WEBVTT - Sydney D2: Filthy’, ‘dumb’ batting precedes Stokes-Marnus skirmish 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.239 The Unplayable Podcast is proudly presented by quantas the official 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.439 podcast partner and the official airline partner of Cricket Australia. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.799 Once again this season, Quantus is prouds Toby be flying 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:17.040 Australia's cricketers as they take on the world. Hello everybody, 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.799 Welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. Day two here at the SCG, 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:21.800 and it was a great day for batting. We saw 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.880 hundreds to Joe Root, nearly one hundred to Travis Head 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.320 and plenty more action in between. Louis Cameron is with 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.319 me Josh on a finger and I want to start 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.159 lou with maybe the biggest talking point of the day, certainly, 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.000 it was the thing that got us talking in the 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.920 press box. It was the Ben Stokes Marnus Labushane confrontation 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.599 in the final session. Yeah, do you want to talk 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:44.440 us through what happened there? 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.400 Yeah? Well I wasn't one hundred percent sure where you 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.400 were going there because I felt like you could potentially 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.560 make four different topics. The biggest talking point of the 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.240 day the Jamie Smith wicket. Yeah, that the Marnus Labushane 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.560 and Ben Stokes kind of spat. But then Roote and 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:05.480 Head make contrasting, you know, excellent, excellent Knox. So yeah, 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.399 let's talk about that because that's probably the one that 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.479 people love. People love a bit of bifo, don't they. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.160 And and there was a bit of physical alter co. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.200 Well that's right, yeah, And I'd be interested to get 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.319 your thoughts on where you thought that went. But how 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.839 it kind of went down was Stokes amide a kind 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.800 of out of control bowling effort from England like it. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.200 They looked really ragged out there today, I thought, apart 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.880 from Stokes himself, I mean, he got the two wickets again, 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.520 had to kind of dig his side out of trouble. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.920 He is this team's best bowler, and that might even 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.959 be the case when they've got when they're at full strength, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.320 and they're nowhere near full strength with the three quicks 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.360 they've got out there, the three front line quicks. But 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.280 he concedes a second boundary in a row I think 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.520 it was, or second boundary in as many balls off 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.160 Travis Head. This one was at a battle legs up line. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.880 He thought it was a chance of hitting the stumps. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.240 Head squeezes down on it. Another four past fine leg 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.360 and things are starting to get out of control. Marnus 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.920 Labushain's at the non strikers and kind of comes down 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.440 the wicked And this is where we don't know what 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.120 happened exactly. He has said something it looked like to 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.240 Travis Head some kind of you know, words of encouragement potentially, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.200 but we don't know. It might have said something that 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.560 rolled up Stokes. Always intended to roll up Stokes, and 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.200 it did roll up. He's kind of turned around and 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.600 gone back at Marnas, and you know, Maru's looked a 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.880 bit nonplussed, which makes me think that he probably didn't 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.560 intend to elicit the response, and he got so as 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.760 Stokes is walking back to his mark, it looks like 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.720 Stokes goes back for a bit more. Marnus holds his 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.480 ground and then look the physical contact I might read 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.040 was that Stokes couldn't hear him. You know, it's a 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.919 loud out there. The crowd would have been kind of buzzing, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.639 especially when they sensed a bit of drama. I think 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.680 he has then put his arm around Marnas's shoulder to 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.720 hear him better, because Marnus didn't look affronted by the 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.880 physical contact. But yeah, did you think that was kind 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:00.640 of overboard. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.119 Now, I think it looked like it could have escalated 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.760 when he did go to put his arm around. And 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.280 Mark will made a good point on the Fox coverage 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.440 that when Stokes had his arm on the neck of 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.040 he did give it a bit of a squeeze. It 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.320 wasn't it wasn't completely soft and friendly. So yeah, a 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.960 bit unusual to see that on a cricket field, isn't it. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.760 And I'm not sure sort of row stand on it, 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.160 but yeah. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.120 Well I saw it. Lysia Heally as well on Fox 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.639 said that you know that referee might need to get 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.400 involved here if it is as we suspect, if the 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.680 incident is roughly along the lines of what we've just 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.360 spoken about in terms of, yeah, Stokes has got annoyed 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.520 with something Marnus has said, Marnus has had a few 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.760 words back, Stokes has kept going nothing too out of 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.920 line there, from a bit of normal argibargie in that spirit. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.040 And you know, I Stokes was there just trying to 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:54.720 hear him like just say, hey mate, what did you 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.600 actually say, Like, let's make sure we're on the same 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.520 page here. Then I really think it's fine. I really 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.520 don't think I mean it's very different to say, you know, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.960 the Sam Constance versus very coally thing last year at 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.120 the MCG or last season at the MCG, and even 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:15.000 the conscious versus the entire Indian team late on was 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.680 it day one or two of that SCG test, when 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.359 Boomra and the whole Hindian team kind of rounded on 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.760 him like that. There were elements there that felt like intimidating. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.080 I mean, certainly the Khalie bumping into it, bumping into 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:31.520 Constas was intimidating. So yeah, I didn't think I didn't 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.080 have a big problem if the incident was as we suspect. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.640 Yeah, And when Lavashane and Head were talking to the 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.520 umpires after Stokes left the area, the cameras just showed 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.040 Labashane smiling and laughing, as if to say that there 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.880 was nothing poorly intended about it. I noticed earlier in 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.960 the day Carry o'keef said that it looked like the 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.080 pitch had a bit of extra testosterone and today and 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.960 Joe Rout said it was tricky it's about today. Well, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.360 there was extra testosterone as well as that wasn't there. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.120 So Ben Stokes, yeah, as you said, it was great 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.559 with the ball. But he ended up getting the wicked 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.279 of Labors Shane. So if there was a little bit 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.200 of nigger there from Manas it did backfire on. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.479 It took a lot of self control, I reckon from 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.120 Stokes not to give Manus an absolute godful because yeah, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.400 he's run past him and he's just stared at him. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.800 And I think he chose the right the right course 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.760 of action because having been in that position before at 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.400 a much lower level of cricket. Of course, Josh, you 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.039 just know when you get one over the batter and 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.880 you dismiss them like you just feel like you're king 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.400 of the world, you want to give them an absolute 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:34.800 sound off, at least I have when I've been in 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.240 that position before, and that might have actually made the mistake. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.440 But yeah, he showed a lot of self control and 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.160 like it shouldn't take away from from an excellent performance 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.760 from Stokes because he had to put his team on 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.920 his back there, Like the way trav just blitzed them everywhere. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.720 You know, Matthew Potts in particular was poor. We've kind 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.000 of wandered on this podcast. You know, why has any 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.560 played earlier? Well, I think we saw why he hasn't 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.320 played earlier. Albeit you know, maybe there's some kind of 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.640 nets Russ. He's been out here for almost two months 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.159 and hasn't played a game. They haven't really I don't 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.880 think even was he one of the ones who went 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.080 He went to so, I mean, would he bowled eight 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.400 ten overs in that in two months? You're going to 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.800 be a bit rusty, but you know this might be 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.840 his one kind of ash's opportunity. 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.040 A bit of a sidebar. But how much would you 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.760 pay for full access to the stunt microphones? Oh and 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.840 again dame like this, I mean you'd hear some stuff 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:28.240 withn't here. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.680 Yeah, you wonder whether the stunt mike would have picked 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.840 up all of what was going on there because it 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.200 was kind of mid pitch. But yeah, that would be 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.080 a that would be something you could jarge a lot for. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.840 Let's talk about Travis Head's innings, because he finished the 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.799 day ninety one not out off only eighty seven balls. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.440 I mean he hit fifteen to four. Some of the 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.799 shots that he was hitting. I mean, Joe Root's innings 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.320 was described as classical. Today you can't really describe Travis 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.200 Head's banging as classical. There were some shots where he 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.760 was airborne. Both feed off the ground and he still 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.360 got it to the rope. There was this little squad 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.120 drive where he sort of crouches down and still squirts 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.120 it through the off side. And then that one league 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.520 pull shot right at the start of his innings. I mean, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.640 that was that was pretty nice to watch, it must say, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.840 when you get that one day up and get the 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.160 balls over to the squarely grope. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.560 Yeah, I'm completely different to what we saw from Joe Root, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.080 but in some ways they are. Well, maybe in one 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:23.160 way they're similar. You bowl like a good length ball 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.800 or just short with any width outside of stump, even 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.800 a three and a half stump line ball that goes 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.160 for for a lot of the time, and it's the 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.000 same for route as well, like he when he was 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:39.160 going today and yesterday, like any width and he was 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.080 able to kind of put it either side of point 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.520 and get boundaries or at least get off strike. So 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.960 just the way they do it is completely different. But 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:52.760 in many respects it's equally difficult to bowl to. And 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.440 the other thing I thought he did just showed great 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.360 judgment on the balls he drove at like he it 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.440 never feels like he's outright, so well, maybe Perth it 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.440 felt like it was at right sogging when they wanted 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.360 to get that win inside the second day. But it 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.440 felt very much in control, and he's only the margin 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.960 of for error is very small. But when you miss, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.720 you know, he punishes you. And he kind of only 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.720 drives when it's very full. And then, yeah, we spoke 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.920 about it punishes kind of with so brutal innings, like 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.240 it felt like he was going to score a century 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.040 in a session. If it wasn't for some very good 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.080 Night Watchman work from Michael Nisa, he would have got there. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:30.920 I think, Yeah, a bit of a surprise to see 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.440 these to come out. Scott Bomer has been the regular 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.480 Night Watchman and then Nissa explained to us at the 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:40.080 press conference that he was no watchman, so that Stark 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:41.240 wasn't batting eleven. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.920 I kind of see how you understood that. Yeah, that's 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.319 exactly what he said. Yeah, because it's a very deep 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.680 batting lineup that they've got, it would be what would 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.000 have been Nisa at nine, stuck at ten ordinarily because 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.240 you've got Webs at eight. Yeah, I kind of I 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.320 mean that, like Stark is averaging thirty for the thirty 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.800 or twenty five this year had to think, yeah, more 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.080 than whether all, I think maybe more than maybe less 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.240 than Manus after today, But the guy's hitting him very well. 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.560 That's why I was kind of surprised that they went 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.920 with Webster at eight in this team in the first place. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.760 I just thought like they could have picked a spinner 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.160 as a bit of a free swing, just given like 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.320 the very deep batting they'd already have in a team 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.080 with Nissa and Stuck in it. So it does make 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.079 sense you don't want to have Stark stranded at number eleven. Yeah, 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.760 that's true when he's really contributing with the bat. So 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.000 that made a lot of sense. I guess you might 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.600 feel like he's slightly overqualified for the job, but he's 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.400 gotten through. And would you're all out of a Michael 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.160 Nicea Test Century Day three? 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.079 Well, wouldn't that be something? He faced fifteen of the 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.160 last nineteen balls or the day, as he said, did 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.560 his job to perfection. He was hit on the arm, 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.199 which ended up finishing the day five balls earlier. He 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.280 said he was okay. So for the Michael Nisa fans 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.120 out there, he will be okay to continue to borrow, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.600 but maybe a bit of smart games there as well. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.920 I reckon. Well, we were kind of wondering about that 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.600 because Nissa is, you know, such a tough unit and 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.760 it just feels like he doesn't have that bluff in him. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.160 You know, when Zach Crawley did it, was it at 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.760 Lord's earlier this year, where he he just wasted you know, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.760 you got hit on the fingers and just wasted time essentially. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.800 I think he subsequently admitted to doing as much. If 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.439 Crawley was doing it, you would kind of believe that 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.200 it was a bit of a bit of a bluff 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.200 and a bit of a time wasting tactic. But with Nisa, 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.480 he just feels like too nice a guy and too 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.560 honest a bloke to you know, a show and pain 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.200 but also be you know, bend the rules. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.800 Okay, so we'll mark down Michael Nie a hundred. You 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.280 heard that here, put that in. Well, the other big 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.360 talking point you touched on off the top was the 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.200 Jamie Smith dismissal. Today, I will get you to talk 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.640 through it. But England, we're in a really strong position 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.680 at that point of the game. He was during a 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.640 ninety four unpartnership with Joe Root England, Yeah, bossing the game. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.160 They were looking at over four hund in their first innings, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.880 and then Manus Labashan comes onto bowl in the lead 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.600 up to the second new ball boyling a lot of 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.320 short stuff and somehow ekes out a wicket. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.800 Do you want to play a game here with this one, Josh? 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.720 And I'm just turning my laptop screen away from you 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.640 so you can't cheat. I'm going to read out four 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.640 different descriptions of either the shot or the bowling of 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.280 Marnas and I want you to and then give you 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.440 four former Test players and you've got to match the 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:35.440 former Test players with the description. So I've got brainless 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.120 as my first one got dumb, is my second one 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:45.560 filthy and rubbish. Now the former players are Justin Langer, Brettley, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.400 Mark Taylor and Stephen Finn. So both sides of the 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.600 ashes divide are piling into the Jamie Smith and or 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.840 Manus Labushane's bowling well filthy? 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.160 Can you give me the Aussies again? That's definitely an 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.640 aussy Lee Langer Taylor, that's Brett Lee. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.079 That's well done done. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.199 Brainless feels like something in English person who would say. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.000 Are you bluffing? Did you read this before? This is 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.960 very good Yeah, that's Stephen Finn the other two. So 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.839 you've got dumb and rubbish and you've got Mark Taylor 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.040 and Justin Langer j L. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.200 He's going to say, he's going to say dumb. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.719 Well done. Yeah, I think it's not the first time 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.320 he's used that. He's said dumb batting. I think maybe 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:26.160 the last test about it. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.280 I think Harry Brooks batting yesterday. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.679 At some point he's double down on it today and 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.120 then yeah, you've got rubbish. I think that was a 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.760 description of the bowling Mark Taylor. Actually that's a great 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.800 clip if you watch. It's on Triple M Socials. I 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.280 think it ended up in our live blog. Mark Taylor said, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.800 this is exactly the kind of rubbish bowling that gets 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:51.760 wickets the next ball. Yeah, I mean all of the above, right, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.880 Like Marnison and Travis Head that part. What is it 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.000 about those two? They were the two that got hundred 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.800 soaks his skin later in the day. They're the two 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.119 of the famous World Cup final combination that won Australia 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.280 that that title in the Metabad and here they've come 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.880 on to bowl, you know, a bit of filth in 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.120 some respects just to tie Australia over to the second 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:14.880 U ball was also in the lead into lunch, so 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.080 and England kind of saw an opportunity a little bit, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.560 is what Joe Route later said, although I feel like 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.560 that might be a bit of revision. It's history and 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.120 you know they're mostly knocking it around, you know, Jamie Smith, 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.160 I don't know, I'd have to look back, but I 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.719 feel like he wasn't. It didn't look like he was 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.280 desperately trying to score runs off it. But yeah, Marnus 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.080 is bowling with his you know, the short ball field 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.680 and he can actually get the speeds up a little 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:42.920 bit on this ball I think was one hundred and 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.840 twenty nine, so not absolutely slow, but also not the 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.120 kind of pace you would expect to trouble a guy 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.240 who averages over forty in Test cricket and he's tried 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.600 to basically baseball bat it down the ground, probably have 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.680 a mid off or straight back at the side screen 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.040 and miscuse it. And Scott Boland, I mean Scott Bowland. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.040 You know he's a decent fielder, but in this team 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.000 he's probably the least athletic, maybe Usma Kwaija, so you're 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.800 probably putting those two in your least likely spots to 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:13.439 get a catch, and that's where the catch went. I mean, yeah, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:14.760 you just it's hard to defend. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.280 Well, the pilot has already started. I've seen some articles 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.200 around saying it's easily the worst is English dismissal of 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.480 the summer, and there's been plenty of the cheers from 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.920 some have been calling it the worst dismissal of the decade, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.640 So certainly there will be plenty to talk about about 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.840 that dismissal. When he was out at five for three 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.680 hundred and twenty, that becoming six for three hundred and twenty, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.120 England lost their last five we gets for sixty runs 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.440 and on a good batting strip, desperately needed to put 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.320 on a good first innings total and they didn't do it. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.360 And I think that's the key point here is, Yeah, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.560 you can debate the merits of him trying to attack 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.200 Australia in that situation. I think there's some merit in that. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.120 I can see what Joe Root is saying about it. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.560 But equally, like you've got to be responsible for your 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.400 actions and okay, like that's you've got Will Jacks behind you, 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.880 but you're basically down to your last recognized batters. You know, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.960 is there a case for the long game? That's not 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.040 something this England team seemed to think about a lot. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.480 But yeah, is there a case to get to get 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.360 to the second new ball with two set batters and 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.400 then relaunch from there or even attack the second new ball, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.239 because that's something Jamie Smith did reasonably well in Adelaide. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.440 He got a lot of grief I think for how 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.640 he went out in Adelaide that I think that was 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.320 to the second new ball when Mitchell start and again 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.520 that was pulling. Look, they were chasing what was it 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.880 close to four hundred on that occasion, maybe three seventy 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.560 three eighty. They kind of needed to take a few 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.200 risks to get to that total. Here they were right 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.280 on top of Australia, like, what was it five for 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.960 three hundred and twenty? You said, second new ball coming up? 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.640 Boland and Stark and to a lesser extent, Nisa of 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.400 all bowled a lot of overs in the series. There's 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.520 no spinner. Yeah, can you dig in and and absorbs 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.840 some pressure for a little bit. That's not what this 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.120 England team is really about, despite the fact they kept 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.160 talking about absorbing pressure. But Yeah. Again, it's just a 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.000 case of them having a really strong position in a 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:12.280 game and throwing it away. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.000 Yeah, and I guess you also have Joe Root at 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.360 the other end. He didn't look like any. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.200 I mean, that's the biggest one and that like, yeah, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.320 that's probably actually the best point you could possibly make 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.200 about it is Joe Roots ended up getting out playing 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.200 a shot he probably wouldn't have if they hadn't been eight. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.640 I think they were eight down at that point, so 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.720 he had to attack and Australia to score some runs 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.440 because he was batting with Matthew Potts and then Josh 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.880 Tung after that not particularly recognized batters, so it's forced 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.040 him to do something different and he like he did 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.920 not offer a chance apart from his first ball which 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.480 he played that massive cover drive. You know, he barely 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.320 looked like getting out and that's bego. And it's a 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.640 bit of a theme like they left him left hanging 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.200 at the Gabba. He was one hundred and thirty eight 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.160 not out there. And the famous one, of course is 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.200 edge Person twenty twenty three when they basically lost the 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.560 Test match on the back of Ben Stokes declaring on 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.920 him when he was that he was batting even better 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.199 than either of the two innings in this series. So 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.960 Route has a remarkable temperament to just kind of soak 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.439 all this in, to accept how his team plays, to 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.800 accept the highs of it and ride the frustrating loads 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.000 and not turn on his team mate. He's he's such 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.320 a classy guy. I've just got so much admiration for him, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.480 because if he was a more selfish batter, he would 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.600 surely be going like, what are you guys? What are 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.040 you doing to me? I'm in the form of my life. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.359 I'm batting as good as he talked about maybe getting 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.920 to the twenty nine thirty ashes. I think it's twenty 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:40.119 nine thirty. He was at thirty thirty one. Yeah, you 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.920 know that's a that's a long way away, and he's 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:43.880 going well enough that you think he could get there. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.920 So classy guy, but yeah, surely some frustration there. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.080 So he's England's all time leading round scorer and he's 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:55.399 been underutilized by England effectively. Incredible stuff. Really, let's talk 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.880 about his wicket he got So he got through that 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.720 second new ball with really no drama. Scottland was zipping 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.480 it around everywhere out of fact, I feel like he 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.680 was a bit unlucky not to get a wicket during 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.760 that spell. In the end, it was Michael Nissa who 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.440 came on. He wasn't given that second new ball even 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.199 though he was given the first new ball, so that 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.480 was a bit of a change from Australia. But Nissa 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:18.040 came in, bowleder short ball at route. It probably jumped 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.280 a bit more than his thought and then really athletic 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.840 court and bowl. Just another one to add to Nissa's 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.520 catalog there now, And he said that was a plan 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.320 that he'd been working on with Ezmond Kwaja just a 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.480 ball or two before. So isn't that nice when a 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:31.240 plant comes together? 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:32.960 Yeah, that was your question in the press conference and 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.520 a good one. And yeah, again it's route playing. He's 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.719 probably thinking about getting two there because I think they 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.919 had three guys out on the leg side and no 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.720 mid wickets, so if he bumps it into the leg side, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.440 he can kind of scramble back for two. I think 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:46.920 it was the first ball of an over as well, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.000 so you know he's thinking about how can I maximize 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:54.320 my run scoring capacity with so few wickets left. But yeah, 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.600 I'm a Nissa and he had to dive across the 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.080 wicket square as well, so it would have been kind 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.760 of hard on the old elbows. Such an athletic guys. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.479 He's offered so much to Australia this series and I 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.840 think I saw. I'm not sure if it finished up 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.240