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Speaker 1: Let's talk crickets.

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Speaker 2: We know that Australia well has come out on top

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Speaker 2: in the first international cricket match played in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: In seventeen years.

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Speaker 2: NT Cricket CEO Gaven Dovey joins me on the line.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, gave morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, how did it go last night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, for anyone who was at the game, they'll

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Speaker 3: tell you it was an unbelievable night for cricket and

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Speaker 3: sport in the territory. And yeah the game had everything,

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Speaker 3: lots of sixers, some great wickets, some incredible catching and yeah,

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Speaker 3: just just an awesome night, as I said, a sport

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Speaker 3: in the territory.

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Speaker 2: Ten thousand fans there to watch that game at Morara Stadium.

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Speaker 1: I bet it went off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there wasn't a spare seat in the house, Katie.

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Speaker 3: It was just an unbelievable atmosphere and Mitch marsh the skip.

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Speaker 3: He set the tone with smacking the first ball for

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Speaker 3: six and the crowd went nights and yeah, just just unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: So great to see territorians and interstate people who traveled

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Speaker 3: up have a phenomenal night.

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Speaker 2: But town was absolutely pumping over the weekend like, there

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Speaker 2: were so many people around the city, and I know

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Speaker 2: the Darwin festivals on as well, But how many visitors

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Speaker 2: do you think you may have had from interstate or

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Speaker 2: overseas or is it too early to tell?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, across the two games, we've got about I

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Speaker 3: reckon you know, somewhere around two thousand inter state and overseas.

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Speaker 3: I think it was about six hundred Victorians alone that

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Speaker 3: are traveling up for the game. So yeah, its fantastic

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Speaker 3: to get these types of international sporting event here because

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Speaker 3: we just obviously know the impact and I mean the

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Speaker 3: night last night, dry season August, there's no place in

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Speaker 3: Australia you'd rather be and so I think just fantastic

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Speaker 3: to know that people only had a great time at

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Speaker 3: the stadium. But you know, we've got to see the

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Speaker 3: best of what Darwin.

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Speaker 2: Has to offer, absolutely and of course Australia coming out

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Speaker 2: on top. How like how things looking for the match

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Speaker 2: on today? Is it sold out yet or have you

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Speaker 2: still got a few tickets available?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've gone past the seven k marks, so there

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Speaker 3: is still a few available. With their moving so fast,

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Speaker 3: and particularly after the experience people would have had last night,

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Speaker 3: and I expect that's going to continue to accelerate. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: the message is still the same. Get onto the crick

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Speaker 3: Australia website. I get tickets twenty bucks for an adult,

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Speaker 3: forty for a family pass. I mean, just fantastic price

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Speaker 3: point and real noticeable thing last night, Katie, which I

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Speaker 3: think people are talking about is a lot of the

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Speaker 3: time when you get some of these other sporting events,

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Speaker 3: uppy people go as in neutral. They may not be

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Speaker 3: a supporter of one of the two footy scenes. Whereas

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Speaker 3: last night, you know, when Mitch marsh hit that first

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Speaker 3: four for six, the entire stadium erupted getting behind the

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Speaker 3: Aussie So the energy in the atmosphere was very different

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Speaker 3: and just yet incredible experience would.

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Speaker 1: Have been electric.

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Speaker 2: Now, mate, I can't not ask you about not only

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Speaker 2: action obviously you know that was happening out on the

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Speaker 2: on the pitch, but we saw, you know, we saw

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Speaker 2: one of those balls get smashed into the crowd and

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Speaker 2: one of the Darwin locals, well, I can only assume

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Speaker 2: he's a dar With local to be that talented. He's

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Speaker 2: holding two beers, he catches the ball with one hand.

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Speaker 3: That was classic Territory got and I think that made

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Speaker 3: us all pretty proud, to be honest, was left. Yeah

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Speaker 3: that throws a left hand too, so Shimmy's right hand

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Speaker 3: got those hands in the right and he just you know,

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Speaker 3: calm as you like. I think, how how he said

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Speaker 3: on the commentary just made it look very very easy.

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Speaker 3: So I think we need to try and pluck him

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Speaker 3: he's obviously obviously he can play. So yeah, that was

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Speaker 3: that was terrific. The great thing of me, that tricket.

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Speaker 2: But I was thinking territory and of the month mix

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Speaker 2: one O four nine territory and of the month for

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Speaker 2: having that kind of skill. But you know, I also

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Speaker 2: I also thought to myself, like, you know, eyes from

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Speaker 2: all over the world watching.

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Speaker 1: And then to see that kind of skill in the crowd, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was just great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Surprised he wasn't drinking it if you caught it,

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Speaker 3: but but yeah, and to be honest, you know, I

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Speaker 3: had Mitch Marsh texted me this morning, unprompted, say that

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Speaker 3: that crowd last night, the atmosphere was amazing, you know,

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Speaker 3: and they obviously play around the world in a lot

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Speaker 3: of different crowds, but to sort of hear that from

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Speaker 3: the players and they absolutely love their time up here,

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Speaker 3: which which is again, you know, fantastic to hear that

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Speaker 3: they're really enjoying their time in Darwin. And I think

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Speaker 3: just the fact we get two games. You know, everyone

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Speaker 3: would have had a great time last night. There were

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Speaker 3: kids everywhere, you know, having a ball hanging over the fence,

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Speaker 3: meet meeting their heroes. And then you know, we get

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Speaker 3: the chance to do it all again tomorrow and you know,

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Speaker 3: let's see what happens, but there'll be I expect plenty

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Speaker 3: more ball flying into the crowd. So old mate that

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Speaker 3: you mentioned to set the bath, let's see you complete it.

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Speaker 1: But you know, that is fantastic as well.

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Speaker 2: To hear that the Aussie players absolutely loving the atmosphere,

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Speaker 2: like that's a really big thing. And you know, when

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Speaker 2: you look at different teams, different you know, for different

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Speaker 2: sports coming to the Northern Territory, if the teams enjoy

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Speaker 2: it and if they get a really good experience out

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Speaker 2: of it, it does go a long way in terms

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Speaker 2: of them coming back.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I've been on the other end of it,

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Speaker 3: you know, when I used to tour with the boys,

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Speaker 3: you know, and you go to different places, you wouldn't

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Speaker 3: always have a great experience for different reasons. So the

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Speaker 3: feedback we've got from the South African team is they've

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Speaker 3: absolutely loved their time here, the facilities of being first class.

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Speaker 3: They can't quite get their head around the fact that

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Speaker 3: there's no chance of rain every day. And then the yeah,

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Speaker 3: as I said, the Aussie boys have absolutely loved it.

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Speaker 3: A few of them have been here before, but a

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Speaker 3: lot of them haven't, and they've brought their families and

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Speaker 3: their kids and it's been terrific here. And they've been

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Speaker 3: a few of them men out fishing and getting down

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Speaker 3: the markets, and I think they just they just love

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Speaker 3: the relaxed nature of the place. And hopefully that all

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Speaker 3: again comes together and helps us put a case forward

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Speaker 3: that we think cricket's got a real role to play

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Speaker 3: here in the future of the territory.

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Speaker 2: Oh good stuff, Well gave great to speak to you

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Speaker 2: this morning. Your voice is sounding a bit croaky, mate,

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Speaker 2: lots of cheering last night.

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Speaker 3: I can only assume, yeah, that's right, no drinking for cheering.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you can catch the ball like the bloke

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Speaker 2: in the crowd did holding two beers, we congratulate you

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: Gave. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'll do my best.

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Speaker 1: Good on you mate.

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Speaker 2: Lovely to talk to you, Thank you, and all the

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Speaker 2: best for tomorrow night. I'm sure it'll be another sellout.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fantastic, Thanks Katie, good stuff, Thank you,