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Speaker 1: This episode of The Surge is brought to you by Origin,

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Speaker 1: proud partners of Cricket Australia and powering the Power Surge

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Speaker 1: in BBL fifty. The Big Bash has been full of

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Speaker 1: memorable moments and today's guest has been involved in many

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Speaker 1: of them.

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Speaker 2: Yes Yes, from.

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Speaker 1: Maximum Melbourne Stars superstar Glenn Maxwell joins us on this

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Speaker 1: special edition of the show. This is the Surge. Hey everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Surge. And that is right. Glenn

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Speaker 1: Maxwell is in the studio with me to talk about

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Speaker 1: how the Melbourne Stars are going this season and also

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Speaker 1: a little bit about his career playing in the BBL.

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Speaker 2: MAXI welcome, nice to be here, Waddie.

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Speaker 1: It's been an exciting run this year from the Melbourne

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Speaker 1: Stars started really well. You've had your bit of a lull,

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Speaker 1: but that Melbourne Derby the other night just shows I

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Speaker 1: think how dominant you can be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a really good I suppose twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: five for us basically went through what was it ten

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Speaker 3: and one? I think we were for apart from that

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Speaker 3: final and had a little bit of low I think

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Speaker 3: with the way the tournament's been going, the toss is

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Speaker 3: the bat flip is so important, and I feel like

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Speaker 3: we've been in positions to win a couple of those

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Speaker 3: games where we've lost the bat flip and just haven't

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Speaker 3: quite nailed those moments, and it probably has put us

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Speaker 3: in the position where these last two games are really important.

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Speaker 3: But we feel like we're playing really good cricket, We've

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Speaker 3: got a side that's gelled really well together, and we're

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Speaker 3: ex sighed by what the rest of the season has

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Speaker 1: What is it about the toss? Why has that all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden become so important and so important to bat? Second?

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Speaker 1: Do you think?

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Speaker 3: I think it could be something about conditions and the

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Speaker 3: way that they've probably surprised a few people. I think

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Speaker 3: the wickets haven't traditionally played the same every time we

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Speaker 3: look at the two mcg pitch that we've had. For example,

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Speaker 3: the first one we played at against the Hoe but

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Speaker 3: Hurricanes was probably as good of wicked as we've had

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Speaker 3: And I think we kept until around one seventy, and

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Speaker 3: there was full conference in that team knowing that that's

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Speaker 3: doubts amongst a few of the people, going, we actually

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Speaker 3: don't know how this wigt's going to play. The last

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Speaker 3: probably called a few teams short. You're not really quite

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Speaker 3: and it's early on nights, like I suppose last night,

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Speaker 1: You talk it for about the Melbourne Stars because not everyone,

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Speaker 1: but there's a fair few people that forget how well

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Speaker 1: you finished the year. Obviously not in the final, but

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Speaker 1: just to qualify. Did you feel that was real, that

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Speaker 1: momentum that you're able to carry on from last year?

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Speaker 1: It was just about picking up what you were doing

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Speaker 2: Little bit of both.

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Speaker 3: I think when you have a couple of inclusions into

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Speaker 2: At the start of the tournament, Aris Rouph back in we.

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Speaker 3: Looked at our bowling attack and just thought, you know what,

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Speaker 3: And we've probably had a lot of ins and outs

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Speaker 3: And I think you only have to look at the

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Speaker 1: That's what it feels like to me is you've got

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the fact that we've got a guy

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Speaker 2: It's been just nice to be a part of.

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Speaker 3: And when you're sitting in the field, you have the

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Speaker 1: Talk to us about the emotion of the team. It

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Speaker 1: but it really looked like it hurts you quite quite significantly.

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Speaker 1: It feels like there's this feeling that maybe not has

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Speaker 3: I think it's probably more of united feeling of togetherness.

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Speaker 3: I think within the squad, we we win together, we

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Speaker 3: Performance is within that and we've been trying to, I suppose,

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Speaker 3: love seeing Storing banging his chest, they love Skids going

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Speaker 1: You've been there a long time. Is this the best

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Speaker 1: it's felt as a as a unified group, as a team,

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Speaker 1: and even just from a quality point of view, I.

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Speaker 3: Think probably there's a couple of times where it's felt incredible.

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Speaker 2: I think the team that we had.

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Speaker 3: That lost the Renegades in that final, we had quality

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Speaker 3: We had It felt like we had a lot of

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Speaker 3: just it just feels great energy on the field. Stowin's

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Speaker 1: He seems like he loves it. I spoke to him

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Speaker 1: you just see the care he has for the team

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think captains can go a couple of ways,

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Speaker 3: think it's just probably made him a more well rounded cricketer.

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Speaker 2: In the BBL.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, just to see the way that he's maged

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Speaker 2: He works really well with Peter Moores.

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Speaker 3: They've got a great relationship and it's just continued. It's

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Speaker 1: Talked about Peter Moores. To talk to him is fascinating

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Speaker 1: It's like Greg Shippard, like you kind of be like,

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Speaker 1: If there's anyone qualified to answer this question, and it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting, Interesting, And Peter Siddle, what he's been able

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Speaker 3: was nice, just to hit a couple of round be

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Speaker 3: involved in a partnership. And I think that's probably the

441
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Speaker 3: thing I'm concentrating on most now is how can I

442
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Speaker 3: how can I be of influence without having to try

443
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Speaker 3: and be the main man or try and hit the

444
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 3: first three or four balls for boundaries and just make

445
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 3: sure the other other guy's doing really well, and probably

446
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 3: play more of a backseat role and make sure I'm

447
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,640
Speaker 3: being a good lead with the wound plane.

448
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you need some time in the

449
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 1: middle between now and the final series to feel that

450
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: you can have an impact or you've got that much

451
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: cricket behind you that you still trust yourself and believe

452
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Speaker 1: that everything's okay.

453
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Speaker 3: No, I feel like I've played enough cricket to know

454
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Speaker 3: that when the when the game turns up and it's

455
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 3: on the line, that I'll be able to perform and

456
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 3: be able to deliver. And that comes from years of

457
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 3: being in this situation and being in these these times

458
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 3: where I'll come off not much cricket and go out

459
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 3: there as soon as I get into the heat of

460
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Speaker 3: the battle and there's something on the line or no

461
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Speaker 3: to when to turn it on and hopefully perform. But

462
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Speaker 3: as I said, hopefully Harps and Tommy Rodgers can keep

463
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Speaker 3: doing the job. They're doing a great job and we'll

464
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Speaker 3: make continue.

465
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Speaker 1: The problem to have. How much do you want this?

466
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Speaker 1: You've You've done so much in your career internationally domestically

467
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,919
Speaker 1: with what you've won, but to actually win a BBL

468
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Speaker 1: trophy considering you've been there since the start the fifteenth

469
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Speaker 1: edition of the Big Bash to actually win that is

470
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Speaker 1: that really important to you personally?

471
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Speaker 3: I'd be lying if I said I hadn't lost hours

472
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Speaker 3: of sleep thinking about it this season, when I think

473
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Speaker 3: when we were five and zero and I was going

474
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Speaker 3: to bed at night, going starting to let my mind

475
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Speaker 3: drift forward to what if it is this year?

476
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Speaker 2: What am I going to do?

477
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Speaker 3: What's the future hold? Yeah, I'd be lying if I

478
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 3: haven't hadn't started to think of that fairy tale and

479
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 3: what it looks like. And this has been such a

480
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 3: huge part of my career playing at the Stars. The

481
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Speaker 3: people that have been involved with the with the franchise,

482
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Speaker 3: the impact that it's had in my career, the timings

483
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Speaker 3: of certain innings, moments, players that have influenced and shapes

484
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 3: and molded me as a person, player on and off

485
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 3: the field, has been Yeah, I suppose a huge.

486
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Speaker 2: Part of why I want so much. They've given me

487
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 2: so much.

488
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 3: This team and fans have been probably right there the

489
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 3: whole way through every high and low, and I just

490
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 3: feel like it's it'd be so so great to be

491
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 3: able to give them something back, and to be a

492
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 3: part of that would be would be incredible, all.

493
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Speaker 1: Right, we'll sort of brought out the discussion next about

494
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: what the BBL means to you, what the stars mean

495
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 1: to you, and a few broader questions.

496
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Speaker 2: It is the surge.

497
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Speaker 1: We've got Glenn Maxwell in this studio with us. It's

498
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Speaker 1: now time to have a look back before we chat

499
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Speaker 1: to Glenn about that catch he took up at the

500
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Speaker 1: Gabba and work out whether it was was it lucky

501
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: or was it pure skilled Laurence into the attack with

502
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: that unusual action.

503
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Speaker 2: Prestwige doesn't stand around and wait for it.

504
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: There you go.

505
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable. We've seen some incredible stuff this summer, but that

506
00:24:51,480 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 2: is the catch of the year. Rolling through, keep rolling through.

507
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 2: Satisfied with that, ready to make my decision.

508
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Speaker 1: I believe that we are so lucky to watch.

509
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Speaker 2: As the best catch I've ever seen in a big bashon.

510
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: There you go, there's the catch.

511
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 2: You just see it there?

512
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: Roll out when you watch that? What do you think?

513
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 3: I watched that and I think it's about time I

514
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 3: got one of them.

515
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Speaker 2: It's funny the boundary line catches.

516
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Speaker 3: I've been practicing for years and there's been certain rule

517
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: changes which have allowed certain boundary line catches to be

518
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 3: less I suppose acrobatic and explosive, we can throw the

519
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 3: ball up as me times you want over the fence

520
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 3: in the car park, Yeah, and you can sort of

521
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 3: get away with it. And then as the rule changes

522
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: are sort of I suppose evolved and changed over the years,

523
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,239
Speaker 3: you sort of have to adapt your training around it.

524
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Speaker 2: And I think I think back to.

525
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Speaker 3: Probably early days that starts when we brought the boundaries

526
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Speaker 3: in a long like a long way off the square boundaries.

527
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 3: There was a lot of room for sort of balls

528
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 3: to sort of top spin over and land around the rope.

529
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 3: So I started practicing with a lot more room about

530
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Speaker 3: how do I jump as far as I possibly can

531
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Speaker 3: create maybe one or two extra meters where I can

532
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 3: get the ball back in. And that was probably when

533
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 3: I started thinking about a bit more seriously and how

534
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,360
Speaker 3: technique was going to play a big part in saving

535
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Speaker 3: boundaries and using your teammates being in Like if you're

536
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 3: a long way by yourself, how am I going to

537
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 3: get the ball high enough? What's the technique? And we

538
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 3: need to be in a position to throw it high enough?

539
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 3: Like what angle do I have to catch on? Where

540
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 3: do I have to get my body and all that

541
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 3: sort of stuff sort of started coming in.

542
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Speaker 2: That was all just trial and error and le's sort.

543
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 3: Of go around the ground, do different I suppose spin

544
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 3: tights ball curving into me, curving away, whatever it might be.

545
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,479
Speaker 3: Just started to try and get really good at reading

546
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 3: the flight path when it is going to land around

547
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 3: the rope. How I'm going to take that completely out

548
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 3: of the game and not worry about it. And there

549
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 3: was one I think the other night.

550
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Speaker 2: A month ago. Now, it's when Peter Siddle obviously had

551
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: that catch.

552
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 3: It long off or I jumped and took the catch,

553
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 3: and I wasn't sure how close it was. But as

554
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 3: the ball was in the fight, I was like, I

555
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: think that's going to be close to the rope, and

556
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 3: I don't want to get stuck where I'm standing basically

557
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 3: on the rope and I don't know where my feed are.

558
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 3: So I just basically took it completely out of it

559
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 3: and went, you know what, I do this one hundred

560
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 3: times in practice. I'm just going to commit to this

561
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 3: and take the rope completely out of it and make

562
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 3: sure the catch. And sure enough it was sort of

563
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 3: near the rope. Probably could have caught it standing up right,

564
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 3: but if the wind had maybe pushed that extra foot,

565
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 3: I would have been forced to probably stand on it.

566
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 3: So I was like, you know what, take it completely

567
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 3: out of it, make sure of the catch, and that

568
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 3: sort of practices led to I suppose open conversation with

569
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 3: a lot of the players and the team and trying

570
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 3: to make the boundary and extra meet a longer, and.

571
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Speaker 2: I suppose I reckon.

572
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 3: That's the probably the most fun I get out of

573
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 3: fielding has been able to suppose stretch the boundaries a

574
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 3: little bit and force the batters to hit it even further.

575
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: So we often talk to Australian rules football is whose

576
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: sense where the goals are they don't even necessarily see

577
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: them when they kick their snaps under pressure in a

578
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 1: sort of a play on situation, do you are you

579
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: watching where the rope is as the ball's coming in

580
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: or is it more a sensing of Because the practice

581
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: you're put in there, you can focus on the flight

582
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: of the ball and not not worry about the rope

583
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: because you kind of know where it is without knowing.

584
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: Well, with that press which one I was, he hit

585
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 3: it quite straight. I was a bit little bit wide

586
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: at long on, so I was running diagonal to the ball,

587
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: and it was I had the perfect.

588
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: View of the trajectory.

589
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 3: I knew it was going over the rope, and because

590
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 3: of the angle I was running out of my peripheral

591
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 3: I can see the boundary. So as I'm running, I

592
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 3: know I've going to start to get ready to load

593
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 3: up a jump, try and get as high and as

594
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: long as I possibly can to give myself enough time

595
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 3: to make the catch and give myself enough time to throw.

596
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 2: It while I'm in the air, And I try.

597
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 3: And take the catch on the way slightly up and

598
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 3: then make the throw on the way down. And then

599
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 3: because I knew that long off was quite wide, I

600
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 3: knew I wasn't going to be able to get it

601
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 3: to him.

602
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: So I was like, well, I've got to try and

603
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: make this play myself.

604
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 3: So we're going to throw it high enough to allow

605
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 3: myself to land and get back in. And the good

606
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 3: thing is that I'm taking off from my left foot,

607
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 3: which is not my strongest, and I'm laying on my

608
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: right foot, which is my stronger one, so I'm able

609
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 3: to push off and go. When it's on the other side,

610
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 3: my left angle doesn't quite want to push off as

611
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 3: quickly as.

612
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 2: The other one. So it was probably on my safer side.

613
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 3: My right hand's a better catching hand, and taking it

614
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 3: one hand allowed it to sort of almost be in

615
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 3: one motion where I was able to go going straight

616
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 3: into an underarm, So it allowed me a little bit

617
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 3: more time while I was in the air. If I

618
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 3: take that two hands, I've probably got to load up

619
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 3: another underarm and it ends up being a bit closer

620
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 3: to me landing before I've got rid of the ball.

621
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 3: So I think what as I took off, I was like, yeah,

622
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 3: I think this is going to be one handed, yep,

623
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 3: and then make the play.

624
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: Are you more satisfied in taking that sort of catch

625
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: compared to some of the ones you're taken in the infield,

626
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: which has maybe been more spectacular with the dive or

627
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: the acrobatic side of things. Is it because there's more

628
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: skill and more different components attached to being out in

629
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: the adfield.

630
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 3: I think the amount of work that I've put into

631
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 3: that particular type of catch, I think that's why I

632
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 3: was satisfying to know that I have put so much

633
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 3: time and effort into making sure that if there is

634
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 3: balls that are going over the rope, I can still

635
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 3: affect a play Because.

636
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: Not just a catch, it's also saving six runs.

637
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's that's probably why I was the

638
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 3: most pleasing thing. It was like, technically, I've worked so

639
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 3: hard on this, and I've tried to bring a few

640
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 3: of the players with me and in doing boundary line

641
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 3: catching and explaining why doesn't matter what boundary line you're on,

642
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 3: always be a couple of meters off. I don't care

643
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 3: how short the boundary is. You've got to have enough

644
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 3: room to have a couple of steps to explode and jump.

645
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 3: You can create a bigger fielding circle by just being

646
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 3: in one or two meters. Even adelaide over when it's

647
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 3: fifty five meters, I'm still a couple of meters off

648
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 3: the rope. It's just so it gives me enough time

649
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 3: to turn and run a couple of steps to be

650
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 3: able to get that jump. It's really hard to I suppose,

651
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 3: jump long and high enough from a standing position, so

652
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 3: just to be able to give yourself that little bit

653
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 3: of space to get a bit of momentum and hopefully

654
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 3: create a slightly bigger boundary.

655
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: So if someone in local cricket does something spectacular, they

656
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: just hope it's on frog box, which is which is difficult,

657
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: particularly in the outfield, because you only pretty much see

658
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: the pitch, but all the you know, we tick it

659
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: on frog box and have a look on a Saturday night.

660
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: Are you someone that likes to look at your own

661
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: highlights and see what you've done? Or is it like, no,

662
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: that's done, now it' under the next.

663
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 2: One you get.

664
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 3: You get tagged in a straight away on the Instagram,

665
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: so you sort of see it straight away And do you.

666
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: Know that so much? You know wow yet what you're doing?

667
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: But can you impress yourself? I don't mean I mean

668
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: that the right way.

669
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 3: No, I think it's more I look at and go good,

670
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 3: that's how it felt.

671
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 2: I wanted to.

672
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 3: I want it to look the way it feels. Yes,

673
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: So I think sort of matching up. It's a lot

674
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 3: of the reason I think as a up and coming

675
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 3: play you should always probably film your training sessions and

676
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 3: sort of try and marry up the looks of the feel.

677
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 3: So I remember as a as a kid, I think

678
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 3: for my dad's fiftieth birthday, you've got a video camera

679
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 3: basically to film my games, and we filmed owt net sessions.

680
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 3: It's served tennis balls at me. We'd race home, plug

681
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 3: it into the TV, and watch the whole session back.

682
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: But I wanted to. I wanted to see my own technique.

683
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 3: I wanted to see how it married up to how

684
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,959
Speaker 3: I felt when I was batting, and if the shots

685
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 3: looked the way I felt like they felt. And hopefully

686
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 3: having that understand about look and feel and making sure

687
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: that path is how I felt it was and how

688
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 3: it looked is probably the reason I was the cricketer

689
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 3: I was when.

690
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,479
Speaker 2: I was growing up.

691
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 3: And yeah, I always like to sort of match up

692
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 3: your versus look. And I think it's why looking back

693
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 3: at your footage, it's not about a feel good I

694
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 3: think it's about remembering your movements and making sure you're

695
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 3: remembering the good stuff you did and why it was good,

696
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 3: and understanding that balance of right, that's how it looks

697
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 3: when I'm going really well, and that's how it looks

698
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 3: when it's not quite where you need it to be.

699
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 3: So marrying up those couple of things, I think is

700
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 3: why I use footage quite a bit.

701
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: So then that sort of moves perfectly into your batting.

702
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: You know, we all think of the sweet chitting and

703
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: there and all these sorts of all the high degree

704
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: of difficulty shots. What gives you most satisfaction when you

705
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 1: hit to hit a boundary? What's the shot that you're

706
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: happy with the most that you go, Yep, that's I'm

707
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: playing well, that's exactly how I want it to be.

708
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 2: Probably the drives over mid off.

709
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 3: I think that's when my body shape is the way

710
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 3: I'm trying to set it up.

711
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 2: I try and set up to hit.

712
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 3: Over mid off and deep backward square, which is how

713
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 3: I line my body and.

714
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: That's why sometime you're a lot more open open.

715
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 3: But when I open up, I'm actually setting up to

716
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 3: hit over mid off because I know I realign my

717
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 3: shoulders in that position and I'm hoping that my back

718
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 3: flow will naturally happen. I'm not too worried about my

719
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 3: bottom half. My bottom half is open to access behind

720
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 3: square if they do go short to then allow my

721
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 3: body and just hands to just go through. But I'm

722
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 3: looking for all that I can hit over mid off

723
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 3: and to when it's going really well, I know it's

724
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 3: I know exactly how it looks and I know how

725
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 3: it feels.

726
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 2: So it's it's something I've worked really hard on, and I.

727
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 3: Probably think back to the Marvel game last year when

728
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,439
Speaker 3: I scored probably three or four six is over long

729
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 3: off with that marvel, which is a huge, huge straight boundary,

730
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 3: and to be able to hit the ball that cleanly

731
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 3: through that area showed I was in a great position.

732
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 3: And I look back on the positions that I've got

733
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 3: in that game and I'm like, yep, that's that's how

734
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 3: I wanted to look, and that's how I wanted to feel.

735
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 3: I remember exactly the positions I was. I remember what

736
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 3: I was thinking as the ball was running in and

737
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 3: trying to marry that up and keep that consistent going forward.

738
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: Do you hit the ball the same way as you

739
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: did when you first started playing cricket for Australia, because

740
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: we're seeing now a lot of players kind of slice

741
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: the ball down the ground to get the ball to

742
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: go further. I know you're one of the first to

743
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: do that sort of thing. Is that did that come

744
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: about by accident? Did it come about by watching base

745
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: or how did it come about that you kind of

746
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: started to be one of the first to hit the

747
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: ball quite differently down the ground.

748
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.

749
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 3: I was more of a leg side player when I

750
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 3: first started. My slog swept I pulled.

751
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 2: Not hit over long on. I didn't really use the

752
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: offside much.

753
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 3: I had the odd reverse sweep when I was younger,

754
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 3: but I didn't when I started playing for Australia. But

755
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 3: it wasn't something that I worked.

756
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 2: Hard at mastering.

757
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 3: It was more I'm literally looking for anything slightly short

758
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 3: that I can pull and hit the leg side. And

759
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 3: your game evolves and changes over the years, where I

760
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 3: started to get more offside dominant, I started to go

761
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 3: over cover more, I started to lose the leg side

762
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: and I started to gain that back, and I sort

763
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 3: of went through different progressions. I think with where I

764
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 3: was in my batting career, and yeah, I think to

765
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 3: try and sort of as you get older, so it

766
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 3: became a bit more round, so you start to play

767
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 3: the game a little bit more and you actually just

768
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 3: start to play the field instead of I'm just looking

769
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 3: for one or two particular balls. But I used to

770
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 3: sweat on anything slightly above my knee role and I'd

771
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 3: pull it. So that changed and started to look more

772
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 3: over cover and started to look for reverse sweeps and

773
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 3: then started playing the field.

774
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: So is it the way that play it, not just

775
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: you the way you hit the ball. It is it

776
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: kind of slicing, not cutting the ball the way it

777
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: goes down the ground now rather than a full face,

778
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: it feels like it's more slicing, sort of almost golf

779
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: type shot. Yeah.

780
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 3: I think leg side players will, apart from probably Tim David,

781
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 3: who's one of the best exponents of that open face.

782
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: He can.

783
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 3: He's done a great job in turning power hitting into

784
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 3: a work of art, the way that he can hit

785
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 3: that wide yorker miles over cover six and also hit

786
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 3: it dead straight down the ground and if you get

787
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 3: slightly inside that wide line is probably going to mid wicket,

788
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 3: and then if anywhere straight it's gone as well. He's

789
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 3: in such a great strong position for every ball, and

790
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 3: there's such a beautiful batswing. He knows if he has

791
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 3: the bat face slightly open, he can access every part

792
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 3: and it's almost like when he gets the right one

793
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 3: and it almost closes over, just to touch to make

794
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 3: sure it goes a little bit further and straight down

795
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 3: the ground. I probably think about the six that he

796
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 3: hit in the T twenty series. That was it Ninja

797
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 3: Stadium where it hit the top of the stand and

798
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 3: I've never seen a ball anywhere near that at that ground, like,

799
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 3: that's the longest hit I've ever seen a ninja stadium,

800
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 3: and we're watching it in the air, going there's it's

801
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 3: got to come down at some stage. And then I

802
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 3: just hit the sign above the stand. It was like,

803
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 3: oh my god, that's so big. But that was the

804
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 3: one where it's like it's the hands are really open,

805
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 3: but actually the bat face is actually sort of slightly closed,

806
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 3: and he just nutted it absolutely perfect and it went miles.

807
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: Remember you talk to me about how if you're playing

808
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: a red ball game, actually unfortunately you don't play as

809
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: many of in fact Hawley anymore versus white ball, you

810
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: actually have a different grip, which I'd love you to explain,

811
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: because you talk to me about this in the next

812
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: one day and I was just like, I couldn't believe it.

813
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: How different it is too.

814
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if I was to go back to

815
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 3: red ball, my setup would be different, my trigger would

816
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 3: be different. You're looking to leave a lot more. You're

817
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 3: looking to be more selective in probably only having two

818
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 3: or three shots for a long part of your innings,

819
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 3: where in white ball cricket you've got to keep the

820
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 3: whole ground open. You've got to continually score. You've got

821
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 3: to continually be busy putting pressure back on the bowler,

822
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 3: where red ball create's about absorbing pressure and batting longer.

823
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 2: Periods of time.

824
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 3: And I think in BBL and T twenty cricket, I'm

825
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 3: open face. I'm trying to make sure I'm not facing

826
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 3: any dop balls or anything outside off I've got to

827
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 3: try and find a gap on the off side or

828
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 3: create something on the leg side, whatever it might be.

829
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: Ball cricket, you're probably letting that go.

830
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 3: And and and trying to wait for the bowld to

831
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 3: hopefully bowl fuller ty or shorter or whatever you're looking for.

832
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 3: You're trying to force them to go searching and try

833
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 3: and drag you in into an area where you want

834
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 3: you want them to bowl yes, And so it means

835
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 3: your bat face is going to be straighter for a

836
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 3: little bit longer. You're hoping that they Boustralia and your

837
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 3: bat faces straight down to them instead of open trying

838
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 3: to run it. So there's there's a couple of differences,

839
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 3: and you're probably hoping for more inside edges in red

840
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 3: ball crecket, where you're covering the ball going away getting

841
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 3: inside edge. It goes down the final League for one,

842
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 3: and it feels like you've won the battle. Where it

843
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 3: happens in T twenty cricket the Bowl, it feels like

844
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 3: they've won the battle. So yeah, there's a there's a

845
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 3: couple of little differences that I see. I don't think

846
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: there's I don't think that's for everyone. Like I'm going

847
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 3: to say, Sam harp Is probably been in the same

848
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 3: way in both formats. Before he started the tourm we

849
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 3: talked about how much Funny had facing Mitchell's Dark and

850
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 3: he wasn't even thinking about trying to hit boundaries but

851
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 3: literally just got into his zone where he was just like,

852
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 3: I'm just going to hit it, and was playing some

853
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 3: amazing shots and I think he ended up getting out

854
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 3: to him. But he said he had so much fun

855
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 3: in that contest where it was it was just felt

856
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 3: free and enjoyable.

857
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: And then from the last one on the batting craft

858
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: the switch hit or the reverse Now, is that always

859
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: premeditated or have you got enough time obviously if the

860
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: bowling is slow to be able to make that adjustment

861
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: once the ball leaves the hand, or is it really

862
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: based on where the field is and you've actually got

863
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 1: to make that call before it's bold.

864
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 2: No, you have to make that call before it's bold.

865
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 3: I think to be one hundred percent committed to when

866
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 3: you're playing that shot, one hundred percent clear where you're

867
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 3: trying to hit that shot as well. So I've made

868
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 3: it no secret that I've got a lot of different

869
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,439
Speaker 3: techniques to hitting that shot. It's not always the same

870
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: reverse sweep, it's always the same switch of feet.

871
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: There's different areas that.

872
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 3: I'm trying to access, and I'm trying to move the

873
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 3: field around to make it an easier, easier option to

874
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 3: score a boundary a different way and hopefully force the

875
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 3: bowler to bowl it in a different way as well.

876
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 3: So it's something that I've worked really hard on over

877
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:17,479
Speaker 3: the over the years and something that I hope gets

878
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: me out of trouble when if the conditions are in

879
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 3: the bowler's favor, if I can play that a couple

880
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: of times, hopefully it gets them off their game and

881
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 3: it starts making them by a different way.

882
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: Is that is that all your strategy or technique. Have

883
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: you looked at others that have done it? And Abda

884
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: Villiers comes to mind, Danny Flower comes to mind from

885
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: the past that have been able to do it very successfully.

886
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: So if you watch what they've done, spoken to them,

887
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: or has it always been your way.

888
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 3: You certainly get ideas watching from other people. I remember

889
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 3: so you used a couple of really good examples there,

890
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 3: like Andy Flower I remember in reverse reverse sweeping really

891
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 3: successfully when he came to Australia.

892
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 2: Abe Davilla has been able to do it.

893
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: Another one, yep kp was a big switch hitter.

894
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 3: I was able to change around, had a lot more

895
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 3: movements than I think I can do, where he sort

896
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 3: of jumps and sort of gets in position, but having

897
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 3: long limbs and a big reach probably allows him to

898
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 3: do that.

899
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 2: Me being slightly shorter than he might have to probably

900
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 2: do it.

901
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 3: In a different way and be able to I suppose,

902
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 3: build momentum and rhythm through the boarder, be able to

903
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 3: get paced. And Morgan was one I used to watch

904
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 3: who had really quick wrists. He used to be able

905
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 3: to do it off Paseball. I remember him doing off

906
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 3: Ravi Rample in a T twenty World Cup in.

907
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 2: The West Indies. What year that was, two thousand and tennish, Yeah.

908
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 3: I remember him like Ravi Rample on Fast York and

909
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 3: on Morgan literally staying dead steel and reverse ramping him

910
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 3: for six and all with fast hands. It wasn't just

911
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 3: a lap, it was a far hands flicking. I remember

912
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 3: watching it going wow, that's that's amazing manipulation of the field,

913
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 3: amazing skill and ability.

914
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 2: How could I potentially bring that in in my way?

915
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 3: And what movements would I need to sort of be

916
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 3: able to execute something like that? Where if the man

917
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 3: and backward pointer up, how can I access that area

918
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 3: and try to sort of go about my own way

919
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 3: to try and find boundaries in that region.

920
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: Walking out to bat when you know so many people

921
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: are there to watch you play and for you to

922
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: put on a show that the pressure that comes with that,

923
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: how do you focus just on the ball that's coming

924
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: knowing that we're coming to watch Glenn Maxwell hit sixers

925
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: as opposed to we're coming here to watch the Melbourne

926
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 1: Stars win or to watch Australia win. How do how

927
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: do you block that ad or do you actually sort

928
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: of accept that and kind of see that as a

929
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: bit of a compliment and it helps you become the

930
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: play that you've become.

931
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 3: I've got better at blocking it out over the years.

932
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 3: I understand and people want to be entertained. I understand

933
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 3: that there is a lot of expectation around me when

934
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 3: I come to the crease from past results, past experiences

935
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 3: they might have had coming to watch the cricket. But

936
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 3: I think once I go out there and I see

937
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 3: my partner at the other end, I'm able to probably

938
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 3: realign pretty quickly and got pretty good at blocking out

939
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 3: a lot of I suppose white noise where I'm able to,

940
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 3: I suppose concentrate on what is coming down and he

941
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 3: sense it.

942
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 1: Can you sense it as you're walking out or.

943
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably gets to it until I mark center

944
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 3: and I'm facing up, I probably take it in a

945
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 3: little bit. But and then I think, I have my

946
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 3: little pre ball routine where no, no, this is my job,

947
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 3: this is my business. I've I've had a knuckle down,

948
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 3: and this is what I need to do and be.

949
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:53,879
Speaker 2: In a middle order better.

950
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 3: It's generally played out pretty clearly in front of you

951
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 3: what you need to do. So I try and focus

952
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 3: on as much as I can, and it's probably a

953
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 3: learned skill from past experience has gone wrong. I certainly

954
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 3: haven't always got it right. Sometimes I've let it get

955
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 3: to me and the.

956
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 2: Weight of spectation can weigh pretty heavily on you.

957
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 3: And if you don't score runs a couple of times

958
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 3: in a row, you can have that heightened sense of

959
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 3: pressure and grip gets a bit tighter.

960
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 2: You start to not.

961
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 3: Focus on the things that really matter, which is just

962
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 3: that ball coming down at you. And but yeah, it's

963
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 3: probably taken a long time to get to this stage,

964
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 3: and yeah, something I think that I've got better at

965
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 3: managing these days.

966
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there's always the noise. And remember Andrew

967
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: McDonald said to me one day about you as a

968
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: cricket that if you want the good, you've got to

969
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 1: accept the bad, that it's not always going to come off.

970
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: So if you're yelling and screaming and all excited when

971
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: Maxy does this and max It does that, you've got

972
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: to understand that you think got a copy that if

973
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: he tries to reverse sweep and gets out without scoring,

974
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: that's just part of part of what he does as

975
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: a cricketer. Is that something that did Andrew McDonald help

976
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:09,919
Speaker 1: you in that in that sense? Or is that something

977
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: again that just through experience you've learned to accept in

978
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: your own performance.

979
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 3: I guess yeah, it's probably Michael Divinudo as well. He

980
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 3: used to sit in the Chaine room and if I,

981
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 3: let's say I miss a reverse sweep and someone would

982
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 3: say something, he goes, well, don't clap his good ones,

983
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 3: and what we all We're all sit there and cheer

984
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 3: when he hits his good ones. If you I'm going

985
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 3: to take the bad ones, don't clap the good ones.

986
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 3: So it's done that a lot for us. Souport. Did

987
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 3: that help them certainly? Yeah, to have the support of it,

988
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 3: And I know I've got the backing and support of

989
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 3: all the change rooms that I play in because they've

990
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,720
Speaker 3: but I feel accepted, which hasn't always been the case.

991
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 3: But you've You've got to have a lot of years

992
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 3: I suppose of trust, and you build that up and

993
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 3: perform well enough in high pressure games and have enough

994
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 3: credits in the bank to be able to play a

995
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 3: certain way. And I feel like I've done enough to

996
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 3: earn that.

997
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: So do you ever get off the ground and go, Glenn,

998
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: why did I do that? Or I shouldn't have done

999
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: that at that early or are you good at accepting No,

1000
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: that's the nature of the game, And in that moment,

1001
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: I did what I thought was the right thing to do. Oh.

1002
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 3: I certainly have times where I get frustrated at the

1003
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 3: way I get out or the way I've played, and

1004
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 3: probably even more recently against the Renegades at the MCG,

1005
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 3: I think I went away from a game plan that

1006
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 3: I had really simple before the game, and I went

1007
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 3: away from that, and that was probably the most frustrating

1008
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 3: one where that was set out beautifully for me to

1009
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 3: be able to control the middle overs, get ready to

1010
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 3: take the surge and then go from there, and that.

1011
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 2: Was probably the most frustrating one.

1012
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 3: Would probably realign me to play the way I did

1013
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 3: the other night when I was back with Sam and

1014
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 3: to make sure, no, no, no, I'm going to put that

1015
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 3: straight into practice. This is what I planned before the game,

1016
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 3: and this.

1017
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: Is how I'm going to play.

1018
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 3: And to be able to put that straight into to

1019
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 3: practice is I think what experience is is if you

1020
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 3: make a mistake, you're able to learn from it straight

1021
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 3: away and move and go and put it into practice

1022
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 3: straight away. And as I said, hasn't it hasn't happened overnight.

1023
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 3: That's been a lot of years of making mistakes and

1024
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 3: trial and error and learning experiences and learning from your

1025
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 3: teammates as well, and to be able to hopefully share

1026
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 3: those experiences with other players coming through. Hopefully they take

1027
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 3: those experiences on board and can learn quicker than I

1028
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 3: did and hopefully have long careers.

1029
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: A lot of the people that listen to this podcast

1030
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 1: or watch this podcast are young players coming up, or

1031
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: even just suburban cricketers. And you go to a Crew

1032
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: Grand that's a small one. The batter might go out

1033
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: and go, oh, I reckon, I might be able to

1034
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: hit six on this ground. And then they might go

1035
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: to another Grand where the outfield has been cut for

1036
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: two weeks and they go, well, i'll put the big

1037
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: shots to way. I'm not going to be able to

1038
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: do it. So I've got to play the percentages for

1039
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: you when you go out. Is there any grand where

1040
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: you go? I can't hit a six any ball if

1041
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: I really want to? And is that again? Does that

1042
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: change the way you might play if you're playing on

1043
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: a small ground in New Zealand versus the MCG, or

1044
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: playing in England versus playing somewhere else.

1045
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 3: To be fair, every time I walk out to MCG,

1046
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 3: I look at the bardies and I'm like, I can't

1047
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 3: hit a six here. I cannot hit a six here,

1048
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 3: it's impossible, it's so far over there. And then when

1049
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 3: you're in the game, you're just playing and end up

1050
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 3: hitting one well enough that goes to six, and.

1051
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: It's actually about playing the shot rather than the actual result.

1052
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably don't. I probably tak myself out of

1053
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 3: it before the game. It's like, well, I'm not taking

1054
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 3: on that boundary. I'm not taking on that boundary, not

1055
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,760
Speaker 3: even going to bother looking over there, same thing, adelaid,

1056
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 3: I have a look down the ground. I'm like, I

1057
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 3: Wan's sitting a six there, and then you watch story

1058
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 3: and hit one off the toe and it goes over

1059
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 3: the site screen, Like what is going on here? This

1060
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 3: guy's way too strong for me. But yeah, I think

1061
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 3: once again in the game, and yeah, the adrenaline's going.

1062
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 3: You're watching the ball and you're just adapting and just

1063
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 3: playing your shots so it can happen naturally. And that's

1064
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:13,800
Speaker 3: what I've been playing my best. Same thing at Marvel.

1065
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 3: I look straight down the ground there and I don't

1066
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 3: think I can clear the rope and you see the

1067
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 3: fielder out there. It's like I'm not taking on him.

1068
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 3: And I did it like three or four times, hit

1069
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 3: it over the top of it. I was like, I

1070
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 3: don't know where that came from, but I hit the

1071
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 3: middle of the bat and it went for six. So

1072
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 3: that's that's just clear thinking and hopefully just watching the

1073
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 3: ball and reacting. And yeah, I try not to have

1074
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 3: the boundary sizes get into my head too much.

1075
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 2: Sometimes it can happen and you get.

1076
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 3: To Adelaide Oval or Hobart where see those short square

1077
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 3: boundaries year still looking at it and going it won't

1078
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 3: take much to get it over that. But yeah, I

1079
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,840
Speaker 3: think when i'm what we've tried to do as a

1080
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 3: team this year is trying to keep the whole whole

1081
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 3: ground open. Don't worry about the boundary size, just keep

1082
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 3: the whole ground open and trying to adapt to what

1083
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,439
Speaker 3: you what you see coming down. And it's worked pretty

1084
00:51:59,440 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 3: well for us.

1085
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,399
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, and thank you so much

1086
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: for coming in. I know a lot of people be

1087
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: loving hearing all these stories. Over the course of the

1088
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: of your career fifteen years in the BBL who and

1089
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: there are a couple of moments that stand out for

1090
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: you that you're particularly wand of.

1091
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, one definitely springs to mind. I think of the.

1092
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 3: Derby in I think it was either twenty fourteen. It

1093
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 3: was the twenty fourteen to fifteen season, batting with Kevin Peterson.

1094
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 3: I'd come under a bit of fire for my start

1095
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 3: to the BBL tournament, hadn't played that well, had that

1096
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 3: famous leave up at the GAVA, and was really rattled.

1097
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:48,840
Speaker 3: It was pretty much all over the place, and keV

1098
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 3: backed me NonStop, is on them, like talking me up

1099
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 3: the whole time we're batting together, and he he got

1100
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,919
Speaker 3: me through that innings. I think I think we put

1101
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 3: on a round hundred or something together, ended up getting

1102
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 3: sixty odd and it started to It started my momentum

1103
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 3: heading towards the twenty fifteen World Cup where people were

1104
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 3: calling me basically calling for me to not be a

1105
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 3: part of that squad, and that innings at the g

1106
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 3: probably changed the way well I played for that next

1107
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 3: however long period. I ended up having so much confidence

1108
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 3: heading into that World Cup as part of the I

1109
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 3: think I was in the team of the tournament and

1110
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 3: got my first one hundred, like it all sort of

1111
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 3: snowboard from that that game at the MCG in front

1112
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 3: of a really good crowd against Renneades, and I think

1113
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 3: it was ended up being a famous last ball win

1114
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 3: like most of them, where I think Callen Furson had

1115
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 3: the backfoot towards the I think Teethy got run out.

1116
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 2: I think it might have been MG, but I reckon

1117
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 2: Tom Trifford was batting.

1118
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 3: Still got running out the ball before there was There

1119
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 3: were so many things that happened.

1120
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 2: It was.

1121
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 3: It was just a really cool evening and yeah, I

1122
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 3: think that that started my my form run for the

1123
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 3: next couple of months. And I owe a lot to

1124
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 3: how that game went.

1125
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: The best player you've played with you could.

1126
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 3: You could throw a blanket over probably four or five

1127
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 3: of them. I think the Stein's been incredible for us.

1128
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 3: Malinga was a superstar. KP probably was one of the

1129
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 3: best players in the planet that at the time that

1130
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 3: should have been playing for England wasn't, but was playing

1131
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 3: for the Stars and dominating. Yeah, we were certainly very

1132
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,839
Speaker 3: lucky with the players we had. Bravo one of the

1133
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 3: best T twenty records of all time. Yeah, we were

1134
00:54:55,440 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 3: certainly very fortunate. Hard to hard to nute out just one. Yeah,

1135
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:07,800
Speaker 3: Brad Hodge, superstar of T twenty CREA. I think it

1136
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 3: was a time where I think at Victoria we had

1137
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 3: the top top three leading run scorers in the world

1138
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 3: in T twenty crew, I think it was Chussy White

1139
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 3: in our middle order, which was pretty incredible.

1140
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And then the best player maybe you've played

1141
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: against that maybe made it difficult for you to bat

1142
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: against over the time, or someone that you could actually

1143
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 1: actually watch and go, this is pretty cool watching this

1144
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: guy play.

1145
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 2: Haiti was always he was.

1146
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 3: Because we had we had some good contests where sometimes

1147
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 3: I would win, most of the time he would win.

1148
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 2: And there was it was a good time. I reckon.

1149
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 2: It wasn't a good time. It was maybe BBL three

1150
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 2: or four.

1151
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 3: It was when the adelaie it Ovals under construction, and

1152
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 3: first ball I came out there and Taty was boiling.

1153
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 3: They bought a bouncer to me and I sort of

1154
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 3: like just put my put my bat in front of

1155
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 3: my face and went, well, this is going to hit me.

1156
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,359
Speaker 3: And I hit the sticker in my bat and went

1157
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 3: into the construction site. So it was only about probably

1158
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,399
Speaker 3: fifty seven meters anyway, lipping off, flipping off and being

1159
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 3: a young idiot, I went back at him and then

1160
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 3: next ball tried to hit it for six over mid off,

1161
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 3: nicked it over the keyper when at him went blocked

1162
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 3: under middle, chunked under mid on no run, should have

1163
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 3: should have taken the single, but I was like, beans

1164
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 3: were going next ball full. I tried to hit this

1165
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 3: thing over the other stand over cover old me and

1166
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 3: the stump cam on off stump which was attached to

1167
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 3: stump went flying because I was stuck on the stump

1168
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 3: cam lastsuit and landed back in front of me. So

1169
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 3: as I'm staying there like looking to hit this six

1170
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 3: over cover, I've just watched this stump land in front

1171
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 3: of me. I was like, yeah, that was pretty quick,

1172
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,399
Speaker 3: and like sort of walked over my stump and walked

1173
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,399
Speaker 3: off the ground, and he sort of like veered off

1174
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 3: after his up and like followed me off and started

1175
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 3: to keep going.

1176
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 2: And yeah, fair enough.

1177
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 3: And I remember looking at the scoreboard it was like

1178
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty four point three or something that

1179
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 3: it was stupid. It was so fast, and I remember

1180
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 3: we had some real good battles and he was frightening

1181
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 3: to face, like so fast.

1182
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 2: I remember that one.

1183
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: And if you're sitting on the couch watching a game

1184
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: after dinner, he's the one. Oh good, I'm really pleased

1185
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: that they're playing tonight. I want to watch them play.

1186
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: Who need to change you?

1187
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 3: I love watching Max Bryan Bay a beautiful batswing, Brenda's

1188
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 3: bat and off then of the planet as well. Tim

1189
00:57:52,920 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 3: David always loved watching him bat, and probably.

1190
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 2: Laurie Evan's zether one.

1191
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, does he remind you of you? Because he reminds

1192
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: me of you when he bats.

1193
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 3: No, No, he doesn't, he doesn't. It doesn't remind me

1194
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 3: of me. I just like the fact that he's just

1195
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 3: got so many options. He's such a clean striker. He's

1196
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 3: got runs against us, he got runs against us in Geelong.

1197
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 3: I think it was I just remember watching the ball striking,

1198
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 3: the bat swing, just going. It was as much as

1199
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 3: it's bad against us, it was it was just so pure.

1200
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:38,919
Speaker 3: And when he's going, it's this there's a obviously there's

1201
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 3: Tim David, but there's there's not me better that you

1202
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 3: like to love to watch.

1203
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: How this is one of the last questions, how proud

1204
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: are you of the Big Bash? That might say a

1205
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: silly question, but you've been so central to it. It

1206
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: started really well and then it had a little bit

1207
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: of a lull and it's come back. It feels like

1208
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: it's back to almost like it's it's best. It's it's

1209
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: sparkling best. You've been part of all of that. How

1210
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: proud are you when you walk out on the MCG

1211
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,479
Speaker 1: then there's seventy thousand the domestic cricket and you're so

1212
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: central to everything that's happened.

1213
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 3: I'm glad that the Big Bashes got back to where

1214
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 3: we think it should be as a domestic competition. For

1215
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 3: a long period of time there we were the probably

1216
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 3: the second best domestic competition in the world. And you're

1217
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 3: right when I think it was around COVID time or

1218
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 3: when we extended the games it started to have that

1219
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 3: little bit of a lull and started to and struggle

1220
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,439
Speaker 3: to sort of keep its keep its head above water.

1221
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 3: And to feel like we're getting back to where it

1222
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 3: used to be maybe six years ago. Is great for

1223
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 3: all the players playing right now, and hopefully it continues

1224
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 3: to grow. Hopefully we can continue to generate interest. Hopefully

1225
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 3: overseas players want to come over and spend their Christmas

1226
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 3: and New Year here and be a part of a

1227
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 3: great competition. And hopefully there's more positive stories to come

1228
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 3: out of this season where players from outside of Australia, like, yeah,

1229
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 3: I want to be involved in that.

1230
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: Because we're biased, we'll think it's the best competition in

1231
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: the world. You've played in pretty much every competition in

1232
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: the world. Do you think it does stack up quality wise? Well?

1233
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 3: To be fair, I haven't played nearly as many as

1234
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 3: some of the other guys, I think without playing the

1235
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 3: ILT the South African League, I feel like I've missed

1236
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 3: a few of the leagues, probably more so in the

1237
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 3: last few years, trying to sort of elongate my career

1238
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 3: a little bit, make sure that I don't burn myself out.

1239
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 3: But I know guys are really excited by going to

1240
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 3: the LC, going to the going to the hundred. It's

1241
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 3: I think for a lot of the older players, it's

1242
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 3: probably more about the lifestyle now that you're able to

1243
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 3: live while you're playing these tournaments. I think when you

1244
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 3: go to America and you're anonymous to the world, you're

1245
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 3: able to suppose to be a normal person, be be

1246
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 3: just another face on the street and be able to

1247
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 3: do normal things, which I think appeals to a lot

1248
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 3: of people.

1249
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 2: Same thing for one hundred.

1250
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 3: I think when you're when you're in England enjoying the

1251
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 3: summer there at the at the back end, everyone's pretty happy.

1252
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 3: The sun's out, so the poms are happy. It's it's

1253
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,919
Speaker 3: it's a quick, fun tournament to play, and I think

1254
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 3: that that appeals probably more to people around my age,

1255
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 3: And yeah, everyone's going to have different values and what

1256
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 3: they look for in a T twenty tournament, but I'm

1257
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 3: certainly excited by what our BBL has been able.

1258
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 2: To offer.

1259
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 3: Players that come over here and for the first time

1260
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 3: or a new experience, and hopefully they have a positive experience.

1261
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 3: They go back and tell their county teams, their domestic sides,

1262
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 3: whatever it might be, and say that was awesome.

1263
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 2: You need to be a part of it.

1264
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: What Alan Jock, you got left.

1265
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 2: Hopefully long time, hopefully hopefully a few more years.

1266
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 3: I think what's really excited me at the moment is

1267
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 3: how much how much my son is loving coming to

1268
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 3: the games and really excited.

1269
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 2: He's it was two in.

1270
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:21,080
Speaker 3: September ye, so he's almost two and a half now,

1271
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 3: and he absolutely loves it, like it comes to the game,

1272
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 3: sits there and loves the fireworks. And I think as

1273
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 3: a player, you always see all the pyrotechnicia off and

1274
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 3: you're like, we're an absolute waste time this is and

1275
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 3: so much going on, But I probably now I realize

1276
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 3: how much the kids absolutely love it and love that

1277
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 3: experience of flashing lights going on. There's fireworks and explosions

1278
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 3: going all over the types and it really is an

1279
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 3: entertainment package. And he absolutely loves coming to the games

1280
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 3: and coming down to the rooms and seeing that afterwards.

1281
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,439
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And then you've got a very important little

1282
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: period coming up obviously the Stars and hopefully they play

1283
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 1: well in the finals. There is but then a World Cup.

1284
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: So you are you locked in now? Are you righting

1285
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: that sort of mode or is it you get the

1286
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: Stars out of the way and then worry about about

1287
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: the adventure of the South Africa adventure to yeah, shri

1288
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: Anka and wherever else it might head after that with

1289
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: the T twenty World.

1290
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,919
Speaker 3: Cup, Yeah, I think I'm always keeping an eye on

1291
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 3: obviously what's to come and preparing this aging body for

1292
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 3: the videos of a world tournament which is going to

1293
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 3: be potentially pretty thick and fast with a bit of travel.

1294
01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 2: She Laka is a really hard place to play. The

1295
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 2: conditions are tough and.

1296
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 3: We're going to have obviouslypose a little bit of an

1297
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:43,840
Speaker 3: adjustment period when we get over there, where you're going

1298
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 3: to be working pretty hard in hot human conditions and

1299
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 3: trying to not burn yourself out but also get the

1300
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 3: most out of your training, which I think is always

1301
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 3: a fine line when you go over there, because it's

1302
01:03:57,480 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 3: like I need to bat for a little bit longer,

1303
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 3: I need to get to the these conditions down pat

1304
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 3: but can't train for too long because I'll be stuffed

1305
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 3: and won't be able to train tomorrow. So you're always

1306
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 3: sort of working on that edge of making sure you're

1307
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 3: physically okay and you're technically in a good space for

1308
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 3: those games.

1309
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 2: So it's something I am keep an eye on, but.

1310
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 3: Making sure that I don't lose sight of tomorrow's game,

1311
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 3: the next game after that, hopefully the finals if we

1312
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 3: can get through and creating something really special right now,

1313
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 3: and then hopefully going over and doing the business in

1314
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:33,200
Speaker 3: the World Cup.

1315
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: It's a big game against the Strikers. It's one of

1316
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,439
Speaker 1: those games where it's about trying to qualify but also

1317
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: about potentially trying to get a home final. It's be

1318
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,439
Speaker 1: at your last home game of the regular season at least.

1319
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: It's you've got to basically you've got to come up

1320
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: against Alex Carry and a bit of an unknown quantity

1321
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: at times the Strikers, you don't really know what you're

1322
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 1: going to get from them.

1323
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got a lot of quality.

1324
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 3: Individual performances throughout that side that can win the game

1325
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 3: on any given day, and to be able to hopefully

1326
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 3: keep them quiet is going to be our probably our

1327
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 3: biggest challenge is to make sure that not one of

1328
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 3: them has their individual brilliance day. We've seen Jamie Overton

1329
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 3: do it with bad All Ball in the past, and

1330
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 3: we know the quality of their couple of leaks. They

1331
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 3: brought in Cameron Boyce the other other night and eat

1332
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 3: Bob beautifully again, and he's been able to do that

1333
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:30,919
Speaker 3: pretty consistently. He just keeps turning off and keeps getting

1334
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 3: a job done. He's a great man. Boys, and Lord

1335
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 3: Pope continues to take wigets doing a great job for them,

1336
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 3: and they're obviously brilliantly led by Shorty. So we're gonna

1337
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 3: have a work cutout, but hopefully with our with our

1338
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 3: momentum from the other night, we can keep that going.

1339
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 1: Have you've done the big Have you done the Greg game?

1340
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 1: Because Finchy's done the great game. I would have thought

1341
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: if anyone's going to be good at the Greg game,

1342
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, because of all the players you've played

1343
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: with and against, all the players you know, just those

1344
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: random players that have played a couple of games. Have

1345
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 1: you done it?

1346
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 2: I did it for footy a couple of times. You

1347
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 2: haven't done the CREA one year, you haven't done the Cree.

1348
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 1: We're going to have to get you into this.

1349
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 2: It's you'll be writing to it.

1350
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: Seems like one niche right in your wheelhouse. Don't forget

1351
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: for all the information when it comes to the BBO,

1352
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 1: you've got to get on the app. That's what you've got,

1353
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: the BBL app with all the information you need. You've

1354
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: got the tipping, got the news and all that sort

1355
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: of information. They're still fifteen thousand dollars up for grabs

1356
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: with that BK tipping competition. Thank you so much for

1357
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: coming in. It's awesome. I know there's a lot of

1358
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: people that would have absolutely loved listening to all of

1359
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: that from Glenn Maxwell. I will catch you again. I

1360
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 1: think we'll be tomorrow night from the MCG where the

1361
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: Stars take on the Strikers. Until then, I hope you've

1362
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 1: enjoyed the search,