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Speaker 1: Now we know the Australian women's cricket team is going

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Speaker 1: to start preparations for their fifty over World Cup defense

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Speaker 1: with a five day camp in the Northern Territory later

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Speaker 1: this month. Their visit to the Top End is going

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Speaker 1: to include a cricket clinic at DX Arena as well

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Speaker 1: as a two day trip to Kakadoo. And joining us

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Speaker 1: on the line to tell us more is Anti Cricket

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Speaker 1: CEO Gavin Dovey. Good morning to you Gave.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, mate.

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Speaker 1: This is fantastic news. How big a coup is this

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Speaker 1: for the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's huge, Katie. And obviously hot off the announcement

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Speaker 2: about a month ago that we got the Isralie men's

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Speaker 2: tein playing T twenty Internationals here in August. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: delighted that the Israline women's teams also decided to make

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Speaker 2: the most of preparing up here in the Top End.

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Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about what they're going

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Speaker 1: to get up to while they're here.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, they're just announced their contract list, so

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Speaker 2: eighteen players for the next next year that will be

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Speaker 2: arriving into Darwin and for them it's about setting goals,

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Speaker 2: resetting as a group and casting their eye towards a

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Speaker 2: fifty over World Cup later in near in India. So

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Speaker 2: they'll be coming together off their sort of off season break,

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Speaker 2: looking forward and doing some physical preps, tactical prep, and

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Speaker 2: looking about how they go and claim their eighth World Cup.

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Speaker 1: And I mean it all sounds like it's going to

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Speaker 1: be fantastic and such like, such a great thing I

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Speaker 1: think to have them here, not like not only for

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Speaker 1: the broader cricket community, but for like the young girls

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Speaker 1: that play crickets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, I don't know if there's been

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Speaker 2: too many more successful Australian female team sports than cricket,

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Speaker 2: and this Australian team has I said, as one seven

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Speaker 2: fifty over World Cups, they've won sixty twenty World Cups,

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Speaker 2: and they've just been an incredible team. And yeah, a

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Speaker 2: great opportunity for our next sort of generation of young

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Speaker 2: female athletes to get close to their heroes and see

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Speaker 2: them up close. So we're delighted to host them.

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Speaker 1: So are people going to be able to attend that

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Speaker 1: clinic that they're having or will it be open to

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Speaker 1: the public.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just working through the details of that now,

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Speaker 2: certainly our cricket community will definitely get an opportunity, so

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Speaker 2: there'll be some clinics for the younger cohorts as well

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Speaker 2: as the older generation to engage with the team. But

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Speaker 2: we're just working through the final details around how we

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Speaker 2: can potentially open that up and give everyone here in

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Speaker 2: dah And the chance to come down and meet Alpa

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Speaker 2: Healy or a Best Money or a Leash Perry, whoever

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Speaker 2: it may do. They've got some incredible talent in the team,

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Speaker 2: so we will certainly do our best to try and

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Speaker 2: make the most of the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: How good and then they're heading to Kakadu as well.

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Speaker 1: What are they going to get up to while they're there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think the Australian women's team's being

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Speaker 2: really good in this space, sort of constantly trying to

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Speaker 2: learn and evolve, and they've got a strong interest in

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Speaker 2: the sort of first as space, so they were really keen,

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously being in this part of the country

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Speaker 2: to spend some time out in community. So we're sort

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Speaker 2: of working with them on a couple of days out

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Speaker 2: in Kakadu where I know they're going to be doing

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Speaker 2: some different cultural experiences, spending some time at the school

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Speaker 2: and you know, obviously Ash Gardeners in the group, you know,

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Speaker 2: one of Australias mo successful indigenous atholutes. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I think they're going to just try once they finish

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Speaker 2: their sort of prep, I think, get get out to

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Speaker 2: Kakador and enjoy a few days together with some cultural experiences.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how awesome. I think it's wonderful to have them

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Speaker 1: here in the Northern Territory. And I know it's not

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Speaker 1: the only thing that's been happening when it comes to

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Speaker 1: cricket here in the end, to the Australian men's cricketers

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Speaker 1: with an intellectual disability. That team's just completed along training camp,

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Speaker 1: a week long training camp here as well, haven't they.

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Speaker 2: Yeah they have, Yeah, just just wrapped up last week.

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Speaker 2: And again I think it just speaks to the opportunity

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Speaker 2: that we think exists up here Kadi, you know, to

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Speaker 2: make the most of the dry season of weather which

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Speaker 2: is perfect for cricket. So you know, they had a

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Speaker 2: fantastic camp. They don't often get the opportunity to get

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Speaker 2: together as a group. Their schedules maybe not as full

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Speaker 2: we were only too happy to work with them on

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Speaker 2: making that possible. They played a few games against their

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Speaker 2: academy which was a great experience and that a roll

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Speaker 2: into the Australian women's team being here and we've already

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Speaker 2: talked throughout the men, so there will actually before Australian

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Speaker 2: that's a great opportunity for us to showcase what we

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Speaker 2: think the territory offer is a sport.

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Speaker 1: What sounds that there's plenty happening for you, Gavin at

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Speaker 1: when it comes to cricket in the Northern Territory. There's

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Speaker 1: lots going on, seem to be getting plenty of people

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Speaker 1: from around Australia, plenty of cricketers from around Australia here

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Speaker 1: to experience the NT.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that's the opportunity we think, you know,

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Speaker 2: cricket offers it. It's a huge sport, at global sport.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's building defense around the world that are

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Speaker 2: incredibly passionate about it and we're the only only country

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Speaker 2: that can play cricket all ye all year rounds and

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Speaker 2: so we want to try and make sure that we

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Speaker 2: continue to promote and advocate that opportunity. We think it

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Speaker 2: will deliver a number of benefits for the territory and

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Speaker 2: this year is probably the watershed year for us, I reckon.

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Speaker 2: So if we can do a good job, I think

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Speaker 2: you know there's going to be plenty more of these

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Speaker 2: opportunities in years to come.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, good on you NT Cricket CEO Gavin Dovey.

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Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with you mate, Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time this morning, Brian, Thanks Katie, thank

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Speaker 1: you