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Goodday, everybody, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.360 welcome back to another episode of The Unplaybook Podcast. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:20.840 We've got a. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.000 Massive episode coming up for you today with interviews with 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.479 Matt Short and Jake Lehman to come up on the show. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.440 But first let's introduce Kane Richardson, who's back here again. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:30.240 There's every week. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.600 Rich Oh, I know it's been a big week for you, 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.839 and there's some news around Punch the Monkey that I 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.960 know that's really stirred up to your feelings on the 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:38.960 during the week. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.960 You've completely lost me already five seconds into this you 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.840 said it's been a big week for me, and I thought, 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.800 what's happened. I've been sitting on a burro at home 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.000 for the whole week, So not a big week for you. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:50.400 Not across the Punch the Monkey news. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:51.720 I have no idea what you're talking about. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.800 Okay, well, let's move on very quickly into this week's 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.560 weekly winner. Rich sho you want me to start this 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.880 week because you always seem to it off, which you should, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.560 But this week I'm going to go for the obvious one, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:08.520 Alyssa Healy obviously the retiring grade final. Odi just punches 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.320 out one hundred and fifty eight of ninety eight deliveries, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.399 her highest score in Australia, second highest audio score and 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.120 I think from a one hundred to fifty and sixteen 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.080 balls or something ludicrous. So what a way to sign out? 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.000 And she decided to have a trendle as well. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.840 That's what I thought you were going to point to first. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.000 I thought that would be especially the topic of today's 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.840 Big four. I don't want to give too much away, but. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:30.720 No, I give it away. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:31.720 We have now, haven't we. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:32.200 That's right? 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.640 The topic of today's span is part time bowl is 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.559 the best that we've seen? 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.120 So and I assume that came into your mind because 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.360 of a listen here, right, yeah, right, yeah. I did 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.800 find it funny that she did give herself the ball 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.200 and one above. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.680 There was some rusty coling in there. We'll get to it, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.360 but not just one over. Yeah, she went for a 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:54.000 second so. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.120 One of the wicket didn't Absolutely I reckon she would 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:58.960 have preferred a wicket over the one hundred and fifty eight, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.280 but again one hundred fifty out of ninety eight four 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.000 hundred and nine wrapped up. What a way to go out, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.160 as she said, So she's still got the Test match 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:11.880 to come, but just cementing again her legacy for generations 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.919 to come as one of the greats of women's cricket 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.959 in this country. So she was one of my weekly winners. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.960 But for the batting, or for the bowling, or for 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.480 the all around. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.720 It, for everything. Also for staky again in the com 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.359 box looking dapper as some great footage when she brought 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.880 up one hundred. You didn't really know how to just 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.160 played it cool. So because he knew the camera was 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.919 on it exactly. He's our man, So we love love 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.560 their work. I went to Andrew Sampson as my backup 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:44.040 plan just in case, because you're talking Beginnings needed to 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.280 win to get into a semi final. We know the 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.760 pressure that the Indian team were under ninety seven or 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.840 fifty chasing a decent score against the Western East to 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.080 basically send them home and India to progress. And there 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.000 was a lot of people happy after that. I reckon 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.160 the breathing a sigh of leaf because it looked like 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:03.799 not that they are out of it the halfway point, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.760 but you need a lot to go right chasing that score, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.720 and they did start slow. So basically one one man 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.959 bandit to win. So ninety seven not out of fifty balls, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.839 get them to win. They're in the semi final. Now, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:19.760 the broadcasters are happy, BCCI a happy, well, crickets happy. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.120 So a couple of big semi finals coming up in 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.480 the space you can smell trophies now. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.720 It's kind of yeah, yeah, you've. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.680 Got the One Day Cup coming up, probably not as 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.399 high on people's agenda as the T twenty. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.240 But for us it is definitely. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.160 Yeah, it's getting to that time of the year where 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.080 it's time to start winning some stuff. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.640 We'll touch on the T twenty World Cup very shortly, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.800 but when you get to the final four, is it 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.640 genuinely anyone's game or are there still guys and teams 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.440 who are in favoritism here or is it even playing 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:49.920 field now? 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.600 No, it's definitely, there's definitely seeds still and being a 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:58.440 home country and everyone's pre tournament favorite India. So but again, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.320 like you said last week, England have done nothing wrong. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.280 They've just slowly just gone about their work under the radar. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.520 So Africa have been probably one beat to India's one 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.400 a and then New Zealand just once again like no 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.560 one's We hadn't spoken about him, No one had spoken 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.080 about him. Oh look at that New Zealand final of 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.640 the World Cup again. So I mean it's all going 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.480 to come down to the toss of the coin in 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.600 my view, that's going to be such a heavy part 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.400 of it. But still the best team can win batting 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.880 first if they put a complete game together. So for 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:31.240 very worthy teams. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.719 All right, Yeah, we'll get to a more in depth 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.679 preview of those semifinals very shortly, but after a quick 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.719 word from our Sponsorible here from Matt Short, who was 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.640 in Australia's two twenty World Cup squad before the tournament began. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.120 He was then left out of the finalize squad that 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.520 they announced, and he gives us a bit of an 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.000 insight into how that all played out and what's next 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:58.640 for him. Pleasure to be joined now by Matt Short, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.280 who's just slotted back in seamlessly to that Victorian side. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.760 They're absolutely flying at the minute. Welcome to the Unplayable podcast. Shorty, 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.239 thanks mate, thanks having me, no. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.039 Worries at all. Yeah, let's talk about the Vics. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.480 Obviously they've walked in that home final, already in the 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.400 Sheffield Shield, they're going really well. What's the vibe around 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:16.760 the group at the minute. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.840 It's been been really good. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.240 I suppose it's been the vibe sort of every time 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.880 I get back to play with them, but. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.080 It's been really good. They've obviously had a really good year. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.880 A lot of guys are standing up, which is good, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.120 not relying on just a couple of guys. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.680 So no, it's just awesome to see the depth of 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:37.600 the VIC cricket standing up. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.600 And yeah, as I said, even the new guys that 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:45.480 are coming in, yeah, making an impact and helping win 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.080 win games for the Vics. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.640 So yeah, that's awesome to see the boys lpping about. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.080 One of the moves that we've seen made this year 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.400 has been Sam Harper up to open, especially in the 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.919 last couple of weeks, and they've got those twin tons 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.640 in Perth. Was the prize to you, because I mean 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:02.960 for a lot of us looking on that was a 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:04.440 bit of a surprise to see him move up to 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.680 the top, but seems like it suits him perfectly. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.680 Yeah, I mean I don't know. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.520 I sort of look at it and no one really 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.880 knew what the batting order is going to be over 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:20.160 in Perth. But yeah, he's sort of a weird one 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.680 because he's he's obviously opened a lot in white ball 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.880 cricket and just sort of tends to get moved around 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.440 the order a bit in in the. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:30.040 Red Bull stuff. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.920 So yeah, it was a bit of a strange one, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.520 but it obviously paid off and Bucky, Bucky the coach, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:42.000 he's obviously pretty happy with the decision and the mastermind 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.159 behind it all. But nah, obviously Harps is in some 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:50.440 incredible form. Just got that confidence now that I think 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:55.280 he's found a tempo that suits him really well. Yeah, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.000 it's been been awesome to see. He deserves every bit 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:02.200 of his A very hard worker and yeah, just awesome 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:03.680 to see him doing well at the moment. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.960 And from a bowling point of view, I mean there's 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.760 wickets everywhere you look. Scott bowl On, Sam Elliott, Mitch Perry, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.920 Fergus O'Neill, and then you throw in Todd Murphy as 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.800 well for some spin options. There's just so many options 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.360 with the ball as well at the minute. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:24.000 Yeah, and you missed will Sudland in there as well. Yeah, 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.840 it's gonna gonna be tight come come, the last game 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.680 of the year. But yeah, I said, everyone's standing up, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.680 everyone's sort of scoring runs and taking wickets, so I 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.640 guess you know, they all say it's a good problem 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:40.720 to have with the depth and whatnot. So yeah, it 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.680 was pretty special, you know, the other week in Perth, 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.520 just watching the guys go about it and sort of 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.240 just standing in the hammock at first slip and. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.080 Yeah, it was awesome to watch. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.040 Now as we've touched on, you guys have locked in 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.320 that home final, which means the Sheffied Shield is going 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:00.000 to be on the line. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:00.720 Come. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.240 I think it's March twenty sixth. Have you won a 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.320 Sheffield Shield yourself? I know you've been in a couple 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.000 of losses to w A, but have you won one yourself? 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:08.960 Yeah? 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:14.560 One one one against New South Wales. I was about 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:19.960 seventeen eighteen, so yeah, and then as you said, lost 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.720 a couple against WA so it's nicely that win against 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.560 them over there. You don't often win a good first 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.840 but yeah, I was luck enough to play in that 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.319 one against New South at the Junction was a good 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:33.280 few days. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.319 And we've seen your coach, Bucky Rogers even come out 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:41.400 and push your test credentials. If you finish this shield block, well, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.280 he reckons that you're definitely in the mix for a 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.600 test looking as well. How do you sort of respond 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:47.120 to something like that. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.520 Yeah, I mean it's always a hard one, and it's 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.000 probably been been tough for the last sort of two 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.800 or three years just with the amount of white ball 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.600 going on. And you know, I've we comes to a 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:05.360 point now where, you know, especially sort of finding myself 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.360 out of the white ball team at this stage, sort 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.560 of really needed to sit down and figure out what 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.800 I want to do and you know, what I want 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:15.040 to have. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.240 With a crackout, whether it's red ball or white ball. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.840 So probably in the middle of that and probably needed 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:25.280 a bit of time to work through that. So yeah, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.040 look at it, it's always been a tough question to answer, 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.760 Like obviously it's great to have those comments come from 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.160 your coach, and yeah, it's just sort of comes down 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.160 to me and what sort of suits me and me 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.720 and my family and what makes us happy and yeah 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.680 and go from there. So yeah, got a bit of 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.120 work to go through at the moment. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.880 Yeah, and maybe this is a tough one to answer, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.960 But in terms of the formats, I mean, from an 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.520 outsider's point of view, it seems like T twenties and 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.719 one days would be pretty similar in terms of your 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.080 prep and everything. And then you've got four A and 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.400 five of their cricket, which is just a completely different 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.160 ball game. Do you prefer the the longer leadings and 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.439 the longer match days or are you happy with them 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.120 just in and out in one day sort of thing. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.240 Yeah, it's a good question. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.720 I mean, yeah, in terms of the playing style and whatnot, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.920 I'm happy with the sort of the short and sharp games. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.600 But then I guess in terms of the training, and 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.000 you know what's actually good for your game, I guess 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.960 the red ball and training, you know, working on your 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.360 technique and trying to spend time in the middle, I 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.120 guess is really good for your game. So sort of 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.440 just weighing up all those pros and cons. And you know, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.600 I'm not saying that you don't train for T twenty 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.760 or one days, but you know you probably don't get 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.360 the time in the middle that you can in red ball, 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.240 And yeah, so they're sort of the things that I'm 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.560 weighing up and what I enjoy more or what I 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.000 don't And as I said, what what's better for me 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.400 in the family moving forward? 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.080 Yeah, okay, cool. And so let's circle back to that 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.240 T twenty World Cup. You're in the preliminary squad and 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.480 then left out of the official squad that they took in. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.840 Can you talk us through those decisions and how you 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.199 were sort of made aware of that and was a 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:18.800 surprise to you, I suppose. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:21.840 Yeah, I guess. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.760 I guess when I found out I was in the 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:31.079 first squad of fifteen, the preliminary squad, I was obviously 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.280 really wrapped. And I guess from the moment I found out, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.000 it was pretty much let's prep for World Cup and 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.920 you know, let's make sure, you know, I hit the 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.120 ground running and try and win a World Cup for 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.720 Australia and you know, just the whole sort of experience. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.520 And you know, I've been been around the squad a 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:51.720 couple of times. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.800 Over in the West Indies. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.360 I was, you know, I was a replacement or not 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:04.239 a replacement of traveling reserve player. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:06.920 See, I sort of had the taste of it, but 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:07.840 you know without playing. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.560 So this this time, I was really keen to get 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.840 to Silanka and really push my case and and try 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.280 and be involved in the World Cup. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.240 Was really going forward to it. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.199 But then, yeah, I suppose we there weren't too many 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:25.600 comms sort of leading up to. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.480 Leading up to the World Cup. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.839 Obviously we had the Pakistan series, which again was a 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.240 you know, it was going to be a nice little 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.560 prep into the World Cup that I was going to use. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:44.400 And I guess they made the conditions, you know, pretty tough, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.240 tough to play, you know, looking at what Trelanka was 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.360 probably going to offer us. So you know, I was 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.640 really look forored to get into Pakistan and you know, 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.480 sort of testing myself and then seeing what it was 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:02.160 going to be like. And yeah, obviously didn't not too 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.160 many I was did too well over in Pakistan. It 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.040 was a pretty tough series to be involved in. But yeah, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.840 I sort of found out well not to play the 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.040 first game in Pakistan and then got the call, got 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.000 a call from Dodders who was over there with us, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.000 I think the day or the night before the second game. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.400 Of the not before the second game of the three 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:26.080 game series. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.520 So I was like, oh, you know, he sort of 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.120 invited me into his room, and I thought, you know, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.040 I'll probably get and dropped for the next couple of 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.000 games or whatnot. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.840 And when I walked. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.200 In, Ronnie was in there as well, so I was like, shops, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:42.720 something going on here. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.280 And I hadn't really heard much. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.440 There wasn't much communication around, you know, what the sward 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.840 was doing, or you know, we're heading to Schlanker in 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.280 three days time. And then yeah, it's sort of Dods 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.760 was like, look, mate, there's atwing moving parts with injuries, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.600 and you know, they weren't sure how long TV was 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:10.480 going to take. And obviously Patty was out and and 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.120 hoff was was not ruled out at that stage, but 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.360 he was out. And yeah, they just said they wanted 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:21.440 to go with you know, while TV was out, they 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.800 wanted that they wanted Renders in in to come through 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:29.480 the middle. You know, maybe is a better option against spin, 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.640 maybe it's a left hander, and you know, with the 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:39.120 top order being so so stacked as it was, I 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.120 guess my only way in was was probably through through 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:42.520 the middle. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.000 So I guess that was the reasoning there. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.720 And yeah, so I went into the room thinking I 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.040 wasn't playing in Pakistan for the next couple of games, 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.680 but you know, I still had an a Tralannka but 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.520 they were like, na, you're still playing the next couple 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.120 of games in Pakistan, but you'll be on the next 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:06.040 plane owns. So it was it was tough, but I 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.760 guess it's it's it's made me sort of realize and 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.240 sit down that there are there are actual areas of 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.480 my game that I need to improve and which I 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.480 suppose you probably comes more down to me. I've probably 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.480 gone through the last couple of years, gone from tournament 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.120 to tournament or series a series and not actually sat 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:29.120 down well enough or reviewed how I'm actually going or. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.640 Or what what I need to work on, what's going well, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:34.000 what's not. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.080 So yeah, I sort of use the last few weeks, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.040 you know, since getting back from Pakistan to talk to 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.600 the people I need to talk to and work out 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:49.280 a plan to get back in that Australian team and 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:50.800 and yeah, get better as a cricketer. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.880 It's tough though, because I mean, obviously we've seen all 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.160 your success or a lot of your success in the 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.120 shortest form be at the top of the order. So 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:01.960 does it come to a point where you might have 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.600 to say, well, maybe I want to bat Elsa in 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.800 the order, just to show my flexibility and to show 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.640 that not necessarily just pigeonholers as an open end T 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:11.320 twenty cricket. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.520 Yeah, a little bit. I mean. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.600 I suppose that the reason that, yeah, I suppose the 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.840 reason I got into the Australian team in the first 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.320 place was from opening the batting and doing quite well. 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.760 So I don't want to get rid of that, and 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.800 the communication from from you know, from Ronnie and Bales, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.360 Doughters and whatnot. They still see me as an opening batsman, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.240 you know, when that that spot comes up, believe that 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.920 spot comes up. But then yeah, obviously to get into 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.200 the team at the moment's probably through the middle, the 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:50.840 moving parts there. So yeah, look, I've certainly had enough 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.080 experience through the middle. We had that big India series 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.920 here at home where I played a few games through 0:16:55.920 --> 0:17:00.440 the middle. I did it a lot so early in 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.200 my career with the vis both read red and white 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.800 ball cricket, and then sort of the start of my 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.240 TEA twenty career as well. 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:13.480 So but yeah, I don't I don't want to look 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:14.240 into it too much. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.560 There's obviously areas to work on it, you know, against 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:23.200 spin and maybe those those sort of subcontinent conditions. But yeah, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.879 I don't want to sort of shy away from the 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.080 fact that, you know, opening the battings what's got me 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.840 into the team in the first place. So yeah, yeah, 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.800 I sort of stick with that and have a play 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.360 around through the middle if I need to. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.920 And do you sort of not that you'd be somebody 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.720 to pity yourself, but I mean you look at the 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.280 Champions Trophy and that sort of tournament ended for you 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.880 with injury. Then you've got to this T twenty World 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.720 Cup and you were left out of the last minute. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.879 You sort of think to yourself, yea, I wish I 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.640 could just have a bit of luck come of these 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.520 ICDC tournaments, so to'd be handy. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.920 Yeah, I mean it's been been hard. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.480 I mean yeah, I mean every time you get injured, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.760 it's it's always a you know, you say you're unlucky 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:05.200 and whatnot. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.880 But yeah, there's been a few series that I've missed. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:11.520 I would have been really keen to playing the one 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.959 over in in Jamaica there, but I missed that through injury. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.760 I think got in my side or something something my rib. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.919 Yeah there's been you know, I missed missed PSL tournament, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.280 you know, earlier last year, which would have been nice 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.240 to sort of playing the conditions over there. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.320 But yeah, there's obviously. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.880 Yeah, it's just been a bit a little bit frustrating 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.320 with injury and not getting that exposure that I probably 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.160 could have had throughout the year, so you know, which 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.639 ultimately gave them the you know, we haven't seen you 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.320 enough through the middle, or we haven't I haven't seen 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:51.920 you performed well enough against spin or whatnot. So yeah, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:53.399 it would have been nice to get those sort of 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.719 decent blocks of games for Australia, but yeah, injury has 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:58.800 would have gotten the way a little bit. 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:00.840 But here that's sort of is what it is. You 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.120 can't really control that too much. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.880 And have you been watching the T twenty World Cup 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.520 or have you been completely just checked out of it 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.640 and not not even checking the scores. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.160 I certainly checked the scores. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.200 I haven't didn't go far enough to sign up to 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:21.280 Prime or Amazon whatever it was. But no, to be honest, 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.480 I was pretty shattered when I when I got the 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.320 news and when I got home, and you know, I 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.359 just needed to need to get away from a little 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.879 bit and talk to my people and work out ways 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.119 to move forward and you know what needs to be 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.000 done to to get back in there. So yeah, kind 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.680 of put the World Cup aside and yeah, pretty much 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.159 moved on to what was next, and that was playing 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:46.840 Shield cricket. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.480