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Domesticated - Ducks for main contenders, centuries for outside chances: Where Ashes hopefuls stand now · The Follow-On

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  Speaker 1: Well, it was ducks for the premiere Ashes contenders, centuries
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  Speaker 1: for the crop further a little bit further back. So
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  Speaker 1: what does it all mean? Welcome to Domesticated. I'm justin Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: Fox Screet's Nick Savage is alongside me.
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  Speaker 2: Nick.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with one of the duck makers, Jake Weatherwold
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  Speaker 1: zero and twelve. We had him on the show in
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  Speaker 1: our last show and now he was coming off with
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  Speaker 1: great innings, a bit tougher in this shield match.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, in both innings.
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  Speaker 3: Down in Victoria, he was tasked with walking out with
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  Speaker 3: about thirty minutes to go, which is obviously one of
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  Speaker 3: the toughest situations for any open and red bull cricket,
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  Speaker 3: and he couldn't do it. On both occasions he fell
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  Speaker 3: before stumps. It should be acknowledged that he in both
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  Speaker 3: occasions was dismissed by beauty of delivery by Perry and
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  Speaker 3: a favorite of ours Ferguson Neil on both occasions, but
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  Speaker 3: obviously terrible timing with a squad expected for the Ashes
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  Speaker 3: this week, especially with a lot of the other kind
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  Speaker 3: of contenders as you mentioned, struggling.
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  Speaker 2: A bit this week.
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  Speaker 3: If he had gotten some runs, even if he had
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  Speaker 3: gotten through that tough period, he could have really his
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  Speaker 3: name up there for a potential debut.
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  Speaker 2: I still think he's a gun.
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  Speaker 3: I still think he's a good chance of maybe earning
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  Speaker 3: a Baggy Green this summer. Depends on a lot of factors,
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  Speaker 3: the makeup of the Test side. Does Marnus open stuff
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about in a second, But yeah, not not
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  Speaker 3: great timing from him.
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  Speaker 1: And did it felt like had he got a big score,
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  Speaker 1: had he go to Bee hundreds, you could almost lock
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  Speaker 1: him in for a baggy green. That's how it was
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  Speaker 1: shaping three centuries in his first three half century, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: in his first four innings to start the Shield season,
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  Speaker 1: and then goes zero and twelve. With the Ash squad
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  Speaker 1: being named this week, it's just the wrong time for that.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how that happens with Jake Weatherwood. The
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  Speaker 1: other duck came from Cameron Green, who another player that
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at for the Ashes.
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  Speaker 2: Zero got forty one in the.
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  Speaker 1: Second innings, but the game was largely dead then and
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  Speaker 1: didn't bowl, So there's a lot of questions about Cameron
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  Speaker 1: Green at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, him not bowling for me feels like more of
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  Speaker 3: an issue he has one more shield around next week
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  Speaker 3: to get some overs.
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  Speaker 2: Under his belt.
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  Speaker 3: But we're talking about a player who is expected to
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  Speaker 3: be Australia's first choice all rounder for the Ashes and
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  Speaker 3: this year he's bowled four overs still in competitive cricket
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  Speaker 3: and that's just not enough overs under his belt. It
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  Speaker 3: is reassuring to see this footage came out of him
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  Speaker 3: bowling about twenty minutes half an hour after the match
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  Speaker 3: in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Of the pitch. Great to see.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it was at one hundred percent necessarily,
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  Speaker 3: but he's going through his action. But he needs to
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  Speaker 3: be bowling spells. There are going to be times this
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  Speaker 3: summer when the big quicks and line will need to
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  Speaker 3: be rotated. They'll need a half hour break and that's
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  Speaker 3: when Green and potentially Webster will be crucial. So if
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  Speaker 3: Green's not bowling for that first Test, he may be
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  Speaker 3: squeeze out of that eleven because he's not getting the
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  Speaker 3: runs either. He's yet to get a fifty this season
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  Speaker 3: since the World Test Championship Final in June. He only
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  Speaker 3: has one fifty and I was in the West Indies.
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  Speaker 3: Is he going to be Australia's number three? It makes
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  Speaker 3: sense from a team balance point of view, but minus
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  Speaker 3: Abushein is just the best number three in the country.
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  Speaker 2: We'll spend this just before we went on air. He
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  Speaker 2: has been batting so well.
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  Speaker 3: Right now as we're chatting, he's on eighty odd in
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  Speaker 3: a One Day Cup game. He's the best number three
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  Speaker 3: Australia has had in a generation. So to me, it
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  Speaker 3: feels like that should be Marster's spot. Kawaj just said
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  Speaker 3: that as well. He'd love to see his Queens and
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  Speaker 3: team at batting it through and Green considering his form,
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  Speaker 3: considering he maybe needed as a bowler, to give him
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  Speaker 3: a rest after potentially a long spell in the field,
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  Speaker 3: Green at six makes sense tough, Webster. I know he
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been in the runs either, but yeah, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of questions for national selectors over the next few days.
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  Speaker 2: Webster.
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  Speaker 1: If he had to put one hundred on the board,
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  Speaker 1: that changes the conversation as well. But he had a
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  Speaker 1: disappointing game eleven and six with the bat. Took one
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  Speaker 1: week here. Got Marcus Harris out in the first innings
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  Speaker 1: opened the bowling as well, although I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: much we can read into that because Marnus Labashaine opened
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  Speaker 1: the bowling for Queensland in one of the innings.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like in Australia's first Test eleven it'll be
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  Speaker 1: two of Labashane will be there and it'll be two
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  Speaker 1: of weather Alled, Webster and Green. Which two do you
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to be at the moment? I think
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  Speaker 1: it'll be weather Alled and Green despite the duck boys
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  Speaker 1: at the moment. Despite that, I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be them. What do you think that's who I would pick?
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  Speaker 3: If I was in Georgia Valley's position, that that is
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  Speaker 3: who i'd pick. I feel as though they are going
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  Speaker 3: to stick by their policy of the six best batters
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  Speaker 3: in the country and kind of squeeze them in and
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  Speaker 3: manipulate them however they can. So I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to go minus opening with Cameron Green three and Bowebster
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  Speaker 3: at six. I don't love that necessarily a lot of
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  Speaker 3: talents to bowling options. It does make sense in that regard,
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  Speaker 3: but yes, I'm in your boat as well. I'd love
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  Speaker 3: to see a specialist opener. It's probably worth acknowledging as well.
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  Speaker 3: With Green, he's duck. In the first innings he smoked
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  Speaker 3: it to cover. It was a beautiful, full blooded off
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  Speaker 3: drive towards like a mid off cover either side too
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  Speaker 3: many it was a boundary, so yes, a duck. It's
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a cliche, but he's going about it
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  Speaker 3: the right way. He does still look okay at the crease.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't want to see him batting in the
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  Speaker 3: first few overs of a Test. I want to see
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  Speaker 3: him coming in in that sort of counterpunching knock at
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  Speaker 3: number six, which he's done very well in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, options there for Australia, and there is still one
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  Speaker 1: more shield game before that first Ashes Test, which we
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  Speaker 1: think the entire Ashes squad just about is going to play.
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  Speaker 1: News today that Travis Head is going to skip the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of T twenties against India to play a
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  Speaker 1: bit of shield cricket.
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  Speaker 2: So for first class.
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  Speaker 1: Lovers like you and I, that shield round is going
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  Speaker 1: to be blockbuster. Brendan Doggett, let's move to the quicks now.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like he's going to be in that Ashes
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  Speaker 1: squad six for forty eight. He got he missed the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of games with the hamstring injury, but just
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  Speaker 1: came back, hasn't missed beat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if he's fit he's in that squad. He's obviously
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  Speaker 3: been the reserve for a while now. He's in the
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  Speaker 3: touring squad for the West Indies tour before he had
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  Speaker 3: an injury then as well. His own worst enemy is
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  Speaker 3: his own body. Unfortunately, he's had so many niggles over
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  Speaker 3: the last few years.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty frustrating for him.
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  Speaker 3: But if he can stay fit, he's a very good
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  Speaker 3: chance of making his debut this summer and he deserves it.
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  Speaker 3: Six Fergainst India a last summer ten weeks. It's in
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  Speaker 3: the Shield final six for here at the Whacka.
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  Speaker 2: He really has to be in that squad.
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  Speaker 3: He's consistent, he's quick, he's talented, skillful.
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  Speaker 2: He really should be there.
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  Speaker 1: If I said to you, Brendan Doggett will play Test cricket,
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  Speaker 1: would you think that's being too grandiose at this point?
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  Speaker 3: I suspect so, I think because he will be in
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  Speaker 3: that squad for that first Test, but may not play
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  Speaker 3: for obvious reasons. They've got Ball and Stark Hazer with there,
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  Speaker 3: and then Penning how the national sectors go about things.
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  Speaker 3: There are big breaks between those first three Tests. There's
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  Speaker 3: a chance that if the pitches are lively and the
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  Speaker 3: match is done three or four days. The same three
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  Speaker 3: quicks will play those first three Tests, and then Cummins
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  Speaker 3: might be available, Joy Richardson might be available. The might
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  Speaker 3: go horses of courses and go Michael Nissa at the
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  Speaker 3: Gabba with a pink ball. It's not a locked thing
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  Speaker 3: that he will make that Test debut, but I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a very good chance. Here is that first reserve,
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  Speaker 3: and if the nationallyctor stick with a similar policy to
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  Speaker 3: the batters, the four best quicks who are available, and
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  Speaker 3: they do rotate through player management, he's a good chance
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  Speaker 3: of playing at some stage this summer.
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  Speaker 2: I think even not this summer.
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  Speaker 1: Looking further ahead to the future now he is past thirty,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he's got enough years left in him
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  Speaker 1: that with Australia rotating some quicks around, there's a big
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  Speaker 1: congested twelve months from October twenty six to October twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: I think at some point we will see Brendan Doggett
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  Speaker 1: in a baggy green. Whether that's this summer or not,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see, and that depends on
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  Speaker 1: the fitness of the other quicks, because he's not going
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  Speaker 1: to jump ahead of any of the other four. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the other quicks.
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  Speaker 2: It looks as though.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Abbott and Michael Nissa are the other two in contention.
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  Speaker 1: We don't think the selectors are going to go with
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  Speaker 1: Fergus O'Neil just yet. And their moves in taking Abbott
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  Speaker 1: out of the T twenty squad, in giving Nissa a
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  Speaker 1: rest from the last Shill game, it looks like those
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  Speaker 1: are the next guys in line Nissa perhaps maybe in
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  Speaker 1: the pink ball Test in Brisbane. Is that how you're
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  Speaker 1: saying it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly.
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  Speaker 3: I think they are the three that have been name
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  Speaker 3: checked by the national selectors in the past. It would
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  Speaker 3: obviously be a great story for Sean Abbott, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's been stored of domestic cricket for twelve years. For
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  Speaker 3: him to finally in that baggy green in and out
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  Speaker 3: the Test scord for five years. Anissa deserves it. He's
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  Speaker 3: an absolute gun. He's been so consistent for Queensland. Has
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  Speaker 3: anyone taken more wickets at the Gabba over the past
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  Speaker 3: decade I doubt it.
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  Speaker 2: So he's very deserving as well.
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  Speaker 3: There've been a lot of panic about the pace cartel,
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  Speaker 3: but there are a lot of experienced talented quicks in
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  Speaker 3: the side who I think are ready for Test cricket.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned Fergus O'Neil. I said it a few
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago twenty twenty seven ashes in England. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's when we should get Fergus O'Neil in there. He's
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  Speaker 3: perfectly suited for those conditions.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty of time for him another Victorian Campbell Kellaway did
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  Speaker 1: and he set the world on fire in that innings
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty seven. Only Manus Labushane's got a
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  Speaker 1: highest scorer in the Sheffi, which she was so far
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  Speaker 1: this season. We spoke about kell Away at the start
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  Speaker 1: of the summer about his potential. He's turned twenty three
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. He is a player of the future
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  Speaker 1: to watch for Australia and it might be coming sooner
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  Speaker 1: than we all think.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously talented player.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we saw recently that Australia a tour
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  Speaker 3: to India, Kellaway and Sam Constas opened the batting. That
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  Speaker 3: could be a show as Test opening partnership for a decade.
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  Speaker 3: Kawaja is obviously very close to the end of his
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  Speaker 3: Test career. That might be this summer. It might be
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  Speaker 3: next year. We don't know that for sure, but when
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  Speaker 3: he does, step aside, Constaus and Kellowy are the two
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  Speaker 3: people who could slot into that role. I think for
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  Speaker 3: sure he's a star of the future. He's getting runs.
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  Speaker 3: His only thing now is consistency. He seems to be
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  Speaker 3: in a period where he's either out for single figures
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  Speaker 3: or he goes on to get one hundred. If you
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  Speaker 3: just convert some of those single figures to getting through
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  Speaker 3: the new ball, getting even just a knitty gritty thirty forty,
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  Speaker 3: or just to set a platform, if he can consistently
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  Speaker 3: do that time and time again, he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a gun for the future. He obviously wasn't opening twelve
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  Speaker 3: months ago. Only was thrown into that role in November
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  Speaker 3: last year, and he's been Victoria's leading run score since.
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  Speaker 1: And that is he's still learning how to open, he's
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  Speaker 1: still learning what getting through the new ball looks like.
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  Speaker 1: He's only done it for twelve months or so, but
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  Speaker 1: he's got three Shef Foo Shield centuries in those twelve months.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's making a case and if he continues
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  Speaker 1: in this form, he's making a case to be us.
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  Speaker 1: When Kowaja's first long term replacement ahead of Sam Constace
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  Speaker 1: because he looks a more complete player. Constace is still
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  Speaker 1: very much learning and Constace is twenty. He's got so
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  Speaker 1: much time. Kellaway perhaps looks a little more ready than
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  Speaker 1: Sam Constace does, even though Constas has already played Test cricket.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you sum it up perfectly there. Constaince is twenty.
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  Speaker 3: His technique is still coming under the microscope. He hasn't
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  Speaker 3: looked his best even this week in the Shield with
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  Speaker 3: the match basically done up. In the Gabba, he got
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  Speaker 3: out slogging skying one to mid off. It was a
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  Speaker 3: pretty ugly dismissal. But he's still working out his game.
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  Speaker 3: He only has three first class tons and two of
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  Speaker 3: those were in the same match about fourteen months ago,
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  Speaker 3: so he's still work in progress. Everyone has been saying
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. He's still finding his own game. Kellaway
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  Speaker 3: is close. It's looking like a complete first class and
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  Speaker 3: potentially Test cricketer.
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  Speaker 2: So I support you there.
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  Speaker 3: He's a very good chance when Kowaja hangs up the
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  Speaker 3: boots to take that role at the top of the order.
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  Speaker 1: Camill Kellaway my best innings of the round of Shield cricket,
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  Speaker 1: but there were a lot of hundreds. There were eight
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  Speaker 1: centuries in this round of Shield cricket, which is the
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  Speaker 1: same amount as they were in the first two put together.
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  Speaker 2: So lots of.
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  Speaker 1: Batsman putting their hand up and I'm calling the centuries
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  Speaker 1: for the forgotten men of Australian cricket. There were lots
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  Speaker 1: of them. Cameron Bancroft got one hundred and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: for wa like forgotten man in Australian cricket. Is there
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  Speaker 1: any way back him into Australian into an Australian fold?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think it feels too little too late? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's obviously a few names I've mentioned just before. They're
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  Speaker 3: still probably ahead of him in the apparent pecking order.
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  Speaker 2: He's got experience.
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  Speaker 3: He a couple of years ago was probably the most
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  Speaker 3: consistent batter, but his time was probably when David Warner retired.
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  Speaker 2: That was probably his time to take that role.
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  Speaker 3: And in the end National electors didn't go for specialist opener.
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  Speaker 3: They've been cycling through trying to reinvent middle order players
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  Speaker 3: as open as since none of them have worked out.
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  Speaker 3: Labiche might join that kind of cycle this summer, and
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately since in the last years he just hasn't been
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  Speaker 3: consistent enough, so it feels a little bit too late
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  Speaker 3: for him unfortunately. But you know, he's still in his
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  Speaker 3: early thirties. Look at all the great players, Chris Rodgers,
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  Speaker 3: Michael Hussey, who oh kawaja mean? He was thirty five
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  Speaker 3: when he came back into the Test side and has
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  Speaker 3: since been probably the form opener and the world in
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  Speaker 3: Test cricket. So not the summer for Bancroft. I think
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  Speaker 3: he just needs to start banging the door down again.
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  Speaker 3: One great knock isn't probably enough.
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  Speaker 1: YEA similar situation for Marcus Harris. It feels like he
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  Speaker 1: got one hundred and one not out for Victoria. But
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  Speaker 1: it does feel like Australian cricket has moved on from
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Bancroft and Marcus Harris. Twelve months ago, going into
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  Speaker 1: the first Test against India, they were seed number one
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  Speaker 1: and seed number two in the bat off and then
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  Speaker 1: McSweeney came from nowhere and Constance came from even more
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to overtake both of them. It feels like Australian
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  Speaker 1: cricket is done with those two. I think Curtis Patterson
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  Speaker 1: might have better claims, especially if if you were to
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  Speaker 1: get an injury to Marnus or Steve Smith for a
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  Speaker 1: number three or a number four. He got a big
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two and the same meanings that
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  Speaker 1: Smith got one hundred as expected. Steve Smith comes back
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  Speaker 1: to shield cricket, shows he's better than everybody else. But
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  Speaker 1: Patterson played really well at the Gamma.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think with Curtis Patterson, he's also been in
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  Speaker 3: a little bit short of consistency this summer. His ideal
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  Speaker 3: spot's number three, and Marnus is obviously slightly superior to
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  Speaker 3: him in that regard. So Curtis, is there a chance
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  Speaker 3: he could open this summer. That's a question that was
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  Speaker 3: posed to his coach Greg Ship earlier this season, and
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  Speaker 3: he had no doubt that Curtis could open. There'll be
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  Speaker 3: a massive smoke he considering he made his Test debut
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  Speaker 3: at six and did very very well against Cholanka five
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  Speaker 3: years ago or so now, but it seems like he's
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  Speaker 3: a bit of an outsider again, someone in his early thirties.
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  Speaker 2: If there's injury, if there's.
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  Speaker 3: A massive dip in form, he's a chance for that
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  Speaker 3: three spot potentially. But I think, you know, as I said,
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  Speaker 3: for a few people today. There's probably a couple of
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  Speaker 3: names ahead of him at this stage.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like all those guys Bancroft, Harris Patterson and
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  Speaker 1: also Nathan McSweeney who got one hundred, which was great
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  Speaker 1: to see him back in the runs. That was his
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  Speaker 1: first hundred since playing Test cricket for Australia. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like if they had to put that innings in the
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  Speaker 1: first Shield round, put that big market down and then
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  Speaker 1: with that confidence going to the second and third maybe
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  Speaker 1: get another big one that would have them right in
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  Speaker 1: the frame. But the guy that did that was Manus.
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  Speaker 1: He put four hundreds together across the One Day Cap
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  Speaker 1: and the Shield cricket and that's just completely shut the
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  Speaker 1: door on these guys.
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  Speaker 2: I have to check.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: The scores might be five to hundreds for Marnas now
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Nathan McSween, I guess I like some of those other.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: Names, he's still in his mid twenties.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: He's still got a long way to go, and obviously
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: I think it's fair to say it was a mistake
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: making him open against India. He is a perfect number four.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: He's a great number four. Whenever Steve Smith retires, Green
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: and McSweeney were probably the two guys they're looking at
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: taking that number four slot. I saw see McSweeney having
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: a great Test career ahead of him. He's obviously considered
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: a leader as well. He's Captain Australia on a number
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: of tours and series now, so plenty of time for
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: McSweeney as well. You'll just have to wait and see
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: how the team sort of shapes over the next twenty
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: four months. As we expect it will be a few
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: retirements with Steve smith or was mcquija the bowlers, those
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: gaps are opening and it's those young guys will certainly be,
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: you know, front of the Q.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: It's another great innings in that South Australian game for
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Jake Lehman got in the nineties. Jack Clayton got a
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: hundred for Queensland as well. He's one that could maybe
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: push in a couple of years. He's one another one
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: that's got age on his side. Is a little bit
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: older than Constance and Kellaway, but still the right side
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: of thirty and if potentially when Steve Smithin's out of
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: the team in the next couple of years, Clayton is
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: potentially a contender along with guys like McSweeney if he
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: puts quite a few hundreds together, is that how you
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: see him?
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think those names Lehman Clayton. I think Australia
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: A is probably the next sort of spot for them.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I'm not too sure when the next Australia A series is.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Well against the England lines that's going aligns with the
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: second Ashes Test exactly right.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's early December.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: That's probably a good chance for those younger players to
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: get a chance.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: To prove their worth. Yeah, they're probably still a couple
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: of years away.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: From serious contention, but get runs underbelt performed for Australia
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: A and you know there's going to be Prime Minister
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Eleven's games coming up in the next couple of seasons too.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I'd love the National sectors give these names ago. That's
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: the perfect opportunity of blood them and then higher on
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: as a weight.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I think we might see a pretty Victorian heavy Australia
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: A team. I think Kellaway will be there and I
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: think the bowling attack could have both Fergus O'Neill and
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Mitch Perry. Mitch Perry with a five for Fergus O'Neil
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: got four fur and the Victor three from three to
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: start the.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Shield season only I was bowling one of the best
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: spells in Shield and that second things he was genuinely unplayable.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: He was the keeper was up to the stumps, but
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: he was still maneuvering it, beating the edge on countless occasions.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Here the ball on the string, he looks so fantastic.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: The one downside with him is obviously the pace. He's
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: not up to the pace of Stark Hazel would commins,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: but yeah, he's an absolute gun.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: He looks normal.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: The Victorian bowling attack is probably the strongest in the
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: country at the moment, especially when you're slot Scott.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Boland in there.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: It's phenomenal. A lot of exciting young quicks and yeah,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: three from three is this the year Victoria get that
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Shield title back under their belt again.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: It's looking pretty solid.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It could be Will Sutherland Todd Murphy in that bowling
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: attack as well. And what I am very excited for
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: is in this next round of Shield cricket, where we're
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: going to have the whole Australian squad coming.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: This new South Wales.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Victoria clash is going to be a new South Wales
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: bowling attack of Stark Hazlewood Lion and Sean Abbott bowling
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: to Campbell Kellaway at the top of the order. That'll
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: test his test potential certainly. Then you'll have Scott Bowland
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: bowling to Sam Constace, which did not go well for
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: him in the One Day Cup game. Didn't go well
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: for Constace, so I cannot wait to see that game.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: And what's going to be a big round of shield
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: cricket with Travis Head, all these Test guys come into play.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Everyone gets to the SCG if you're in Sydney, gets
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: to the SCG next week. That is that's going to
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: be one of the highest standard of shield games we've
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: had in a while, having all them available. Obviously for
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: the Test guys, this is a good chance for them
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: just to test their bodies. Essentially, a lot of those
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: names you mentioned haven't done four day five day cricket
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: since the West Indies tour. Essentially, Haeswood looks amazing during
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: this one white ball series against India, he's been phenomenal.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: He's been putting the ball in an.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Absolute dime, So good chance for him just to build
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: up his workloads head of that first Test. Hopefully chance
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: for some of the batters to get some runs under
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: the belt, just a bit of confidence head the ashes. Yeah,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: what an awesome round of Shield and hopefully a lot
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: of eyeballs on this competition as well.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And speaking more broadly, do you think George Bailey
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: in the selection panel will have their idea of the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: first ashes eleven prior to this Shield round or do
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: you think there could still be a spot up for grabs.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Bailey strikes me.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: As the kind of guy that likes to make the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: decisions a little bit further in advance. He doesn't like
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: that added stress on a round of Shield cricket. But
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you can't ignore Foreman that will be the most recent
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: form going into the Shield game. It's like we're trying
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to pick a Melbourne Cup winner at the moment. You've
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: got to look at the most recent race. If Jake
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Weatherwild gets a hundred for Tasmania this week Tasmania are
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: playing in Hobart against South Australia, especially if it's a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: tricky deck that does so much for his case, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: if he's not in the squad name this week, I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: think that's a mistake. I think Australia should they should
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: name a big squad this week and give themselves lots
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: of options going at Perth.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I suspect they will have an idea of the National
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: selectors of what their top six will be or what
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: there eleven will be. The one caveat I think will
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: be Cameron Green. I think him bowling and him batting,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: him getting overs on the belt, that will go a
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: long way in determining that lineup, because if Green is
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: not fit as a bowler, if he cannot serve as
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: an all rounder, it feels like bo Webster's a must.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Then it feels like he's a lock, and that will
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: go a long way in Webster's case of playing.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And then obviously the order will jig around that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: So while as you said, there will be a big
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Ashes squad, there'll probably should be a special so opener
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: in there, whether that's a Renshaw or a Weather or all.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I think that final eleven will come down so much
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: to Green. He feels like the final determining factor in
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: what team will come up against England in Perth.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: So wait and see.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: We just want to see Green rolling in bowling, bounces,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: swinging the ball. We just want to see him fit
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: because if feels like such a frustrating start to his
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: career and every time he seems to come back, a
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: little niggle pops up.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: He's ruled out of the One Day series. It's been
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: a frustrating time.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: If he can be fit, he's in there and I
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: think the starting even feels pretty clear.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: We will get our first look at that wa taking
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: on Queensland at the Whacker. The other two matches Tasmania
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: against South Australian Hobart and then the big one, New
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: South Wales in Victoria at the SCG. Nick Savage, thanks
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: for your company to the next round of Sheffield Shield cricket,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: underway on Monday, the fifteenth of November. Every ball on
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: KO Sports.