WEBVTT - Gabba D2: Jacks soars, 'Shiv' Smith debuts 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.320 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by Quantas, the official 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:06.439 podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.640 Once again this season, Quantas is proud to be flying 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.440 Astralia's cricketers as they take on the. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:18.800 World by another gripping day of Test cricket. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.080 Here at the Gabba, Australia hold a forty four run lead, 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.000 They've got four wickets in hand and yeah, plenty to 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.160 talk about from today's action at the Gabba. Joshnafinker here 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.120 joined again by Louis Cameron and good news, lou this 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.640 match is going into a third day. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.080 That is good news. I'd say we're probably going to 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.279 go into a fourth day as well. Be surprised if 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.960 it didn't get there, although who knows. With the pace 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.800 that these games are played at frenetic pace. Wasn't like 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.520 it has felt like ODII cricket the whole way through, 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.879 you know, Day one day too. The way the tactics, 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.120 I mean, it felt like you need the fielding restrictions 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.000 on at some point because England had you know, four 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.480 or five fielders in the deep shortball tactics. Glore drop 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:03.240 catcher's glore for and sixers glow weird kind of cricket, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.080 pink ball cricket at the Gabba. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.840 It is, yeah, Australia's run rate for the innings so 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.679 far five point one eight. They were going at six 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.679 point one nine in that first session when Head and 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.720 weather Roll and then Marnus lavish and we're going really well. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.800 But they've taken themselves to six for three hundred and 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:25.640 seventy eight. Everybody got a start pretty much. There's three 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.240 scores of fifty plus a couple in the forties and 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.360 Alex Carey's now forty six not out. That stumps with 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.160 Michael Niester on fifteen not out. Jake Weatherill said after 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.040 the match that you know, I think the bating group 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.840 were disappointed that none of them could go on and 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.360 make that one hundred, but so far he's the top 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.040 score with seventy two from seventy eight And wasn't he 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:43.919 great to watch today? 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.840 He was, he was fantastic. I mean, it does kind 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.080 of tell the story a little bit of Australia in 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.160 recent times. They're batting. They've been a very successful Test team. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.040 That should be the first thing we should say. The 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.600 next thing I'd say is their batting has never been 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.720 great in that period. They've always just done enough and 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.480 they've had elked fast bowling and you know an elite 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.040 spinner as well, who have just gone to work and 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.520 got him out of got him out of trouble and 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.239 and kind of won games for them. Again, we've got 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.080 a good but not great batting day for Australia, especially 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.880 given how poor England started with a ball. I thought 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.200 they came back pretty well in the day, but here 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.520 was a real chance for you know, one of whether 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:27.000 all Lavishane Smith, particularly Green, you know, maybe even English 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.480 to go on and make a big score. We can 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.880 excuse Jake because he's playing in his second game and 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.280 you know he's a really exciting prospect. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.600 And he got a pretty good ball to be fair. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.520 He's got a very good yeah, a very good ball 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.280 and a guy who can just crank it up at 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.280 his pads. So yeah, a bit to dissect him in 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.200 terms of the batting. Do you want to start with Jake. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.960 Let's start with Jake. Before we get to that. Let 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.880 you touch on England's bowling. Stuart Borld called it erratic, 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.000 Ricky Ponto called it rubbish. So that it gives you 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.320 as a lot about those two comments, that gives you 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.640 a bit of an ind what was happening. There were short, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.919 wide things over pitch deliveries, and eventually England sort of 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.800 got it right towards the end of the day. But 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.919 in that first session especially, there were boundaries galore, and 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.000 Jake weather Order especially cashed in that famous cut shot 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.760 that he's well, he's come from the Travis Head school 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.280 of cut shots, hasn't he so strong through that area? 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.600 And then also a six with an uppercut over third man. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.960 He said to ABC after the game, it's the first 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.360 time he's ever played a shot like that. 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:27.840 Then it came off pretty well. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.720 Yeah it did. And I'd love to talk about Jake, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.360 but maybe starting with just England's bowling a bit of 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.000 It's hard to tell if they mixed up their tactics 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.280 or they mixed up their execution early because they're all 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.080 over the shop early and even when they went to 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.560 the short ball ploy it just I wish they went 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.839 to very early. It just didn't really work for them. 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.480 And then as their bowling got better in the day, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.360 their fielding got worse, So that was kind of a 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.480 they could just never really get ahead of it. Interesting 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.200 stat from kriek Viz that I saw doing the rounds 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.240 England quicks. This was during the session so might need 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.480 to be updated, but they'd taken three for thirty three 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.240 at eleven with deliveries that would have hit the stumps 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.880 and three for almost three hundred at ninety nine with 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.360 deliveries that wouldn't have hit the stumps. I don't think 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.600 it's quite as simple as you just bottle the stumps 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.239 and that's how you get Test week. It's never that simple. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.000 If you did that, you'd go for a lot of runs. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.039 But I think they misread the conditions a little bit. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.760 And I think you're playing a double edged game in 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.640 pink ball cricket here, because if you do bowl your 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.720 normal stuff outside of stump, fourth, fifth stump, the old 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.479 ball at the stumps, you probably can teams can score 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.480 pretty quickly, and that's what a strategy did do off 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.039 the bat, but you probably I think this pitch does 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.479 have it quite a bit in it at certain times, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.960 and if you pitch it up, stand up the scene, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.400 you're a chance of nicking guys off and getting balls 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.919 to dart back off the pitch. I mean Josh English, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.080 he got bowled by one from Ben Stokes just trying 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.080 to look. That was in the sixty fourth over the game, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.960 so that's a sixty four overall ball. Albeit they did 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.119 change the ball at one point, but it's an older ball, 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.080 so there is some merit I think in just bowling 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:15.000 some normal stuff. But whether all I mean Weather and Head, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.280 they've just kind of stumbled upon something pretty good. Now, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:22.160 Like we've seen two partnerships over seventy five in two 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.919 innings in a row. The last time Australia had had 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.719 that in Test cricket was when Warner was opening the batting. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.400 Australia have been crying out for an aggressive batter to 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.560 bat with usban Kuaja and they've kind of stumbled across 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.320 two openers who were aggressive. Neither of them are batting 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.039 with Usbanquaja and kind of a funny spot there, but 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.680 Jake was kind of the one who took the aggressive option. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.040 He was the aggressor and Travis was kind of really 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.120 really struggling early to be honest, and just looks like 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.800 they got a really good dynamic going. They go way 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:54.400 back those two. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.120 Well, that's what I was going to ask you the 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.520 synergy is there. How important do you think it is 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.159 for opening partners. Obviously Hate and then Lang were super tight. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.880 Warner and Kowaja were super tight. Those two have been 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.440 a couple of the most successful pairs Australia have had 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.520 in a long time. Now, these two know each other 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.120 that they go way back as well. Even I think 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.680 to the school cricket day is lou So how important 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.640 is it that to know your opening partner? 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:16.160 World you reckon? 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.120 That's right, when you're listening to this, you'll be able 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:19.560 to read a piece on cricket dot Com that are you. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.440 That kind of leads with an anecdote about how the 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.920 first time they played against each other was a school game. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.120 Jake made one hundred and twenty four and then Travis 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.159 Head also made one hundred in the same game playing 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.560 for Trinity against Prince Alfred College, so they go right back. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.479 Jake has spoken a lot about how much he admires 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.000 Travis Head is a left handed batter who just kind 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.960 of goes after it. Obviously, Trab's never been a red 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.159 ball opener, but I think Jake has based his game 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.320 a little bit around what Trapp does, albeit with some 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.320 slightly moving parts. One of the most interesting things I 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.800 thought from Jake whether it's press conference, was him talking about, yes, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.760 I'm an aggressive batterer and I like to score, and 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.120 I know my scoring zones, but one of the most 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.479 important things for me earlier is leaving the ball really 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.800 well and defending, but defending well, but particularly leaving like 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.560 he wants to when that ball is in a dangerous spot. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:09.800 He wants to be getting his bat right out of 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.400 the way. So he felt like he did that really 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.320 well today and you know, then he's ended up scoring 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.360 what was a seventy two or seventy eight balls, So 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.560 none of these guys have any issues with the scoring 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.119 rate at any point. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.400 Yeah, it's funny to say the leaving stuff we touched 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.200 on Crawley yesterday, that was sort of an improvement for him. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.600 But then you've got Ben Duckett, who famously doesn't leave 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.480 the ball. A lot of X great Test cricketers say 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.400 you have to leave well in Australia to do well. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.960 I'm going to be watching Duckett very closely this series 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.280 because if he sticks up with the no leaving sort 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.920 of tactic, how will that affect his game going forward? 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.600 Yeah, I think so, and I'd like to see the stats. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.360 I feel like I have seen him leave one or two. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.160 He's obviously or two. Yeah, it might literally be one 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:48.520 or two. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.720 He does score a lot of runs behind third man 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.679 through wit so he's a really good player. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.480 I would be surprised if he doesn't do well in 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.600 this series. He didn't have a great day today. Did 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.000 he two drop catches? And might be a segue I 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.720 do want to talk about the rest of the Aussie batting, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.880 but it might be segue into England's pretty poor fielding today. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.320 Well, yes, before, what about if before we go to 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.760 the bad fielding, let's start with the really good fielding. Yes, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.600 because I've got good It's a liquorland chisse of that 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.440 moment for me, lou Will Jackson. Well, let's say with 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.239 Manus slavishamee. Because Manus took a great catch to finish 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.640 off the England innings, running in at deep backward square 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.640 egg full stretch dive, we'd given a nine out of ten, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.200 I'd say maybe nine and a half out of ten. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.199 Yeah, it looked a bit weird from where we were sitting. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.280 We thought the ball had kind of dropped out because 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.280 it was a bit of a double motion. Yeah. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.679 Out of ten, I'm giving it a oh an eight 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:41.520 or eight and a half. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:42.720 Okay, Yeah, but I. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.839 Think Will Jackson outdid him in the final session to 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.200 get rid of Steve Smith. It was a dive that 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.000 he sort of put both his hands up, the ball 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.280 only went into one and then to me it sort 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.520 of looked like the dive you do over a ball 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.280 when you're pretending you can get the ball but you 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:58.240 can't actually get it. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:08:59.240 Well, Jack's got it. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.840 He put in the command roll and everybody was stunned 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.520 because it didn't look like he was a chance and 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.840 he's pulled off one of the great catches we've seen 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:06.559 in recent times. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.520 Yeah, and you were watching Ben Stokes when he took it. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:10.080 What did he do? 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.520 So Stokes was at mid on and Stokes was so 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.640 wrapped with the catch that he threw his English calf 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.600 in the air tossed it away as if he was 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.000 graduating from aischel or something. So that was great to 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.280 see that Stokes was so happy for his mate. But 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.160 that was a catch. It I could just watch on 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:26.440 replay again and again. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.560 Yeah and again. This one had kind of happened right 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.440 on the other side of the ground, And at first 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:36.680 I thought he'd taken it like backhand panther with his 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.680 left hand, because that was kind of the hand that 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.559 we could kind of see doing the moving, But actually 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.360 it was his it was his right hand. Spectacular moment, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.480 and it's you know, it's about the only good fielding 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.360 bit from England today because yeah, they had that a shocker, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.200 really catching. Do you want me to go through it 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.040 blow by blow? 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.200 Well, let's do it. Yeah, let's do five catches I 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:00.000 think overall, wasn't it. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.079 Yeah, five catches So Travis head on three by Jamie Smith. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.080 That was probably the easiest of the day. It only 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.679 cost some thirty runs in the end, but that was 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:12.320 a real sitter for the English wiki keeper. Carry first 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.240 ball by Duckett, I mean that was pretty simple too. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.679 Duckett did have to kind of dive forward and that 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.480 looked like maybe one where he didn't pick it up 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.200 quite as quickly as you would have with a red ball, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.160 but that came in a really good, brightened castpell he 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.559 bounced back really well from a lot of tap earlier. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.360 He took two wickets in the over that might have 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.200 been a third. Duckett then dropped English again on twenty one, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.640 cast dropped Nissa on six when he was fielding it 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.280 at mid wicket, and then Joe dropped Carry on twenty 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.800 five when he was standing way too wide at first 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:47.440 slip off Carry the left hander with Atkinson bowling around 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.400 the wicket. Sometimes guys right arms bowling around the wicket 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.599 to lefties can kind of throw your slip squad. I 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.640 don't quite know where to stand, but Joe wasn't standing 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:56.240 in the right spot. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.680 That didn't look like the ball raced away for four. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.360 Both Joe Root and then Jake weather Or sit after 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.400 the game that it is tough to see the ball here. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.440 We've got these iconic multicolored seats that we're sitting on, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.960 of course, plus the crowd, plus the pink ball which 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.520 they're not used to playing with, plus the lights. I mean, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.959 it is a tough situation. But Stro's record fielding under 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.800 lights with the ball has been pretty strong, i'd say, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.480 across the years. England, I guess it's an unusual situation 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:19.920 for them. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:20.679 Yeah, it is. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.120 It's a good point. I'd get the sense, just you know, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.960 thinking back, I don't think the Aussie has got quite 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.120 as many square the wicket catchers, whereas the England just 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.640 seemed to get a lot today. Joe Route had a 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.320 really good, like any passion defense, I would say, of 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.600 their preparation. He said that, you know, they've done five 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.320 days of training. They field in the twilight, they field 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.520 in the day, they field it at night, they caught 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.640 in different positions and ultimately it's just quite difficult. And 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.319 even Jack Weather will acknowledge it when when he got 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.640 asked about it. You know, you go back to the 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.880 pink ball game. I know it's a boring subject, but 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.400 the promise is eleven game. Could some of those guys 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.240 have gone and played in a game where and would 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.160 that have helped? Maybe not, because you're playing at a 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.280 different ground, certainly not as hot. They probably would have 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.079 been wearing jumpers in Canberra, and you know, I think 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.959 fielding in the heat here is really different, so I'm 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.440 sure it would have made that much of a difference. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.360 Yeah, But I mean, at the end of the day, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.680 we said it on day one how good Australia's fielding was, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.240 both with the runner and the catches, and then we're 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.720 saying how bad England was today. So will it be 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.240 a key component I mean, I guess with the other 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.600 one with the Jacks catch, when you're weighing up whether 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.440 to play him or sheld, l B is not taking 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.840 that catch, is he? Jacks is a fast, superior fielder 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.679 and batter, so he offers a lot. We haven't seen 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.320 him bolve, just the one over which I think when 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.880 for thirteen runs or something, But certainly I think he 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.920 brings more to the table than their other off spinner. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.439 Yeah, and it probably you know, having the extra batting 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.840 probably helps and a better fielder. I feel it's really 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.439 harsh on Shold this year. I feel like the last 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.960 memory I have of him fielding was him fielding with 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.560 a broken finger at what I come of which ground, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.560 But it was during that India series early this year, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.559 and that guy, just like, you know, absolutely fair play 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.040 to him. I showed so much courage bowling and batting 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.120 and fielding through a really badly fractured finger. I'd love 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.559 to see child be Sheer play a game in this series. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.120 But you're be fair, aren't you. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.160 I just would like to see him. I think I 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.719 really like how they've just stuck with one spinner, a 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.280 little bit like Zach Crawley in some senses they've gone, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.960 we actually rate you, we think you're the best player. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:24.760 This is the tool we want to get you too, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.360 and we're going to play you through thick and thin Stokes. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.400 I think from what I've seen is captain him really 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.439 well and really tried to give him some confidence in 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.880 the games I've seen. I didn't expect to be going 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.680 on a one minute show year Randy or Josh, but 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.960 but here we are. But yeah, then you kind of 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.400 do all that work and then you don't pick him. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.559 I can understand the reasons, but I'd still like to 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:46.560 see him at some point. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.560 One player who we did see for the first time 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.480 this match was Steve smith with the Ice Dreams. They 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.240 made his debut with the Shivner own Chanderpaul style glare 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.640 reduction devices underneath it his eyes and worked pretty well 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.800 from sixty one off eighty five. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:05.760 Looked pretty much untroubled. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.679 Until he's wicket, which was that Will Jack's catch. I 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.560 think they might be here to stay for the pink ball, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:12.760 much as I'd say with Smithy. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.240 Yeah, well, I mean, did Shitneron wear them in day 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.240 test matches or did he only wear them in day 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.760 night odi question? Yeah, not sure, Yeah, I'd like to 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.960 see him wear them all the time. It looks cool, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.360 but it looks really cool. Was he wearing them correctly? 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:27.800 Do we know? 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.080 Well? He has previously warm an upside down? Hasn't he but. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.520 Upside down or like inside out? What was? Why does 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.880 it matter which? Because they're kind of just like square strips. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.760 I don't know, maybe they curve or something. I assume 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.840 if they're back to front, the sticky side would be 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.840 on one side. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.160 That would make them more glary and they fall off. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.480 I did manage to have a quick chat to Cameron 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.400 Green in the leading to the game and I just said, look, 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.120 where are your eyes strips? So you're going to wear 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.160 them as well? And he said, mate to pull them 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.240 off here they have to have ten thousand test runs 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:58.760 or via cool West Indian. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.240 Fair play to Cam. I don't think we'll see him 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:03.080 with them on this series. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.440 A good segue into Cam because he's someone who I 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.000 think could make ten thousand test runs and gee, he 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.239 looked like a million bucks when he was batting. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.920 Today and then some of those drives. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.600 Oh sumptuous and England came in with the planned I 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.160 don't know if we saw that one in the first Test. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:19.760 I don't if he battered for long enough to have 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.640 seen it, but two catching covers look like they wanted 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.800 to tempt him outside of stump to drive on the 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.640 up through the off side. There are a couple of 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.640 times where he just smoked the ball straight through him 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.080 through the two short covers and hadn't put a foot 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.280 wrong and backing away from a broaden cast ball Cast 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.920 kind of bluffed in m suppose after a lot of 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.400 balls where he followed him with some short stuff and 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.840 stumps were everywhere, so Cam did score a lot of 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.960 runs doing exactly what he had done. I think it's 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.040 probably the first thing which point out casts especially, but 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.040 maybe some of their other bowlers too, were just going 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.880 it in with short balls and there was no it 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.520 was I think it was a mid off, but no 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.840 one else in front of point on the off side, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.040 so he was just backing away and trying to flame 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.920 through a cover. He got a couple of boundaries that way, 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:09.840 and I reckon he might have even got one the 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.360 ball or two before. And then third ball cast goes 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.600 at the stumps. It was probably predictable that he was 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.560 going to try at one point, and you know, it 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.480 made him look silly like and when you're you end 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.840 up like that, so a shame he went out like 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.680 that like people are going to go come on like. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.080 I mean it's not just him like, but that whole 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.560 top order. It's like there was some big runs to 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.520 be had today and they could have been in a 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.880 position where you know, instead of six for are we 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:42.160 six for or seven for six for three seven eight stumps? 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:43.920 You know, you could be three or four for four 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.000 hundred and looking at making six hundred. You then get 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.480 a big shot at batting during the day tomorrow against 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.640 really tired bowlers and you could you could win this 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.280 thing by knittings. They're ahead in the game, but England 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.480 aren't out of it by any stretch. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.200 Yeah, it touched on a cast. It was a good 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.520 comeback for him. We were checking the stats throughout that inning. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.280 He was on track to become the most expensive English. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.399 Test bowler ever. He was going at over eights. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.480 But to be fair to him, he came back with 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.560 Stokes in an hour long tandem sort of spell. They 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.560 bottle eleven overs together and they took three forty seven, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.240 So you know that's sort of wrestled England back into 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:19.760 the game. We've seen Stokes do it with the ball 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.400 quite a bit. But lude my question to you is, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.400 twenty overs under the belf for Joffra Archer doesn't look 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.280 like he's at one hundred percent out there at the 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:30.680 end of the day at least. How do you think 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:31.879 this is going to affect him for the rest of 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:32.440 the series. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.040 Yeah, I mean, you could really see him starting spells 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.960 today and he was really sore coming back into that 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.840 night session. You know, his pace was in the one 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.399