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Speaker 1: This episode of the Surge is brought to you by Origin,

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Speaker 1: in BBL fifty. Yady everyone, it's Adam White here. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to a very special edition of the Surge. Another super

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Speaker 1: over here at the MCGE A little bit different today.

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Speaker 1: I've got Alex Carey with me before the game, a

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Speaker 1: couple of hours out from the Strikers taking on the starters.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: What do you like before a game?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: Do you drive in a bit nervous, a bit twey

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Speaker 1: every time you play cricket?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I do, and I think that's the good thing about it.

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Speaker 3: It means something. So yeah, I'm excited for tonight. Obviously

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Speaker 3: it's an amazing venue.

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Speaker 2: Played the other night didn't go our way.

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Speaker 3: We have to get our game going otherwise it looks

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Speaker 3: like it's curtains for us. So yeah, nice opportunity for

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Speaker 3: us to play against a team that has been in

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Speaker 3: been in good form, probably red hot form to start

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Speaker 3: and starting to hit their straps again.

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Speaker 2: So it's a yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's a great opportunity for our group tonight to hopefully

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Speaker 3: find our best cricket and worry about tonight and then

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Speaker 3: see what happens after that.

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Speaker 1: Whether you're playing for the Strikers, for South Australia or

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Speaker 1: for Australia, is your preparation the same or can you

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Speaker 1: come in a little bit more relaxed for a game

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Speaker 1: like this considering what you've just gone through over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of months.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to relax too much.

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Speaker 3: It's obviously a different vibe and a different feeling coming

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Speaker 3: back into the big Bash environment from a you know,

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Speaker 3: an ASHES series, rich, everything's on the line, it feels like,

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Speaker 3: and it was a great summer. But I try to

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Speaker 3: keep all my preparation very consistent, try to keep my

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Speaker 2: Outside of that, Yeah, have some fun.

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Speaker 3: It's Yeah, it's a different feeling, but it's it's just

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Speaker 3: as exciting playing, you know, a game of cricket on

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Speaker 1: So once that ball is bold, is it just another

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Speaker 1: game of cricket. It doesn't matter the color of the

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Speaker 1: for example, tonight a bit differently. I might try this tonight,

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Speaker 1: I might try that tonight. Or is it the quality

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Speaker 3: I don't like to lap in test cricket. I might

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Speaker 3: laugh out here and play some focuses, But nah, I

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Speaker 3: think I don't know. When everyone says it's just another

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Speaker 2: You know. The feeling around saying an.

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Speaker 3: ASHES series is is pretty hyped, and you'd probably get

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Speaker 3: and once you're out in the middle, it just starts

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Speaker 3: to feel like another game of cricket in terms of

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Speaker 3: what I'm focusing on. You know what, I'm what, I'm

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Speaker 3: like it's probably the stuff leading into a game where yeah,

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Speaker 3: you get a little bit edgy on certain matches. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm really excited for tonight. I can't wait to get

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Speaker 2: Holds a little bit of weight.

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Speaker 3: I know we like to say every game's just another

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of striker fans that were very

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Speaker 1: I need a rest. But it means you love the club,

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Speaker 1: you love representing the strikers to come off the back

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I do. I it's our job, I guess

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Speaker 2: But for me, it's yeah, I'm keen to get back

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Speaker 3: It won't last forever either, so why not take the

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Speaker 3: to finish this season as well, playing really good cricket.

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Speaker 1: What does it mean to you to play for the Strikers.

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Speaker 1: You've been involved now with the Strikers for ten years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a long time.

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Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, it was kind of like

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Speaker 1: the making of you as ash players. So does that

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Speaker 3: The blue Yeah, off the back a really good summer

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a great competition. I love it.

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Speaker 3: And I suppose you've got to put yourself back when

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Speaker 3: you're desperate to play and what those feelings were, and

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Speaker 3: now I guess you're in a position where you could

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Speaker 3: pick and choose. I guess at times I don't want

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Speaker 3: And you know, ten years ago and pretty quick and

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Speaker 3: and pick me when I'm available.

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Speaker 1: How many of the players from the first game you play,

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Or if Shod he's not here. He took six

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Speaker 3: Who else do we have? Benny Laughlin might have played,

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Speaker 3: He's now in our coaching coaching box opening the batting.

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Speaker 3: I think Weathers was there, Heady was there, Ben Dunk

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Speaker 3: was there. He's in our coaching box as well. Hodgy

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Speaker 2: There might be a couple of others that might stump me,

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Speaker 2: but I've got the list for you. Yeah, go on,

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Speaker 2: Tim Ludeman, Yes he did. Did he open the batting

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Speaker 2: that night? Did Yeah? With Donkey? He did about three

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tim Ludeman was the aggressive opener.

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Speaker 3: Dunkey had an amazing BBL he did. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: One of the twenty eight teams he's played for in

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Speaker 3: He left the next year and that's where I got

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Speaker 3: my opportunity. Really so yeah, thank donkey.

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Speaker 2: I guess you was the captain. Yeap, Jake Leman, Yep, yep,

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Speaker 2: he took a catch.

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Speaker 3: He took Actually no, I reckon he got Shane Watson

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Speaker 1: Right, okay, yeah, okay, this is this testing here, John o'dean. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Great fella, Alex Carey you might know him.

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Speaker 3: Zero not out off one ball. I face the last ball.

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Speaker 3: It was a great I was an expected what. I

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Speaker 1: Michael Nisa you mentioned so he took sicket six week

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Speaker 1: its Ben Laughlin and Liam O'Connor.

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Speaker 2: Paula was in there, wasn't he not in the Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So it described the culture of the Strikers and how

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Speaker 1: different that might be. Say to your second.

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Speaker 2: Team, what's great.

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Speaker 3: We've got a number of soccer boys at the Strikers

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Speaker 3: that keeps it really familiar the internationals that come in,

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Speaker 3: I understand I have a great time Adelaide's. Adelaide's a

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Speaker 3: beautiful place. It's always hot this time of the year.

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Speaker 3: It's a great venue to play at. Crowd always comes out.

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Speaker 3: So in terms of I guess the playing and the

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Speaker 3: and it's it's great to walk onto the field at Adelaide

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Speaker 3: over and I know everyone says when they come there

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Speaker 3: it's one of the best places to play, so that's

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Speaker 3: a pretty good lure in a start. But yeah, the

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Speaker 3: culture look at it's probably hard for me to comment on.

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Speaker 3: I haven't really been around too much the last couple

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Speaker 3: of years. I think I might have played two games,

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Speaker 3: that's probably a good thing as well. It doesn't feel

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Speaker 2: Lot of energy. Ben dunk been low.

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Speaker 3: You got Ryan Harris, Luke Williams, great support staff, so

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Speaker 3: they're a lot of fun. And you know, Paine's pretty

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Speaker 3: got lots of energy. So it's been a fun couple

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Speaker 2: But I guess the culture we do want is a

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Speaker 2: winning one.

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Speaker 3: And it's been a little bit of time now since

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Speaker 3: I think we've made the finals. We've only won one title,

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Speaker 3: which was a lot of fun. But yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: we probably want to start to get that winning culture back.

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Speaker 3: But I guess, you know, off field, it's great fun.

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Speaker 1: Two more questions before you get ready. Your favorite moment

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Speaker 1: outside of the title? Was there a game or a

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Speaker 1: moment that you remember over the ten years that stands

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Speaker 3: At the Strikers had lots of great moments, lots of

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Speaker 3: great nights at Adelaide Oval when the crowd goes nats

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Speaker 3: and I reckon Rasheed Khan whenever he bowled was my

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Speaker 3: favorite moment, and just the energy he brought to the team.

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Speaker 3: He normally took a wicket or two and did his

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Speaker 3: aeroplane celebration and the crowd would go crazy. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure there's lots more of my missing, but he

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Speaker 3: comes to mind when you know, walking out the field,

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Speaker 3: with someone when when you put one fifty or one

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Speaker 3: sixty on the board, you probably think it's enough.

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Speaker 2: He's he was that good.

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Speaker 3: So could you pick him keeping tim, I'd like to

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Speaker 3: say I did. I think I was pretty good at

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Speaker 3: reacting off the surface. We talk about when the lights

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Speaker 3: a lot of fun keeping to him. It was Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was different, it was quite fast, it spun. He

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Speaker 3: he was fantastic to play with. And you know, what

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Speaker 1: And then your favorite personal moment where you felt that

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Speaker 3: And then I've got some domestic cricket to go back

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Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on your summer for Australia.

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Speaker 2: It was so good.

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Speaker 1: How well you played in the ashes, both the way

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Speaker 1: you kept them, the way you're battered. He's certainly battered

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Speaker 1: all right the other night in Blue. Let's so it

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Speaker 1: can continue not only for the home and away season,

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Speaker 2: Or too as well. Thanks Johnny, Thank you, Cheers Alex Cary.

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Speaker 1: Johnny is on a super over of the surge. Here

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Speaker 1: from the MCG We'll catch you against