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Speaker 1: Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Unplayable Podcast. Just the men's T twenty
Speaker 1: World Cup is underway and the Aussies they're going to
Speaker 1: be an action very shortly. They take on Ireland on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: February eleven. My name is josh Onnafinger, joined now by
Speaker 1: Jack Painter who's over there in Sri Lanka at the
Speaker 1: Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. And Jack, how are things over
Speaker 1: there in the island nation.
Speaker 2: It's pretty warm and hot and humid, so as you'd
Speaker 2: expect in Sri Lanka. It's beautiful sunshine today here it's
Speaker 2: here at the ground the light training session for a
Speaker 2: couple of the Aussies. But the oh, things are going
Speaker 2: well and it's been a fairly decent build in for
Speaker 2: Australia too. They're the last of the twenty teams kick
Speaker 2: off their campaign which will be tomorrow night against Ireland.
Speaker 1: We've got a big episode coming up for you as well.
Speaker 1: Josh Engliss is the special guest. He'll be up in
Speaker 1: just a few moments. Jack, you had a chat to him.
Speaker 1: We're also going to be talking about the best T
Speaker 1: twenty World Cup performances of all time, so make sure
Speaker 1: you get in your nominations as well. Jack, you've spent
Speaker 1: a little bit of time in Sri Lanka leading into
Speaker 1: this first game. Where have you been and what have
Speaker 1: you been up to.
Speaker 2: We have, Josh, My wife came up with me before
Speaker 2: the tournament kicked off and we had a great time.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful country like beautiful people plenty to see
Speaker 2: as well, lots of diversity. We went down south and
Speaker 2: saw the beaches and then went across and saw some
Speaker 2: elephants at the at the National Park and did a
Speaker 2: safari there and then back up to the hills and
Speaker 2: did some hiking around as well. So I've seen a
Speaker 2: fair bit of it in the week leading up to
Speaker 2: the tournaments. But it's back back into the work now
Speaker 2: and enough about the traveling and we can focus on
Speaker 2: the cricket.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: We want to hear about your best meal so far.
Speaker 1: What if you're eaten?
Speaker 2: Surprisingly, I won't say this is the best meal, but
Speaker 2: surprisingly they do a very good wood fired pizza here
Speaker 2: in Schlanka, so we have been having a couple of those.
Speaker 2: It's not your traditional Sherilankin cuisine, but yeah, a few curries.
Speaker 2: We had a good chicken ticken masala one time. Similar,
Speaker 2: very similar food to what you'd expect in India. But
Speaker 2: they do an egg copper here for breakfast, which is
Speaker 2: like a bit of a Doughey pancake kind of thing
Speaker 2: with an egg in it. So certainly been enjoying a
Speaker 2: couple of those. But yeah, so maybe curry was the
Speaker 2: best meal.
Speaker 1: Excellent, Okay, Well, get stuck into those egg hoppers because
Speaker 1: you get an major energy. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: big tournament, some really tough conditions that are quite foreign
Speaker 1: to Australia as well, so the Aussies we're going to
Speaker 1: be touching on their potential side as well. And just
Speaker 1: a little bit, but you did catch up with Josh
Speaker 1: Ingliss just a day or two ago. He's the soul
Speaker 1: we could keep it in this squad, but that's not
Speaker 1: an issue for him. He's looking forward to the challenge
Speaker 1: and after this short break, let's say listen to your
Speaker 1: chat with Josh Mliss.
Speaker 2: Hello yone, and welcome to the Unplayable podcast, coming to
Speaker 2: you from Colombo as Australia built up to their World
Speaker 2: Cup opener against Ireland on Wednesday. My name is Jack
Speaker 2: Painter and I'm joined by Australia. We could keep it
Speaker 2: Josh Engliss to preview that match. Josh, thanks for joining us. Kim.
Speaker 2: How have you settled into Colomba.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been really good. We've been here for a
Speaker 4: few days now. Sort of a bit of a stop
Speaker 4: start beginning with the game getting rained off the other night,
Speaker 4: but now really happy to be here and look forward
Speaker 4: to getting.
Speaker 2: Going a long lead into that first game against Ireland.
Speaker 2: Your last team to get going in the tournament. Is
Speaker 2: that a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 3: I don't really know. I think you can make of
Speaker 3: it what you want.
Speaker 4: It's obviously nice we get to I think they're playing today,
Speaker 4: so we get a look at them and how they're
Speaker 4: going to line up and that sort of thing. But
Speaker 4: now looking forward, we've got obviously a few days training now,
Speaker 4: so they'll be nice to get into the prep.
Speaker 2: What do you know about Ireland? Australia played them once
Speaker 2: in the last decade, I think, so a bit of
Speaker 2: an unknown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not a whole heap, but like I said, I
Speaker 4: think that's why that game. Being able to watch that
Speaker 4: today all give us a lot more info on that side.
Speaker 2: And there's nine I was looking at their squad today.
Speaker 2: There's nine of those guys who played an eleven in
Speaker 2: the twenty two World Cup in Brisbane. You obviously weren't
Speaker 2: there at a cut hand, and there's a bit of
Speaker 2: familiarity there amongst the squad that the guys will face
Speaker 2: on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I said, I don't know a whole heap,
Speaker 4: but I think a lot of the guys, like you said,
Speaker 4: have come up against them before, so that'll be good
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 2: How do you go when playing against these teams like
Speaker 2: Ireland's in barbe Yaman that you're facing in Group B.
Speaker 2: Is it much preparation or is a bit of feel
Speaker 2: on the day or a bit of both.
Speaker 4: I think it's very individualized. Obviously, I think you've got
Speaker 4: to do a little bit more. Obviously we don't play
Speaker 4: against these guys a whole heap, so person i'd just
Speaker 4: like to look through their bowlers. We get sent out
Speaker 4: a whole stat pack from the from the team and
Speaker 4: we'll go through that, and I just like to have
Speaker 4: a look at their bowlers and their change ups and
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, just so it's not a surprise
Speaker 4: on the day.
Speaker 2: Have you played against me? Even before Phil Paul Sterling
Speaker 2: has been around the county scene, Josh Little has been
Speaker 2: in the IPL of You've seen much of those guys.
Speaker 4: I think played Little in the MLC and maybe Sterling
Speaker 4: in the hundred, But I learned that, yeah, not much.
Speaker 2: Let's sort of turn to the pack in Pakistan's series.
Speaker 2: You played just the one game there but didn't go
Speaker 2: to play obviously, But what do you take from it?
Speaker 2: I guess personally and as a group coming into a
Speaker 2: big tournament.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously didn't go the way we would have liked.
Speaker 4: But I think the main thing we can take out
Speaker 4: as a bad end group is how well we need
Speaker 4: to be prepared for this World Cup. I think it
Speaker 4: just shows you need to have really good plans and
Speaker 4: strong plans from boor one to get your innings going.
Speaker 4: And I think it was a great learning curve for
Speaker 4: a lot of the younger guys that played during that series.
Speaker 4: Just how high cricket is in the Subcontinent.
Speaker 2: And a few moving past that that series as well,
Speaker 2: a few injuries obviously a couple of guys coming back
Speaker 2: into the squad for the tournament and you and I
Speaker 2: think Marcus Stine is going to played the one game there.
Speaker 2: Does that disrupt the group leading into the tournament or
Speaker 2: you know, is it good to have these sort of
Speaker 2: few days in Columbo who to get sort of settled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a bit of both.
Speaker 4: Ideally, like it would have been nice if it was
Speaker 4: a week further down the track so we could have
Speaker 4: the full squad together playing games as a group, but
Speaker 4: just the way the schedule is, it didn't really allow
Speaker 4: that now at that time, so I think it's the
Speaker 4: right decision. You don't want to be guys getting injured
Speaker 4: before a big World Cup, So yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Is what it is.
Speaker 2: Really, let's go back a bit further, maybe two weeks now,
Speaker 2: Big Beast champions again, hitting the winning six hour?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 2: Was that for yourself?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was really nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love my time of the scorches. We've had
Speaker 4: obviously a lot of success over the years and well
Speaker 4: we're not just rocking like that. It's a pretty special
Speaker 4: place to play and yeah, to be out there right
Speaker 4: at the end and hit the winning rungs was a
Speaker 4: really special feeling.
Speaker 2: There's a few I don't know if it was nerves maybe,
Speaker 2: but a couple of wickets lost towards the end there,
Speaker 2: and then I guess that that's sixth that you hit.
Speaker 2: We let Cooper Connelly have another chance at getting the
Speaker 2: side of the line, or you definitely trying to launch
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 3: No, no, I was definitely launching that one. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've seen so many highlights of the past games the
Speaker 4: winning runs being hit, and I thought, this is my chance, so.
Speaker 3: I'll take it on. Yeah, as you said, we lost
Speaker 3: a few wickets towards the end.
Speaker 4: I think it rained and it was skidding on beautifully
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden it just started nipping
Speaker 4: around about. I think it starky and Saber and Dwarsh
Speaker 4: bowled really well. So yeah, I took my opportunity.
Speaker 2: How do you guys keep doing it? I guess you've
Speaker 2: been there nine years now. I think this was part
Speaker 2: of your third title, yeah, I think, and a bit
Speaker 2: of a fresh looking greet this year. Obviously a lot
Speaker 2: of names still there, but Bowling Attack was quite different. Like,
Speaker 2: how do you guys sort of keep doing it and
Speaker 2: keep winning.
Speaker 4: I think it's just we've had the same pretty much
Speaker 4: the same group for the for the whole time, and
Speaker 4: as you know, most guys are in wa playing, so
Speaker 4: we all.
Speaker 3: Know each other so well.
Speaker 4: I think more importantly, we all know our roles really
Speaker 4: well within that side. And yeah, adding the overseers here
Speaker 4: and there just helps sprinkling a bit of that stardust around.
Speaker 4: We've seen how well Finn went this year. I think
Speaker 4: Payney was unbelievable when he came in. But yeah, as
Speaker 4: you said, we've we've lost a couple of experienced bowlers
Speaker 4: in Aj and Dorf, and I thought the way Marley
Speaker 4: in particular and Coop, the way they grew into the
Speaker 4: tournament with their bowling really helped us towards the back
Speaker 4: end imagined.
Speaker 2: Finn coach Adamvojas has given you a lot of credit
Speaker 2: for that recruitment a couple of years ago. Are you
Speaker 2: taking credit for that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Are we requesting a surprize money as well for that one?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I obviously played with Finn in the in the MLC
Speaker 4: and saw how destructive he could be, and that's sort
Speaker 4: of a spot that we've battled with over the years.
Speaker 4: It's hard batting it optus in the power play because
Speaker 4: it does do a little bit. And I just thought
Speaker 4: he was someone that could really take ownership and take
Speaker 4: on those those power playovers. And yeah, he played beautifully
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 2: Did you see? How did you see his tournament this year?
Speaker 2: Obviously took him a little bit to get the pace
Speaker 2: of it and feel of the Australian gets last season,
Speaker 2: but then this season was just another level, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was. Yeah. I think he's spoken about it.
Speaker 4: I think he got injured after and sort of had
Speaker 4: a bit of time to reflect and work on his game,
Speaker 4: and he definitely came.
Speaker 3: Back a better cricketer. I think he played some really
Speaker 3: smart cricket at times as well. This year.
Speaker 4: It looks because he hits such a long ball, it
Speaker 4: looks like he just tries to hit every ball for six,
Speaker 4: But there is thought behind it. And no, he got
Speaker 4: us off to a good start more often than not.
Speaker 2: The celebrations Mitch Marshley in the way there was he.
Speaker 4: Yeah, unsurprisingly bias led the charge.
Speaker 3: He's very good at that.
Speaker 2: Through the tradition. I guess I was changed the other
Speaker 2: day and he mentioned it always going to Freeman or
Speaker 2: for w A teams the Scorches always sort of head
Speaker 2: down there and that's part of your your celebration. Talk
Speaker 2: us through that and how you know your knowledge of
Speaker 2: the history of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I actually said to one of the boys
Speaker 4: on the day, I live quite far from Freo, but
Speaker 4: so I never really go there, and the only time
Speaker 4: I really go there is when we celebrate titles. So
Speaker 4: I love Freeman holds a special place in my heart.
Speaker 4: But no, I think it's great. The tradition, as you said,
Speaker 4: we always started. I think it's the Norfolk, the first
Speaker 4: pub that we always go to and sort of work
Speaker 4: our way through through Freoh And yeah, I don't I
Speaker 4: don't know when it when it started, but ever since
Speaker 4: sort of I've been in the side and I for
Speaker 4: She'll Win a few years back, we've we've done the
Speaker 4: same thing.
Speaker 2: I think you're saying it goes back to that I
Speaker 2: guess olden generation of when you had Gilly, Tom Moody,
Speaker 2: Brendon Julian playing for WA back in the nineties, and
Speaker 2: I think that's when they sort of started going down there.
Speaker 2: It's carried on ever since.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's brilliant, great day.
Speaker 2: It's fast forward again, I guess to playing Shrilanker. You've
Speaker 2: obviously got good memories here from one Hunter on Test debut,
Speaker 2: major ODI debut here, I think as well. And then
Speaker 2: you played against Shaker in Sydney for your T twenty debut,
Speaker 2: so I guess took us through your connection with Shrinker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's quite strange how it's sort of panned out. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a it's a beautiful country.
Speaker 3: I love coming here.
Speaker 4: It's a great place to tour, and they're a very
Speaker 4: good cricket side, so you put all that together, it's
Speaker 4: pretty nice.
Speaker 3: So yeah, really really happy to be back here.
Speaker 2: Suit your style of player, you think playing it obviously
Speaker 2: playing a spin as it as strength of yours.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so it's something I enjoy about batting
Speaker 4: his face and spin bawling and yeah, looking at ways
Speaker 4: to score runs really on difficult wickets at times.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I thoroughly enjoy coming back here and playing.
Speaker 2: What's your understanding of why pitchers here tend to favor
Speaker 2: spin or not favor just spin friendly, I guess, And
Speaker 2: you know how that much as that talked about in
Speaker 2: the group, especially leading into a tournament such as the
Speaker 2: World Cup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we speak about it a lot.
Speaker 4: I think obviously the wicket's a lot slower here, and
Speaker 4: it's not necessarily the ball that always spins big that
Speaker 4: gets you out or can be challenging. It's the inconsistency
Speaker 4: of it. Quite often it's the ball that skids on
Speaker 4: and always feels like it gathers pace off the wicket.
Speaker 4: So yeah, as I spoke about before, I think you're
Speaker 4: just going to be really well planned and prepared to
Speaker 4: where you're scoring areas are and how you are going
Speaker 4: to score runs out here.
Speaker 2: I did a piece dream The Big Bash about the
Speaker 2: role of spin at Opter Stadium, which may surprise me
Speaker 2: at the time, and others of you found that, you know,
Speaker 2: spin's playing a bigger role in what you know w
Speaker 2: A conditions where it's typically run own for being paced friendly,
Speaker 2: especially in sort of the T twenty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the wickets were a touch different this year,
Speaker 4: or have been for a couple of years. Maybe there
Speaker 4: haven't been that sort of glassy sheene that we used
Speaker 4: to see at the Whacker. Obviously you've got the bounce
Speaker 4: and the good pace in the wickets, so if there
Speaker 4: is spin as well.
Speaker 3: That that makes it doubly difficult.
Speaker 4: But yeah, as you said, we're seeing a lot more
Speaker 4: spin optics this year and the ball actually spinning there
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: You've been to a few World Cups, now this is
Speaker 2: your first one heading in is the I guess the
Speaker 2: starting week keeper. We obviously replaced Alex Carey in the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three oh I World Cup, but are feeling
Speaker 2: sort of heading and knowing that you're going to be
Speaker 2: in that starting eleven to come to a start of
Speaker 2: the tournament.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice, it's nice, I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my fourth t twenty World Cup and sort of
Speaker 4: my first time I'm probably going to play, so yeah,
Speaker 4: a little bit different this time, but it's nice to
Speaker 4: sort of have that experience under my belt as well,
Speaker 4: having been to a few before.
Speaker 2: Not having a backup keeper in the squad. Is that
Speaker 2: making nervous or a voter confidence a bit of both?
Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's good. I mean, like it is
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 4: I think quite often you don't you don't need it,
Speaker 4: as I've seen, I've been to three before and not
Speaker 4: played a part, So you only need it when you
Speaker 4: need it, really, So yeah, I'll be throwing MAXI some
Speaker 4: balls this this Havo, just to make sure he's tiptop
Speaker 4: ready to go.
Speaker 2: Oh you went yesterday at training we saw him doing
Speaker 2: some catching drills.
Speaker 3: That wouldn't been great for doing.
Speaker 2: Surely, how do your aid he's keeping skills.
Speaker 3: I haven't said. I haven't seen much of it.
Speaker 4: At the when the game was rained off the other night,
Speaker 4: he had the gloves on in the changing rooms and
Speaker 4: TD was throwning balls, so the boedom got to him there.
Speaker 3: But no, I haven't. I haven't seen him. Obviously, he's
Speaker 3: highly skilled.
Speaker 4: His hand eye is ridiculous, so he'll probably be a
Speaker 4: freak at that too. But his gloves, yeah, they're his gloves,
Speaker 4: so he's kind of prepared. He's obviously been worded.
Speaker 2: Up and talks up he's keeping skills.
Speaker 3: I haven't.
Speaker 4: I haven't spoke to him about it, but I think
Speaker 4: he'd be I think he said he would be fine.
Speaker 3: Back to the stumps. It's up to the stumps where
Speaker 3: he might struggle a bit.
Speaker 2: Your role in this suber sing Bat's three preminantly through
Speaker 2: last year with all those T twenty series in the
Speaker 2: Caribbean against the India as well that sort of three
Speaker 2: sort of four role with potentially stopping its greenie there.
Speaker 2: Do you see that for yourself this time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: I don't think we've fully landed on on where I'll
Speaker 4: be just yet, but yeah, I imagine it would be
Speaker 4: sort of about three to four position. Yeah, trying to
Speaker 4: keep the momentum going after the top two go nuts hopefully.
Speaker 2: I just want to ask you about the record fastest
Speaker 2: century for Australia. You had it, TD got it from you.
Speaker 2: You're looking to get that.
Speaker 4: Back absolutely, But anytime you're going up against t D
Speaker 4: in terms of scoring rates and strike rates, it's.
Speaker 3: Probably a bit of a push. So we'll see how
Speaker 3: we go.
Speaker 2: Just for you, let you go. Josh Bi will finish
Speaker 2: off a few predictions for the tournament highest I was
Speaker 2: totally you've got a prediction. We've obviously seen high scoring
Speaker 2: totals in the West in his last year Australia bat
Speaker 2: you shift to a lot of aggressive batting. You've got
Speaker 2: a tip for us of what we can see this tournament.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, hopefully hopefully it's got a two in front
Speaker 4: of it. I think in Sri Lanka, I don't think
Speaker 4: the totals are going to be that high.
Speaker 3: But maybe if we.
Speaker 4: Go through to that Super eight stage in India, I
Speaker 4: think that's where you'll see the bigger totals generally better
Speaker 4: batting wickets and.
Speaker 2: Smaller grounds, best catch.
Speaker 4: Or you've probably got to go Max, You don't, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you pull some freakish ones off.
Speaker 3: So he's definitely got plenty in the locker.
Speaker 2: Didn't want to no out yourself for that one? Oh
Speaker 2: well yeah, yeah, most sixers for Australia in the tournament.
Speaker 4: I think Tim David, I think you've got to back
Speaker 4: him in what he've done, what he's done over the
Speaker 4: last few years and T twenty crickets ridiculous, So yeah,
Speaker 4: you'd be a brave man to go against him.
Speaker 2: Do you find yourself competing with him against in the nets?
Speaker 3: No, definitely not, there's no competition there.
Speaker 2: Who will Australia play in the final? Who do you
Speaker 2: fancy for that?
Speaker 4: I think I think you've got to go India. I
Speaker 4: think they're very strong, they've got most bases covered and
Speaker 4: in their home conditions as well, I.
Speaker 3: Think they'd be they'll be looking to be favorites.
Speaker 2: What do you learn, I guess good to sort of
Speaker 2: test yourselves out against them. That series against them in
Speaker 2: Australia last I think it was November. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: a good opportunity to sort of see where you're at
Speaker 2: to the top rank site.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's nice playing them not so long
Speaker 4: ago as well. If we do come up against them
Speaker 4: later in the tournament, we've sort of have that knowledge
Speaker 4: of what we came up against and I know what
Speaker 4: will be. Yeah, we'll be facing really so Yeah, they're
Speaker 4: always a good team no matter where you play them,
Speaker 4: and yeah they'll be difficult to beat at home.
Speaker 2: Just appreciate your time, go well in the tournament and
Speaker 2: all the best.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Chi Mane.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Josh Englis, he's gone pretty safe there, Jack
Speaker 1: Tim David for the most sixers. I think that's pretty safe. Bet.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he didn't want to nominate himself either the
Speaker 1: sixers or the catches. But you know, maybe he's just
Speaker 1: being modest, right.
Speaker 2: Well, we have seen him hit a few big hits
Speaker 2: as well. You know, he finished the BBL season with
Speaker 2: a six into the stands as optis and that's no
Speaker 2: mean fee either. So yeah, it did play it pretty safe,
Speaker 2: but you can't really go wrong with Tim David for
Speaker 2: the most sixers can you and Glenn Maxwell for the
Speaker 2: best catch played the safe with India as well, clearly
Speaker 2: the number one rank side heading into this tournament. They've
Speaker 2: dominated well, they won the last World Cup and they've
Speaker 2: dominated the two years since and they're the co hosts,
Speaker 2: so pretty safe bet there. But yeah, we'll wait and see.
Speaker 2: They got pushed in their first game by the USA,
Speaker 2: so there's a few upsets being flirted with at the moment.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen one yet, but surely we're due in
Speaker 2: the next few games.
Speaker 1: I must admit coming into this tournament I wasn't super
Speaker 1: excited for the prospect, but now that the games have
Speaker 1: started and we've actually got some results on really getting
Speaker 1: drawn in by the spectacle of another T twenty World
Speaker 1: Cup and having three matches per day. At this part
Speaker 1: of the tournament, there's just so much content to be
Speaker 1: across Netherlands, Italy and Nepal. Some great yeah, as you say,
Speaker 1: almost stories there, but there's a lot to be across
Speaker 1: at this early point of the tournament.
Speaker 2: It's a great time zone too for Australian audiences. You've
Speaker 2: got the four thirty PM game which is ten am
Speaker 2: local time, then you roll into a prime time sort
Speaker 2: of eight thirty slot, and then if you're really keen,
Speaker 2: you can stay up overnight and watch a full what
Speaker 2: quick mass here would be twelve thirteen forteen hours of
Speaker 2: straight cricket, wouldn't it. So that's definitely one for the
Speaker 2: cricket lovers, that one.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Mitch Marsh spoke to reporters on Tuesday, Jack Australian captain.
Speaker 1: Did he give any insights on how the Ausies are
Speaker 1: going to shape up for their first match or any
Speaker 1: other details on the team.
Speaker 2: He didn't confirm the team or anything like that, but
Speaker 2: he did say that Nathan Allis was available, having missed
Speaker 2: the Pakistan tour and then the Big Bash finals with
Speaker 2: that little hamstring niggle. He did say that he's Hurricanes
Speaker 2: teammate Tim David wouldn't play in the first match, so
Speaker 2: his hamstring is a bit more serious than Nathan Allis's,
Speaker 2: so he's coming back from potential a higher strain there.
Speaker 2: So he's been out since boxing days, so they're going
Speaker 2: to ease him back into the tournament. So that opens
Speaker 2: the door for Matt Renshaw to come into the eleven
Speaker 2: and play that middle order role that Tim David would have,
Speaker 2: which is potentially explains why they went that way in
Speaker 2: dropping Matt Short from the squad. They could potentially see
Speaker 2: that Renshaw would have a role to play in the
Speaker 2: first few games, and it looks to be the case
Speaker 2: if they indeed go that way with him.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me that those videos as I saw
Speaker 1: of Tim David on the cricket dot Com Dot A
Speaker 1: social channels of him smashing sixers onto the roof of
Speaker 1: the training ground, that's him with a bit of a
Speaker 1: still dodgy Hammy.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I can't say it's dodgy because he's been doing a
Speaker 2: lot of running. Yesterday we saw him. He did about
Speaker 2: ten runs between the wickets in his full kit. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying that, Kyle, I don't think they want to
Speaker 2: risk it this early in the tournament, given the severity
Speaker 2: of the injury that he's coming back from. So I
Speaker 2: think they're going to play it quite coush with him,
Speaker 2: knowing that potentially the pitchers here Art's high scoring as
Speaker 2: what you'll see in India later in the tournament, which
Speaker 2: is in term bringing those lesser associate nations into the
Speaker 2: contest because we've seeing one sixty odd versus one fifty clashes,
Speaker 2: so I think, yeah, potentially, I don't want to put
Speaker 2: too much burden on that hamstring with bringing him back
Speaker 2: too early in the tournament because they play the first
Speaker 2: two games in three days and then travel to Candy,
Speaker 2: which is a four hour road trip by bus, and
Speaker 2: they've got another two games there in three days. So
Speaker 2: it's a heavy start to the tournament for Australia even
Speaker 2: though they haven't played yet. But yeah, I think they'll
Speaker 2: look to take it easy with Tim Dave because he's
Speaker 2: arguably the most important player given the success he's had
Speaker 2: in India in this tournament.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you did a bit of a deep
Speaker 1: dive into the stats as well, didn't you. I mean
Speaker 1: I was watching I've watched a couple of those cold
Speaker 1: Cutter games and the scoring has been really high, but
Speaker 1: then we might get lower scores in Tri Lanka. Is
Speaker 1: that going to be the trend for this tournament?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is that I was crunching the numbers and
Speaker 2: I'll give you a little look at the I guess
Speaker 2: what I was able to find out before the Peace
Speaker 2: Coast Live on CREA dot com. Dou but in India.
Speaker 2: The five venues that they're using for this tournament, which
Speaker 2: is Mumbai, Chennai, Dalhi, Metabad and col Cutter. The average
Speaker 2: score banning first is one hundred and eighty six, but
Speaker 2: in Tri Lanka it's only one hundred and forty eight,
Speaker 2: and that's in T twenty Internationals, and then if you
Speaker 2: look at T twenty World Cups it's even lower, So
Speaker 2: there is quite a drop there, and Sri Lanka is
Speaker 2: sort of around the mark of that, you know, one
Speaker 2: point fifty and you're in the game type of situation.
Speaker 1: Right, So we shouldn't get worried if we'll see Australia
Speaker 1: posting low scores and winning, because that is just along
Speaker 1: with the trend. And when they get to India for
Speaker 1: the second stage, hopefully all things going to play and
Speaker 1: then the scores should increase.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's right. And you've also got the pressure
Speaker 2: of a World Cup. You know, if you lose one game,
Speaker 2: you're potentially on the cusp of being eliminated. So even
Speaker 2: though Australia has battered so aggressively in the last World
Speaker 2: Cup cycle, there's a coming into a World Cup they
Speaker 2: get in a little bit of trouble it's kind of like, well,
Speaker 2: if we lose this game, we might be at risk
Speaker 2: of going out of the tournament. So you might see
Speaker 2: that's approach rained in a little bit. I did ask
Speaker 2: Mitch marsh about it and he said, you know, that's
Speaker 2: been their style and they'll look to keep doing that.
Speaker 2: But you just don't know in the heat of a
Speaker 2: World Cup match too.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't, but you can be pretty sure that
Speaker 1: Mitch Marsh is going to stick to his word and
Speaker 1: back himself in those sort of situations to be fun
Speaker 1: to watch for sure. The Aussies have had a few
Speaker 1: training sessions Jack and Colombo, what have you sort of
Speaker 1: picked up and Yeah, any sort of pointers that you've
Speaker 1: been able to extricate from those training sessions so far?
Speaker 2: Lots of spin All of the net bowlers that I've
Speaker 2: seen so far have been spinners, a lot of left
Speaker 2: arm finger spinners as well, so they've definitely been practicing
Speaker 2: that to sort of face that style of bowling. They've
Speaker 2: obviously got their own left arm spinners in the squad
Speaker 2: in Matt Kernerman and Cooper Connolly, so that's been a big,
Speaker 2: I guess focus for them. A lot of running sessions
Speaker 2: obviously Nathan aalysis coming back from that hamstring injury, and
Speaker 2: so it's Tim David. So they've been testing that out.
Speaker 2: One of the things I did pick up on and
Speaker 2: the cricket nufs will love this. But with their fielding practice,
Speaker 2: they've had this little foamy type baseball that they've been
Speaker 2: using to practice their catching out on the boundaries. Because
Speaker 2: the fielding coach, Andre Borovic was telling me that they
Speaker 2: curve in the air, so that replicates the powerful batters
Speaker 2: how they hit down on the ball and put backspin
Speaker 2: on it and actually rises as it goes towards the boundary.
Speaker 2: So they're able to replicate that with a slightly softer
Speaker 2: ball for those boundary catches.
Speaker 1: Wow, and so how does this foamy ball travel through
Speaker 1: the air? Does it float a bit or does it
Speaker 1: travel like a cricket ball.
Speaker 2: Would it floats through the air. So it's got baseball
Speaker 2: stitching on it, and it floats through the air. It's
Speaker 2: quite heavy, like, it's quite dense, so he's able to
Speaker 2: give it a good whack with a creat bat. But yeah,
Speaker 2: just sort of hovers in the air and you can
Speaker 2: imagine if you're playing a sort of backspin tennis backhand.
Speaker 2: You can imagine how that sort of rises up as
Speaker 2: it goes over the net. That's what they're trying to
Speaker 2: replicate with these catching practice, I guess because you see
Speaker 2: the powerful batters hit that kind of shot that moves
Speaker 2: through the air away from the fielder. So yeah, really
Speaker 2: nuffy sort of areas there. But I found it very
Speaker 2: interesting when I picked up one of these balls and
Speaker 2: threw it back to him the other day. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: A bit more innovation from the Aussies. That's good to see. Spin,
Speaker 1: as you touched on, is going to be a massive
Speaker 1: factor in this tournament. Adam Zampa will of course be
Speaker 1: front and center. How else do you see spin coming
Speaker 1: into the equation for this Aussie side. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: got Matt Cuoneman in the squad, they'veelt Cooper Connelly, They've
Speaker 1: of course got Glenn Maxwell there. So how do you
Speaker 1: think it's going to play out? And especially in Sri
Speaker 1: Lanka where maybe we're expecting pictures to turn a bit
Speaker 1: more than in India.
Speaker 2: It seems like they'll line up with the two spinners,
Speaker 2: whether that's Connolly or Ceronell or not quite sure yet.
Speaker 2: I've got a feeling Cuonerman might get the nine for
Speaker 2: this first game, but they've also got obviously Glenn Maxwell
Speaker 2: in the side, so you can expect twelve waves of
Speaker 2: spin and then two quicks and potentially Stoliness and Cameron
Speaker 2: Green to fill in the rest of the paceovers. So
Speaker 2: it definitely looks like spin's play a huge role in
Speaker 2: that first Group B match which Australia is in that group,
Speaker 2: which was at this ground as well, that Australia will
Speaker 2: play Ireland. That we saw twenty five of the forty
Speaker 2: zeros bold. We saw twenty five of the forty overs
Speaker 2: bold by spinners, which was thirteen in the Island bowlings
Speaker 2: and then twelve in the Sri Lankan bowlings. So already
Speaker 2: you can see the role that spin is playing, particularly
Speaker 2: in the Sri Lanka matches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and any other scored updates from the adsis
Speaker 1: we know that we've had Hazewood and come and initially
Speaker 1: named and now come out they've been replaced. Well, actually
Speaker 1: only one of them has been replaced. Can you explain
Speaker 1: what's happened there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we haven't had a replacement name for Hazewood yet,
Speaker 2: so technically still in the Australian squad even though the
Speaker 2: oddies have said is not going to be taking part
Speaker 2: in the tournament. That just gives them a little bit
Speaker 2: of flexibility as to who they name is that replacement,
Speaker 2: because perhaps they're not quite sure what type of player
Speaker 2: going to need because under ICC tournament guidelines, once you
Speaker 2: replace a player, they can't come back into the squad.
Speaker 2: So say, for instance, Australia had a fifteen man squad
Speaker 2: and then Josh inglyss Is, the sole Wike keeper, got injured.
Speaker 2: If they replaced English with a Wike keeper in the squad,
Speaker 2: English then couldn't come back into the squad for a
Speaker 2: short term injury, so it effectively leaves them without their
Speaker 2: best keep, even if he was only going to miss
Speaker 2: a couple of games. So it just gives them that
Speaker 2: flexibility to decide a bit later on what type of
Speaker 2: player they might need. They might be able to get
Speaker 2: through this Sri Lanka leg where they play their first
Speaker 2: four matches and decide, oh, we need another fast bowler
Speaker 2: or we need another batter for our Super eight matches
Speaker 2: in India. So yeah, it just gives them that little
Speaker 2: bit of flexibility to call on a player that they
Speaker 2: might not need right now, but they might need later
Speaker 2: in the tournament. So of course they've also got Sean
Speaker 2: Abbott here, so if they need a fast bowler quickly,
Speaker 2: they can also put him straight into the squad.
Speaker 1: Right, So Ben Dorshis was Pat Cummens's replacement, and Josh
Speaker 1: Hazwood hasn't been replaced, but Sean Abbott is there as
Speaker 1: a traveling reserve just in case.
Speaker 2: That's right, correct, Yeah, that's correct. So, yeah, he's traveling
Speaker 2: with the group, but he's the sixteenth player who's not
Speaker 2: officially part of the squad. But yeah, he's on standby
Speaker 2: if they need someone quickly.
Speaker 1: And Joshinguss was very diplomatic about Glenn Maxwell's keeping ability
Speaker 1: in that chat that we just heard. George Bailey did
Speaker 1: nominate Maxwell as the backup keeper in case of disaster
Speaker 1: in this tournament. You've watched a bit of MAXI with
Speaker 1: the gloves at a few of those training sessions. What have
Speaker 1: you picked up and do you think he's got what
Speaker 1: it takes.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, having not seen it in a game.
Speaker 2: I'm sure based on his ability he could do anything
Speaker 2: he puts his mind to. George Bailey has sort of
Speaker 2: said that he was a wicked keeper in his younger days,
Speaker 2: but I don't think he's done it for maybe ten
Speaker 2: odd years. But we did see him practicing. He's wik
Speaker 2: keeping mostly up to the stunts, which is what Joshingliss
Speaker 2: said would be. Maybe he's a little bit of a
Speaker 2: dicey area, but yeah, it certainly seems that way that
Speaker 2: if English hurts a finger or something on the morning
Speaker 2: of a match, that Maxwell would be the one to
Speaker 2: take the gloves if English couldn't play, So certainly seems
Speaker 2: like they're looking at that option.
Speaker 1: That would be incredible scenes, wouldn't it, And then of
Speaker 1: course that would impact Australia's bowling attack and everything would
Speaker 1: be out of whack. So let's hope for the best
Speaker 1: for Josh Ingles's hands and fingers throughout this tournament. Jack Ireland,
Speaker 1: what can we expect from the Irish Australia and play
Speaker 1: this team very much, but they're very much a team
Speaker 1: that always seems to hold their own, especially these sort
Speaker 1: of tournaments.
Speaker 2: They do. Yeah, well, if you look at their match
Speaker 2: up the other day against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka the
Speaker 2: eighth twenty side and island of the eleventh, so they're
Speaker 2: actually not that far apart in terms of their world
Speaker 2: ranking and just know their general ability, So I think
Speaker 2: you can expect Ireland to push Australia, especially in these
Speaker 2: conditions where the scores of lava spin plays a big part.
Speaker 2: So they've got as I said, they bowled thirteen O
Speaker 2: was a spin. They've got bowlers who are experienced in
Speaker 2: these conditions. You know that the lower rank nations generally
Speaker 2: play a lot more on diceier pitches that are slow
Speaker 2: and low and don't offer as much pace as what
Speaker 2: Australia would usually play on, so this brings them back
Speaker 2: into the contest a lot more. They've got Matthew Humphreys
Speaker 2: who took the new ball the other day, and then
Speaker 2: they've got a lot of bowling all rounders in there
Speaker 2: as well. So Curtis Camfor didn't bowl against Sri Lanka,
Speaker 2: but he can bowl. He bats in the middle order.
Speaker 2: Those bowling all around, fast bowling all arounders who can
Speaker 2: compliment the spinners that they've got in Humphreys, George Dockrelin
Speaker 2: and Delaney. So yeah, they've got a lot of bowling
Speaker 2: options there in that side, so they can pick and
Speaker 2: choose who they want to throw the ball to depending
Speaker 2: on how they're going against Australia's powerful batting line.
Speaker 1: Dockrell he's one of my favorites. I remember playing with
Speaker 1: him on a Cricket Captain game back in twenty twelve
Speaker 1: or something like that. He's been around the county, seen
Speaker 1: a long long time and he's been a great servant
Speaker 1: of Irish cricket as well, So watch out for left
Speaker 1: arm of George Dockel. Also a big fan of Harry Tector.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen a lot of him live, but his
Speaker 1: scores across his fledgling career so far i've been pretty
Speaker 1: impressive and he got forty in that match against Sri Lanka.
Speaker 1: So of course he's coming in behind Paul Stirling, who
Speaker 1: is one of the greats Odiei's wise and also Irish wise,
Speaker 1: isn't he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been around forever. He's had a lot of
Speaker 2: success on the county and he's getting gigs across the
Speaker 2: world now too in those franchise competitions, just playing the
Speaker 2: same way as he always has. It's interesting that Josh
Speaker 2: Little didn't get a game in their first match. Is
Speaker 2: someone who's played in the IPL left armor bowls, you know,
Speaker 2: some good pace, so if he's not getting a game
Speaker 2: in their side. They definitely got a lot of depth
Speaker 2: in their squad and a lot of stability too. So
Speaker 2: nine of the squad actually played in the last match
Speaker 2: they did. They played it's Australia, which is back in
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two World Cup in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: So it's amazing.
Speaker 2: But that was the only time they've played Australia in
Speaker 2: the last decade, so yeah, Australia is not really that
Speaker 2: familiar with playing as Island, so it could be a
Speaker 2: bit of testing out each other in the first few
Speaker 2: hours of tomorrow's match.
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing. They've been able to keep that squad together
Speaker 1: so well since four years ago. I remember, Yeah, Josh
Speaker 1: Little had a very good tournament.
Speaker 2: And they beat England that tournament as well, didn't they. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think they did at the MCG was it. That's
Speaker 2: a rain effective match. So yeah, they've got the They've
Speaker 2: had a history of upsetting the big nations, haven't they.
Speaker 2: So it's just a matter of time in this tournament
Speaker 2: you'd suspect and hopefully for Australia it's not them. That's
Speaker 2: on the end of it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The Tea Turning World Cup, formerly known as the World
Speaker 1: T twenty has been a tournament that's brought us lots
Speaker 1: of highs, lots of lows, and lots of memorable moments.
Speaker 1: Jack and On this episode, I wanted to put out
Speaker 1: the question to both you and our listeners, what are
Speaker 1: the best individual T twenty World Cup performances that we've
Speaker 1: seen going all the way back to two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: If you want to get in your answers, jump onto
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Speaker 1: us an email at podcasts at Cricket dot Com DODA.
Speaker 1: You will read out the best dances. Next time we
Speaker 1: catch up with Jack and so, who immediately comes to
Speaker 1: mind Jack when we think about the best performances in
Speaker 1: this tournament.
Speaker 2: Well, the first one for me was obviously you've right
Speaker 2: seeing six to six's way back in the first World Cup.
Speaker 2: It's hard to go past.
Speaker 1: That one with the bowler being of course.
Speaker 2: With Stuart broad wasn't that six sixers so very young?
Speaker 2: Stuart Broader, He's come a long way since then. I
Speaker 2: mean some of the other ones from an Australian perspective,
Speaker 2: You've got Mike Hussey in twenty ten against Pakistan single
Speaker 2: handedly getting Australia over the line semi final. A couple
Speaker 2: of years later Carlos Braathwaite who hit four sixers in
Speaker 2: the last over to win the World Cup final. So
Speaker 2: those are two that stand out. I guess Another one
Speaker 2: for me from more recently, I guess is the title
Speaker 2: that Australia won. A lot of people talking about Mitch
Speaker 2: Marsh's seventy seven in the final, but I actually look
Speaker 2: back to that semi final where Marcus Denis and Matthew
Speaker 2: Wake got Australia over the line. They were dead and buried.
Speaker 2: I remember watching that live thinking, you know, it's not
Speaker 2: necessarily something you would see Australia ever do be able
Speaker 2: to pull off a run chase where they needed I
Speaker 2: must have needed twenty runs per over in the last
Speaker 2: three or something like that and they were able to
Speaker 2: pull it off. So that's a strong memory for me.
Speaker 2: And then the last one, I thought of Joshua just
Speaker 2: rolling through them here for you, so feel free to
Speaker 2: jump in whenever you like. The last one is that's
Speaker 2: that catch of Surakumada in the two thousand and final
Speaker 2: in so South Africa needed sixteen off six. David Miller
Speaker 2: was set and you would have backed him in had
Speaker 2: that ball gone over the rope for six. But you know,
Speaker 2: like the catches that we see Glenn Maxwell doing so
Speaker 2: many players nowadays, he was able to jump over the
Speaker 2: line while flicking it back in and complete the catch
Speaker 2: and win India the title.
Speaker 1: Now there was a bit of controversy around that catch too,
Speaker 1: wasn't there because the padded rope had moved from where
Speaker 1: it was initially placed and it looked like his foot
Speaker 1: was actually standing where that rope used to be. Should
Speaker 1: it have been given out Jack? Or was the right
Speaker 1: call made in the end?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Can we play the field as it lies? Can't you?
Speaker 2: I don't think you would have necessarily been looking at
Speaker 2: where the shadow of the rope was used to be,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess right. Colors made at the time,
Speaker 2: and India the World Cup champions, so fair play.
Speaker 1: Well, talking about great catches, it takes me back to
Speaker 1: the Glenn Phillips catch against Astraya at the SCG in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Superman. He was diving, it felt like
Speaker 1: he was in the air for ages pulled off a
Speaker 1: full stretcher. Hard to go past that one and on
Speaker 1: the breathway remember the name innings, which of course we
Speaker 1: all remember. As you said, he hit four sixes to
Speaker 1: win the game off Ben Stokes and finished with thirty
Speaker 1: four off ten balls. But I was just looking at
Speaker 1: the scorecud I didn't realize he actually took three for
Speaker 1: twenty three in the first innings, so he's done it
Speaker 1: with ball and bad. Of course the wickets they're forgotten
Speaker 1: because the sixers were just so impressive. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: one thing that really stood out to me and one
Speaker 1: thing I totally forgot about.
Speaker 2: It's a bit like Shahida Fridi back in two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine as well. He hit he hit fifty four
Speaker 2: off thirty four against South Africa and that's semi final.
Speaker 2: But then he also took two wickets as well, So
Speaker 2: you talk about wickets being forgotten, it's kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: all round performances like that, it's so crucial in T
Speaker 2: twenty games, especially when you got the likes of Australia
Speaker 2: and Ireland stacking their team with all rounders.
Speaker 1: And in terms of the best well let's give the
Speaker 1: bowlers some love. I had to look through the best
Speaker 1: individual performances and Rangina Harath took five wickets for three
Speaker 1: runs in three and a half overs against New Zealand
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. That must have been a very low,
Speaker 1: slow turning chattergram wicket there in Bangladesh.
Speaker 2: I can't I remember that one, but I remember that
Speaker 2: World Cup for the fact that Australia picked Brad Hodge
Speaker 2: and Brad hold In there. Yes that's a right, yeah,
Speaker 2: a couple and they're both over forty at the time.
Speaker 2: So that was when the Australia was really still figuring
Speaker 2: out this format and they just didn't have too much
Speaker 2: of a lead in as they do these days. But
Speaker 2: that's what I remember from that tournament.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the update, great work with Josh Engliss
Speaker 1: and good luck for the first few matches of this tournament.
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you as it progresses.
Speaker 2: Thanks Josh Chat to you again soon