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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. The sun is setting on

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Speaker 1: what's been a beautiful day here in Adelaide, a very

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Speaker 1: hot day which we didn't quite realize until we stepped outside,

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Speaker 1: did we, Louis, But Australia they finished the day on

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Speaker 1: eight for three hundred and twenty six after winning the toss.

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Speaker 1: Plenty to talk about after the first days player this

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Speaker 1: third ashes test, where do we begin?

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Speaker 2: Late? Well with the weather, Maybe because David Saker walked

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Speaker 2: into the press conference just now and I think someone

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Speaker 2: asked him, is the fact that the bowling coach is

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Speaker 2: speaking a sign of how you view the day? And

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Speaker 2: he just said, well, no, it would just be hard

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Speaker 2: on any of our bowlers to front after fronting up

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Speaker 2: in the heat, in scorching heat, and I'm kind of thinking, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't that hot, and then we walked immediately out

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Speaker 2: and I'm like Oh, it is really hot. I haven't

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Speaker 2: probably been out in the sun today and we've been

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Speaker 2: in a nice air conditioning box. We never live a

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Speaker 2: nice life, don't we, Josh. But it's going to get

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Speaker 2: even hotter tomorrow, and that's where I think Australia might

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Speaker 2: have just fallen a little bit short despite some excellent

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Speaker 2: batting performances that we're going to talk about. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be forty degrees tomorrow or very close to that.

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Speaker 2: Wicket should get a bit quicker, it should get a

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Speaker 2: bit better to bat on, and I feel like Australia

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Speaker 2: at this point might just be feeling like they don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, England spoilers, they didn't wilt today in the heat.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they were pretty consistent throughout the whole day.

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Speaker 1: Other than a start to the day which Michael Thorne

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Speaker 1: called garbage on Fox Cricket. They were a bit wayward early,

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Speaker 1: but that was all after Steve Smith was the late out.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, we found that that news a bit

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Speaker 1: got starts. A lot of their batters did pretty well,

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Speaker 1: made a lot of good partnerships, but the day certainly

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Speaker 1: belongs to Alex Carey, the hometown hero.

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Speaker 3: Vlae Over was chanting his name.

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Speaker 1: When he brought up that hundred today and it was

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Speaker 1: a pretty emotional one for him as well, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: It was his finest ASHES moment for sure, Josh, I

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Speaker 2: don't think it was his best test innings. I reckon

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Speaker 2: pact Couman's rescued Australia from a really dire situation. I

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Speaker 2: think that's probably number one, probably something we could have

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Speaker 3: But so this eclipse is the stumping of Johnny Best.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean that might be the ASHES moment

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Speaker 2: he'll be known for the most. Not the only thing

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Speaker 2: you'll ever be known for is as Stu a Broad

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Speaker 1: He came out of the blox pretty quickly too, when

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Speaker 1: England were certain of course it was given not out

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Speaker 2: But they feel like that the RTS has just been

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Speaker 2: That would have been perfect for this one. I think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have kept off what has been an

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Speaker 1: The shining light of that first half of the innings

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Speaker 1: In fact, he hit thirty six runs of his next

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Speaker 2: to probably talk about Steve Smith. First of all because yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it goes back even further to Monday, Australia's

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Speaker 2: He battered on Tuesday, but those who watched him closely

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Speaker 2: related to the vertigo kind of symptoms that he's had before.

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Speaker 2: So it probably suggests that he'll be fine for Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: It also probably suggests that he'll be fine. He might

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll finish with the BBL Good game, Luke,

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Speaker 1: given that the KFC Big Bash is well underway today

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Speaker 1: out the Big Bash app if you want to play.

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Speaker 1: My most rare player today was Ravi Bopara, a Sixers

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Speaker 3: He played a couple of seasons with them in the

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Speaker 2: Yes, so international player and Sydney Six's that was a

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Speaker 3: Do you remember Bopara?

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Speaker 2: I do, Yeah, batting all around, played a lot of

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have remembered him. I would have gone for

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Speaker 3: Oh that's a good one. Very nice and spinner, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he was a mystery spinner. Might have

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Speaker 1: Well, well, let us know your scores as well. In

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Speaker 1: the BBL grid Game, Louis we'll catch you tomorrow. After

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