WEBVTT - Shield Final Preview! With Martin Love 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:03.079 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by Quantus, the official 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.359 podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.600 Once again this season, Quantus is proud to be flying 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:17.760 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello, welcome 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.280 to The Unplayable Podcast. An ultimate episode of the season 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.200 here and we're very excited to bring it to you. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.400 We've got a big show coming up with Martin Love, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.600 the Sheffield Shield Final specialist. We've got to chat with 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.320 him coming up, and plenty of other stuff as well 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.160 as we look forward to that Sheffield Shield Final between 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.400 Victoria and South Australia. My name is josh Onafinger. Joined 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.280 us always by Caine Richardson. Rich O, you must be 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.800 pumped ahead of this week's Grand Final. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.720 Well it is, and you said it's penultimate. It's gone. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.839 Time flies, doesn't it when you're having fun. There's been 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:50.839 so much good cricket to talk about. We're getting to 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.760 the point end I've said his Trophy season for like 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.520 three weeks in a row now. We're obviously waiting for 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.200 the Shill Final to begin and there's been some talking 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.800 points leading into that which I'm sure we'll get to, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:01.720 but yeah, looking forward to. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.960 It, I have been. Yes, we'll touch on the selections 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.479 and the top players so far this season and all 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.399 those things, but first we should get to this week's 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.640 weekly winner. Do you want to take us away? We're 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:11.839 going up two of these. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.080 Ago, I feel like I will. I'll take this one. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.920 All right. Yeah, the clan's come down in your favor. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.560 Gold Coast Dolphins. Oh yeah, you've gone there too. Now 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.480 you live on the Gold Coast. Now, I was a 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:28.840 previous residents, played some games to the Dolphins, so actually 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.440 choked on my breakfast when I didn't actually I wasn't 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.640 following the live stream. Apologies, boys, But when I read 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.360 the scorecard, this is the final of it, so I 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.959 didn't even final. So again, apologies, I've really removed myself 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.360 from the WhatsApp group. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:44.640 But they've made the final. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.720 Lost the toss two for one early, I'm not sure 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.800 if it was the first over first or second over 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:52.400 two for one. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.920 Good start by the Northern Suburbs start and like do. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.680 You know the win predictor, and then all of a sudden, 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:03.680 the third wicket falls at six hundred and thirty six 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.320 hundred and twenty nine run partnership. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:05.800 Wow. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.120 Now there's days in the field on weekends. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:08.480 Now. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.000 I haven't played a lot of club cricket, but I 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.160 reckon there's days in the field or in the dugout 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.120 that you're questioning, why why are you doing this? You're 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.359 giving up your weekend. You might work Monday to Friday. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.080 Imagine how many thoughts would go through your head when 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.040 you're fielding a deep square leg or deep point watching 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.160 Hugo Burden and Steven or Stephan Muller. I'm not sure 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:32.600 I've never met the Mollel's work. I've never come across him. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.280 But two hundred and seventy two not out for him 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.359 and then for Hugo Burden. Three hundred and forty that's 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.280 a big day. That's Madden two days. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.560 I think it's the second highest score in Brisbane or 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.200 Queensland great cricket history. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.760 Behind Matt Renshaw. Is that right three end of forty five. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.520 There's something with queens and club cricket. They churn him 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.440 out and it's a four day final, which I'm not 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.200 sure other states do. I know South Australa didn't do. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:55.760 That was a two day final. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.799 So now you've got this situation where I have to 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.600 wait a whole week back. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.160 And lose training. Imagine training this week and they're already 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.520 three down there three for thirty. So I do like 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.160 four day final, but over two weeks it's You've got 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.720 a lot to think about during the wag. So batting 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.280 hours only at training this week. But my weekly winner 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.079 is the Dolphins. Hugo Burden, as I said, not familiar 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.280 with Steven or Stephan Muller, so I'll try and get 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.440 around him. Beat Matthew Mott and Andrew Son's previous record 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.400 of founder in forty six. Only they beat it. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:30.960 They've they've humped it. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.520 Yeah, so well do Yeah, well done to Hugo. Twelve 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.760 six's in his knock as well, just pretty handy, and 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.040 thirty fourths as well. Interestingly, those two bad as Burden 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.640 and Mahla both faced exactly four hundred and ninety two balls, 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.520 really shared the love neurology. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.160 That's amazing. I wonder if his relation to Scott, Yeah, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.360 I wonder because he I know he was a Gold 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.640 Coast previous Gold Coast Dolphin as well. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.400 So the alumnist Dolphins is pretty strong. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.800 It is pretty strong. So anyway, look for a game. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.520 Maybe don't go to the Gold Coast they're pretty strong. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.200 Well yeah, that was my weekly winner as well. We'd 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.000 often don't double up, so maybe it's a good sign 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.520 that we're thinking along the same Waveley. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.120 Yours could be the guy who took the three far 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:14.520 for Northern Suburbs. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:19.720 Yes, Scaley, he's every WEEKNDS. He needed a few more 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:24.120 mates though. But speaking of big performers in finals, obviously 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.680 Hugo Burden is now on that list with his three 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.520 hundred and forty. But but Love, he did it across 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.680 eleven finals for the Queensland Bulls. He made over one 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.320 thousand and sorry one one hundred runs in Shield finals alone, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.080 including five centuries. And he also was part of that 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.159 team that we spoke about last week that made six 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.560 for nine hundred against Victoria. I asked him about that 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.880 and a few of his other highlights from playing in 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:53.200 all those finals and he's the chat with him now. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.560 Now we won't see Queensland in this year's Sheffield Shield Final, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.359 but we do get to speak to some Sheffield Shield 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.960 royalty who played all his cricket with the Bulls. It's 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.160 Martin Love Welcome to the unplayable Martin. How are you, mate? 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.560 Oh, I'm very well. Thanks thanks for having me. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.520 No problem at all. You've been out of cricket for 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.960 a little while, but you've been managing to stay involved 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.000 via physiotherapy. Can you talk us through what you're up 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.080 to these days? 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:19.640 Yeah? 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.640 So yeah, once I finished playing, I work for Queensland 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.359 Cricket for my thirteen years and that sort of that's 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.680 changed back to working in a private practice for the 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.599 last two years now, so out of the Queensland Cricket 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.080 for the moment. Just yeah, it's working in a family 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:41.040 practice like a family physioclinic essentially in Brisbane and enjoying that. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.159 But trying to still doing a bit with cricket Australia. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.880 I was lucky enough to travel to Africa with the 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.159 Australia Under nine en team to the World Cup back 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.600 in January, so I was with that. So that was 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.560 a great trip and a good experience. So I'm still 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.920 doing bits and pieces here and they're still involved in cricket. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.960 That's fantastic. Was that something that you were studying as 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.080 you were playing or was just something that came to 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:02.960 you when your cricket career was finished. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.880 Now. I was studying Cusier when I was playing, so 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.080 back in the nineties, which was a lot easier than 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.719 because the training commitments weren't as great as they are now. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.880 So we basically, you know, most people either worked or 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.279 studied essentially, and. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.120 That's that's what we did. 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.080 So I managed to get my degree out of the 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.520 way in the early part of my career, and then. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.320 Once I finished playing in two thousand. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:33.440 And nine, I went back and did both physio Masters 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.279 and then worked from with Queensley Cricket from there. So yeah, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.040 it's been a very cricket heavy life so far. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.359 Okay, So for those who aren't as familiar with the 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:47.000 Martin love story, there's plenty of stats to dial into here. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.960 Over two hundred first class matches, over ten thousand first 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.200 class runs for Queensland, five Test matches in there as well, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.839 and over a thousand runs in Sheffield Shield finals. In fact, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.719 Martin here played in eleven even Shield finals, including eight 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.040 in a row between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.279 and six. Martin, what was it like to be seemingly 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.520 always in the biggest game of the season. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.000 Well, Queensland and that generation or those years we had 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.840 a very good side and that's probably because the Australian 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.760 Test side was very settled as well. I had some 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.679 very good players in it, so we tended to keep 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:28.160 a very good side on the park most years, which 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.720 culminated in Shield finals at the end of most seasons 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:32.120 as well. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.960 So that's always that's what you know. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.600 You play obviously to enjoy the game, but to have 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.320 to make it to finals at the end of the 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.520 season is always a really good way to finish the season. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.880 Often to play in so many, you know, was a great, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.520 great achievement, I guess, but also great experience in each 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.840 one of them tells their own story absolutely. Now let's 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.240 get into some of those individual matches, which includes Queensland's 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.840 first ever Sheffield Shield victory in nineteen ninety four ninety 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.720 five defeated South Australia innings and Martin. You got one 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.360 hundred and forty six in the first innings. What do 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.960 your memories from that game? Well, there's a lot of 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.840 I guess queens that had been in plenty of finals 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.000 up to that stage, we had never quite quite gotten 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.760 across the line, plenty of heartbreak. There's some stories, you know, 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.840 footage of Queensland playing New South Wales, the s cg 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.000 of not being able to get the last wicket to 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.440 win the game. And then obviously as these sort of 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.679 years went on, you know, to not having won for 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.960 you know, over sixty years, you know, the precious sort 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.000 of kept building. So to then get a finally get 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.880 a home final, which is the first time we'd managed 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.120 to achieve that and have that played at the Gaber 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.360 in front of home crowds made you know, made things 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.280 a lot easier for us. And then you know, we 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.760 got off to a good start and I guess, you know, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.840 once we sort of got our noses in front, we 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.480 were always always going to get a come away with 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.920 the victory, you know, and then we've got six hundred 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.839 and sixty four in our first innings and it's pretty 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:04.640 hard to lose from there. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.920 You spoke about always coming second in Queensland's poor record 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.839 in finals to that point. Were you guys as a 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.240 playing group aware of the pressure. We're feeling the pressure 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.640 and was there a lot of expectation coming from outside 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:20.440 the group as well? 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:21.679 Oh? 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.960 I was, well where in the history growing up, I 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.000 grew up on a cattle property, so the only thing 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.199 we had to win totain ourselves was ABC TV and 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.600 ABC Radio. So in those days, the test matches were 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.199 on ABC TV and all the Shield games were on 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.360 ABC Radio. So we'd always have a lot of travel 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.320 to get to cricket matches, so we'd always be listening 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:41.920 to the radio. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.599 And you know, you hear about. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.719 All those those heartbreaks of getting so close but never 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.120 quite getting over the line. And so did well and 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.080 truly aware of the history being in Queensland and not 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.559 winning it up and you know, for a number of years. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.640 So that expectation of you know, not so much the 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.920 pre well, both the previous players that have played to 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.640 queens that but also the rest of all the Queenslanders 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.120 that you had been ridden those highs and lows as well. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.000 Had that expectation and pressure from them to come away 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.800 with a win was certainly felt. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.840 And now after Paul Jackson took the winning wicket of 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.480 Jason Gillespie and the drought had been broken, I'm guessing 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.000 quite a few of those pass players joined in the 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.840 celebrations with you guys. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.079 We had a lot in the dressing room that night. 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.079 I mean, at that stage, the gabble was getting knocked 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.200 down to get ready for the two thousand Olympics, so 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.880 we only had sort of half the stadium available for spectators. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.720 So our dressing room was actually in the old Brisbane 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.600 Lions building on the opposite side where our normal dressing 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.240 rooms were, so which was quite good because it was 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.200 quite big. So that allowed a lot of people to 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:53.840 come in after the game. And there was lots of 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.120 past players that had been through matches that they hadn't 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:00.920 you know, finals at the had managed to win, and 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.079 that sort of disappointment of not being able to win 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:04.319 the shield for the first. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.000 Time for Queensland. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.280 So we shared it, certainly shared it with them, and 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.680 to be fair, the celebrations did go on for a 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:12.240 number of weeks. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.199 It wasn't just one night. 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.640 You were involved in a lot of victories after this 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.280 one as well, Martin. But imagine it would have been 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.520 tough to beat this one in terms of how great 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:23.640 the celebrations were. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.240 Oh, I look, the first one was special, you know, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.680 and that's not it wasn't so much for us, it 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.200 was for all our families then, as I said, the 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.040 past players and the rest of Queensland who'd grown up 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:35.439 not watching Queensland win the. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.640 Sheffield Shield, so you know we were lucky. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.679 We got to take the Sheffield Shield around the state 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.640 for a couple of weeks after that. The government gave 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.560 us one of their planes that we could fly around 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.360 and so we did trips up the coast and then 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.280 out to out west into some of the country towns. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.520 So we felt as though we could get the Sheffield 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.600 Shield back to all those country places that had supported 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.240 us over many years. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.160 Wow, that's very cool. In fact now, as you said, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.080 it started a period of real dominance for Queensland and 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.760 the Bulls won three titles in a row between two 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.800 thousand and two thousand and two. And then you took 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.600 part in one of the great finals that we've seen 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.640 in this competition, New South Wales and Queensland. The Blues 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.480 won by just one wicket in a low scoring match. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.120 Nathan Bracken and Stuart McGill got the final twenty two 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.840 runs needed. What was it like? That must have been 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:33.720 a real hard stopper. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.360 Yeah, it was a very obviously devastating for us with 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:37.880 the finish. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.240 That game had a lot of twists and turns to 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.360 it was played on a wicket I think they'd been 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.800 weather leading into the final, so the wicket didn't get 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.920 as much preparation as the grounds one would have liked, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.480 so it was certainly a little bit more bowl or friendly, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.760 and I think the scores probably reflected that there was 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.520 only I think two a couple of innings over fifty 0:12:58.520 --> 0:12:58.880 for the game. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.160 I think Brad Haddon might have got a couple of fifties. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.400 But yeah, it came down New South Wals were going 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.920 really well and then we took five wickets for not 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:12.080 many I think, to bring them down to thinking that 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.800 we were a chance of winning with the ninth wicket 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.800 needing another twenty odd to win. But unfortunately we just 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.440 couldn't manage to get that last wicket, and you know, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.200 luck didn't quite go away. We dropped a chance or 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.880 two difficult ones, but you know, in finals that's the 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.480 difference between winning and losing sometimes and we didn't quite 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.280 take our opportunities at the back end. But having said that, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.640 there's always things, plenty of things during a game that 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.040 you know, lead towards a victory, not just the things 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.160 that happened right at the end that everyone remembers about. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.240 So yeah, it was a very exciting very exciting match. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.959 We just unfortunately came across or came off on the 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:49.559 wrong side. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.360 Yeah, it was a real low scoring match. Only Brad 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.200 Hadden and yourself got over fifty. In fact, the only 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.559 score over seventy for the whole match was your one 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.880 hundred and sixteen. When you look back now in terms 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.800 of the degree of difficulty, this innings must have been 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:05.680 right up there for you. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:07.040 Yeah, it was. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.920 It was a challenging and for me leading into that game, 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.760 I hadn't been scoring many runs at all. I was 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.840 coming off the back of a broken finger earlier in 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.520 the season, so I hadn't really managed to score any 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:24.680 runs since coming back. So it was especially pleasing to 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.560 manage to get some runs in the final on a 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.520 challenging wicket. So it sort of get us back in 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.360 the you know, with a chance to win with a 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.840 decent score and a better score in our second innings. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.640 But yes, unfortunately didn't didn't quite get there. But it 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.000 was probably one of the more challenging innings is to 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.480 play on a difficult wicket against a good bowling line up, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.880 So from that end, you know, it was more of 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:53.120 a grind to get through. There weren't too many flashy 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.520 shots played. There was plenty of edges and squirts to 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.480 places where I didn't mean to hit them. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.400 But essentially you've got a bat time and that's what 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:02.040 I managed to. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.640 Do and got the runs in the end. So unfortunate 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.440 this year the result didn't quite go away. 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.840 Well, you still managed nineteen boundaries in there, and I 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.000 can only look at the scorecard, so I'm going to 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.840 imagine that they're all beautiful cover drives and on drives 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.400 and flicks the square leg. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:18.200 Oh well not quite. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:19.800 There's probably a couple out of the middle, but they 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.600 would probably would have read a few down a third 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:22.040 manage well. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.760 And then the following year Queensland are hosting Victoria in 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.920 the final. The visbat first make three hundred and forty 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.680 four and then Queensland come out and make six for 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:40.080 nine hundred declared nine hundred. It doesn't look right just 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.760 looking at that scorecard, but can you talk us through 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.800 those few days at the Gabbert, because that is a 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.280 ludicrous scorecard. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:46.920 It is. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.520 It's a lot of runs and I think there might 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.280 have been a a year or two in between that 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.680 the game against you South Wales, because the year we 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.840 played Victoria in at the mcg in a final the 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.120 year before. We got the nine in Victoria, but for 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.320 two days he got seven hundred and kept us out 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.200 in the field for a long time. So I think 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.080 there was a bit of we're going to get your 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.760 back kind of mentality going as well. So I think 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.720 that the wicket was it was a very good wicket 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.200 as well, and we were probably did We bowled quite 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.160 well to bowl Victoria out for around that three hundred mark, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.920 and then we just decided it was going to bat 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:22.560 for a long time. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.560 So, uh, the wicked got better. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.080 You know, it was quite warm still, the Vixek Victorian 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.360 bowls had bowled a lot, so we just decided to 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.920 keep pounding on the runs and then but we still 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.120 wanted to win the game and that was one thing 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:39.760 that we wanted to do. We could have kept batting 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.120 obviously to get more than nine hundred, but we wanted 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.680 to leave enough time in the game to win it 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.960 rather than just playing out a draw, and that way 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.040 we managed. You. I think Mitchell Johnson got five wickets 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.760 in the second innings and the early part of his career, 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.120 so I think the Vics were pretty tired from the 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.280 fielding for two hundred and something over, so I reckon 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.600 it was. I can't remember how many, but it was 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.520 a lot. I think they'd end up having four new 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.080 balls through the innings, so it was a long time. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.359 So that was a little bit of payback from the 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.800 year before, but also as yeah, it was you know, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.760 I don't think there's many scorecards where two batters get 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.760 two hundreds, two double hundreds, and then two other batters 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.479 get you know, I think I was the fourth highest 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:22.120 century maker. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.080 I got one hundred and sixty something on it, So. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:25.240 That's exactly right. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.760 So there was a lot of runs scored, that's for sure. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.600 And as you say, it's not as if you guys 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.480 are just stonewalling. Two hundred and forty four overs three 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.119 point seventy one is the run rates, not as if 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.119 you guys have just playing dead bat There's plenty of 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.440 runs being scored out there as well. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.479 It was a pretty good wicket but we had, you know, 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.160 Shane Watson, we had lots of good batters that's scored runs. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.840 And as the Victorians got tired, you know, they you know, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.760 they probably went buying as well, and you know, the 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.960 momentum was all in our favor at that stage, so yeah, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.040 we did score. You know, we've probably got quicker as 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.560 the innings went on, but yeah, we wanted to leave 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.800 enough time in the game as well, so that was 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.240 probably another reason to get well and truly in front 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.280 so we didn't have to bat again. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.240 But yeah, that was a good result in the end. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:16.920 It was always nice. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.200 It's always nice to win a game rather than getting 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.240 the Shield just because it's a draw, because you're hosting 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:23.000 the final. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.800 Totally, and that final margin was an innings and three 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:30.240 hundred and fifty two runs, so convincing victory there at 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.960 the Gabba. Now, Martin, across all those finals that you've 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.000 played in and all those centuries, you scored five centuries 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.199 in fact in Shield finals, which is a record that 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.600 still holds to this day. What's the standout Because when 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.440 we look back since the final came in nineteen eighty two, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.760 eighty three, well, no one scored more runs than you 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.119