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From homeless kid to cricket superstar · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From the Australian Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, November twenty sixth Australian Federal Police have lifted
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  Speaker 1: the lid on a Manila cyberscam center, where they say
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  Speaker 1: up to five thousand Australian men could have been fleeced
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  Speaker 1: through dating websites. Penny Wong is refusing to say whether
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  Speaker 1: Australia would enforce an international criminal Court warrant to arrest
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  Speaker 1: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a further distancing of the
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  Speaker 1: Albanese government from support of Israel. Those stories alive now
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  Speaker 1: at the Australian dot com Doyu. With its immense wealth
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  Speaker 1: and shocking poverty, India can make Dickenzie and London look
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  Speaker 1: like Disneyland. And today there's a story worthy of any
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  Speaker 1: cinema fairytale, the homeless kid who has risen to become
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  Speaker 1: a multi millionaire superstar of Indian cricket. It almost makes
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  Speaker 1: it less painful to watch him humiliating our test team today,
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  Speaker 1: the remarkable rise of Yashaspi Jaiswa in the vast, glorious,
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  Speaker 1: fragrant chaos of India on every street corner and every
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  Speaker 1: bit of green space you'll see kids playing cricket. One
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  Speaker 1: of those, a ten year old boy boards a train
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  Speaker 1: with his dad, setting out from the northern state of
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  Speaker 1: Uttar Pradesh bound for Mumbai, one thousand kilometers away. This kid,
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  Speaker 1: even in this cricket obsessed country, stands out as something special.
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  Speaker 1: His parents own a small business, and dad leaves the
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  Speaker 1: boy to stay with an uncle while he pursues his
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  Speaker 1: dream joining a training academy at the city famous Azad
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  Speaker 1: Maidowan cricket ground. The uncle finds him board and lodging
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  Speaker 1: in a shop, but the boy is too exhausted by
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  Speaker 1: long days of cricket to work in the shop at night,
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  Speaker 1: and he's kicked out. His parents urge him to come home,
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  Speaker 1: but the boys determined to stay in the big city,
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  Speaker 1: and so he moves into a tent on the outskirts
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  Speaker 1: of the cricket ground, sleeping alongside the groundsman and greenkeepers.
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  Speaker 1: There's no electricity or running water. Sometimes he has to
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  Speaker 1: beg for food, other times he earns a few rupees
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  Speaker 1: helping the local street food vendors sell their snacks.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of anything more rags to more riches
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  Speaker 2: than this.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Australian's Will Swanton.
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  Speaker 2: It's such an amazing fairy tale, It's got movie scripts
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  Speaker 2: written all over it.
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  Speaker 1: This young boy is Yeshvasi Jayswil. Eventually, into the despair
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  Speaker 1: steps a coach Joala Singh, who sees young jay Swell
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  Speaker 1: in the nets at Asad Maidan. Singh knows what it's
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  Speaker 1: like to be a penniless young player sleeping rough. He
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  Speaker 1: invites Jaycewell, then twelve, to live with his family and
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  Speaker 1: takes him on as a student. Now Jaswell is twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: a multi millionaire and the undisputed superstar of the Indian
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  Speaker 1: Test team, scoring one hundred and sixty one runs and
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  Speaker 1: a standing ovation from the crowd in the weekend's first
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  Speaker 1: test of the Border Gavesgard Trophy in Perth. Oh well,
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  Speaker 1: will you have someone like Jajasvi Josewell that John Ramer Blamia.
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  Speaker 2: Crowd a loving this talented young man, Yashiste jayce Wile, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: what a shot he goes and he goes big. He's
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  Speaker 2: just a nerveless, fearless young player, just refused to be
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  Speaker 2: intimidated by you know, you've got these big six foot
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  Speaker 2: six Australian fast bowlers who are among the best fast
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  Speaker 2: bowlers we've ever had. And you've got someone like Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: Stark steaming in bowling super fast one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: kilometers an hour, trying to rough up this young guy
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  Speaker 2: who just refused to take a backward step.
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  Speaker 1: He even found a moment for a gentle sledge on
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  Speaker 1: one of his heroes, Australian Mitchell Stark. Well the balls
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  Speaker 1: were coming too slow, Jase Well told Stark, who could
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  Speaker 1: only laugh.
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  Speaker 2: It was an aggressive innings he got on top. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just that he was making runs. He was dominating
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  Speaker 2: this Australian attack. And it's not pushing ones and twos
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  Speaker 2: and being a bit careful. He's just throwing himself out
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  Speaker 2: of his shoes, throwing the bait at the ball, hitting
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  Speaker 2: boundary after boundary, hitting sixes. And that's the great blessing
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  Speaker 2: for well, world cricket, for Indian cricket, but also for
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  Speaker 2: this series that this new young lion that India has.
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  Speaker 2: He's not just successful, but he does it in an
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  Speaker 2: entertaining manner.
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  Speaker 1: In interviews over the years, Jacewell has seemed emotional speaking
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  Speaker 1: about what he went through In twenty eighteen. He said,
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  Speaker 1: the gardeners didn't behave well with me. Others beat me.
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  Speaker 1: He described having no bat of his own and having
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  Speaker 1: to borrow every bit of gear.
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  Speaker 3: That is the biggest motivation I have. I'm really blessed
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  Speaker 3: to have these opportunities and I'm ready for it mentally, physically.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play fearless and i want to enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: You walk through Mumbai and you will literally see thousands
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  Speaker 2: of kids playing cricket. You might see this great little
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  Speaker 2: kid come in and rip a big leg spinner and
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  Speaker 2: you think, what a player. But then the next step
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  Speaker 2: is like, how does a kid like that if his
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  Speaker 2: family is poor and if he doesn't get the opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: how do you go from being a talented kid there
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  Speaker 2: to doing what Jacewell's doing here? And it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: a much bigger talent identification program happening now in India
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  Speaker 2: and the great dream in India and it's a beautiful
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  Speaker 2: thing when you see it. The great dream for every
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  Speaker 2: Indian boy and girl is to play cricket for their country.
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  Speaker 2: But someone like Joe Swahil is living proof that it's possible.
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  Speaker 3: They always trust me and I always believe in me
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  Speaker 3: that okay, whatever it's going to come. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go and enjoy and be fearless. I will go and
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  Speaker 3: take a brave decisions. Always it's this is my mindset,
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  Speaker 3: and always I feel like what is required for my team,
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  Speaker 3: I will try and do that. And yeah, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: But they just seem to have this endless production line
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  Speaker 2: of truly brilliant cricket is well and I guess when
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  Speaker 2: you have a population that size, and when it is
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  Speaker 2: a vast majority of the population is playing cricket, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: it shouldn't surprise is that there's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: couple of diamonds pop up every five or ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up. It's hard to feel churlish about India's triumph,
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  Speaker 1: But how did it all go so wrong for Australia.
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  Speaker 1: India has wiped the floor with Australia. In the first Test.
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  Speaker 1: There was an onslaught from India's fast bowler Jasper Boomra,
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  Speaker 1: so ferocious there were comparisons to the infamous Depression era
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  Speaker 1: Bodyline Tour. Everything was turned upside down. At one point
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  Speaker 1: superstar fastballer Mitchell Stark was Australia's top run scorer. Steve
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  Speaker 1: Smith was sent back to the sheds for a golden
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  Speaker 1: duck minus Labershane was pinned, sending them down the leg
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  Speaker 1: side at close to one hundred and thirty kilometers per hour.
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  Speaker 2: Shambles.
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  Speaker 1: That's Will Swanton.
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  Speaker 2: So what went wrong, Well, it really was a strange
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  Speaker 2: build up. The whole theory was to have the players
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  Speaker 2: as fresh as possible and I'm sure that is backfired
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  Speaker 2: because it seemed like a lot of them prepared for
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  Speaker 2: the Test by almost playing as little cricket as humanly possible.
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  Speaker 1: If the Australians were complacent, it wasn't really surprising. The
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  Speaker 1: Indians had just come from New Zealand where the Kiwis
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  Speaker 1: walloped them three and nilo. Around the same time, Australia's
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  Speaker 1: other great cricketing rival, the English, were being humiliated by Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been a strange start to the season and
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot riding on the first Test of
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  Speaker 1: the Border Gavascar Trophy for both teams.
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  Speaker 2: On the first day Australia were skittled India for one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty. It was all looking fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Australia's top order toppled twice as fast, Will says alarm
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  Speaker 1: Bell started ringing when top build players like Pat Cummins,
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Stark and Josh Hazelwood were absent from the One
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  Speaker 1: day series decider against Pakistan this month.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the night Pat Cummins was at the
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  Speaker 2: Coldplay concert in Sydney and everyone thought the main man
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  Speaker 2: of Australian cricket on the night the Australian cricket team
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  Speaker 2: is playing a big one day game in Perth, Like,
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  Speaker 2: why is Pat Cummins at a Coldplay concert kind of thing?
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  Speaker 2: And that was all part of keeping them fresh before
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  Speaker 2: the first Test, and Steve Ware said before this Test,
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  Speaker 2: we're about to find out they'll either be super fresh
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  Speaker 2: or just completely underdone. And it's been the latter. There's
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  Speaker 2: no energy in the field, no chat. You know. We
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  Speaker 2: love that great old Australian feistiness. I think in our
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  Speaker 2: cricketers that kind of aura of being up for it
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  Speaker 2: and for having a crack and giving opposition teams a
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  Speaker 2: hard time. But somehow India has had all the charisma
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  Speaker 2: and all the momentum and they're more enthusiastic and there
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  Speaker 2: they just seem like more of an upbeat team than
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  Speaker 2: the Australians.
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  Speaker 1: Are you preparing for a depressing summer ahead, or do
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  Speaker 1: you think they can and lift?
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  Speaker 2: They'll be stung by this. I actually think there'll be
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  Speaker 2: a classic Four Tests coming up after this. There's some
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  Speaker 2: fantastic players in this Australian team. They'll be stung come
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  Speaker 2: Day one of the next Test in Adelaide. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: fantastic viewing.
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