WEBVTT - Sydney D5: Aussies make it 4-1 on Uzzy’s final day 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.239 The Unplayable Podcast is probably presented by quantas the official 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.439 podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.760 Once again this season, Quantus is proudsby flying Australia's cricketers 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:17.640 as they take on the world. Hey, everybody, welcome to 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.599 the Unflavable Podcast, Day five here at the SCG and 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.119 Australia have sealed the Ashes win for one with a 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.479 five wicket victory here and we're now sitting in the 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.600 Bradman stand that to the left of the members here 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.400 at the SCG. We've just been through the press conferences 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.519 Steve Smith, Mitchell Stark, Ben Stokes, they've all wrapped up 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.640 the series and now we're gonna try and do the same. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.680 Josh Anafinker here joined by Lewis Cameron. And it was 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:44.599 a bit of a tricky chase for Australia. They only 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:46.559 needed one hundred and sixty, but it was a bit 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.479 tough for substages today, wasn't that. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:48.840 Yeah? 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.839 Super tough, very nervy, kind of forty run partnership there 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.400 between Green and Carry finally got him home. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.600 There was a runout of Manus Labushane. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.400 There was some DRS drama earlier with Jake the World 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:05.520 that really set Ben's Stokes off, but overall a really 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.080 nice it was a nice day. I mean it was 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.520 quired gets the guard of honor from from Stokes who 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.320 had been enraged not that not that long before, and 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:14.760 and looked like who's you know they're going to come 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.280 to blows with weather or who's seen to be infuriating. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.400 But all in all, the asher spirit was there and 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.440 we believe that the two teams might have a beer. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.560 It might even be happening as we as we kind 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.040 of speak. But yeah, as you mentioned, we've just got 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.000 a beautiful view out over the seg turf. You've got families, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.759 you've got kids using little chairs as stumps, and it's 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:37.520 a very nice scene. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.920 Yes, Steve Smith said that yours have invited England in 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.200 for a drink. I think that was the case last 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:44.120 time as well, wasn't it. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.160 But well no, the last time it was the invitation 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.880 never never ever arrived, I think, or the door to 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.040 the England change room never was unlocked, I believe is 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.600 the Australian version of events. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.360 But hopefully they can let bygones be go by gones, all. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.480 Right, so it was flour one victory overall. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:05.880 Let's talk about the chase, because Jacob Bethel was out. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.080 Forty three minutes into the day. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.320 He didn't add too many runs to his overnight total 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.200 of one hundred and forty two, but he did finish 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.359 with one hundred and fifty four, an amazing knock. We 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.919 gave him lots of credit yesterday and yeah, he's certainly 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.560 a player for the future. But in the chase, yeah, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.760 there were certainly some talking points. So let's start with 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:26.079 a Jake Weatherold DRS decision, because there were a few. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.959 England had a few chances very early on Brighton cast 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.440 with a couple of LB shouts and then this one 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.079 around the wicket, a slashing shot from Weatherold seems to 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.400 have missed it. But England go upstairs and there's a 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.519 little murmur on snickoloo. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.960 Yeah, and you know, prior to that, like it wasn't 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.359 it was pretty low quality cricket really, like it felt 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.960 like maybe two teams were pretty tired, and I think 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.480 Travis Heads dismissed them not long after that probably reflected that. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.880 But yeah, the stuff broaden Cast was buying, I don't 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.680 want to say too loud because they're within his shots. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.560 I'm just going to lean into the microphone here, but 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.520 you know that was that was some real played five 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.000 tests in this series and not one hundred sent or 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.959 where they're going at this stage. But yeah, he bowls 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.799 and that ball to weather Orld was an example of that. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.679 It's a wild ball, it's a cut shot. It looks 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.160 let's be honest, it looks like Jake Weatherold has towed 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:19.079 that and the sneako shows that faint little murmur what 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.079 Stoke said in his press conference just now, and which 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.519 people who are listening to this podcast, they probably the 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.600 type of people who have listened to social media. Sorry, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.280 go on social media and read articles about this kind 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.400 of thing, and they'll see what Stoke says about it, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.680 Like I kind of agree with right, like he has 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.080 basically said, we can all tell that it's out. The issue, 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.200 as far as we understand, is well two issues. A 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.920 the audio recording device. The technology isn't that good that 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.280 there's a superior version. I'm not completely across the details 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.920 of it, but this isn't the best technology. It's cheap technology, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.800 and the ICC won't pay for the more expensive technology, 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.400 and the other thing is like, it's not that bad, right, 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.160 Like you can there is a the ball goes past 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.000 the toe of the bat and you can see a 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.440 murmur and you think, well, that's it. Can't be anything else. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.560 He's not shuffling his feet at the time. But Kumar 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.040 Damassin that even if you wanted to, he can't give 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.480 it out because the rules and regulations state unless you're 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.840 you know, you've got the thing marrying up completely and 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.640 there's a spike above a certain amount of wavelength or 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.880 whatever it is that you know, only in those circumstances 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.720 can you overturn decision to give it out. So that 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.840 would have been really frustrating for England because they were 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.039 on the verge of cracking this game open and maybe 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.039 you know, wrestling the score line back to three too, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.320 and the scheme of things like maybe that's not that 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.039 big a deal, like they'd already lost a series. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.200 But I'll tell you what, three to two. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.400 Looks a whole lot different to four one, And you 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.720 can understand why Stokes was so enraged. Do you want 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.760 to go into some of the post antics. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.120 Of that, Well, yeah, I guess we should. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.080 Because Stokes had a long discussion with the standing umpire 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.240 rasa after that was given not out. They could all 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.920 see it on the big screen and they and that's 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.920 probably heightened their confusion because the Bambi army was cheering 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:04.159 every time the frame with. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.120 The murmur came on to screen. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.320 Murmur because it's not a spy because but it is 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.080 definitely more than a flat lion, so there's something there. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.039 It was a deviation in the wavelength. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.240 Yeah, I guess you could say that. Yeah, picking of the. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.640 Wavelength was flatch and then it wasn't. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:22.520 Yes, that's right. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.000 And so after a long discussion, we get to the 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.800 next ball. It's basically a carbon copy cast is again wide, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.320 whether it again throws his hands at it again misses 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.520 it this time definitely misses it. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.920 And then only because it was wider than the previous delivery. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.680 He couldn't he couldn't reach his bat that fast. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.800 And then whether all and Cars really come face to face. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.600 I think Cars is approaching whether or he has a 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.760 few words to say, and Jake's not wanting to back down, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.599 so he sends a few words back in the other direction. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.280 Then Harry Brooke comes in for a look as well, 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.240 before Ben Stokes and Travis Head also come in for 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.039 a look. We also noticed that the non striker's end, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.800 when that ball flew through to the keeper, Travis Head 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.760 threw his hands up as if he was appealing, so 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.560 stirring up a bit as well from the non strikers, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:08.600 and Travis said, he loves it. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.360 Yeah, and you know, Cars, Cars was filthy and he 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.200 was just looking looking for someone to be angry at. Really, Like, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.400 first of all, he kind of turns on Raza, and 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.880 poor old Rasa is like, mate, it's not my decision. Well, 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.600 I mean it was his decision in the first place. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.760 But you could understand why he couldn't have heard. I 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.160 mean that that would have been a really tough one 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.559 to hear it. You either hear it or he didn't. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.320 It was a tiny murmur. If Snicker was only just 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.640 picking that up, you can understand why Rasa didn't. But 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.240 Cars didn't see it that way. Stokes had to drag 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.160 him away from Raza, and then Stokes kind of went 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.000 back at him and tried to, you know, tried to 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.120 pick up the threat of the argument. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.640 But yeah, Cars is just looking for someone to be 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.919 angry with. And he gets in whether it's face, you know. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.880 Whether or just he's loving it right because he knows 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.279 he's gotten away with one and he's just got this big, big, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.960 you know big I was going to say something eating 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.960 grin on his face and you know that really annoyed 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.719 him and it kind of set things off. Then next 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.720 ball gets a ball on his hip, tucked it down 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.960 the fine leg and I think there's some more words 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.680 exchanged it all. It was all pretty head in the 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:08.080 moment there. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.120 Thankfully drinks were called at that point and I think 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.600 the umpires were pretty happy that they were because the 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.480 teams were then separated and everyone could take a deep 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.240 breath and move on. But I mean, as you sort 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:19.720 of touched on, Travis Head got off to a bit 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.800 of a fly with Jake Weatherall. But then Australia lost 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.320 five to sixty. We could go through a few of 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.360 those wickets if we want this. Travis Head one was 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:29.880 a bit of a slog. I mean, he's had a 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.440 bit of a slog. He's had a great series and 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.400 he was trying to obviously finish it pretty quickly. Skyed 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.520 at good catch from cars who ran around and then 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.920 Jake Weatherill he was out a court by Matthew Potts. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:42.640 A strange one. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.480 He looked like he was maybe trying to leave it 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.640 caught in two minds, a short ball that sort of 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.119 ballooned off the periscope almost and then Potts came running 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.400 in from what was it a fine leg in the 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.000 air to take a good diving catch. I watch. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:56.760 I had to watch the replay back too, because I 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.160 was like, I was riding it in my metropolt. I'm like, hang, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.360 where did he come from? Because the ball was outside 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.440 his eye line just and he somehow kind of got 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.800 it back above his kind of over his left or 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.480 right should want to be shoulders back over to fine legs. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:11.720 So it was a stranger one, wasn't it. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.160 That was a bit bizarre and it means whether it'll 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.880 finishes the series with two hundred and one runs. There's 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.240 one not out there in the chase in Brisbane for comparison, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.160 Ben Duck at two hundred and two runs, so those 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.480 two basically side by side. Steve Smith has continually said 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.480 opening is the hardest placed about, especially in Australia at 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.360 the moment, so it will be interesting to see if 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.040 the selectors persist with whether or all beyond this series. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.720 You really hope, because I think I'm not sure if 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.680 it's the first Test of that next year is against 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.360 Bangladesh or the second, but it's there's a Test in Darwen, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.600 and that would be pretty special for Jake to play 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.760 that one. Yeah, he hasn't quite nailed he's spot down, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.800 but I think he's just showed a lot and I'd 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.520 be surprised if they deviated away from him, given it 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.000 looks that like Head is all but kind of locked 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.680 into stay as an opener, which is just a remarkable. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.920 If we sat in these chairs, you know, two months 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.200 ago and said Travis is Australia's long term opener after 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.480 hitting six hundred and twenty nine runs from that position, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.599 you know we would have laughed here. And also, I 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.559 should say made six hundred runs and not won the 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.480 Compton Miller Medal. So it kind of showed just what 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.240 an incredible series Mitchell Stark had. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:15.800 But do you think he had deserved the Player of 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.400 the Series. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.880 I reckon they made the right call only only because 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.520 of Stark's runs. Not only because of Stark's runs, but 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.640 the runs in addition to the wickets playing all five Tests, 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.320 you know the context of stepping up in the absence 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.600 of Josh Hazerwood. Pat Cummins only played one Test, Nathan 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.079 Lyone only played one Test. That was just a phenomenal 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.000 performance from Mitchell Stark. I think it's the highest wicket 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.240 tally by an Australian international series since Johnson in twenty 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.040 thirteen to fourteen. And in terms of all round series, 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.319 you're up there with ye Johnson in thirteen to fourteen 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.800 where he made about one hundred and fifty runs warning 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.680 in five with that, with that amazing. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.520 Series, so absolutely a deserved winner. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.920 Yeah, going back to that kind of passage you played, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.240 what was that early afternoon, I thought England's lack of 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.400 a frontline spinner really came back to bite them. You know, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.520 you might have said the same thing about Australia at 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.160 times as Bethel, you know, romped to one hundred and 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.280 fifty odd, like there was a lot of really poor 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.920 spin bowling bold in this match. Bo Webster was probably 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.040 the best spinner in this in this match. And look 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.000 that says a lot because the guy I don't think 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.880 I've seen maybe saw him practicing at once in the 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.640 nets this series, but he basically said yesterday the less 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.839 you practice them, the better you get at it. Like 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.240 that's and that's fine for him, like he's not a 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.839 frontline spinner Norse travers head. But I think it's a 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.400 bit of an indictment on both teams, you know, they 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.839 just misread this pitch. Like Smith later said that he 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.360 thought the cracks would open up and earlier and come 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.880 into play earlier. Well, that didn't quite happen. And yeah, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.200 I think hedging it would have been a safer pick honestly, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.319 to pick pick Todd Murphy, I think, instead of bow 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.520 Webster of Cameron Green, but it's hard to argue with 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.280 it given what Webster is on in this yeraries. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:02.880 I said, I'd get back to the wickets. How's that 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:03.360 going for me? 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.520 Well, Webs's contribution can't big night, of course, But I 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.760 mean it was traditional Test cricket because the longer the 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.520 game went on, the more prevalent spin was becoming, wasn't it. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.880 And I think a great example of that was Will 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.800 Jackson's dismissal of Steve Smith. He's just bowled one of 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.559 the greatest players of spin, bowling through the gate with 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.800 an absolute peach and Steve Smith couldn't believe it. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.000 I don't think Will Jacks could believe what he's pulled 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:24.360 off as well. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.000 I hit the foot marks, spun an absolute mile and 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.640 it's clipped a middle and leg stump. I mean he's 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.720 not going to bowl a better ball than his entire career. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.240 No, And I mean he didn't bowl many balls that 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.280 landed in those footmarks at all. And the one he did, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.319 you imagine if he had Nathan Lyon bowling on that wicket. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.959 You imagine even if you know Todd Murphy. Yeah, he's 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.400 probably not as good as Lyne yet you know, he 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:45.880 wouldn't be as accurate, but he would have been a 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.520 real handful shold bit like this would have been if 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.520 we're kind of looking at to the future for England. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.040 Doesn't mean they're punting on this Test, but you know, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.560 this would have been the one where should be Sheer 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.280 could have played. You know what did Will Jacks give 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.280 you with with the with the bat? You know, it 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.520 was pretty pathetic really, and how he performed in the 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.000 field was poor as well, So a really poor Test 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.960 match for him overall. And yeah, it kind of opened 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.440 the door, didn't it, Because that was when usmon Kawaja 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:15.560 came out to bat. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:16.840 What a beautiful moment. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.240 Kawada got his one final bat here at the SCG, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.920 walking down those members' stairs and then over the sign 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.920 painted on the outfield. Thanks was he number four nineteen 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.920 standing ovation from the crowd and then yeah, as you 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.160 touched on a guard of honor, which he said after 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.400 play he didn't quite expect England would give to him. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:35.959 So that was a nice touch from Ben Stokes and 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:40.480 the team. And although his innings didn't last long, there 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.280 is a nice aspect that he got to walk off 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.280 and then soak it in himself because if he hit 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.360 the winning runs, I mean, it all gets lost in 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:48.760 the end of the match, doesn't that. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.959 I suppose, and it would have been pretty nice. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.000 But he also got his moment there. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.200 He waved to his wife in the crowd, Rachel, who 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.960 was crying, so he said he knew where she was sitting, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.280 and then he went down and said a prayer in 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.120 front of that sign that was painted there for him. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.480 So a really nice moment and a really nice way 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.240 to sign off an eighty eight test career. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.640 You are right though, because the moment only belonged towards it. Yeah, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.400 like it was all for him. I think that's that's 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.400 actually a really good point. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.360 I really liked how Marnus, who was at the other 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.480 end and beautifully I should say, you know, went over to. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:23.520 Him and hugged him. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.880 Like Marnus is almost like the he's almost like the 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.000 uncle who just gets you know, a bit teary at 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:29.640 every Christmas. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.480 Like he and I really mean that in a. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.800 Nice way, like he really feels the emotions of these things. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.440 I think back to a couple of it, like when 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.680 Travis Head was walking off after playing that unbelievable innings 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.480 in a Metabad, Marnas ran after him and kind of 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.520 had that he wanted that moment with him, like he 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.800 wanted Trapp to be not out so they could celebrate 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.240 the winning runs together. But he just created that moment 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.320 for himself and the team anyway, And it's important every 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.319 team needs a manus Lavishet I think. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.520 And yeah it was. His innings was shortly. He could 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:01.160 have been out twice. 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.280 Really, like the if Ben Stokes hadn't been moved by 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.760 will I mean another Paul will Jack's decision to move 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.960 Stokes from slip to a bit of a wider first 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.280 slip and then the ball woozy edge one exactly where 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.360 Stokes would have been. But yeah, then Uzzi gets this 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.400 ball from Josh Tungue that that kind of comes back 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.960 a superb spell from Josh Toungue today, I thought, you know, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.800 it really reinforces what a talent they've gotten. You know, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.640 maybe that they should have played him earlier in the series, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.960 as we've been going on about. But you know, when 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.640 manas Labershain then runs himself out, I mean I heard 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.400 Alex carry on the broadcast kind of took responsibility for it, 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.920 and that he said that the o's manus a couple 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.200 of beers. I thought that was pretty kind from Alex's end, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:42.920 maybe a bit of shared responsibility, But I don't think 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:43.880 there was ever a run there. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.280 And he was a badding beautifully like. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:50.000 He looked like the one who was playing the spin 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.560 the occasional turnout of the rough almost better than anyone 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.360 who was hitting through the off side. Beautifully, wasn't allowing 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.800 Jacks or Joe Route to settle the way he was 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.560 reversed sweeping, and I really on go to kind of 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:01.280 depart when he did. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.040 Yeah, and I think minus a Labashane always looks disappointed 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.240 when he gets out. But there was an especially disappointed 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.480 feel about today. After he was run out and the 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.520 battles were taken off and the check was happening, he 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.440 just stayed in position on his knees on the pop increase, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.040 and I mean didn't go back to chat to his partner, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.920 Alex carry So maybe Lavashane did blame Carry a bit 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.560 for that one. But eventually the decision came up on 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.360 the screen and everybody knew before it said out that 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:28.600 he was going to be walking off there. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.960 It was like a man waiting for the guillotine, wasn't 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.600 like on his knees, And yeah, it set up this 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.560 really kind of hairy last last little period where all 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.240 of a sudden, you know, Carrie and Green, you know 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.960 the remember Andrew McDonald spoke earlier this year, is about 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.120 promoting Alex Carey above or up in the order when 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.920 Green was at five, so that they could keep him 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.360 together because he likes They like the combination of those 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.040 two batting together. I mean they could have run each 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.600 other out, you know, four or five times, including twice 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.440 on the same ball when there were there was a 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.920 hairy single bit of a mix up. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:01.120 They finally went for it. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.160 Green's kept running way past the stumps and there's some 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.240 overthrows and carry's all the way down the halfway down 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.640 the wicket thinking not only can I get back for 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.320 a second run, but ken Cameron Green basically run two 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.400 and a half runs from how far back he was coming, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.680 and then he hesitated. It was kind of crazy stuff 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.280 and it just felt like every single was really nervous. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:22.680 You go back to the weather or thing. If they've 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.720 been able to make that breakthrough a bit earlier, and 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.560 you know, if their new ball bowlers a bowl a 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.680 little bit better, you know, things could have been really different, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.760 like this was a this was a knife sench Chase. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.320 I know it. It will end up saying that Australia 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.720 won by five wickets and they had some decent batters 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:38.240 in the sheds. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.520 But I'll tell you what if you got your bowler's niece. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.560 A stark bowl and coming out to bat needing to 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.720 hit five ten runs, you know, all bets are off. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.880 And of course Ben Stokes wasn't there. He couldn't bowl 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.320 either with that a ductor issue, and then Matthew Potts, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.240 ben Stokes didn't have the conviction to go to Potts 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.680 who was hammered in the first inning, so he went 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.320 mostly the spin and then Josh Tungue, as you touched, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.440 on three wickets takes him to eighteen for the series, 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.160 an amazing return from only three Tests. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.760 It was basically last man's standing stuff for England. I 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.080 mean there's been Stokes, you know, valiantly trying to play 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.200 through this injury. He's lost three of his fast bowlers, 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.000 you know, Carson Tungue were really the only frontline bowlers 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:16.480 he had left. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.600 I mean, Jackson and Bethel and Route, we're just not 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:21.040 up to it. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.840 Like that was just, you know, collectively, what do they 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.840 They've kind of conceded sixty odd from round about twelve 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.040 overs on a wicket that's turning a lot, you know, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.640 and they still Australia still were five downs, So yeah, they. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.640 Just ran out of troops at the end of Yeah. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.520