1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Here at two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: the traditional owners of the land on which we record 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: this podcast. There were injurie people this land was never seated, 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: always was, always will be. We cannot wait for you 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: to listen to our chat with sofh more Near, the 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Australian cricket captain and one of our absolute favorites. 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 2: But it is worse noting that we did speak to. 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 3: Soph before she was ruled out of the Australia India 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 3: series with a very unfortunate back injury. 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: Of course, if we had known, we would have grilled 11 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: her about it. We didn't, but we really. 12 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 3: Hoped that Soap's back on the park soon because she's 13 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 3: one of our favorites and this chat was one of 14 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 3: the greats. 15 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: Enjoy dear listeners, Sit back, relax, settle in and pay 16 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: attention because today we are joined by one of Australian 17 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: Cricket's ultimate competitors. Weld Cup winner Ash is representative big 18 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: game breaker. You've seen her do it on the biggest stages, 19 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: including that ice cold three wickets in an overspell on 20 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: the WBL Final that sealed a title for Bangalore in 21 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, rent free, rent free in my mind. 22 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: When the precious spikes this woman, this woman's resting heart 23 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: rate drops to twelve. So cool, so calm, so very collected, 24 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: so not jellmy and I we could but dream. But 25 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: behind the fierce competitor is an array of diverse interests. 26 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: She's devoted to a good caret and straightening treatment. She 27 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: occasionally is allergic to replying to texts at speed, and 28 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: she's fully capable of falling asleep halfway through a movie, 29 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: even if it's a good one. She loves a bit 30 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: of Netflix and is I have in fact checked this, 31 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: but allegedly the unofficial admin officer for any and all 32 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: Steel Sidebottom fan groups. She's battled injury, setbacks, reinvented herself, 33 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: led from the front, and become one of the most 34 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: respected players in the modern game. Oh and also she 35 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: just so happens to be captain now, please be upstanding 36 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: and welcome, Sophie Walin you had a too good sports. 37 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 4: Thank you. I've just lost myself in that, George. 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:15,679 Speaker 2: She goes deep. 39 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 5: She goes deep. 40 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 2: Also, just what you twist with discomfort going? How much 41 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 2: does this woman knows? 42 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 4: Where did you get info from? 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 5: So can I just say I can't. 44 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: A journalist never reveals their sources, Sophie. But in all honesty, 45 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: it was such a joy to everyone knows on this podcast. 46 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 5: I'm am a bit of a fangirl. 47 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: Jealmy is the ultimate fangirl when it comes to the 48 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,839 Speaker 1: Australian women's cricket team in particular. 49 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 5: We know that we have a long. 50 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: History with you, but you as a player, you as 51 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: a person, you are just so impressive and can we say, 52 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: from the bottom of our hearts, congratulations on the captain 53 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: c It's huge. 54 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 6: Oh thank you? Oh I'm blushing what it an intro? 55 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 6: Thank you very much, preciure. I'm so excited to be 56 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 6: on this. It's very cool. 57 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 3: It has it settled in so because it's been a 58 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: few weeks now and of course you've actually had a 59 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 3: chance to lead the girls. But it is one of 60 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 3: those ones that I think when it gets announced there's 61 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 3: so much that would feel out of body, right, and 62 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 3: then you actually get into the cricket of it all. 63 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's probably it started to sink in. I think, yeah, 64 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 6: well it's probably. It's been great because Midge's back and 65 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 6: she's on my holidays now, which is great, but unfortunately 66 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 6: I don't get the penthouse now that me just here. 67 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 6: But yeah, no, the first three T twenty is sort 68 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 6: of they come around really quick, so it sort of 69 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 6: had to snap into gear. 70 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 4: But it has been a bit of a blur the 71 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: last month to be fair. 72 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: How do you go about I mean from an outsider's perspective, 73 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: I feel that you were an obvious candidate. There are 74 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: other like peak candidates potentially, but how do you go 75 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: about putting your hand up and saying I would love 76 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: that this is actually something I would really like or 77 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: do people come to you and go, we've. 78 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 3: Got an idea that's exactly how Australia operate. Georgie, that's 79 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: a peep behind the curtainewit. 80 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a funny one. I actually got a 81 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 6: phone call from Flanks and I was at a Christmas party. 82 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 6: I had to compose myself a little bit. It was 83 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 6: just before heading back home to Bensdale for a few weeks, 84 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 6: and he just asked if I was interested in going 85 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 6: through the process, and yeah, sort of said yes and 86 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 6: then remember the next morning what I said yes to and. 87 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 4: Sat on over Christmas and yeah. 88 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 6: I had a couple of interviews with staff and a 89 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 6: few board members and Todd Greenberg, the CEO, and everything 90 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 6: like that. So it was a bit of a process 91 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 6: to go through, but yeah, I sort of come out 92 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 6: of it learning a lot about myself At a Straw. 93 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 3: And Cricket, I think, well, especially a game that's been 94 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: so much a part of what has made you, I'm sure, 95 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 3: who you are, and something you've been playing from such 96 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 3: a young age. I'm sure that when you get to 97 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 3: the ripe old age of twenty eight and you go 98 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 3: through a process like this, does it make you really think, Hey, 99 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,559 Speaker 3: what do I stand for? If I was to write 100 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 3: that down, what does it look like? 101 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, I feel like I don't know. I think 102 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 6: about it a lot. I think about, you know, why 103 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 6: I play the game, and you know what it's given 104 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 6: me and everything sort of where I come from. But 105 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 6: I've never really spent the time and put my thoughts 106 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 6: down on paper or had to articulate them and present 107 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 6: them to people in a room. So that was like, 108 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 6: in itself, was a great sort of process for me. 109 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 6: I think that's a part of this new process of 110 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 6: becoming captain is making it really clear to the girls 111 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 6: and the staff you know who I am, who I 112 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 6: am as a leader, and where I think this group 113 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 6: can go. 114 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: I want to talk about that verbalization because in my 115 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: deep dive investigative investigation into you, I did pick up 116 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: that potentially you don't love public speaking. So when the 117 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: captaincy is there and you're talking about you know why 118 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: you play this game, how how do you sum it 119 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: up for you know, the next gen of people coming through. 120 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 4: Look, I was so lucky. 121 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 6: I grew up around a creet club when I was 122 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 6: you know, from the day I was born, I reckon 123 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 6: I was at the cricket you know, the followings they 124 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 6: my dad played, and yeah, sort of growing up in 125 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 6: a country, country town and everything centered around sports. So 126 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 6: that career club became a second family and you know, 127 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 6: still really. 128 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 4: Important people to me now. 129 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 6: And I don't know, it's just given me so many 130 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 6: amazing experiences from a club level to you know, playing 131 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 6: international cricket and putting on the green and gold and 132 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 6: you know, playing on some of the biggest stages. 133 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, in women's cricket. It's yeah, I. 134 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 6: Suppose it's given me so much the game and yeah, 135 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 6: I think going through that process of working out you 136 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 6: know what it's given me, and you know how how 137 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 6: lucky I have been, and now it's a great, great 138 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 6: chance to sort of, you know, galvanize this group of 139 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 6: Ozzie girls, full of amazing personalities, bringing it all together 140 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 6: and hopefully, you know, young boys and girls can turn 141 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 6: the TV on and see that we're having a whole 142 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 6: lot of fun and we're very good at potentially the 143 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 6: game that we love and that they can do it 144 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 6: as well. 145 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 3: So if I was about to ask his strength and weaknesses, 146 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 3: but then you don't need to be interviewed again. 147 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 2: You've got You've got the job. It's fine. So let's 148 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 2: let's ask more. 149 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 3: Are you going to be more and Elisa Heally or 150 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 3: are you going to be a Meg Lanning in terms 151 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 3: of your leadership? If you had to lean because you 152 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 3: we've mentioned already how strong this team is and we've 153 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 3: just been spoilt for stars, but particularly leadership, and I 154 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 3: you know, we love a Lisa Hilly. 155 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 2: We've been lucky enough to have her on the pod. 156 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 3: But Meg Lanning, I think, even though she's one of 157 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 3: the most celebrated cricketers in this country, I still think 158 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 3: it's underrated for what she did for that team. 159 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 5: For so long. 160 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 3: Is there any parts of their leadership that you think 161 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 3: your model what you do of. 162 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 4: Yeah. 163 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 6: I've been lucky to have played all my cricket under 164 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 6: either of those two, and they're very very different. 165 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 4: Both have got very different strengths. 166 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 6: Like Meg was just super calm, never really got too high, 167 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 6: got too low, didn't really matter. 168 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 4: She was just so calm and consistent. 169 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 6: And Midgie like wore her heart and her sleeve full 170 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 6: of personality. 171 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 4: You know exactly what she's thinking. 172 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 6: And you know, you feel really quite close and connected 173 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 6: to Midge, And I don't know, I feel like you 174 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 6: can take strengths. 175 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 4: From both of them. 176 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 6: Yeah, I suppose that I'd like to become for the 177 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 6: group and stay consistent. 178 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 4: I think maybe internally I never. 179 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 6: Am, but yeah, and I also love people and bringing 180 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 6: people together as well, having to be a funnelong the way. 181 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: Speaking of that, correct me if I'm wrong, So, because 182 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: I do want you to fact check me on this. 183 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: Is Perth going to be the one off tests? Is 184 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: that going to be Midge's last game? 185 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 4: Yeah? It is? 186 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, how. 187 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: Are we feeling about that? What are the celebrations that 188 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: you have planned? I mean, I don't want you to 189 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: spoil anything, but spoil things. 190 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 2: Do you do? 191 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 6: Well? 192 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: I reckon she's going to be a crier, bitch, Yeah, 193 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 2: I reckon. 194 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 3: It's always those strong types that then go to tears. 195 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 5: Oh wow, and up, I'll cry just thinking about her. 196 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 3: Well, you know a lot more than us, so, but 197 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 3: I think the majesty of it all might hit her. 198 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 4: It might hit her, you know. 199 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 6: I hope it does too, because she's done so much 200 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 6: for the sport and for us as a team, and 201 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 6: you know, we want to send her off in the 202 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 6: best way possible and win a Test match. And I know, 203 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 6: like how much of a traditional she is, Like she's 204 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 6: a bit of an. 205 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 4: Old school cricketer. 206 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 6: So to finish in whites and a red ball in Perth, 207 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 6: I think that's going to be really special to her. 208 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 6: And yeah, maybe I really hope those tears come out 209 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 6: because I think we're all going to wrap her arms 210 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 6: around her and I'm sure there will be a nice 211 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 6: dinner or something like that after the game for us 212 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 6: to be able to sit around and tell stories and 213 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 6: reflect on everything that Midge's brought to us. 214 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 3: I love that you said you always know what she's thinking. 215 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 3: She terrified the hell out of me when I was 216 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 3: a stupid if you were getting mid to midgame and 217 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 3: or like pre game for a chat, and she didn't 218 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 3: want to give you a look, and I'm like, I 219 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 3: know you don't want. 220 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 5: We've told we told her that. 221 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 3: She was like, oh, I was always happy to have 222 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 3: a chat, and like you terrified me. But on the 223 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 3: flip side, you've never known anyone funnier and she was 224 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 3: one of those people that was happy to be around 225 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 3: the group. 226 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 2: Was she the prankster of the group, you'd. 227 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 6: Say, probably like before captaining, I wasn't around when she 228 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,959 Speaker 6: was like really young, But I think her and Pears 229 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 6: like we're the ultimate prances, like really young and cheeky, 230 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 6: and you can still sort of see that in midyear, 231 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 6: like she's got that, she's got that in her still. 232 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 6: But yeah, like even how she presents when she's got 233 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 6: the mic on during games and everything, like she's always 234 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 6: you know, she's always funny and it doesn't take herself 235 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 6: too seriously or anything around her too seriously. 236 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: I love that you brought up Pears there as well 237 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: being Elese Perry, because to me, she's just so poised, 238 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: so and I had to think of her as a 239 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: prankster behind the scenes. 240 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 5: That doesn't right, like sit right in my brain. I'm like, huh, 241 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 5: what do you mean? 242 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 3: Well, it's also like we for my other small television show, 243 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 3: we just did an episode we've done twenty years on 244 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 3: air and they were saying, at least made her debut 245 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 3: in two thousand and seven for The Matilda's. 246 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, I know, and now you can still. 247 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 3: Playing at the elite level in cricket, like three hundred 248 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 3: and fifty Internationals is actually I think sometimes we're so 249 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 3: used to her being there, and she joked about being 250 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 3: put out pasture during the week and I just I 251 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 3: had a tick because I don't know what cricket will 252 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 3: feel like if Elise Perry's not there. We're already mourning 253 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 3: alisahally she's not allowed to. So if you can pass. 254 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 5: That on yeah from us, yeah, she's not allow that. 255 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: It could be your legacy as captain started early keep 256 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: people hostage, just saying. 257 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 6: All right, I feel like Broke pays a little letter 258 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 6: before three hundred and fiftieth and I said, oh, you're 259 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 6: halfway there, so I think we're all campaigning for I 260 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 6: put it that way. 261 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 5: Oh, I love that. I love that so much. 262 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: The Australian women's cricket team is that team that everyone loves, 263 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,239 Speaker 1: right do you feel that personally? 264 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 5: Like, I know you would have seen. 265 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: That morph and hopefully grow over the space of your 266 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: career as well, but especially like I really think from 267 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: you know that home t twenty World Cup twenty twenty 268 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: and beyond that, like you've just absolutely exploded. Does it 269 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: feel that way for you? 270 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly. 271 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 6: I think you know, naturally the game has grown, and 272 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 6: especially the women's game, and I think that twenty twenty 273 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 6: World Cup at the MCG like that was a massive 274 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 6: moment in. 275 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 4: Time for us. 276 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 6: Unfortunately, COVID sort of hit in the world shutdown and 277 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 6: we maybe like lost a little bit of momentum after that. 278 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 6: But yeah, I always think that, like if you keep 279 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 6: performing as a team, and you know, you keep getting 280 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 6: success and everything like that, you end up earning the respect. 281 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 4: And it feels like we've the respect of the country. 282 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 6: And I think the other part to that is, you know, 283 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 6: the group of players, we've got full of flair and 284 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 6: different personalities and girls that you know are really comfortable 285 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 6: in their own skin and bring different strengths as well. 286 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 6: And I think everyone does a really good job of 287 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 6: I suppose presenting that to Australia as well, And so yeah, 288 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 6: I think if we keep going along the lines of 289 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 6: that and yeah, hopefully having a bit more success in future, 290 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 6: I think we're yeah, got a great group to be 291 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 6: able to continue that momentum. 292 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 3: We'll get more onto the state of the team now 293 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 3: and the evolution that we've seen from the team, because 294 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 3: that has really been completely reshaped in the past couple 295 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 3: of years. But we're not going to move on from 296 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 3: the World Cup at the MCG that easily. It was 297 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 3: the best night of Georgie in my life there. We 298 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 3: were there and we went arguably too hard after too 299 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 3: many champaigns to Katie Perry, so many there was like 300 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 3: MCG security was sort of like if you could not 301 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 3: lean over the rafters as aggressively as you both thought 302 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 3: that would be great. And that was before we knew 303 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 3: the world was about to shut the hell down. The 304 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 3: only one who seemed to send it more was you 305 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 3: so correct? How many times have you seen that footage? 306 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 3: And also like I can be like that after a 307 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: few margaritas you were about to go through drug testing, 308 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 3: your stone cold, sober and gone I can like and 309 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: I can do the movement. 310 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 2: I've seen it that many times. 311 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 3: I know exactly how your dance. Do you what went 312 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 3: through your head? And do you love that you did it? 313 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 3: Or do you go what came over me? 314 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie. 315 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 6: We had fifteen minutes in the rooms before we went out, 316 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 6: and I might have got a bit of Dutch carriage 317 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 6: into me, so it wasn't stone cold sober I put 318 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 6: it that way, and a little bit dehydrated from the. 319 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 4: Game and whatever, I just sort of hit and that 320 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 4: next morning. 321 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 6: I will never forget picking out my phone the next 322 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 6: morning and going wash just like I won a World 323 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:07,479 Speaker 6: Cup and no one's messaged me about it, play cricket. 324 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 4: Or but yeah, look I cringe a little bit watching it. 325 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 5: But you can't, you absolutely can't. 326 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: And you I know you love your footy, so it's 327 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: like the jack rewall of it, all right, that's your 328 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: mister Brightside, and it's just like, how amazing that you 329 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: got that. 330 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 2: But I also just feel like no one expected it 331 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 2: from yourself in the night, like everyone was like, oh 332 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: there she is, Oh hello, hello, hello. 333 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 3: And also I just love that when your captaincy got 334 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 3: announced everyone's like, well, she must be great. 335 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 2: Do you remember that day? 336 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 5: Remember that's? 337 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're there, clearly likable, your qualifications for the posting. 338 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 5: And you're like, sorry, have you let's just press play? There? 339 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 5: I am there, I am, but maybe we should have 340 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 5: expected it. 341 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: So, because can you confirm or deny that you have 342 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: used a Wikipedia page to get into a club before? 343 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 5: Because I got your ID. 344 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 2: Oh this information, it's brilliant. I've used the staff pass. 345 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 5: Can confirm? Can you confirm for the tape? For the tape? 346 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, confirmed, brilliant. 347 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 5: I love it so much, and that to be fair. 348 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 1: So when I heard that, I just my first thought 349 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: was one of us, one of us. 350 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 3: One of us, mostly because she's that unorganized that she's 351 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 3: left the house. 352 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 2: Without the idea. 353 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: If one of us, why do I need a physical 354 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: I d I'm over eighteen. Look at my face, like, 355 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: come on, come on, it's very useful. Don't you drag 356 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: her down there? 357 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 5: Actually it's actually so right. So I'm so sorry. If 358 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 5: we're going to. 359 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 2: Talk about sophying one of us. 360 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 3: Simon Helmet, who said he was so touched to receive 361 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 3: a call from you before the announcement was made. Your 362 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 3: Renegade's coach and someone who's done so much in the 363 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 3: cricket landscape, particularly in Victoria. He was talking about you 364 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 3: and just how much they'd made the absolute right choice 365 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 3: by putting you into leadership, and how strong you were, 366 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 3: and he said, your biggest strength, but also your biggest weakness, 367 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 3: is that you might care too much. You're speaking to 368 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 3: two people that care too much about everything. How is 369 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 3: it your superpower? But how is it something that, especially 370 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 3: when there's going to be more opinion about what you 371 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 3: do and tactics that you use, how is it something 372 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 3: that you're going to manage? 373 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 4: Yeah? Bless Homo. 374 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 6: He's he's an an amazing person and has taught me 375 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 6: a lot he has. But yeah, I suppose that's it's 376 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 6: sort of ingrained in. You're right, like you probably am 377 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 6: a big feeler. I feel everything. I feel what other 378 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 6: people are feeling high as Low's disappointment, and I've always 379 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 6: just wanted everything to be okay for people. And I 380 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 6: suppose being in leadership roles at Reinegads and Victoria, I 381 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 6: think a big part of who I am as a 382 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 6: leader is to make sure people are okay. 383 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 4: Because I think if. 384 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 6: You're in the right frame of mind and you feel 385 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 6: safe and you can be yourself. That's where the performance happened. 386 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 6: And yeah, I suppose part of that is you end 387 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 6: up taking on a lot personally, and as Halmo said, 388 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 6: it's a strength but also can be a big weakness 389 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 6: that you could probably get a little bit too much 390 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 6: at times. So it's just finding that balance and making 391 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 6: sure I probably have a bit of boundary up. It's 392 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 6: actually it was really interesting after that T twenty that 393 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 6: we played against India. My first game is Captain and 394 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 6: we lost it, and I go home that night and 395 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 6: I was so flaw they made the wrong choice. They've 396 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 6: butchered it here. And then I was like, you know what, 397 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 6: like it was a rain delayed game, Like there's so 398 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 6: many other factors and if I'm going to write it 399 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 6: like this, I'm going to last two days here. 400 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 4: So so I probably got that ability now just to 401 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 4: be able to. 402 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 6: Check myself and make sure that probably have to be 403 00:18:57,720 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 6: a little bit more realistic and you can't get everything perfect. 404 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 4: But yeah, I suppose, I don't know. 405 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 6: I enjoy the game for the people and the memories 406 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 6: and the experience, and we've got a great, great group 407 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 6: here I just hope that, Yeah, there's plenty of more 408 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 6: success around the corner for us. 409 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 3: And I think the thing that you've touched on there, firstly, 410 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 3: you're wonderful, and it is a really difficult thing, and 411 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 3: you're talking to two people that deeply internalize anything going 412 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 3: slightly wrong must have been our fault. Where can we 413 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 3: find it in the tea leaves and how can we 414 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 3: fix it? But I do think that something that we're seeing, 415 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 3: particularly in the landscape of women's cricket, and we saw 416 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 3: it amazingly at the World Cup, is the world is 417 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 3: leveling up because people are starting to see women's cricket 418 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 3: in a way that they never had before. And India's success, 419 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 3: as much as it's a pain in the butt for us, 420 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 3: is so good for world cricket to see these players 421 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 3: be celebrated. And I think that's going to be a 422 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 3: real challenge for this team that we're at at the moment, 423 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 3: is that we're just so used to winning, so used 424 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 3: to you girls rolling out and you win because it's 425 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 3: sort of been daylight than everyone else. 426 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 2: But how great is it for cricket that there is 427 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 2: that competition now? 428 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 6: Oh it's terrible, yes, No, like it's it is great, 429 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 6: and it's it's really like it's changed really quickly as well, 430 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 6: right before our eyes sort of thing. But we don't 431 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,159 Speaker 6: hold the World Cups now, and we've also played some 432 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 6: amazing cricket and probably only lost three or four games 433 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 6: in the last two years, so we have mournament cricket. 434 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 6: You're playing so well anyway, Yeah, yeah, So like we 435 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 6: have to remind ourselves that we're you know, we're still 436 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 6: in a really good place. But at the same time, 437 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 6: like we've got this freedom now too, Like we don't 438 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 6: hold either of the World Cups. And I suppose for 439 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 6: a long time, probably from you know, before I started 440 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 6: this team, it's always been about defending and people hunting 441 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 6: us and everything, where now it's like we've. 442 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 4: Got this, I see it, this great opportunity. We've got 443 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:04,679 Speaker 4: a bit of. 444 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 6: Freedom now to go out and you know explore or 445 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 6: we can do and what you know, the possibilities are 446 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 6: for this team. And we've always been sort of held 447 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 6: back or not held back, but just had this this 448 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 6: thought in the back of our head that oh, we 449 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 6: need to defend this and we need to be able 450 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 6: to play a certain way because we've done it before. 451 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 4: And been successful. 452 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 6: Where now it's like, yeah, we've got all these strengths 453 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 6: and everything, and how can we leverage that and go 454 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 6: into territory where you know, no one's been before. 455 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's great for the game. Like Indian, 456 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 4: like women's crecketing in India has just gone through the roof. 457 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 6: I think those the Indian girls that won that World Cup, 458 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 6: they were given land, they were. 459 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 4: Made police officers. It was crazy. So it's only good 460 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 4: for the game. 461 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 6: So but yeah, I think where we find ourselves now, 462 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 6: it's it's really exciting this. 463 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 5: Use this platform. So what do you want when we 464 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 5: get the World Cups back? 465 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 2: Like I would like some land in morning time? 466 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Albo listens to this podcast. You 467 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 5: can make please here and that's that's fine, and often 468 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 5: they will be heard. 469 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: But I think that you're so right, and it hadn't 470 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: occurred to me before, but there's something in that chase, 471 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: the opportunity to chase. 472 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, be the aggressive, yeah, which I. 473 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: Am very excited about and I'm feeling like could be 474 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: very good hitting it. The lights just flickered, and that 475 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: was the universe saying that's happening. That was that was honestly, 476 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: that was the universe being like Sofa is going to 477 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 1: win all of the things and fill the tropic block. 478 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 4: The land next to the Sorrento Hotel. 479 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, don't we know, the Pitt family, we can make 480 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 3: that happen. 481 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 4: I believe, I love now. 482 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,400 Speaker 3: But if we if we are going to talk about 483 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 3: Indian cricket and just how massive cricket has been, particularly 484 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 3: less be honest in India and the explosion of competitions 485 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 3: around the world that now Australian plays and alien female 486 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 3: players in particular, it can be a professional sport from 487 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 3: such a young age and set you up for life, 488 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 3: which twenty years ago wasn't necessarily something that could happen. 489 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 3: There are murmurs and when I say murders loud yelling 490 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 3: that it's going to happen to the big bash here, 491 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 3: that there will be privatization. What's your position on that, 492 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 3: because it's something that we've seen obviously work so well 493 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 3: in terms of opportunity, but there are problems with it too. 494 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 6: I still believe we've got the best domestic T twenty 495 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 6: competition in the world, especially in the women's game. I 496 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 6: think it's been going for twelve years now and the 497 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 6: way it's evolved, I still think it's like the highest 498 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 6: quality cricket that you could play outside of international cricket. 499 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 6: And yeah, I suppose we're sitting now like it's really 500 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 6: interesting the whole landscape of cricket, men's women's that I say, say, 501 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 6: India is sort of going out and potentially you know, 502 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 6: having their hands on so much more than what the 503 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 6: traditionally would And I don't know, we're in this space 504 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 6: where I still feel like there's massive scope to be 505 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 6: able to leverage the quality of cricket that we've got 506 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 6: in Australia and get more people through through the gates 507 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 6: and you know, pack out stadiums again men's and women's. 508 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 4: So yeah, and to be able to get there, I 509 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 4: don't know. 510 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 6: Maybe change could be a great thing, but at the 511 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 6: same time, you don't really want to lose that touch, 512 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 6: that Australian touch amongst all the teams and the players 513 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 6: and everything like that. So it'd be really interested to 514 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 6: see how it goes. But yeah, I do think there 515 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 6: is scope definitely to keep pushing the boundaries on that 516 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 6: front because we're so gifted with you know, our summer 517 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 6: of cricket, the quality of players, the grounds and everything 518 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 6: like that. So yeah, hopefully it just keeps growing. However 519 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 6: it looks. 520 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: So what's something that you may not know is that 521 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 1: Gentlemy and I have literally just recorded another episode where 522 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: we wax lyrical, unhingedly as you be able to tell 523 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: about moments from the Winter Olympics. I don't know if 524 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: you caught them, but there was a particular moment with 525 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: the US men's hockey team and the women's hockey team. 526 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, it's so fine. I'm not 527 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: going to drill down into the details of that. But 528 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,160 Speaker 1: the men's team right now, they've got their own issues 529 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: going on. The women's team. You guys are doing so 530 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: incredibly and you know, we're so excited for this series 531 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 1: that you are currently on. But can you talk to 532 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: us a little bit about maybe how the teams themselves. 533 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: So the men's Australian men's cricket team and the women's team, 534 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: you kind of always have to be connected in some 535 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: kind of way. Firstly, is that does that sit okay 536 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: with you? And secondly, how do you do that so 537 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: successfully so that other nations the US can learn from us? 538 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know, it's just both teams good to cricket, 539 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 6: which I feel like that makes things easy, It really does. Yeah, 540 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 6: I feel like we definitely always keeping an eye out 541 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 6: on the men's team and it is probably by space. 542 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 6: And we got Starkey in here at the moment on 543 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 6: tour with this. I think he's doing a bit of 544 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 6: commentary whilst Midge is on her last lap of Australia. 545 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 6: So yeah, there's always been that. 546 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 2: That can't be overstated enough like Mitch's to come. 547 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 3: And again I've said a million times the best job 548 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 3: that I'll ever work on was covering the WBBL. I 549 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 3: loved it and I still love it within an inch 550 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 3: of its life because of the characters, the people, but 551 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 3: also just as you said, the quality of cricket and 552 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 3: the access that you get, but the joy of it all. 553 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 3: It is far and be on my favorite league. It 554 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 3: will always be my favorite league. And the Big Bash 555 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 3: is okay, but the WBBL is like, he's a real thing. 556 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 3: And it was something about Mitch being this whether he 557 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 3: liked it or not, and he probably isn't leaning into 558 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 3: it because he is an Australian male cricketer. He's just 559 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 3: doing it to be a supportive partner, but he was 560 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 3: a really wonderful caveat between the two and someone that 561 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 3: was genuinely there, just sitting up in the hill and 562 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 3: people like, oh as Mitch. They were like, no, Midge 563 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 3: is here, And it was this really strange dynamic where 564 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 3: people didn't really care that Mitch was there in a 565 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 3: strange way. 566 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're an og. 567 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 2: Yeah I love it. I love it way too much. 568 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 2: I get emotional about it. That's like it's. 569 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 4: Mystery around the circuit. 570 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: You're gonna recovery, put a recovery back years, so I've 571 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:22,640 Speaker 1: got a tick. 572 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 3: There. There was two semi finals in Sydney that I've 573 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 3: never seen better cricket in my life, and you know 574 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 3: the ones that I'm talking about, and it was it 575 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 3: was just anyway, I really, I deeply love it, and that's. 576 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 2: Why we need I have another brand, not but as 577 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 2: a captain. 578 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 3: Death taxes and Beth Mooney, How the hell is that 579 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 3: woman so consistent? And does it bring you great strength 580 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 3: to be like, oh it's okay, Beth is going in 581 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 3: because she's actually a phenomenon. 582 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, she is amazing. Moons, Like she is so underrated 583 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 6: and like just flies under the raidar. 584 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 3: Which is a weird thing to say about Belinda Clark 585 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 3: medalist and yet still but. 586 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 6: Still, I just think like it's in her personality too, 587 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 6: Like she's just so like she's really happy just to 588 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 6: play the team role like it's and to have, you know, 589 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 6: a teammate like that, and to play alongside with someone 590 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 6: like Moons, Like we're all so like we probably don't 591 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 6: realize how many games she's won off her own bat too, 592 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 6: and games that we've sort of been up a little bit. 593 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 4: Of chip crag, so like, yeah, like it just to 594 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 4: have someone like that, and you know. 595 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 6: There's a few others there that that probably go in 596 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 6: waves and it's really hard to consistently. I think Creet's 597 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 6: pretty brutal in that space, especially batting, Like you don't 598 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 6: you do go through waves. But Moons just seems to 599 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 6: be like just always on the verge of winning a 600 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 6: game for us. So yeah, the other night she hit 601 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 6: the ball beautifully and just like she's betting on another pitch, 602 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 6: so which is great to see. 603 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 3: She's another one that isn't allowed to retire. That's what 604 00:28:58,400 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 3: we're spending this whole thing. 605 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, just a her to the hostage, everyone to the 606 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 5: keep them, keep them safe, Keep them safe. 607 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: So find a few questions from us, because on this 608 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: podcast you may have been able to pick up We 609 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: do like things away from the pitch as well. We 610 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: get very interested in what is happening beyond the stands. 611 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: Some may even say so, I would love for you 612 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: to describe for me the team, So the Australian women's 613 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: cricket team. 614 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 5: In a non sporting context. What are the girls like like? 615 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 2: What do you like? 616 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 5: What are the players like? 617 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: If you were there and you're not being like talented, 618 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: they're incredible athletes. I don't want that because we know that, 619 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 1: we know how good you are. What are they like 620 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: as people? How would you describe this team? 621 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 3: We can start for you Phoebe Litchfield slightly unhinged, slightly unhinged, 622 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 3: we love that, slightly. 623 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 4: Individuals or can summarize. 624 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 5: It, summarize, But if there is a particular individual that comes. 625 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 2: To you, we should have given you a spress. 626 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 4: Really genuine, real group of really real people and very different. 627 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 6: Everyone's very different, so it's probably work better if I 628 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 6: went through individually and have one word for each. 629 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 4: But they're also like unique. Yeah, I don't know. 630 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 6: I feel like it's probably a contagious thing. And like 631 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 6: we've got a few new young girls coming through and 632 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 6: coming in and they're just really like nice kids, like 633 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 6: Lucy Hamilton's country kids. She's always smiling and she's starting 634 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 6: to talk a bit more and it's great. Like I 635 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 6: don't know, I feel like it's probably been set up 636 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 6: by people that have been before us and image and 637 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 6: pezzles and shooters and like that and everyone like that, 638 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 6: Like it's just been set up so that people come 639 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 6: in and can bear themselves and just feels real. 640 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 3: We know from so many sports likes that authenticity is 641 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 3: when you perform your best and when you feel like 642 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 3: you can be yourself. And it's such an interesting take 643 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 3: that you have because you feel that too when you're 644 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 3: watching at home. Oh yeah, this is a team, but 645 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 3: a team that celebrates individuals, Like there's not a level 646 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 3: of conformity of who you know to be. No, if 647 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 3: you're going to represent Australian women's career. 648 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: Remember when Phoebe was on the pod and so if 649 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but she was 650 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: talking about we're like, you know, what's it like to 651 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: see your face like blown up sixteen times. It's not 652 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: natural size in the crowd of people holding those like 653 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: bubble heads, and she was like, it's really cool, but 654 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: they picked that photo. 655 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 3: Like someone couldn't have Like I was sixteen, help a 656 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:23,479 Speaker 3: sister out. 657 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 2: There's been better way since. 658 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 5: There, right right, I'm just like, oh my god, I can't. 659 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: I just think that you guys are so impressive. You're 660 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: so impressive. Final one from me, Jim, we might have 661 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: another question for you, but how do you think Colling 662 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: was going to go on the twenty twenty. 663 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,479 Speaker 2: Sixty yark and you were doing so well until now. 664 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 6: So look, I'm a bit nervous. We're a little bit older. 665 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 6: We're a bit older, but you know, in in Fly 666 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 6: we trust, So okay, I'm looking forward to AFL season 667 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 6: actually be really good to watch. 668 00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think was there something about apparently there was 669 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 3: a bagpipe player. He's big on seams Fly apparently brought 670 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 3: in someone that plays bagpipe. I mean Scott Pendlebury may 671 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 3: as well be Elise Perry. 672 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 5: Yeah long and yeah, ob. 673 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 3: Him, you can't be as old as Geelong. But then 674 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 3: I forgot about no decons. He's not allowed to go 675 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,239 Speaker 3: anywhere near the hotel. That you're staying at right now, 676 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 3: you're going to tell him how terrible Hobart is. That's fine, 677 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,479 Speaker 3: but no, honestly we do know that again you are 678 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 3: in Hobart, you're in the middle of a series, and 679 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 3: a very important one. 680 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 2: We just give our love to a Lisa as well. 681 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 3: I know that it's going to be a really emotional time, 682 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 3: but also just enjoy it and celebrate it. And when 683 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 3: you were announced, we both said, well, obviously because you 684 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 3: are just such a delight and hopefully we'd love to 685 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 3: have you on the pot again soon. 686 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 2: But yes, such a jokes. Thank you