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Speaker 1: Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everybody,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. Day two here at the SCG,

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Speaker 1: and it was a great day for batting. We saw

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Speaker 1: hundreds to Joe Root, nearly one hundred to Travis Head

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Speaker 1: and plenty more action in between. Louis Cameron is with

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Speaker 1: me Josh on a finger and I want to start

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Speaker 1: lou with maybe the biggest talking point of the day, certainly,

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Speaker 1: it was the thing that got us talking in the

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Speaker 1: press box. It was the Ben Stokes Marnus Labushane confrontation

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Speaker 1: in the final session. Yeah, do you want to talk

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Speaker 1: us through what happened there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well I wasn't one hundred percent sure where you

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Speaker 2: were going there because I felt like you could potentially

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Speaker 2: make four different topics. The biggest talking point of the

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Speaker 2: day the Jamie Smith wicket. Yeah, that the Marnus Labushane

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Speaker 2: and Ben Stokes kind of spat. But then Roote and

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Speaker 2: Head make contrasting, you know, excellent, excellent Knox. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about that because that's probably the one that

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Speaker 2: people love. People love a bit of bifo, don't they.

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Speaker 1: And and there was a bit of physical alter co.

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Speaker 2: Well that's right, yeah, And I'd be interested to get

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Speaker 2: your thoughts on where you thought that went. But how

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Speaker 2: it kind of went down was Stokes amide a kind

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Speaker 2: They looked really ragged out there today, I thought, apart

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Speaker 2: He is this team's best bowler, and that might even

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Speaker 2: be the case when they've got when they're at full strength,

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Speaker 2: and they're nowhere near full strength with the three quicks

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Speaker 2: they've got out there, the three front line quicks. But

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Speaker 2: he concedes a second boundary in a row I think

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Speaker 2: it was, or second boundary in as many balls off

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Speaker 2: Travis Head. This one was at a battle legs up line.

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Speaker 2: He thought it was a chance of hitting the stumps.

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Speaker 2: the wicked And this is where we don't know what

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Speaker 2: Travis Head some kind of you know, words of encouragement potentially,

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Speaker 2: but we don't know. It might have said something that

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Speaker 2: rolled up Stokes. Always intended to roll up Stokes, and

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Speaker 2: it did roll up. He's kind of turned around and

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Speaker 2: he has then put his arm around Marnas's shoulder to

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Speaker 2: physical contact. But yeah, did you think that was kind

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Speaker 1: Now, I think it looked like it could have escalated

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Speaker 1: Mark will made a good point on the Fox coverage

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Speaker 1: that when Stokes had his arm on the neck of

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Speaker 1: And I'm not sure sort of row stand on it,

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Speaker 2: Well I saw it. Lysia Heally as well on Fox

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Speaker 2: said that you know that referee might need to get

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Speaker 2: incident is roughly along the lines of what we've just

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Speaker 2: with something Marnus has said, Marnus has had a few

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Speaker 2: And you know, I Stokes was there just trying to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And when Lavashane and Head were talking to the

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Speaker 1: Labashane smiling and laughing, as if to say that there

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Speaker 1: Joe Rout said it was tricky it's about today. Well,

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Speaker 2: It took a lot of self control, I reckon from

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Speaker 2: And I think he chose the right the right course

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Speaker 2: But yeah, he showed a lot of self control and

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Speaker 2: like it shouldn't take away from from an excellent performance

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Speaker 1: A bit of a sidebar. But how much would you

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Speaker 1: again dame like this, I mean you'd hear some stuff

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you wonder whether the stunt mike would have picked

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Travis Head's innings, because he finished the

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Speaker 1: day ninety one not out off only eighty seven balls.

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Speaker 1: Head's banging as classical. There were some shots where he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm completely different to what we saw from Joe Root,

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Speaker 2: felt like it was at right sogging when they wanted

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Speaker 2: you know, he punishes you. And he kind of only

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Speaker 2: I kind of see how you understood that. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: exactly what he said. Yeah, because it's a very deep

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Speaker 2: you've got Webs at eight. Yeah, I kind of I

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Speaker 2: mean that, like Stark is averaging thirty for the thirty

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Speaker 2: That's why I was kind of surprised that they went

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Speaker 2: I just thought like they could have picked a spinner

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Speaker 2: sense you don't want to have Stark stranded at number eleven. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: gotten through. And would you're all out of a Michael

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Speaker 2: Nicea Test Century Day three?

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Speaker 1: Well, wouldn't that be something? He faced fifteen of the

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Speaker 2: He's like, oh, you're doing well, but if this thing,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you're twenty ten team have done there.

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Speaker 2: He's just very good at needling. Australians is in it.

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Speaker 2: It's a real art form.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's a wrap. On day two here at the

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Speaker 1: SCG Australia Trail by two hundred and eighteen runs, Travis

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Speaker 1: Head needs nine runs four that century. It would be

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Speaker 1: his third of the Ashes. Summer play is going to

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Speaker 1: begin at ten o'clock Eastern time again tomorrow, so don't

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Speaker 1: miss the first ball and catch up to play.

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Speaker 2: That's right, And let's hope that we're not necessarily talking

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Speaker 2: about Big Bash Gridley at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: and we can talk about it anyway because it's fun.

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Speaker 2: Because I feel like yesterday I've got a lot of

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Speaker 2: time playing Big Bash Gridley because it rained so much.

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Speaker 2: So if you don't get the opportunity, if we don't

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Speaker 2: get the opportunity to play Big Bash Gridley, that's because

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Speaker 2: we've had lots of play.

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Speaker 1: And hopefully we're talking about Michael Nieces.

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Speaker 2: Let's see