bit of a splint there. Tell us what's

1233
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 1: going on.

1234
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 6: Well, if you catch balls, you tend not to break fingers.

1235
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 6: So so you dropped it, didn't you. Yeah, well yeah,

1236
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 6: and it's why if you catch them, you don't break fingers.

1237
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 6: So just now, when I drop that catch it against

1238
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 6: Brisbane Heat, it just hit me really badly and I

1239
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 6: was in some serious pain. I didn't know if it

1240
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 6: was out or not, but went for a scan once

1241
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 6: we got to Adelaide and yeah, there's a nice little

1242
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 6: crack in my pinky, which is not ideal given it

1243
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 6: was a second game off the tournament.

1244
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 3: So yeah, it is what it is. You can't change it.

1245
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to do as best as I can

1246
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 6: and try get as much control and as much rip

1247
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 6: off on the balls within reason, fair bit of pain

1248
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,399
Speaker 6: at times. Painkillers can only do so much, and then

1249
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 6: obviously adrenaline.

1250
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 3: Takes over as well, but it is what it is.

1251
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:12,919
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to be out there, do a job

1252
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 6: and do the best role I can for the scorches.

1253
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 6: And I know I haven't taken a hell of a

1254
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 6: lot of wickets this tournament, but I think just being

1255
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 6: out there and being a listening here to either moons

1256
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 6: or so all, bouncing ideas off them and railing up

1257
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 6: troops in the field, that's probably the main role I

1258
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 6: can play at the moment.

1259
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was coming off some.

1260
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 6: Pretty pretty decent cricket and to have a little injury

1261
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,439
Speaker 6: like this as not ideal. But we push on and

1262
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 6: you know, hopefully there's a few wickets left in the tournament.

1263
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,439
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to visualize buying leg spin. I would

1264
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: imagine it could have been a worse finger, But how

1265
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: much does it restrict you and how much have you

1266
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: had to change slightly your grip to be able to bowl?

1267
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 6: It's probably not so not so much I've change my group.

1268
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 6: It's more so how much pressure I can put on

1269
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 6: the ball. I'm not like, yeah, I've broken my pinky,

1270
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 6: which is not ideal, but it's probably the best one

1271
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 6: to break. But yeah, it's just more so when I'm

1272
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 6: trying to snap the ball out of my hand. It's

1273
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 6: the vibrations and it's a flick of a pinky that

1274
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 6: comes off.

1275
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 3: That's what's causing me the most amount of pain.

1276
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 6: But yeah, so I might not have as much control

1277
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 6: or I know my pace has been a bit down

1278
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 6: in the last few games, but that will come as

1279
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 6: pain wears off and the bone starts to heal, so

1280
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 6: I'll be back to normal hopefully soon. But for the meantime,

1281
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 6: it's just about trying to use my whole body to

1282
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 6: get the ball down with as much revolutions as I

1283
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 6: can on the ball, So not too much changes. Fields

1284
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 6: might change, and that's where the conversations with Moons down

1285
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 6: the other end is really helpful. So yeah, you just

1286
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 6: got to do what you can do with what you've

1287
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 6: got and sometimes hope for the best.

1288
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: You both of you mentioned about Sophie Devine and playing

1289
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 1: with one of the absolute superstars of world cricket. So

1290
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: you've gone from playing against her in a World Cup

1291
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: to being back teammates again and this fierce rivalry between

1292
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: Australia New Zealand. What's it like having her as a

1293
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: teammate and do you have to hold anything back or

1294
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: just sort of like it's you sort of your teammate now,

1295
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: so you know, away we go.

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00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 3: Oh, we're usually pretty good at sledging each other, aren't we.

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00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 6: I think Sophi gives it as good as she gets

1299
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 6: it with Key and Iron, don't worry about that. I

1300
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 6: think she's one of the great teammates that are out there.

1301
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 6: I would say I think she's you know, her leadership

1302
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 6: is excellent. She gets around the group at training and

1303
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 6: at games, and she knows how to get the best

1304
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 6: out of herself as well. So from my point of view,

1305
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 6: it's been really cool to where it was so in

1306
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 6: the last five or six years and sort of help

1307
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 6: her out on the field and let her take all

1308
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 6: the responsibility of the decision making and just pop a

1309
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 6: few ideas in her head every now and then. But yeah,

1310
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 6: she's one of the great teammates in world Creed. I

1311
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 6: think most people would say, I'd love to play alongside her,

1312
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 6: and that's you know, that's what you want people to say,

1313
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 6: that you're right. You just want to be known as

1314
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 6: a good teammate, someone that can contribute on and off

1315
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 6: the field and you know, have a good time doing it.

1316
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 3: And I think she ticks all those boxes.

1317
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: What have you learned a lot from from Sophie to

1318
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: make you a better cricket.

1319
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 6: She's a fierce competitor, and you know, I love being

1320
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 6: on a team for that reason because she she gives

1321
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 6: her absolutely absolute all in no matter what situation she,

1322
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 6: she or the team is in. But I think the

1323
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 6: best thing I love about Sophie is like that She's also.

1324
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 3: A big kid.

1325
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 6: She loves to have fun. She loves to take the

1326
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 6: piss out of herself as well as others. And I'm

1327
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 6: at the brunt of bit most of the time.

1328
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 3: Which is so fine. But I just think the way she.

1329
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 6: Backs herself and her and her strengths, I think is

1330
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 6: probably something that I like, I really admire about her.

1331
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 6: No matter what the situation we get put into, she

1332
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 6: she's always going to back her strengths and it's almost

1333
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 6: like in still a little bit of belief in my strength,

1334
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 6: whether it's about ball in the hand or in the field.

1335
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 6: And she always backs you with what plan you want

1336
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 6: to do, with what field you want to set, it

1337
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 6: says at the end of the day, She's like, you've

1338
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 6: got the ball in your hand, You're going to have control,

1339
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 6: so do what's going to be best for you. These

1340
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 6: are some suggestions, and have fun with it. And I

1341
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 6: think that's the best thing about so If. She always

1342
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 6: is trying to see the fun side of things and

1343
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 6: try no matter how high pressure situation it is, it's

1344
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 6: always trying to enjoy the moment, and she does it

1345
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 6: with a smile on her face.

1346
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 3: So I'm probably a little pest around so If.

1347
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 6: At times, because I just love being around her and

1348
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 6: as men said, great team mate, love being on her

1349
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 6: side and rather than her whacking me around the park.

1350
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 3: So I've had my first share of that.

1351
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: That's all right. We're talking before about the bar that

1352
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: you set really high birth when it comes to create

1353
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 1: and I know you're get embarrassed talking about yourself, but

1354
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: no one's scored more runs in the history of the

1355
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 1: game than you, and you're quite a way ahead of

1356
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: second and a long way of third, but you still

1357
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: go under the radar. Is that because that's the way

1358
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: you like it, or why do you think that's the

1359
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 1: case because you are the you're the pacesetter.

1360
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 6: I know maybe people don't like me too much. I

1361
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 6: don't I don't want to talk about me. I'm not sure. No,

1362
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 6: it's you know, it's probably a little bit by design

1363
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 6: from my end. I think I like to steer clear

1364
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 6: of the limelight and stay under the radar. And you know,

1365
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 6: at the end of the end of the day, it's

1366
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 6: my job to score runs. That's what they're paying me

1367
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 6: to do. So say that because a script of that,

1368
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 6: you can say that that is going to score runs.

1369
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 3: Well, I was going to take wickets.

1370
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 6: No, I say, they're paying me to score runs. It's

1371
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 6: my job, so I should be.

1372
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm going to double down out there.

1373
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: I want to how proud are you of what you

1374
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: have achieved? Because I said I think at times you

1375
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: are under the radar because you like it to be

1376
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: that way. But it is extraordinary what you've done over

1377
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: your career. It's such a consistently higher level and you're

1378
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: still doing it. I'm interested in I'm sure the listeners

1379
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: are we're how proud you are of what you have

1380
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 1: been able to achieve.

1381
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's really hard when you're

1382
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 6: living it to look back and I guess appreciate what

1383
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 6: opportunities you've been given and how you've been able to

1384
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 6: handle them as well. I think that's one thing I

1385
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 6: pride myself on, is you know, taking those opportunities and

1386
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 6: making sure I you know, repay the favor so to speak,

1387
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 6: of people that have given me the chances along the

1388
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 6: way or thought that I could be good enough along

1389
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 6: the way. So from my point of view, you know,

1390
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 6: at the moment, I'd still prefer a few more WBBL

1391
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 6: titles next to my name if you took off a

1392
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 6: few runs off that tally. But yeah, if I'm still

1393
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 6: contributing and scoring runs and helping the people around me

1394
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 6: get better and you know, winning titles wherever I go,

1395
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 6: then hopefully I'll play for a few more years and

1396
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 6: then be able to look back and go, gee, I

1397
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 6: did some pretty cool stuff along the way. But at

1398
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 6: the moment, all I think about is there's another game

1399
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 6: to play. There's more runs to score, and you know,

1400
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 6: more players to help get the best out of themselves.

1401
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 6: So certainly pride. Sure, I guess you know the amount

1402
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 6: of runs is a really amazing thing. But yeah, as

1403
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 6: I said, a couple more on WBBL titles next to

1404
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 6: my name, it would be pretty cool.

1405
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: As well, one more on yourself or promise well more.

1406
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 3: So because I look that uncomfortable, no that you think

1407
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 3: that pretty well?

1408
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: Well, I was pretty heavy with that one. But I'm

1409
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 1: interesting because is there anything particularly satisfying about the way

1410
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 1: you go about it? Like I would say that often

1411
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: you get runs when your team needs them the most,

1412
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 1: when it's tough, you're the one that tends to stand

1413
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: up for your team. Is that something you wear as

1414
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: a badge of honor or something that deeply means a

1415
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 1: lot to you that situation, because often there's players that

1416
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 1: can make a lot of runs, but often when it's easy,

1417
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: whereas I find with you, it's often when the team

1418
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 1: is struggling, whether it's Australia or whether it's Perth or

1419
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: whoever it is, that you're doing it when it's tough.

1420
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm probably a little bit of a fraud with that.

1421
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 6: I think the reason why that happens is because I'd

1422
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 6: be an absolute on the sideline if I wasn't out

1423
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 6: there scoring the runs, so I'd be an absolute menace.

1424
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I do take pride in that.

1425
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 6: I take pride in, you know, opposition teams feeling like

1426
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 6: they're not they're not in the game when I'm out there,

1427
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 6: and you know, they probably felt like they were at

1428
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 6: certain points. Yeah, I guess the competitive nature of my

1429
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 6: personality is that I want to be the one out

1430
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 6: there doing the role that's required and presented presented to me,

1431
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 6: and I probably thrive a little bit more in those circumstances,

1432
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:37,919
Speaker 6: and I haven't always you know, that took a long

1433
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 6: time to get my head around being able to do

1434
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 6: that and also understand that year you're not going to

1435
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 6: be that successful as a batteran T twenty cricket. You

1436
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 6: know another one, your co host Kirby Short and I

1437
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 6: obviously played a lot of cricket together for a long

1438
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 6: time and when we came up with the rule that

1439
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 6: you were going to be successful about six percent of

1440
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 6: the time, and success to us meant, you know, we

1441
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 6: would score and a team would win, or one of

1442
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 6: our best mates would do well and the team would win.

1443
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 3: And so, yeah, that we worked out.

1444
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 6: It doesn't happen very often, so you've got to kind

1445
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 6: of take it with a grain of salt when you

1446
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 6: do it and when you don't, and move on.

1447
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 3: To the next thing pretty quickly.

1448
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 6: But yeah, I guess being so competitive, I you know,

1449
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 6: just want to be out there contributing to the result

1450
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 6: for the team.

1451
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing that, because a lot of people

1452
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: want to know what goes in your mind because you

1453
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,880
Speaker 1: are such a competitor. But to actually hear that, I

1454
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: reckon there's a lot of people listening to that can

1455
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: can learn a lot out of that. Now you were

1456
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 1: nodding when a lot of that was going on. Would

1457
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,919
Speaker 1: you like to add anything to what you see? When

1458
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 1: it comes to bed in her batting.

1459
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 6: I just think Moons is the ultimate problem solver. I

1460
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 6: think when we've been in situations up Creek, I think

1461
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 6: Moons is really clear on what the job at hand

1462
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 6: is and she wants to get it done and end.

1463
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 6: Only recently when we played against Pakistan and we were

1464
01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:57,240
Speaker 6: a little bit.

1465
01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 3: Up Creek, well a long way Recurregs.

1466
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 6: I went out there and Moons had this like steely

1467
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 6: kind of look about her, and I was trying to

1468
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 6: light in the moon because I'm like, that's how I

1469
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 6: go about my cricket. I just want to be a

1470
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 6: bit less, like a bit more relaxed. And she was like, right,

1471
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 6: this is what we need to do. This all the

1472
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 6: Bowl is doing. And I think she's just really clear

1473
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 6: about the whole game situation. And also the best thing

1474
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 6: is telling you what's good options or if you're voicing

1475
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 6: your options, been like, yeah, that's a really good idea,

1476
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 6: and she backs you because you know your game really

1477
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 6: well and she's just there to support you. And I

1478
01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 6: had a great mate down the other end in a

1479
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 6: tricky situation to have a bit of fun. As I

1480
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 6: was having a bit of fun, I know Moons was

1481
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 6: not smiling a lot until it was hot. Yeah it

1482
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:45,959
Speaker 6: was very hot, so that yeah, the heat and Moons

1483
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 6: don't get on very well. But I think that's just

1484
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 6: how Moon's has been and why she's so consistent is

1485
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 6: because she's always finding a way to get out of

1486
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 6: situations and finding a way to get Australia or the

1487
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 6: Pert Scorches in to a winning position. And starting with

1488
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 6: Moons for what twelve fifteen overs off that game, that

1489
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 6: was very special and to see her get a hundred

1490
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 6: at the end of that, I think that's probably for

1491
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 6: me as a mate, was one of my proudest.

1492
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 3: Moments of her career.

1493
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:18,760
Speaker 6: I don't know where that ranks in your hundreds for

1494
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 6: Australia or any cricket moons, but it just epitomizes what

1495
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 6: you do in a situation when yeah, ship's up, creak

1496
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 6: and you've got someone out there who is that determined

1497
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,799
Speaker 6: to get us into a good position.

1498
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great, great example exactly what we were

1499
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: talking about. Okay, a couple more before we let you go,

1500
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: and we appreciate you coming in to have a chat.

1501
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:41,760
Speaker 1: What does it mean You kind of touched on this

1502
01:08:41,840 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: before about playing for the Perth Scorches because Perth sports

1503
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: fans just love the Scorches, whether it's the men's team

1504
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 1: or the women's team. So I'm really interesting what it's

1505
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 1: like to put on that uniform and play in front

1506
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: of that crowd.

1507
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 6: Oh, I reckon that the most loyal fans in the

1508
01:08:57,080 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 6: whole country, and any kind of player that plays to

1509
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 6: wa and play for the Scorches, they are like one

1510
01:09:04,200 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 6: eyed fans and I don't care about anyone else and

1511
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 6: they're proud to be that. So when you come to

1512
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,640
Speaker 6: the Whacker and it's noisy. I know we've got the

1513
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 6: best crowds in the WBBL for the last few years

1514
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 6: and something. We're really proud of that because we know

1515
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 6: how much it means to our fans and our members

1516
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 6: When we go out there at the Whacker, I think

1517
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 6: it's going to be just an amazing experience and we

1518
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 6: want to do well, not just for ourselves for the club,

1519
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 6: but it's for our fans and members who turn out

1520
01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:35,439
Speaker 6: every game to support us, and by far has been

1521
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 6: the best support group that I've ever been a part of.

1522
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 6: And we also speak a lot, not just in the

1523
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 6: dressing room but around the office as well about making

1524
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:47,400
Speaker 6: it a tough place to play games and create and

1525
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 6: I think the fans really help with that. We've obviously

1526
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:51,560
Speaker 6: got the wild West theme going this year with the

1527
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 6: men's and women's team, so it gives the I guess

1528
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 6: it gives the people of Perth something to feel like

1529
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 6: they're connected to on a part of, and the plays

1530
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:03,519
Speaker 6: something to look back on and go, yeah, that was

1531
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,360
Speaker 6: a really cool idea and draws people in they want

1532
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 6: to talk about it. But yeah, I think that's one

1533
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 6: thing that we pride ourselves on is making it a

1534
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 6: really tough place for people to come. That's probably why

1535
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 6: Dobbo and Margo don't let people come to Perth too much,

1536
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 6: to be honest, because we get the biggest crowds and

1537
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 6: the fans probably get stuck into to the opposition a lot.

1538
01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 6: But yeah, we're very lucky they never let us down

1539
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 6: and do that. No, they tone out at numbers and

1540
01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 6: it's just the noise that they create. I think there

1541
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 6: might be five thousand people, but it almost sounds like

1542
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:36,879
Speaker 6: there's fifteen thousand at the ground. They're just so passionate

1543
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 6: about w A and even just even in our foot

1544
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 6: footy as well, it's eagles or it's free oh and

1545
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,760
Speaker 6: are They're so one eyed about their own people. They

1546
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:49,479
Speaker 6: want to protect them and they want them to do

1547
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 6: so well. So yeah, it's like you're with the Daughters

1548
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:55,639
Speaker 6: of WA, the adopted daughters of w A that they've

1549
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 6: taken under under their wing.

1550
01:10:57,479 --> 01:10:59,679
Speaker 3: And yeah, I absolutely love playing at the Whacker.

1551
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,680
Speaker 6: They almost get offended when we get spoken about as

1552
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 6: Victorians and Queensland as now.

1553
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:04,840
Speaker 3: Yeah they do.

1554
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 1: It's almost like a double headed situation where you've got

1555
01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: the renegades on December two and the Heat on December six,

1556
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:14,560
Speaker 1: and based on the way the latteries and the competition,

1557
01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:17,600
Speaker 1: it's so even those two games could be pivotal in

1558
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: your season.

1559
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the next We've played probably one game

1560
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 6: more than everyone at the moment, but those two games

1561
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,719
Speaker 6: that are going to be huge. We've got a pretty tough,

1562
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 6: tough end to the schedule renegades twice, the Heat and

1563
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 6: the Hurricanes, so those two games, especially at the end

1564
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 6: at home, are going to be massive for us. So

1565
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 6: thankfully they're at home because we feel like that will

1566
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 6: have a bit of an impact on the result for us.

1567
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:45,639
Speaker 6: As King alluded to, people in their home comforts, it's

1568
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 6: meant to be mid thirties next week, so you'll find

1569
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 6: me and the probably the other overseason the interstatus at

1570
01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 6: the beach most mornings for a swim. But yeah, I'm

1571
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 6: really excited to finish the season in Perth. We've sort

1572
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,880
Speaker 6: of been on the road a lot this tournament and

1573
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 6: to be able to get into a bit of a

1574
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 6: routine there will be really nice.

1575
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: Can you still do some damage?

1576
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

1577
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:07,839
Speaker 6: I think there's so much more cricket to be played,

1578
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,600
Speaker 6: and yeah, we play the Renegades in a couple of

1579
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 6: days and then travel to Hobart. So no doubt there's

1580
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 6: every game is a good opportunity for us to put

1581
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 6: our best foot forward. Still think every team, we'll say

1582
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,640
Speaker 6: when they haven't had strung or few wins together, they

1583
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 6: haven't played their best cricket. But we certainly haven't played

1584
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 6: our best cricket. We have it at all, all three

1585
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 6: assets firing at the one time, and I don't think

1586
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:33,840
Speaker 6: that's too far away. We've got a great group and

1587
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 6: everyone's really hungry to make sure we get on a

1588
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 6: roll and finish off the season really well, especially with

1589
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:41,840
Speaker 6: those two games at home. It's a long it's sort

1590
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:43,680
Speaker 6: of a long tournament, not as long as it used

1591
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:46,639
Speaker 6: to do with fourteen games. So you know, my mindset

1592
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 6: in these scenarios is they don't remember how you started it.

1593
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 6: I remember how you finish it. And for us, it's

1594
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,240
Speaker 6: a good opportunity to sort of win four or five

1595
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 6: games in a row and hopefully get to host a

1596
01:12:56,479 --> 01:13:01,759
Speaker 6: final or you know, sneak through somehow. But yeah, it's

1597
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 6: definitely getting to the pointy end, and it only matters

1598
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 6: if you're performing. Then doesn't really matter if you're not

1599
01:13:07,439 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 6: doing it at the start.

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01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming in. Both of

1601
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 1: you really appreciate it. I know it's a very busy time,

1602
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:17,360
Speaker 1: but particularly for our audience to hear from your insights.

1603
01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: You don't talk too much about yourself often, so we

1604
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 1: really appreciate that. And good luck with your injury as well.

1605
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: And we want to when you see you're back buying

1606
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,000
Speaker 1: your absolute best, because when you're buying it your best,

1607
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: it is absolutely entertainment plus. So again, thank you very

1608
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: much for both coming in.

1609
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 3: Thanks for having us.

1610
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: Two superstars of the Australian cricket team, Alana King and

1611
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: Beth Mooney joining us on the surge. We'll wrap things

1612
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:43,479
Speaker 1: up right after this. How good was it to have

1613
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: Beth Mooney and Alana King with us in the studio.

1614
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 1: Scorches Royalty and as I said before, Australian Royalty as well.

1615
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 1: Unless you've come back in. Thank you for those questions.

1616
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 1: Thank you for briefing me on what to ask. Very

1617
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: much appreciate that I don't forget. You can still win.

1618
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: Ultimate prize is the Ottomate Brie's being the fifteen thousand

1619
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: dollars thanks to the BKT Big Bash tipping competition on

1620
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 1: the Big Bash app and also on the Big Bash App.

1621
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 1: This is very important because I know a lot of

1622
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:13,160
Speaker 1: the girls are playing this. They're the players. It's the

1623
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 1: Big Bash grid, So download the Big Bash app to

1624
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: get involved in that. So it's like daily games. I

1625
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: think you were saying before that the players are playing

1626
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: that on the basa there at the airport waiting to

1627
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: get on a plane. It's capturing their imagination.

1628
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a few of the girls that are

1629
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:30,080
Speaker 2: playing at the airport, so it has been generating a

1630
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:30,840
Speaker 2: lot of conversation.

1631
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 4: It's been quite fun.

1632
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 2: I haven't actually played it myself yet, but I feel

1633
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 2: like I now need to download it because they've sort

1634
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 2: of got me into it.

1635
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:38,840
Speaker 1: It's good. It's good fun. So make sure you get

1636
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:41,799
Speaker 1: involved in that and don't forget. Also, stay tuned across

1637
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 1: the Big Bash app and also the WBBL Socials as

1638
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: the tournament rolls on all the information because there's pretty

1639
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,640
Speaker 1: much a game every single night before we go. So

1640
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: you're down here in Melbourne, you've got a big game

1641
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:57,639
Speaker 1: coming up against the stars. Take us through what your

1642
01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:00,000
Speaker 1: preparation is like for a game, particularly when you're playing

1643
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: sort of every three or four days. Is there much

1644
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 1: training involved or is it recovery? Is it just trying

1645
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 1: to stay fresh? What are you doing between matches to

1646
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:09,360
Speaker 1: make sure you're sort of, you know, you're at your

1647
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:11,720
Speaker 1: peak for the performance time for game day.

1648
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 2: I think it's probably a mixture of all of those things.

1649
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:17,920
Speaker 2: To be honest, I like to I still like to train.

1650
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 2: I'm not sort of someone that you know, will go

1651
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 2: throughout the tournament and not train, but I sort of

1652
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 2: like to pick my windows quite carefully and train when

1653
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 2: I've probably got the most amount of energy as well,

1654
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 2: and almost make them bigger training days, so you know,

1655
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 2: getting in the gym, in the nets and all that

1656
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 2: sort of stuff, and just been quite mindful around what

1657
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 2: I've got coming up and what I've just had. So

1658
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,799
Speaker 2: certainly there is a little bit of training, but mental

1659
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,720
Speaker 2: freshness is probably the number one. Enjoying things outside of

1660
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,120
Speaker 2: cricket and taking the opportunity to switch off from cricket

1661
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 2: has been really important. And then you know, what's that look,

1662
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 2: I'm doing a little bit of study at the moment,

1663
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:57,800
Speaker 2: which is it does take my mind off cricket, but

1664
01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 2: it is also mentally tiring. I do enjoy playing a

1665
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 2: little bit of PlayStation, reading a book, going for a walk,

1666
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:08,839
Speaker 2: grabbing a coffee, all that sort of stuff. So anything

1667
01:16:08,880 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 2: that sort of actively takes my mind off cricket, because

1668
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 2: I can sort of become all consumed in cricket at

1669
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 2: times and you know, be watching every game and really

1670
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 2: sort of looking at the matchups and looking at some stats.

1671
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:23,719
Speaker 2: So it is really important for me to get away

1672
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 2: from the game as well and make sure that I

1673
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 2: mentally switch off.

1674
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: So now the big beas grig game as well.

1675
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. So Now, yeah, from a.

1676
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: Captaincy point of view, are you someone that spends a

1677
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:39,440
Speaker 1: lot of time at night going over bowling combinations, batting combinations,

1678
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 1: field plans, strategy, that sort of thing, or do you

1679
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:44,680
Speaker 1: kind of kind of separate that and get away from

1680
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: that and worry about that on game day?

1681
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like to.

1682
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 2: I guess I have a meeting with our coach jud

1683
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 2: Koleman and our assistant coach Clive Rose, so they sort

1684
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 2: of look after the bowlers, pay some spin. So I

1685
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 2: have a meeting with them either the day of a

1686
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 2: game or the day before a game. So yeah, we

1687
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:03,760
Speaker 2: sort of have that one meeting together where we've you know,

1688
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 2: individually thought about some things, and we catch up as

1689
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 2: a as a three and before sort of really being

1690
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 2: clear on you know, what our matchups are and who

1691
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 2: we think should be opening the bowling, etc. Who our

1692
01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 2: surge options are and our death options and really thinking

1693
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 2: about that. But outside of that then I like to,

1694
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 2: you know, not spend too much time thinking about that stuff,

1695
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, it's good to

1696
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 2: have that information and have it in the back of

1697
01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 2: your mind, but once you get out onto the field,

1698
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 2: you actually don't know what's in front of you. So

1699
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 2: it's great to have some information, but I can't have

1700
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:42,680
Speaker 2: too much that I then can't I.

1701
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:44,759
Speaker 4: Guess assess what's.

1702
01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 2: Occurring, Yeah, exactly what's occurring in front of me, and

1703
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:50,559
Speaker 2: therefore making decisions out on the field and trusting that.

1704
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:53,599
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's great to have you in here. Really appreciate

1705
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,200
Speaker 1: your insights and also you've views on some of the

1706
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: other teams as well. Hopefully you can do it again

1707
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:01,000
Speaker 1: when you're next to Melbourne. Thank you, sounds Alie Flani,

1708
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: the captain of the Hurricanes. The all conquering Hurricanes at

1709
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:06,639
Speaker 1: the moment as it stands, are on top of the table.

1710
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: That's it from us for this episode of the Surge.

1711
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: We'll catch you again soon.