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Speaker 1: It's the scorches ball at born in Busselton from Dunsborough,

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Speaker 1: Lance Morris, morning Lance mate, having me on, that's all right.

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Speaker 1: You're on the freeway at the moment, on your way

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Speaker 1: to training.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, heading into Optors. It's actually nice to have not

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Speaker 2: too much traffic on the road.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh good, Okay, well there's an early heads up

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Speaker 1: on the traffic. It's not too busy on the on

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Speaker 1: the freeway. Mate. You probably don't get to spend much

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Speaker 1: time down south around this time of year anymore, No.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately not. I absolutely love it down there. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: obviously cricket takes precedents these days. So yeah, I'm flying

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Speaker 2: out to Hobart as you said in.

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Speaker 1: The next couple of days, yep, and off the back

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Speaker 1: of a first up win and a good one too

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Speaker 1: against the Melbourne Stars back on Sunday at home at

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Speaker 1: the Furnace. You guys are winning by six wickets seventeen

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Speaker 1: balls to spare. And how about that crowd when you

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Speaker 1: walked out onto the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, always good, always good at Optus. I think it

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Speaker 2: was awesome to have a real big crowd to the

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Speaker 2: opening game and I think well, the sounds of the

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Speaker 2: boxing day game when we get back into town will

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Speaker 2: be even bigger.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's going to be. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: a big one to top. Just over thirty thousand. It

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Speaker 1: was the biggest crowd ever for a Big Bash opener

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Speaker 1: anywhere in Australia and only the fourth time that the

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Speaker 1: Big Bash at pre Christmas has attracted over thirty thousand,

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Speaker 1: and that, of course there was another million or so

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Speaker 1: just watching on TV, so you know, no pressure.

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Speaker 2: That's it mate, It's awesome. I think Big Bash obviously

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Speaker 2: there was a little bit of slump in ratings over

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Speaker 2: COVID and things like that, but it definitely feels like

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Speaker 2: crowds are back and people were interested again for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely fired up. So as you say, it's now

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Speaker 1: off to Hobart in a couple of days, you guys,

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Speaker 1: well you'll get to avoid the heat wave over here anyway,

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Speaker 1: so that's one thing to look forward to. Playing the

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Speaker 1: Hurricanes won't be quite such a friendly crowd over there,

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Speaker 1: won't be as big a crowd, but they certainly won't

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Speaker 1: make you feel welcome.

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Speaker 2: That's it mate. Yeah, it's going to be a good

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Speaker 2: challenge and Hurricanes always roll out a pretty good outfit,

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Speaker 2: so it'll be hopefully a good game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So look, it's very early in the season, you've

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Speaker 1: only just played your opening game. But you guys getting

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Speaker 1: any feeling of which team is the one is the

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Speaker 1: one to beat for the for the ultimate prize this BBL.

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Speaker 1: Who are you most scared of?

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Speaker 2: It's always the same culprits really. I think Sydney six

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Speaker 2: is relatively unchanged over the last few years. Brisbane Heat

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Speaker 2: are looking really strong as well, so and then there's

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Speaker 2: the likes of I think Renegades have a great team

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Speaker 2: on paper as well. So there's some start power all

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Speaker 2: around the tournament which is exciting.

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Speaker 1: And you've certainly made your impact. You've got a couple

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Speaker 1: of handy wickets back on the weekends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good to get a couple away there.

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Speaker 2: I started a little bit slow but got into it nicely.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's nice to be back out there for sure.

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Speaker 1: Poor old Hilton Cartwrights didn't well, you put his body

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Speaker 1: on the line and uh and ended up getting stretched off.

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Speaker 1: Any word, have you heard on on how he's doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really Hilts is all clear of anything serious,

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Speaker 2: so I think he's already back over in Melbourne with

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Speaker 2: the team. He he dies around all the time and

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Speaker 2: puts his body on the line. So we love we

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Speaker 2: love Hilts. He's a w a guy and hopefully he's

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Speaker 2: all good for the rest of the tournament.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now mate, you've we've had the blurb come through here.

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Speaker 1: You've earned the nickname the wild Thing. Now, that's not

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Speaker 1: few efforts off the field, is it? That? That is

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Speaker 1: on the field?

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Speaker 2: On field?

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Speaker 1: From field of course? Officially officially, But you know, you're

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Speaker 1: incredibly fast bowler. You've you've really shocked a few people

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Speaker 1: since you're since your debut. How how does that? How

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Speaker 1: do you keep yourself nice and fit, because obviously, when

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Speaker 1: you're bowling that fast, you're putting your body under a

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Speaker 1: lot of stress. You must have to really manage yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. I think I've got a lot

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Speaker 2: better over the last couple of years in managing it.

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Speaker 2: It's just an element of fast bowling that you you

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Speaker 2: can you can control to an extent, but there's some

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Speaker 2: things also that you know, it's just bad luck as well.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, doing that little one the Sanders obviously jumping

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Speaker 2: in the ice bath on the massage bed. Yeah, hopefully

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Speaker 2: hold you in. Good to be on the park for

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Speaker 2: as long as possible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Well, like we said, you're heading off

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Speaker 1: to training at Optics today. Just get another feel for

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Speaker 1: that because you guys will be back there playing what

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Speaker 1: was on Boxing day, isn't it that? Hopefully we're going

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Speaker 1: to get a massive, massive crowd before you head out

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Speaker 1: to the airport in the next couple of days to

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Speaker 1: take on the Hurricanes, and we're hoping, we're hoping for

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Speaker 1: another win. Two from two would be nice before you

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Speaker 1: come home and then you know, notch up the thing

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Speaker 1: winning a row, get yourself a really good start. Take

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Speaker 1: on the sixers in the heat who you know on

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Speaker 1: the Renegades, As you said, they're the ones to beat

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Speaker 1: this season.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely mate, good start of the season. Hopefully we can

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Speaker 2: keep the ball rolling.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, well we're relying on you, Lance, no pressure.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you continue away along the freeway. Good to

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Speaker 1: hear that. That's not too bad. Thanks for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning, Lance, and yeah, go and chalk up another

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Speaker 1: win mate.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on