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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Unplayable Podcast. Day two here at the SCG,
Speaker 1: and it was a great day for batting. We saw
Speaker 1: hundreds to Joe Root, nearly one hundred to Travis Head
Speaker 1: and plenty more action in between. Louis Cameron is with
Speaker 1: me Josh on a finger and I want to start
Speaker 1: lou with maybe the biggest talking point of the day, certainly,
Speaker 1: it was the thing that got us talking in the
Speaker 1: press box. It was the Ben Stokes Marnus Labushane confrontation
Speaker 1: in the final session. Yeah, do you want to talk
Speaker 1: us through what happened there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well I wasn't one hundred percent sure where you
Speaker 2: were going there because I felt like you could potentially
Speaker 2: make four different topics. The biggest talking point of the
Speaker 2: day the Jamie Smith wicket. Yeah, that the Marnus Labushane
Speaker 2: and Ben Stokes kind of spat. But then Roote and
Speaker 2: Head make contrasting, you know, excellent, excellent Knox. So yeah,
Speaker 2: let's talk about that because that's probably the one that
Speaker 2: people love. People love a bit of bifo, don't they.
Speaker 1: And and there was a bit of physical alter co.
Speaker 2: Well that's right, yeah, And I'd be interested to get
Speaker 2: your thoughts on where you thought that went. But how
Speaker 2: it kind of went down was Stokes amide a kind
Speaker 2: of out of control bowling effort from England like it.
Speaker 2: They looked really ragged out there today, I thought, apart
Speaker 2: from Stokes himself, I mean, he got the two wickets again,
Speaker 2: had to kind of dig his side out of trouble.
Speaker 2: He is this team's best bowler, and that might even
Speaker 2: be the case when they've got when they're at full strength,
Speaker 2: and they're nowhere near full strength with the three quicks
Speaker 2: they've got out there, the three front line quicks. But
Speaker 2: he concedes a second boundary in a row I think
Speaker 2: it was, or second boundary in as many balls off
Speaker 2: Travis Head. This one was at a battle legs up line.
Speaker 2: He thought it was a chance of hitting the stumps.
Speaker 2: Head squeezes down on it. Another four past fine leg
Speaker 2: and things are starting to get out of control. Marnus
Speaker 2: Labushain's at the non strikers and kind of comes down
Speaker 2: the wicked And this is where we don't know what
Speaker 2: happened exactly. He has said something it looked like to
Speaker 2: Travis Head some kind of you know, words of encouragement potentially,
Speaker 2: but we don't know. It might have said something that
Speaker 2: rolled up Stokes. Always intended to roll up Stokes, and
Speaker 2: it did roll up. He's kind of turned around and
Speaker 2: gone back at Marnas, and you know, Maru's looked a
Speaker 2: bit nonplussed, which makes me think that he probably didn't
Speaker 2: intend to elicit the response, and he got so as
Speaker 2: Stokes is walking back to his mark, it looks like
Speaker 2: Stokes goes back for a bit more. Marnus holds his
Speaker 2: ground and then look the physical contact I might read
Speaker 2: was that Stokes couldn't hear him. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: loud out there. The crowd would have been kind of buzzing,
Speaker 2: especially when they sensed a bit of drama. I think
Speaker 2: he has then put his arm around Marnas's shoulder to
Speaker 2: hear him better, because Marnus didn't look affronted by the
Speaker 2: physical contact. But yeah, did you think that was kind
Speaker 2: of overboard.
Speaker 1: Now, I think it looked like it could have escalated
Speaker 1: when he did go to put his arm around. And
Speaker 1: Mark will made a good point on the Fox coverage
Speaker 1: that when Stokes had his arm on the neck of
Speaker 1: he did give it a bit of a squeeze. It
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't completely soft and friendly. So yeah, a
Speaker 1: bit unusual to see that on a cricket field, isn't it.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure sort of row stand on it,
Speaker 1: but yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I saw it. Lysia Heally as well on Fox
Speaker 2: said that you know that referee might need to get
Speaker 2: involved here if it is as we suspect, if the
Speaker 2: incident is roughly along the lines of what we've just
Speaker 2: spoken about in terms of, yeah, Stokes has got annoyed
Speaker 2: with something Marnus has said, Marnus has had a few
Speaker 2: words back, Stokes has kept going nothing too out of
Speaker 2: line there, from a bit of normal argibargie in that spirit.
Speaker 2: And you know, I Stokes was there just trying to
Speaker 2: hear him like just say, hey mate, what did you
Speaker 2: actually say, Like, let's make sure we're on the same
Speaker 2: page here. Then I really think it's fine. I really
Speaker 2: don't think I mean it's very different to say, you know,
Speaker 2: the Sam Constance versus very coally thing last year at
Speaker 2: the MCG or last season at the MCG, and even
Speaker 2: the conscious versus the entire Indian team late on was
Speaker 2: it day one or two of that SCG test, when
Speaker 2: Boomra and the whole Hindian team kind of rounded on
Speaker 2: him like that. There were elements there that felt like intimidating.
Speaker 2: I mean, certainly the Khalie bumping into it, bumping into
Speaker 2: Constas was intimidating. So yeah, I didn't think I didn't
Speaker 2: have a big problem if the incident was as we suspect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And when Lavashane and Head were talking to the
Speaker 1: umpires after Stokes left the area, the cameras just showed
Speaker 1: Labashane smiling and laughing, as if to say that there
Speaker 1: was nothing poorly intended about it. I noticed earlier in
Speaker 1: the day Carry o'keef said that it looked like the
Speaker 1: pitch had a bit of extra testosterone and today and
Speaker 1: Joe Rout said it was tricky it's about today. Well,
Speaker 1: there was extra testosterone as well as that wasn't there.
Speaker 1: So Ben Stokes, yeah, as you said, it was great
Speaker 1: with the ball. But he ended up getting the wicked
Speaker 1: of Labors Shane. So if there was a little bit
Speaker 1: of nigger there from Manas it did backfire on.
Speaker 2: It took a lot of self control, I reckon from
Speaker 2: Stokes not to give Manus an absolute godful because yeah,
Speaker 2: he's run past him and he's just stared at him.
Speaker 2: And I think he chose the right the right course
Speaker 2: of action because having been in that position before at
Speaker 2: a much lower level of cricket. Of course, Josh, you
Speaker 2: just know when you get one over the batter and
Speaker 2: you dismiss them like you just feel like you're king
Speaker 2: of the world, you want to give them an absolute
Speaker 2: sound off, at least I have when I've been in
Speaker 2: that position before, and that might have actually made the mistake.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he showed a lot of self control and
Speaker 2: like it shouldn't take away from from an excellent performance
Speaker 2: from Stokes because he had to put his team on
Speaker 2: his back there, Like the way trav just blitzed them everywhere.
Speaker 2: You know, Matthew Potts in particular was poor. We've kind
Speaker 2: of wandered on this podcast. You know, why has any
Speaker 2: played earlier? Well, I think we saw why he hasn't
Speaker 2: played earlier. Albeit you know, maybe there's some kind of
Speaker 2: nets Russ. He's been out here for almost two months
Speaker 2: and hasn't played a game. They haven't really I don't
Speaker 2: think even was he one of the ones who went
Speaker 2: He went to so, I mean, would he bowled eight
Speaker 2: ten overs in that in two months? You're going to
Speaker 2: be a bit rusty, but you know this might be
Speaker 2: his one kind of ash's opportunity.
Speaker 1: A bit of a sidebar. But how much would you
Speaker 1: pay for full access to the stunt microphones? Oh and
Speaker 1: again dame like this, I mean you'd hear some stuff
Speaker 1: withn't here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wonder whether the stunt mike would have picked
Speaker 2: up all of what was going on there because it
Speaker 2: was kind of mid pitch. But yeah, that would be
Speaker 2: a that would be something you could jarge a lot for.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Travis Head's innings, because he finished the
Speaker 1: day ninety one not out off only eighty seven balls.
Speaker 1: I mean he hit fifteen to four. Some of the
Speaker 1: shots that he was hitting. I mean, Joe Root's innings
Speaker 1: was described as classical. Today you can't really describe Travis
Speaker 1: Head's banging as classical. There were some shots where he
Speaker 1: was airborne. Both feed off the ground and he still
Speaker 1: got it to the rope. There was this little squad
Speaker 1: drive where he sort of crouches down and still squirts
Speaker 1: it through the off side. And then that one league
Speaker 1: pull shot right at the start of his innings. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty nice to watch, it must say,
Speaker 1: when you get that one day up and get the
Speaker 1: balls over to the squarely grope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm completely different to what we saw from Joe Root,
Speaker 2: but in some ways they are. Well, maybe in one
Speaker 2: way they're similar. You bowl like a good length ball
Speaker 2: or just short with any width outside of stump, even
Speaker 2: a three and a half stump line ball that goes
Speaker 2: for for a lot of the time, and it's the
Speaker 2: same for route as well, like he when he was
Speaker 2: going today and yesterday, like any width and he was
Speaker 2: able to kind of put it either side of point
Speaker 2: and get boundaries or at least get off strike. So
Speaker 2: just the way they do it is completely different. But
Speaker 2: in many respects it's equally difficult to bowl to. And
Speaker 2: the other thing I thought he did just showed great
Speaker 2: judgment on the balls he drove at like he it
Speaker 2: never feels like he's outright, so well, maybe Perth it
Speaker 2: felt like it was at right sogging when they wanted
Speaker 2: to get that win inside the second day. But it
Speaker 2: felt very much in control, and he's only the margin
Speaker 2: of for error is very small. But when you miss,
Speaker 2: you know, he punishes you. And he kind of only
Speaker 2: drives when it's very full. And then, yeah, we spoke
Speaker 2: about it punishes kind of with so brutal innings, like
Speaker 2: it felt like he was going to score a century
Speaker 2: in a session. If it wasn't for some very good
Speaker 2: Night Watchman work from Michael Nisa, he would have got there.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, a bit of a surprise to see
Speaker 1: these to come out. Scott Bomer has been the regular
Speaker 1: Night Watchman and then Nissa explained to us at the
Speaker 1: press conference that he was no watchman, so that Stark
Speaker 1: wasn't batting eleven.
Speaker 2: I kind of see how you understood that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: exactly what he said. Yeah, because it's a very deep
Speaker 2: batting lineup that they've got, it would be what would
Speaker 2: have been Nisa at nine, stuck at ten ordinarily because
Speaker 2: you've got Webs at eight. Yeah, I kind of I
Speaker 2: mean that, like Stark is averaging thirty for the thirty
Speaker 2: or twenty five this year had to think, yeah, more
Speaker 2: than whether all, I think maybe more than maybe less
Speaker 2: than Manus after today, But the guy's hitting him very well.
Speaker 2: That's why I was kind of surprised that they went
Speaker 2: with Webster at eight in this team in the first place.
Speaker 2: I just thought like they could have picked a spinner
Speaker 2: as a bit of a free swing, just given like
Speaker 2: the very deep batting they'd already have in a team
Speaker 2: with Nissa and Stuck in it. So it does make
Speaker 2: sense you don't want to have Stark stranded at number eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true when he's really contributing with the bat. So
Speaker 2: that made a lot of sense. I guess you might
Speaker 2: feel like he's slightly overqualified for the job, but he's
Speaker 2: gotten through. And would you're all out of a Michael
Speaker 2: Nicea Test Century Day three?
Speaker 1: Well, wouldn't that be something? He faced fifteen of the
Speaker 1: last nineteen balls or the day, as he said, did
Speaker 1: his job to perfection. He was hit on the arm,
Speaker 1: which ended up finishing the day five balls earlier. He
Speaker 1: said he was okay. So for the Michael Nisa fans
Speaker 1: out there, he will be okay to continue to borrow,
Speaker 1: but maybe a bit of smart games there as well.
Speaker 2: I reckon. Well, we were kind of wondering about that
Speaker 2: because Nissa is, you know, such a tough unit and
Speaker 2: it just feels like he doesn't have that bluff in him.
Speaker 2: You know, when Zach Crawley did it, was it at
Speaker 2: Lord's earlier this year, where he he just wasted you know,
Speaker 2: you got hit on the fingers and just wasted time essentially.
Speaker 2: I think he subsequently admitted to doing as much. If
Speaker 2: Crawley was doing it, you would kind of believe that
Speaker 2: it was a bit of a bit of a bluff
Speaker 2: and a bit of a time wasting tactic. But with Nisa,
Speaker 2: he just feels like too nice a guy and too
Speaker 2: honest a bloke to you know, a show and pain
Speaker 2: but also be you know, bend the rules.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll mark down Michael Nie a hundred. You
Speaker 1: heard that here, put that in. Well, the other big
Speaker 1: talking point you touched on off the top was the
Speaker 1: Jamie Smith dismissal. Today, I will get you to talk
Speaker 1: through it. But England, we're in a really strong position
Speaker 1: at that point of the game. He was during a
Speaker 1: ninety four unpartnership with Joe Root England, Yeah, bossing the game.
Speaker 1: They were looking at over four hund in their first innings,
Speaker 1: and then Manus Labashan comes onto bowl in the lead
Speaker 1: up to the second new ball boyling a lot of
Speaker 1: short stuff and somehow ekes out a wicket.
Speaker 2: Do you want to play a game here with this one, Josh?
Speaker 2: And I'm just turning my laptop screen away from you
Speaker 2: so you can't cheat. I'm going to read out four
Speaker 2: different descriptions of either the shot or the bowling of
Speaker 2: Marnas and I want you to and then give you
Speaker 2: four former Test players and you've got to match the
Speaker 2: former Test players with the description. So I've got brainless
Speaker 2: as my first one got dumb, is my second one
Speaker 2: filthy and rubbish. Now the former players are Justin Langer, Brettley,
Speaker 2: Mark Taylor and Stephen Finn. So both sides of the
Speaker 2: ashes divide are piling into the Jamie Smith and or
Speaker 2: Manus Labushane's bowling well filthy?
Speaker 1: Can you give me the Aussies again? That's definitely an
Speaker 1: aussy Lee Langer Taylor, that's Brett Lee.
Speaker 2: That's well done done.
Speaker 1: Brainless feels like something in English person who would say.
Speaker 2: Are you bluffing? Did you read this before? This is
Speaker 2: very good Yeah, that's Stephen Finn the other two. So
Speaker 2: you've got dumb and rubbish and you've got Mark Taylor
Speaker 2: and Justin Langer j L.
Speaker 1: He's going to say, he's going to say dumb.
Speaker 2: Well done. Yeah, I think it's not the first time
Speaker 2: he's used that. He's said dumb batting. I think maybe
Speaker 2: the last test about it.
Speaker 1: I think Harry Brooks batting yesterday.
Speaker 2: At some point he's double down on it today and
Speaker 2: then yeah, you've got rubbish. I think that was a
Speaker 2: description of the bowling Mark Taylor. Actually that's a great
Speaker 2: clip if you watch. It's on Triple M Socials. I
Speaker 2: think it ended up in our live blog. Mark Taylor said,
Speaker 2: this is exactly the kind of rubbish bowling that gets
Speaker 2: wickets the next ball. Yeah, I mean all of the above, right,
Speaker 2: Like Marnison and Travis Head that part. What is it
Speaker 2: about those two? They were the two that got hundred
Speaker 2: soaks his skin later in the day. They're the two
Speaker 2: of the famous World Cup final combination that won Australia
Speaker 2: that that title in the Metabad and here they've come
Speaker 2: on to bowl, you know, a bit of filth in
Speaker 2: some respects just to tie Australia over to the second
Speaker 2: U ball was also in the lead into lunch, so
Speaker 2: and England kind of saw an opportunity a little bit,
Speaker 2: is what Joe Route later said, although I feel like
Speaker 2: that might be a bit of revision. It's history and
Speaker 2: you know they're mostly knocking it around, you know, Jamie Smith,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'd have to look back, but I
Speaker 2: feel like he wasn't. It didn't look like he was
Speaker 2: desperately trying to score runs off it. But yeah, Marnus
Speaker 2: is bowling with his you know, the short ball field
Speaker 2: and he can actually get the speeds up a little
Speaker 2: bit on this ball I think was one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty nine, so not absolutely slow, but also not the
Speaker 2: kind of pace you would expect to trouble a guy
Speaker 2: who averages over forty in Test cricket and he's tried
Speaker 2: to basically baseball bat it down the ground, probably have
Speaker 2: a mid off or straight back at the side screen
Speaker 2: and miscuse it. And Scott Boland, I mean Scott Bowland.
Speaker 2: You know he's a decent fielder, but in this team
Speaker 2: he's probably the least athletic, maybe Usma Kwaija, so you're
Speaker 2: probably putting those two in your least likely spots to
Speaker 2: get a catch, and that's where the catch went. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: you just it's hard to defend.
Speaker 1: Well, the pilot has already started. I've seen some articles
Speaker 1: around saying it's easily the worst is English dismissal of
Speaker 1: the summer, and there's been plenty of the cheers from
Speaker 1: some have been calling it the worst dismissal of the decade,
Speaker 1: So certainly there will be plenty to talk about about
Speaker 1: that dismissal. When he was out at five for three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty, that becoming six for three hundred and twenty,
Speaker 1: England lost their last five we gets for sixty runs
Speaker 1: and on a good batting strip, desperately needed to put
Speaker 1: on a good first innings total and they didn't do it.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the key point here is, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can debate the merits of him trying to attack
Speaker 2: Australia in that situation. I think there's some merit in that.
Speaker 2: I can see what Joe Root is saying about it.
Speaker 2: But equally, like you've got to be responsible for your
Speaker 2: actions and okay, like that's you've got Will Jacks behind you,
Speaker 2: but you're basically down to your last recognized batters. You know,
Speaker 2: is there a case for the long game? That's not
Speaker 2: something this England team seemed to think about a lot.
Speaker 2: But yeah, is there a case to get to get
Speaker 2: to the second new ball with two set batters and
Speaker 2: then relaunch from there or even attack the second new ball,
Speaker 2: because that's something Jamie Smith did reasonably well in Adelaide.
Speaker 2: He got a lot of grief I think for how
Speaker 2: he went out in Adelaide that I think that was
Speaker 2: to the second new ball when Mitchell start and again
Speaker 2: that was pulling. Look, they were chasing what was it
Speaker 2: close to four hundred on that occasion, maybe three seventy
Speaker 2: three eighty. They kind of needed to take a few
Speaker 2: risks to get to that total. Here they were right
Speaker 2: on top of Australia, like, what was it five for
Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty? You said, second new ball coming up?
Speaker 2: Boland and Stark and to a lesser extent, Nisa of
Speaker 2: all bowled a lot of overs in the series. There's
Speaker 2: no spinner. Yeah, can you dig in and and absorbs
Speaker 2: some pressure for a little bit. That's not what this
Speaker 2: England team is really about, despite the fact they kept
Speaker 2: talking about absorbing pressure. But Yeah. Again, it's just a
Speaker 2: case of them having a really strong position in a
Speaker 2: game and throwing it away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess you also have Joe Root at
Speaker 1: the other end. He didn't look like any.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the biggest one and that like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's probably actually the best point you could possibly make
Speaker 2: about it is Joe Roots ended up getting out playing
Speaker 2: a shot he probably wouldn't have if they hadn't been eight.
Speaker 2: I think they were eight down at that point, so
Speaker 2: he had to attack and Australia to score some runs
Speaker 2: because he was batting with Matthew Potts and then Josh
Speaker 2: Tung after that not particularly recognized batters, so it's forced
Speaker 2: him to do something different and he like he did
Speaker 2: not offer a chance apart from his first ball which
Speaker 2: he played that massive cover drive. You know, he barely
Speaker 2: looked like getting out and that's bego. And it's a
Speaker 2: bit of a theme like they left him left hanging
Speaker 2: at the Gabba. He was one hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 2: not out there. And the famous one, of course is
Speaker 2: edge Person twenty twenty three when they basically lost the
Speaker 2: Test match on the back of Ben Stokes declaring on
Speaker 2: him when he was that he was batting even better
Speaker 2: than either of the two innings in this series. So
Speaker 2: Route has a remarkable temperament to just kind of soak
Speaker 2: all this in, to accept how his team plays, to
Speaker 2: accept the highs of it and ride the frustrating loads
Speaker 2: and not turn on his team mate. He's he's such
Speaker 2: a classy guy. I've just got so much admiration for him,
Speaker 2: because if he was a more selfish batter, he would
Speaker 2: surely be going like, what are you guys? What are
Speaker 2: you doing to me? I'm in the form of my life.
Speaker 2: I'm batting as good as he talked about maybe getting
Speaker 2: to the twenty nine thirty ashes. I think it's twenty
Speaker 2: nine thirty. He was at thirty thirty one. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know that's a that's a long way away, and he's
Speaker 2: going well enough that you think he could get there.
Speaker 2: So classy guy, but yeah, surely some frustration there.
Speaker 1: So he's England's all time leading round scorer and he's
Speaker 1: been underutilized by England effectively. Incredible stuff. Really, let's talk
Speaker 1: about his wicket he got So he got through that
Speaker 1: second new ball with really no drama. Scottland was zipping
Speaker 1: it around everywhere out of fact, I feel like he
Speaker 1: was a bit unlucky not to get a wicket during
Speaker 1: that spell. In the end, it was Michael Nissa who
Speaker 1: came on. He wasn't given that second new ball even
Speaker 1: though he was given the first new ball, so that
Speaker 1: was a bit of a change from Australia. But Nissa
Speaker 1: came in, bowleder short ball at route. It probably jumped
Speaker 1: a bit more than his thought and then really athletic
Speaker 1: court and bowl. Just another one to add to Nissa's
Speaker 1: catalog there now, And he said that was a plan
Speaker 1: that he'd been working on with Ezmond Kwaja just a
Speaker 1: ball or two before. So isn't that nice when a
Speaker 1: plant comes together?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was your question in the press conference and
Speaker 2: a good one. And yeah, again it's route playing. He's
Speaker 2: probably thinking about getting two there because I think they
Speaker 2: had three guys out on the leg side and no
Speaker 2: mid wickets, so if he bumps it into the leg side,
Speaker 2: he can kind of scramble back for two. I think
Speaker 2: it was the first ball of an over as well,
Speaker 2: so you know he's thinking about how can I maximize
Speaker 2: my run scoring capacity with so few wickets left. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm a Nissa and he had to dive across the
Speaker 2: wicket square as well, so it would have been kind
Speaker 2: of hard on the old elbows. Such an athletic guys.
Speaker 2: He's offered so much to Australia this series and I
Speaker 2: think I saw. I'm not sure if it finished up
Speaker 2: this way, but his bowling average has actually gone below
Speaker 2: Scott Bowland's.
Speaker 1: And they are absolutely right. They was pointed out by
Speaker 1: colleague Adam Burnett. Scott Boland has eighty wickets at eighteen
Speaker 1: point four to seven in Tests. Nissa He's up to
Speaker 1: twenty one wickets at seventeen point one nine, so just
Speaker 1: ahead of the Victorian.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there you go. And I'm in much smaller
Speaker 2: sample size of course, but yeah, and speaks to a
Speaker 2: wider thing in this series of Australia winning what is
Speaker 2: it more three Tests now, I've you know, could be
Speaker 2: four without Hazelwood and sorry they've won two Tests without
Speaker 2: Hazewood and Cummins and the team commins came back and
Speaker 2: played that one. But you know they're down to their
Speaker 2: apart from Stark there, and this is a B grade
Speaker 2: bowling attack. This is the Australia a bowling attack with
Speaker 2: Mitchell Stark in it, no line, no commons, no hazewood.
Speaker 2: I feel like we actually haven't spoken about that, weirdly
Speaker 2: enough in this series of Yeah, Australia have had some
Speaker 2: injury stuff. We've spoken about England bring this high octane
Speaker 2: pace attack well, and none of them are here, you know, Stoke, Sorry, Wood, Archer,
Speaker 2: Atkinson all gone and you know Australia in a in
Speaker 2: a somewhat similar boat. Yet their b the reserve bowlers
Speaker 2: are doing a much better job.
Speaker 1: When Boland was zipping it around everywhere, Stewart Broad was
Speaker 1: on sen and he said, honestly, guys, if Australia had
Speaker 1: Cummins and Hazard, England would be all out for under
Speaker 1: two fifty on this pitch.
Speaker 2: So he's seeing of the backhanded compliment is He's like,
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, you're doing well, but if this thing,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're twenty ten team have done there.
Speaker 2: He's just very good at needling. Australians is in it.
Speaker 2: It's a real art form.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a wrap. On day two here at the
Speaker 1: SCG Australia Trail by two hundred and eighteen runs, Travis
Speaker 1: Head needs nine runs four that century. It would be
Speaker 1: his third of the Ashes. Summer play is going to
Speaker 1: begin at ten o'clock Eastern time again tomorrow, so don't
Speaker 1: miss the first ball and catch up to play.
Speaker 2: That's right, And let's hope that we're not necessarily talking
Speaker 2: about Big Bash Gridley at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: and we can talk about it anyway because it's fun.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like yesterday I've got a lot of
Speaker 2: time playing Big Bash Gridley because it rained so much.
Speaker 2: So if you don't get the opportunity, if we don't
Speaker 2: get the opportunity to play Big Bash Gridley, that's because
Speaker 2: we've had lots of play.
Speaker 1: And hopefully we're talking about Michael Nieces.
Speaker 2: Let's see