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Domesticated - Liam Scott Live! Star All-Rounder on career best form & the Sheffield Shield finals race · The Follow-On

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Speaker 1: With Australia's T twenty World Cup campaign crumbling in a heap,
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Speaker 1: attention turns back to red ball cricket with some very
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Speaker 1: important shield rounds for the near future of Australian crickets.
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Speaker 1: I'm justin Edwards, welcome to domesticated and Fox Cricket. Right out,
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Speaker 1: Nick Savage is alongside me and Nick. It feels like
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Speaker 1: after a big series win, like an Ashes where it
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Speaker 1: ends four to one, you'd think you'd have all, you'd
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Speaker 1: have a set team, but we seem to be so
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Speaker 1: far from that at the moment.
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Speaker 2: That top six is actually looking pretty barren at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Jake Weatherall didn't have the Ashes we would have liked
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Speaker 2: him to have. Usbon Qui is obviously stepped away, Travis
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Speaker 2: Head has a year roll, a lot of question marks
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Speaker 2: about Cavion Green and all three formats at the moment,
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Speaker 2: So that top six, there's probably three spots up for
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Speaker 2: grabs realistically ahead of August. So these shield rounds over
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Speaker 2: the next two to three weeks seem to that final
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Speaker 2: are going to be massive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got Australia play two tests in Bangladesh, which
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Speaker 1: dates not officially announced. We think they're going to be
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Speaker 1: August in Darwin and Mackay and then in October tour
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Speaker 1: of South Africa. So that's what's coming up. And the
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Speaker 1: Shield matches that have been played at the moment this
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Speaker 1: back end of the season. Last bits of first class
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Speaker 1: cricket we'll see before those happen. You mentioned the top seven.
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Speaker 1: I would say I would go as far as to
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Speaker 1: say is of the top seven that played in Sydney,
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Speaker 1: only three of them are locked in. Travis will open,
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Speaker 1: Smith will be four, and Alex Carey will be six
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Speaker 1: or seven. Even that we don't even know where he's
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Speaker 1: going to be batting.
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Speaker 3: But the rest we'll go through them all individually.
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Speaker 1: We'll start with Jake Weatherwood's ninety five this week, which
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Speaker 1: is his first score of significance since he got that
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Speaker 1: seventy in the second Ashes Test. Do you think he's
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Speaker 1: done enough to keep his place?
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Speaker 2: I feel like, as with a lot of people, we'd
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Speaker 2: like to see a little bit more from him, a
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Speaker 2: great seas back in the runs. The big problem with
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Speaker 2: him during that Ashes series was of course, full deliveries
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Speaker 2: at the pads.
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Speaker 4: He seems to be falling over himself.
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Speaker 2: He was out LBW think on three or four different
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Speaker 2: occasions averaging in the low twenties. If he can sort
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Speaker 2: that out and convert these starts his eighties nineties into
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Speaker 2: big hundreds, it's going to do himself wonders heading into
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Speaker 2: that Orchist series against Bangladesh. But realistically, I just a
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Speaker 2: feeling that the Aussiest sex are going to side with
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Speaker 2: Matt Renshaw a lot more like Obviously he's over the
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Speaker 2: T twenty OERH Cup at the moment, so he missed
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Speaker 2: a couple of Shield rounds, but he's been one of
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Speaker 2: the most consistent multi format batters in this country over
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Speaker 2: the last twelve to eighteen months. So Whetherwall's going to
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Speaker 2: really need to step up and it's a big challenge form
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Speaker 2: over the next couple weeks tas Many realistically only have
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Speaker 2: two more games, so these are his last two additions
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Speaker 2: to get some runs and if he's out LBW a
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Speaker 2: couple more times, that's basically a line through them really, and.
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Speaker 1: That is what can happen in an ASHES series, and
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Speaker 1: the moving up from Test cricket's first class cricket is
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Speaker 1: if the opposition find a deficiency, they can really hone
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Speaker 1: in on it in a way that they can't in
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Speaker 1: first class cricket because you're playing somebody else next week,
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Speaker 1: but when you're playing the same opponent five times in
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Speaker 1: a row. And he pretty clearly had a problem with
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Speaker 1: Jof for Archer, who is the bowler in that England attack,
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Speaker 1: who is a real proper step up from first class cricket.
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Speaker 1: And if you're having a problem with Joff Archer, you're
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Speaker 1: probably going to be having a problem with Khiso Robarda
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Speaker 1: and Marko Janson come to South Africa tour as well.
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Speaker 1: The Matt Renshaw point is a good one. We spoke
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Speaker 1: about earlier in the summer how his chances of Test
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Speaker 1: selection were hurt by being selected for Australia in the
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Speaker 1: one day team, and it feels like that might be
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Speaker 1: happening again. He's at the T twenty World Cup not
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Speaker 1: being able to play shield cricket. I'm not sure what
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Speaker 1: his plans are for when he comes back now that
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Speaker 1: Australia and knocked out. I imagine he'll play some shield
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Speaker 1: cricket as well, but I do think he is better placed.
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Speaker 1: He's maybe sitting slightly above Jack whether Orld in the
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Speaker 1: pecking order, even though whether all it is the income.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose the advantage for Renshaw as he does
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Speaker 2: have a decade's worth of Shield experience behind him, and
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Speaker 2: the same with weather Ord to be fair, but obvi,
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Speaker 2: selectors will know what Renshaw can offer. And realistically, if
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Speaker 2: you're looking at who's the ideal person to partner at
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Speaker 2: Travis Head, it's something we've spoken about a bit, someone
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Speaker 2: to soak up pressure to really compliment Travis Head applying
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Speaker 2: that pressure. Realistically, that is Renshaw in a way, whether
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Speaker 2: Old and Head quite similar players. They're very aggressive, they
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Speaker 2: counter punch early. We saw whether Or going nearly run
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Speaker 2: a ball again in this game against New South Wales
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Speaker 2: in a pinkball game. So if you want that ideal
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Speaker 2: player to compliment Travis Head in theory, it's Matt Renshaw.
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Speaker 2: But still a lot of water going under the bridge
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Speaker 2: in seven months we saw how much chaos there was
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Speaker 2: in the month ahead of the Ashes series, how many
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Speaker 2: changes happened there, So still a long way ahead and
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Speaker 2: plenty of time or two games and an off season
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Speaker 2: for weather Or to.
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Speaker 4: Prove his worth.
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Speaker 1: Weatherorlds were sort of selected to complement Kwaja rather than Head.
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Speaker 1: And now what has been decided over the summer is
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Speaker 1: at least in the medium term, Head will be the opener.
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Speaker 1: There's never a middle order for Head, I think, at
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Speaker 1: least for the next eighteen months to the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: seven ashes to where he will be the opener. So
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Speaker 1: Head and Weather are their mates. They seem to get
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Speaker 1: on well together, but I'm not sure that their styles
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Speaker 1: are complimentary. But if Weather all gets a couple of
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Speaker 1: hundred at the back end of this year summer, I
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Speaker 1: do think he could hold his place the number three.
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Speaker 4: Are you sure about Manus Slabushane. It sort of.
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Speaker 1: Seems like he's gone back to where he was at
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Speaker 1: the start well prior to the summer, where it looked
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Speaker 1: all looked a bit scratchy, and then he was so
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Speaker 1: good for Queensland at the start of the summer. Are
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Speaker 1: there any other questions about Mana Slabushane at three?
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Speaker 2: Certainly, I mean we're coaching three years since he scored
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Speaker 2: a Test hundred and for Australian number three, that's just
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Speaker 2: not acceptable. Really think about number three's the past, David Boone,
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Speaker 2: Ricky Ponting. If these players are gone three years without
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Speaker 2: one hundred, the knives would have been out for sure.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, Mardus needs to get some runs under his belt.
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Speaker 2: It's really simple. He did it back in September October
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Speaker 2: where the pitchers a bit flatter, there was the competition,
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Speaker 2: the Shield a bit more higher scoring, yes, but still
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Speaker 2: he bashed that door down. He's going to have to
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Speaker 2: do that again really because there was another really disappointing
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Speaker 2: Ashes series from him. We saw Jacob Bethel take his
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Speaker 2: chance at number three and Labashane he has to start
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Speaker 2: again basically this selection because this a couple of Shield
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Speaker 2: players are kind of not bashing the door down, but
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Speaker 2: kind of prodding, just kind of reminding national selectors of
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Speaker 2: where they're at. Curtis Patterson New South Wales, Peter Hanskin
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Speaker 2: for Victoria. Plenty of experience there. We're coming up to
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Speaker 2: this massive eighteen months and the Test side going from
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Speaker 2: the end of this year through to the Ashes. The
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Speaker 2: experience of those two guys could come in really handy
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Speaker 2: if they needed to change at number three.
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Speaker 1: Nathan mcswainey the other one who put a big two
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Speaker 1: high together for Australia a just before or during that
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Speaker 1: Ashes series, So Mars was the number three. Smith will
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Speaker 1: be four. That's locked in five was Kowaja in Sydney.
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Speaker 1: He's gone. Then we have Cameron Green, who seems to
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Speaker 1: be he seems to be the most talked about cricketer
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Speaker 1: in the country at the moment.
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Speaker 3: A poor summer from him.
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Speaker 2: I mean that Ashes series was very, very forgettable. I
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Speaker 2: don't think he got a fifty in across five Tests
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Speaker 2: with the ball. He had glimpses of excellence I think
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Speaker 2: in Perthy Bowl quite well, but after that was pretty ineffective,
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Speaker 2: quite expensive against basboll And.
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Speaker 4: He dropped some crucial catches as well. So a very
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Speaker 4: poor summer.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't nailed at the T twenty Wourd Cup either,
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Speaker 2: to prefer a lot of Australian players struggled in that
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Speaker 2: World Cup campaign.
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Speaker 4: I guess the problem with him.
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Speaker 2: He's got Bo Webster who just yesterday scored another SUPERB
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Speaker 2: hundred for Tasmania.
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Speaker 4: He saved a game.
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Speaker 2: Essentially, Tasmania eked out a draw against New South Wales,
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Speaker 2: potentially keeping their finals chances alive. I've to do the
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Speaker 2: maths on that one, but they're still in with a
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Speaker 2: slim chance. Bo Webster for me, is just a head
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Speaker 2: of Green in the pecking order. If there's only that
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Speaker 2: one spot for an all rounder. It just seems so
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Speaker 2: clear to me that Webster has to be there. He's
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Speaker 2: so versatile, he's contributed almost every time he's had that
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Speaker 2: call up. And the Test side Cameron Green. I guess
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Speaker 2: the good thing for him is there's that five spot now.
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Speaker 2: So in theory he could have Green Webster at five, six,
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Speaker 2: with Kerrey at seven, a couple extra bowling options, plenty
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Speaker 2: of batting that could work in his favor. But if
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Speaker 2: they want a specialist batter off that five spot, some
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Speaker 2: of the names mentioned earlier, he's in trouble because, yeah,
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Speaker 2: he hasn't got a fifty in any format since November.
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Speaker 4: It's been a really warrying draft man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Bo Webster was batting about a number eight
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Speaker 1: and number nine at the SCG. That's not going to
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Speaker 1: be his long term place in the Australian team. I
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Speaker 1: think probably the only advantage at the moment that Green
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Speaker 1: has over Webster is on the bowling front. Now, Webster
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Speaker 1: did take wickets with offspin at the STG, which I
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Speaker 1: think we were all just stunned, even bow himself was
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Speaker 1: done that Will Jacks got out in that way. But
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Speaker 1: what Green can do is he can execute that short
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Speaker 1: pitch strategy with the ball, which a lot of teams
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Speaker 1: in Test cricket are doing now, especially when the pitch
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Speaker 1: gets flat.
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Speaker 3: They bowl short a lot.
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Speaker 1: It's Australia's tactic and you know Scott Bowland doesn't really
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Speaker 1: do that. You need to have the bowler with the
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Speaker 1: bit of extra es. Green can do it with his height.
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Speaker 1: They make Cummans do it, Doggett did it early in
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Speaker 1: the Test. Bo Webster can't do that. So that's the
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Speaker 1: one advantage that Green has. But Webster's runs are just critical.
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Speaker 1: And the reason I said the three I don't think.
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Speaker 1: I think only three of the top seven from Sydney
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Speaker 1: locked in because Webster was eight. I think he will
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Speaker 1: be playing in that five or six role and it's
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Speaker 1: whether they play Green alongside him. I think Webster is
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Speaker 1: well ahead of the peking order right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could come down to the conditions, the kind
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Speaker 2: of horses for courses, as you said, If the iron
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Speaker 2: flat conditions we've seen in England potentially so Africa as well,
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Speaker 2: Green will definitely come in very handy. But if they
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Speaker 2: got to the subcontinent, if they go to any spinning conditions,
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Speaker 2: I think Webster's going to be an absolute must because
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Speaker 2: he has that option as an extra spinner. They can
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Speaker 2: go the two strike spinners and have him there as
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Speaker 2: a third or fourth option if needed. With Travis Head
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Speaker 2: as well, So I guess that's advantage having a round
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Speaker 2: us who offer two different things.
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Speaker 4: You can have them both in the squads, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: They've both been a lot of squads test squads over
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Speaker 2: the coming eighteen months and really just assessing the pitch beforehand,
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Speaker 2: and it gets have come down to what role they're
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Speaker 2: going to play.
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Speaker 1: I do think in the short term, with these two
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Speaker 1: tests against Bangladesh and then the South Africa tour, I
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Speaker 1: think the selectors should pick who they intend to pick
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Speaker 1: for South Africa for Bangladesh because Bangladesh, we've seen the
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Speaker 1: T twenty World Cup that anybody can beat anybody, but
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Speaker 1: that's a bit a lot harder in test trick. You
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Speaker 1: have to be better than a team for five days
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Speaker 1: rather than twenty overs, so you don't What you don't
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Speaker 1: want is to be giving the opportunity against Bangladesh for
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Speaker 1: somebody against what will be your weaker opposition, to score
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Speaker 1: big runs. But if you don't intend to pick them
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Speaker 1: in South Africa. Then you leave yourself in a pickle,
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Speaker 1: like how Curtis Patterson got one hundred against Sri Lanka
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Speaker 1: and that remains his last Test match because that was
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Speaker 1: the weaker opposition and there was an Ashes coming up.
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Speaker 1: And yes that was different because Smith and warning we're
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Speaker 1: coming back from suspension. But I do think it's important
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Speaker 1: for selectors to peak who they intend to take to
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Speaker 1: South Africa, which is going to be a huge challenge.
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Speaker 1: Play them in Bangladesh. Start start that preparation against Bangladesh
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Speaker 1: in Northern Australia. Need to start that preparation there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw that last summer when Sam Consas was
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Speaker 2: given to go against India, did quite well and then
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Speaker 2: they dropped him for games against Sri Lankan and the
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Speaker 2: World Test Championship Final. He found himself in a really
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Speaker 2: awkward position there finding to get back in the side,
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Speaker 2: which is exactly the point you're making. I've seen some
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Speaker 2: people suggest that they need to give Harry Dixon a goo,
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Speaker 2: they need to give Oliver Peak a go for these
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Speaker 2: upcoming Bangladesh tests.
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Speaker 4: But you're so right.
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Speaker 2: Unless you see of a Peak, for example, as playing
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Speaker 2: through that entire period right.
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Speaker 4: Through the end of the ashes.
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Speaker 2: What advantage you have in picking him other than giving
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Speaker 2: him a little bit of a reassurance that he's on
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Speaker 2: the national fringe. So right, pick that best side against Bangladesh.
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Speaker 2: Treat them with respect, because Australia lost to Bangladesh last night.
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Speaker 2: I played them in Test cricketer decade ago. To be fair,
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Speaker 2: get those players the best starting eleven in that side
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Speaker 2: and then go to safwor.
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Speaker 4: Whi's gonna be a huge tool.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: On the bowling front, Australia again used six different semas
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Speaker 1: in the Ashes and the did not get as many
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Speaker 1: overs as they thought they were going to get one
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Speaker 1: Test out of pack Cummins one Test to one and
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Speaker 1: a half tests out of Nathan Lyon, but he only
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Speaker 1: bowled two overs in the first one. No test for
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Speaker 1: Josh Hazelwood. What it did show is Australia have bowling
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Speaker 1: depth because bowling came in. Nissa came in, dog It
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Speaker 1: came in, and Richardson came in. They all did a job.
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Speaker 1: But I think with these this aging attack and yes,
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Speaker 1: I think it's important that thirty five year olds now
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Speaker 1: are not like thirty five year olds in the nineties. Right,
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Speaker 1: they've had sports signs for their entire career. We can
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Speaker 1: prolong their careers and Mitchell Stark showed that beautifully in
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Speaker 1: the summer. But I do think there needs to be
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Speaker 1: a strategy with these bowlers, especially you look at someone
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Speaker 1: like Josh Hazelwood who is struggling to get up for
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Speaker 1: repeat tests and repeat series.
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Speaker 3: Look at this big.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen months the Australia has got in front of it
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Speaker 1: and say where do we need you? We need you
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Speaker 1: most in South Africa, and we need you most in England.
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Speaker 1: Dying about India. You're not going to India. We can
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Speaker 1: give or take the home summer we need you primed
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Speaker 1: for those tours. Or if you take Nathan Lyon, what
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Speaker 1: the summer showed is that he's no longer an automatic
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Speaker 1: selection at home, but he will be crucial for the
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Speaker 1: Bader Gaviscar trophy in India. So maybe the strategy for
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Speaker 1: Nathan Lyne is not that fast. How many tests you
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Speaker 1: play between now in India, but we need five of
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Speaker 1: you in India. So everything, everything is geared to that preparation.
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Speaker 2: It's at that point now because way too often Josh
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Speaker 2: Hazewood has suffered some injury in a home summer, and
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Speaker 2: I think over the last six years he's actually missed
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Speaker 2: more home tests than he's played due to injury.
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Speaker 4: So he is becoming a massive problem in that regards.
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Speaker 4: So you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: I guess the other issue is we look at this
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Speaker 2: next crop of young fastballers. You know, it's always a
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Speaker 2: big talking point, who are the young quick fastballers coming through?
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Speaker 2: They're all at the moment. Miley Beardman just sustained an
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Speaker 2: injury while in Pakistan. Spencer Johnson hasn't played in nine months.
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Speaker 2: Lance Morris missed the whole summer. Calum Weidler has missed
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Speaker 2: a big chunk of the summer as well. Joe Richardson
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Speaker 2: is thankful on the way back. We saw him in
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Speaker 2: the Ashes, he played a role there. He's just signed
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Speaker 2: it for a county contract as well, which is very exciting.
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Speaker 2: But so many of these great young fastballs just haven't
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Speaker 2: been proving themselves in Shield cricket because they've just been
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Speaker 2: recovering from little niggles, a little injuries. It's been a
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Speaker 2: pretty frustrating thing. So while yes, the issue of the
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Speaker 2: aging attack is there, Nieces, I think thirty six. Now
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Speaker 2: Bowlin's thirty six. They've done a job, They've done superbly. Realistically,
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Speaker 2: these young guys just need to put a summer together,
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Speaker 2: a red ball cricket, and then they can prove themselves
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Speaker 2: in the Test arena. Hopefully that happens sometime the next
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Speaker 2: eighteen months. We haven't mentioned Sean Abbott, who has been
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Speaker 2: on the verge of that Test side for six years.
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Speaker 2: Will he get a chance sometime next summer. I guess
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Speaker 2: it's reassuring that, as this summer showed, if Hazewood misses out,
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Speaker 2: if Cummens misses out, there's enough talent to keep Australia
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Speaker 2: winning essentially, and it's hats off to Michael Nissa. It
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Speaker 2: was so exciting to see him come in and play
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Speaker 2: a really important role in that Ashes series.
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Speaker 1: Australia's death was testers but ticks the box certainly on
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Speaker 1: the fast bowler death. Who knows how much you're going
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Speaker 1: to get out of Commens and Hazelwood. I think Cummen's
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Speaker 1: not playing the T twenty World Cup. Expect him to
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Speaker 1: be right for the two Tests against Bangladesh and the
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Speaker 1: South Africa tour, but we'll have to wait and see
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Speaker 1: how that happens. It's just look at that eleven that
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Speaker 1: they played at the stj There could be seven five, six,
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Speaker 1: seven changes for that. For the first Test against Bangladesh,
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Speaker 1: it's they won the ashes for one, they were dominant.
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Speaker 1: But we've got all these questions about the team. Oh
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Speaker 1: it's bizarre, isn't it. There's a really exciting pool of
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Speaker 1: players who can come in at whatever stage.
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Speaker 4: And there will be needed.
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Speaker 2: There will be debutantes over the next eighteen months. It's
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Speaker 2: the schedule is so packed during that period and then
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Speaker 2: to top it off as a World Cup right at
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Speaker 2: the end and let in the show we're going to
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Speaker 2: be speaking to Liam Scott. Will Sutherland got the century
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Speaker 2: for Victoria this week.
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Speaker 4: Jack Edwards is.
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Speaker 2: He's suffered a bit of an injury setback recently this week,
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Speaker 2: but he's always sort of pushing his case for nationalunas.
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Speaker 2: These guys need to be ready to step up at
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Speaker 2: any moment because it is an aging pace attack. Changes
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Speaker 2: will happen from game to game. I think they're playing
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Speaker 2: across three or four different concerts during this ateen months.
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Speaker 2: The conditions will differ. There's a chance for anyone in
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Speaker 2: a shield if you can performances together to get a
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Speaker 2: baggy green.
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Speaker 1: One guy who did put a couple of really strong
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Speaker 1: performances together in the Sheffildshire was Sam Harper. Twin tons
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Speaker 1: for Victoria. What a sensation and not move up to
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Speaker 1: the top.
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Speaker 3: Of the order.
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Speaker 4: Well it did in the Big Bash as well.
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Speaker 2: He had struggled for a couple of years with the
15:40
Speaker 2: Melbourne Stars, batting around three or four, was really struggling
15:44
Speaker 2: actually the previous summer, but then they elevated him to
15:46
Speaker 2: open and he absolutely nailed it. I'm pretty sure he
15:48
Speaker 2: was player of the Tournament this summer. And now, even
15:51
Speaker 2: though predominantly batting at five six seven for Victoria, in
15:54
Speaker 2: the Shield, he gets a chance to open on a
15:56
Speaker 2: bouncy whack a deck against an experienced West Australian attack
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Speaker 2: and on both innings nails one hundred in the first
16:04
Speaker 2: innings is fifty came about twenty nine to thirty balls
16:06
Speaker 2: or something even got off to a blistering start and
16:09
Speaker 2: as a couple of people have said, it's a really
16:10
Speaker 2: good time to be an opener in Shield cricket because
16:12
Speaker 2: there is that spot there.
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Speaker 4: We spoke about Renshaw, but he's.
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Speaker 2: Not a certainty by any means, if you can maintain
16:17
Speaker 2: this for a couple more shield rounds, maybe put another
16:20
Speaker 2: match winning performance in the final, there's every chance of
16:22
Speaker 2: been playing as a specialist keep. We saw Josh English
16:25
Speaker 2: play as a specialist as a specialist batter rather during
16:27
Speaker 2: the ashes. That backfired a bit. But Sammy Harper, what
16:31
Speaker 2: an exciting story he is. I mean, he's been around
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Speaker 2: the fringes of for Victoria for nearly a decade and yeah,
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Speaker 2: he's only had about two first class hundreds before this week.
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Speaker 4: I know he's always doubled that t Yeah, I think he.
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Speaker 1: If we were talking about Sam Harper potential national selection
16:43
Speaker 1: before this week, it was probably white Bull and probably
16:47
Speaker 1: as the wicket keeper. But if he is going to
16:49
Speaker 1: go to the top of the order for Victoria and
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Speaker 1: score hundreds, he's suddenly specialist batsman conversation, because Alex Carrey's
16:56
Speaker 1: not going anywhere for a few years, that spot is
16:58
Speaker 1: not going to be available. If there's definitely spots available
17:01
Speaker 1: as a batsman, So that's exciting to Sam Harper. And
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Speaker 1: it just seems that everything Chris Rogers touches for Victoria
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Speaker 1: at the moment is working out for them. They locked
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Speaker 1: in their home final, and they are far and away
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Speaker 1: the dominant side in Sheffielshil cricket at the moment.
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Speaker 2: They've locked in that final two rounds to go, they're
17:18
Speaker 2: comfortably the best team in the competition and it's going
17:20
Speaker 2: to take something special to stop them, really, I mean,
17:22
Speaker 2: they just seem to be so far ahead of everyone
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Speaker 2: else at the moment. Just we didn't have an episode
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Speaker 2: after the previous round, but Victoria did suffer a loss
17:29
Speaker 2: coming out of the Big Bash season, so there was
17:32
Speaker 2: perhaps a few warning signs there. But that win against
17:35
Speaker 2: Wa Inwa three hundred and something runs is so dominant
17:39
Speaker 2: against State. Richardson was in that attack and see that
17:42
Speaker 2: recently with the triple champions in Shield cricket, and so yeah,
17:46
Speaker 2: Victoria there's a really fantastic balance of experience and young,
17:50
Speaker 2: exciting players. There a couple I've already mentioned, Fergus O'Neil,
17:54
Speaker 2: Scott Boland, two very similar players who just seemed to
17:56
Speaker 2: contribute on any pitch. And yeah, that batting order with
18:00
Speaker 2: Peter Hanscombe leading the charge is just the strongest in
18:03
Speaker 2: the country.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's going to take something pretty spcial to
18:05
Speaker 4: stop them.
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Speaker 1: Does feel like every single conversation that you have about
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Speaker 1: national selection and who might come in. There's a Victorian
18:12
Speaker 1: in the conversation we're talking about open it's Kempbell. Kellaway's
18:15
Speaker 1: in that conversation. Middle order batsman Hanscom's in the conversation
18:18
Speaker 1: if it's you know Todd Murphy was in the squad
18:20
Speaker 1: as a spinner. Fergusonnely's in the quick conversation. Scott Bowland
18:23
Speaker 1: got sixp again on the weekend because.
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Speaker 3: He's just so good.
18:26
Speaker 1: They are just doing everything right at the moment and
18:29
Speaker 1: their skipper will subtle in first one hundred. He had
18:31
Speaker 1: to get there when Victoria went nine down Scott bowl
18:35
Speaker 1: and did his job at the other end, but it
18:36
Speaker 1: was great to see him get a centry.
18:37
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: It used to be in New South Wales we're producing
18:39
Speaker 2: all the future Test prospects and now that's kind of
18:42
Speaker 2: switched a bit. He's the Wells again, are probably going
18:44
Speaker 2: to miss out on the final unless they do something
18:46
Speaker 2: pretty special the next couple weeks. They just parted ways
18:50
Speaker 2: with their head coach Greg Shippet, who will leave at
18:52
Speaker 2: the end of this season. A lot of young siding
18:55
Speaker 2: players have jumped ship and joined other states. Jason Sayer,
18:58
Speaker 2: Nathan McAndrew, Nathan Ellis if the World's just maybe isn't
19:02
Speaker 2: necessarily the place to go to for future Test stars
19:06
Speaker 2: and were like it was a generation ago.
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Speaker 4: Victoria is going to take up that.
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Speaker 3: Charge certainly doing fantastic work at the moment. Victoria.
19:12
Speaker 1: Coming up on Domesticated we speak to one of the
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Speaker 1: most exciting young all rounders in the country, South Australia's
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Speaker 1: Liam Scott's. Well, there's not many cricketers in the country
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Speaker 1: in better form than this man, Liam Scott, South Australia's
19:25
Speaker 1: could be coming South Australia's star or arounder.
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Speaker 3: Liam, thanks so much.
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Speaker 5: For joining us. No, thanks for having me, guys.
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Speaker 1: Pleasure to be on career best five for thirty three
19:34
Speaker 1: during the week, including the wicked of ISBN Kuwaja, which
19:36
Speaker 1: is a nice one to get. You must be so
19:38
Speaker 1: pleased with the way you're bowling at the moment.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 6: I think as an all around the best part is
19:45
Speaker 6: that you can have an impact on different aspects of
19:48
Speaker 6: the game and different phases of the game. So for me,
19:50
Speaker 6: whether it's bat ball or in the field, just trying
19:52
Speaker 6: to have an impact on the result is always nice,
19:54
Speaker 6: so it was lucky to go my way this week,
19:58
Speaker 6: which was a nice little bit of a ward.
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Speaker 2: It was an important win as well for South Australia.
20:03
Speaker 2: There's only a couple of rounds left until that Shield Final.
20:06
Speaker 2: What's the mood like in the camp with what's proving
20:08
Speaker 2: to be quite a tight finals race with Victoria secrete
20:11
Speaker 2: in that spot in another spot for grabs.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, it's really tight this year.
20:16
Speaker 6: Obviously the vix have played some really nice cricket and
20:19
Speaker 6: deserved and be secured that Shield final spot, but I
20:22
Speaker 6: think the rest of the competition anyone can sort of
20:24
Speaker 6: make that last spot, which is exciting in itself, so
20:28
Speaker 6: it means every game you've got.
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Speaker 5: Something to play for.
20:30
Speaker 6: But I think we're starting to play our best cricket
20:33
Speaker 6: now and that was pretty evident at the Gabbo just gone.
20:36
Speaker 5: So hopefully we're heating up at the right time and
20:39
Speaker 5: we can really come home strongly.
20:41
Speaker 1: As an all round it you're in a unique position
20:43
Speaker 1: when you turn up to a ground and you see
20:45
Speaker 1: a big green seema like it was at the Gabba,
20:47
Speaker 1: you know you're either going to have a really tough
20:48
Speaker 1: day with the bat or you're going to be in
20:50
Speaker 1: for a fun day with the ball. Have you ever
20:52
Speaker 1: played on a pitch that looked quite so green as
20:54
Speaker 1: the Gabba looked on day one?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it was funny.
21:00
Speaker 6: I think when you saw the footage online it actually
21:02
Speaker 6: looked a lot greater on the camera than probably what
21:05
Speaker 6: it was in person.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, it was a good wicket. I mean it
21:09
Speaker 5: was tough.
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Speaker 6: It was tough for batting, but obviously bowling wise it
21:13
Speaker 6: was pretty nice. So pretty nice to roll out of
21:15
Speaker 6: one of them. We actually played a game at the
21:18
Speaker 6: Whack for a couple of years ago, which was over
21:20
Speaker 6: in a couple of days, so I'd say.
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Speaker 5: That probably took the chocolates, but no, it was definitely
21:25
Speaker 5: boll of friendly.
21:27
Speaker 2: And while it's been another suburb season few with the ball,
21:29
Speaker 2: it was in December they got that breakout one hundred
21:32
Speaker 2: against Tasmania, your first Sheffield Shield hundred. I guess it
21:35
Speaker 2: must be really satisfying to now be contributing in a
21:38
Speaker 2: big way in both facets of the game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 6: I think, as I mentioned just before, you want to
21:45
Speaker 6: have the impact on the game and the nature's and
21:47
Speaker 6: all round it is that you can do that with
21:49
Speaker 6: button ball, I feel like I'm playing some really good cricket.
21:54
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think my game's in a good space
21:56
Speaker 6: at the moment and hopefully I can just continue.
21:58
Speaker 5: That where or I am and whoever I'm playing.
22:01
Speaker 1: For the last eighteen months or so, for you, Liam,
22:04
Speaker 1: you've seen huge improvements. You're averaging nearly forty with the
22:07
Speaker 1: bat in Shield cricket and twenty five with the ball.
22:09
Speaker 1: You were the Adelaide Strikers leading run scorer, adding to
22:12
Speaker 1: that the One Day Cup Player of the tournament last year.
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Speaker 1: What have you put your improvement in the last eighteen
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Speaker 1: months down to?
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Speaker 5: Oh, I think, you know, it's obviously self belief.
22:24
Speaker 6: I've got some good opportunity to really express my skills,
22:29
Speaker 6: especially this year with a Strikers batting at four or five,
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Speaker 6: so a little bit higher than previously.
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Speaker 5: So you get a little bit more chance. But yeah,
22:37
Speaker 5: I think I've got really.
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Speaker 6: Good support from South Australia and Ryan Harris and all
22:42
Speaker 6: the other coaching staff and then at the strikes as
22:45
Speaker 6: well painters.
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Speaker 5: So I think I feel like my game is just.
22:50
Speaker 6: Is really suited to how they have helped me and
22:53
Speaker 6: gone about with their coaching styles and really enjoying where
22:56
Speaker 6: I'm playing, and I think if you're enjoying and having fun,
22:59
Speaker 6: then it takes a little bit less pressure on field performances.
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Speaker 6: So I'd say it's just having fun. And really that
23:08
Speaker 6: self belief factor has definitely been there.
23:12
Speaker 2: If we could go back a little bit to the
23:14
Speaker 2: start of your career, you were born in Sydney, just
23:16
Speaker 2: down the road from the studio. Actually you had family
23:19
Speaker 2: in Queensland. How did you end up in South Australia.
23:22
Speaker 2: What was that journey from New so Wells to the
23:25
Speaker 2: Red Back setup.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a bit. It was a bit strange.
23:30
Speaker 6: I finished school in Sydney and then mum and dad
23:33
Speaker 6: dad got relocated for work up to Brisbane, so mum,
23:37
Speaker 6: dad and my brother Rory moved up up north to
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Speaker 6: Brisbane at the time, and I was actually in Europe
23:43
Speaker 6: traveling with a few mates after school when I had
23:46
Speaker 6: a sort of decision to make on whether to stay
23:49
Speaker 6: in Sydney, go to Brisbane or venture down to Adelaide.
23:52
Speaker 6: And it was lucky enough that Sakka showed some interest
23:56
Speaker 6: and really wanted me to come down and work hard
23:59
Speaker 6: and train.
23:59
Speaker 5: With their and get some opportunities. And second eleven and
24:02
Speaker 5: just push my case that way.
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Speaker 6: So I took a leap of faith and I'm really
24:07
Speaker 6: thankful for Soaka and the opportunities they gave me.
24:11
Speaker 5: And that's a little quick story on how I ventured
24:15
Speaker 5: down there.
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Speaker 1: You're certainly taking that opportunity with both hands at the moment.
24:20
Speaker 1: Lamb did so well with the Adlaide strikers in the
24:23
Speaker 1: Big Bash Big ninety odd in one of the games.
24:24
Speaker 1: You're clearly comfortable in front of the big crowds of
24:27
Speaker 1: the Big Bash and it really seems like you are
24:29
Speaker 1: now comfortable at the level of first class cricket.
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Speaker 3: Is that how you feel?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
24:35
Speaker 6: I think sometimes it can be one of those things
24:39
Speaker 6: where you feel as though you have to sort of
24:42
Speaker 6: justify your spot or it takes a while to feel
24:45
Speaker 6: like you belong and.
24:47
Speaker 5: I think performances sometimes dictate that.
24:49
Speaker 6: And I feel like my performances have meant that I
24:52
Speaker 6: feel really comfortable and cemented my spot in the soccer team.
24:56
Speaker 5: And I guess I've got some opportunities.
24:58
Speaker 6: This year with Australia A and learning and being involved
25:01
Speaker 6: in that setup I think only adds to that self
25:04
Speaker 6: belief and self confidence, so that when you come back
25:07
Speaker 6: to whatever lever it is, where it's big bash your.
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Speaker 5: Cricket or one day cricket, you really know that you
25:12
Speaker 5: can go out there and dominate and try and put
25:14
Speaker 5: your best foot forward.
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Speaker 2: Obviously the tour to India with Australia a a few
25:18
Speaker 2: months ago, but also coming up you've signed with glarcesters
25:22
Speaker 2: here in the T twenty Blast. Getting these opportunities overseas
25:25
Speaker 2: must only help your cricket even further and make it
25:28
Speaker 2: more of an all rounded player.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. I played a
25:33
Speaker 5: few years ago just some club brig it over in
25:35
Speaker 5: the UK. Love my time over there.
25:37
Speaker 6: So to go over and be part of a professional
25:40
Speaker 6: setup and I guess been in an environment where again
25:44
Speaker 6: you can learn off different coaches, you can learn off
25:46
Speaker 6: different players and really add some elements hopefully to my
25:50
Speaker 6: game is only going to hold me in good stead
25:52
Speaker 6: hopefully when I come back for the Australian summer.
25:55
Speaker 5: So really looking forward to getting over there and playing some,
25:58
Speaker 5: hopefully some good cricket for Glouster.
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Speaker 1: You look around world cricket at the moment, Liam and
26:03
Speaker 1: you see so few genuine three format all round. It
26:08
Speaker 1: it seems to be one of the hardest things you
26:09
Speaker 1: can do in cricket because you've got so much going on.
26:12
Speaker 1: I'd want to ask you how challenging you find that,
26:14
Speaker 1: but you do seem to be making it look so easy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.
26:21
Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 6: To have impact on the game, as I said earlier,
26:25
Speaker 6: is what you want to do. So whatever team, whatever
26:29
Speaker 6: format it is, it just it makes it all worthwhile.
26:32
Speaker 6: There's obviously some challenges that come with it. Is a
26:35
Speaker 6: higher work, low change, can go a little bit longer
26:38
Speaker 6: than some of the other guys, but I thoroughly enjoy
26:43
Speaker 6: it and I'm having a great time playing all three
26:46
Speaker 6: formats at the moment. So yeah, hopefully I can stay
26:50
Speaker 6: in the park and stay fit, and yeah, keep.
26:55
Speaker 5: Going for a while longer.
26:58
Speaker 2: And I suppose the long term goal for your is
27:00
Speaker 2: obviously going to be national representation. Do you see the
27:03
Speaker 2: most likely avenue for you being in the white ball
27:05
Speaker 2: formats or is the Baggie Green a priority for yourself?
27:09
Speaker 2: Do you see as the most likely path to representing
27:11
Speaker 2: your country?
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Speaker 6: Not too sure to be honest, I think as you
27:16
Speaker 6: keep growing up in Australia, all I've wanted to do
27:20
Speaker 6: is wear a Baggie Green, so for me, hopefully one
27:23
Speaker 6: day that will come. But in saying that, playing any
27:26
Speaker 6: game for Australia would be a dream come through. So
27:29
Speaker 6: whatever format that is, white ball, red bull, I'd try
27:33
Speaker 6: and take it with both hands.
27:35
Speaker 5: There's some quality players out there at the moment, so.
27:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's obviously a tough, tough squad to break into
27:42
Speaker 6: and there's plenty of good players that are dominating domestic cricket.
27:46
Speaker 6: So I can only keep controlling what I can control,
27:50
Speaker 6: and that's trying to put the performances on the board
27:52
Speaker 6: and then hopefully one day that opportunity will come my way. Well,
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Speaker 6: you're doing a fantastic job of putting your name in considerations. Liam,
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Speaker 6: thanks so much joining us and good luck for the
28:01
Speaker 6: rest of your season with South Australia.
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Speaker 5: Thanks guys, thanks for having me.