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The Casual Mankadder: Ash Gardner Dozen Gives Aussie Women Test Victory · Death by Multimedia

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This is thoughts from the metal cabin, where only one opinion
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matters, and it's not yours. There really is nothing like
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winter in Australia. When Australia are playing,
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Cricket overseas especially in England and it happens every
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four years and every four years, you look forward to sleepless
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nights struggling the next day at work, hoping for games to be
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finished before the Sunday Night round about 10:00.
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If they could, that would be great.
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So we can all get some sleep. But usually, it's just the men's
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game that we've got going on over there.
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Now, the great thing about the past week is that we've also got
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the women's ashes started. And so we've, this week we've
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had the Test match. There is only one test match in
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the women's ashes and that has been absolutely fascinating
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cricket and the fact that it hasn't been disrupted by
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anything else around, it was just terrific for the game for
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those who are there in England. Watching.
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And for those of us in Australia, who are also tied to
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their TVs, watching it after the 40 and finished.
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So let's talk about the women's ashes today but it's not the
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only thing that's been going on the World Cup qualifiers for the
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men's Cricket World Cup are all happening over in Zimbabwe and
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it has been fascinating. Stuff far better than I possibly
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ever believed it was going to be.
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I thought I'd be watching a couple of games may be watching.
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Then I was or something and switching it over to something
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else, but I've been enthralled by the cricket over there.
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And I've had to sort of turn around what my thoughts were
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about how this world cup is all set up to be played.
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So, we'll talk about that as well.
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And of course, we also have the second means ashes, test
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starting on Wednesday, wherever you are listening to this.
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Maybe it's already occurred. Maybe the games been over for
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two years and you've just turned up at this episode.
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Some time, just getting onto the If you are, welcome and maybe
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listen a bit further down the track, I'm not sure.
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This will be of that much interest to you.
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So that's all today's program. Lots of cricket, not so much
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about the means test, I guess, which is probably a nice start.
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So thank you for tuning in to our podcast here again.
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And of course, this is my Cricut related stuff, the Casual me
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encanta, all hosted right here on thoughts from the middle,
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Kevin So if you are like me, you've
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just spent five or most of the last five evenings sitting
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around watching the women's ashes, and in particular, the
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one-off Test match between England and Australia that takes
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up the first part of this ashes series.
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And how good is This Woman's series that they've devised.
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And whoever came up with this I think is a genius, to be honest.
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So the women is ashes, of course, is not five test matches
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or six test matches or Three test matches.
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It's a one-off test match and then also includes 3 T, 20 games
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and 31-day games and you get points for winning each more for
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winning the test. Obviously, unless for winning a
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T20. And then, whoever has the most
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points at the end of the series wins the series and the ashes.
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And I think it's a fantastic way for women, not only to be able
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to play in a big series like this.
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But also to incorporate test Cricket again, which has been
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Maligned over several years and without doubt how brilliant was
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it, that it was a five-day match that the people finally realized
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that four-day matches were not working.
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They were ending in drawers because of rain or because
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pitchers were to benign, and, you know, and obviously bad as
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didn't want to give their wicked away because they only get to
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play one or two test matches pretty much each year.
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And if that's if you're lucky, that's if you're playing for
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Australia or England other, Countries that will not get the
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play test for a long time. So it's great that they made it
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a five-day test and that's what made this such a fantastic
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match. Because if it had been four
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days, we wouldn't have got the excitement that we got out of
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it. So whoever decided that it had
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to be a five-day test. Well done.
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And make sure that you do this for every woman's test match
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going forward. They must be five-day matches
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because everyone was rewarded. The administrators were
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rewarded. The players were rewarded and of
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course, the spectators were superbly rewarded.
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It's Australia one. The Test match and there were so
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many great performances and moments.
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Australia. Of course, won the toss and
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battered and made 473, which was a pretty big total when you
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think about it. But then England responded with
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463 in Australia only led by ten runs.
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And I guess at that stage, there might have been some thoughts
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that this was going to Peter out into a drawer.
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That was just going to be dominated by the bat.
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Australia was in bold out for 257 by England.
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Which left England to 68 to win, which was a very gettable
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Target. And as it turns out, England
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were then bold are for 178 by Australia.
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So Australia, one. So I really terrific test match.
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Got to lunch on the fifth day, it could possibly have gone
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further but for some terrific bowling and it was just a really
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nicely balanced match throughout although there were A lot of
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drop catches and they did proliferate from both teams.
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So it did make it difficult, I guess to retain pressure in
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certain situations with that going on.
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Some will say that England's might have been more costly, but
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the fact was that both sides had opportunities to shut down.
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Both of those first Innings fairly a lot earlier than they
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did. To me, I think you can nominate
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where the match turned and that was when Alyssa hooli came out
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in the second Innings and was dropped by the first ball of her
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second Innings. Now she was batting at 8 for
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several reasons and the fact that she was dropped at would
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have made this Australia, 74 196 with a lead of just 206 at that
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stage and instead there was a partnership of 59 that Hurley
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had with Alana king of which Alyssa made 5000.
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Of. So, she dominated while Alana
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held her ground and there were lots of dropped catches and all
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that kind of stuff as well. But the fact that Australia,
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then lost their three remaining wickets at that score shows that
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if they'd gotten her lie, when they did, they could have really
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shutdown Australia. And only been chasing a little
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over 200 instead of that eventual.
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Tally of 268 required, like I said, lots of drop catches but I
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still think that that was the turning point.
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Drop catch of Alyssa hilly. You could argue, I guess that
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Nat silver, bronze dismissal on that.
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Fourth evening, for a third ball duck to what was probably an
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ill-conceived swipe to leg was perhaps another one.
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And then the fact that Heather Knight was dismissed not long
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after that as well. So probably several different
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times. And obviously there are lots of
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people who are dropped it throughout the match where they
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would have scored a lot, less both, Tammy Beaumont for
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instance, and even Elise. Perry in the first Innings.
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But I still think that that drop catch of Alyssa Hurley was one
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that eventually changed the game and the outcome.
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What else can we talk about? Phoebe Litchfield made a debut
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for Australia. May 23 in the first dig and 46
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in the second. Here's something though she was
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out in both meetings, not offering a shot, you wouldn't
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read about it. The first thing she left, the
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ball is struck on the pad and she was triggered and she walked
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and of course, DRS then showed that she would have.
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The ball wouldn't have hit her off statment, she would have
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been reproved. And then in the second inning,
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she just got a pearl that it moved so far in the air to take
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out her off. Stump that.
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She was a bit unlucky. But look, she looked terrific
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and we all know she has a big future.
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She looks like a natural eye opener and she could be there
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for the next 15 years. We look at Australia's bedding
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in that first inning specially. Honestly, they only looked like
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they were going to be looking at a middling total after at least
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Perry was dismissed for 99 and Talia McGraw made 61.
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It was really the 9th week of partnership between Kim Garth
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and Annabelle, Sutherland of 95, that really got Australia above,
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would have been just an average total Kim Garth are also on the
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move. She May 20 To.
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And, of course, it was at a bill Sutherland, who was batting at
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8, is that number 8 position again, who made 137 not out,
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which was just a fantastic Innings, and Even though she may
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not have taken bag of wickets in this test match, she looks like
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she's the natural successor to Ali's Perry as a top border bat
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who can also open the Bali. She's color got a lot of talent
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and she hits the ball harder. She batted really well.
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In this innings in the second Innings.
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You look at the way, the Beth Moody page.
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I made 85 at the top of earrings, and she was the
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Mainstay of the Innings. She looked like she was going to
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go on a score, 100 as well. Which would have made her one of
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the few we've been better to have scored a century in each
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form of the game, but it was not to be Certainly, if you look at
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England's, bowling, it was dominated by Sophie Eccleston
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who bowled magnificently with 529 in the first year.
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I think it was 44 overs or something ridiculous like that
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and then another 30 or divers in the second Innings and 54 63.
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So she bowled over 70 hours for the match and took that 10
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Wicked Hall, which she absolutely deserve.
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She was fantastic in both Innings and she was the one who
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really kept England in the game when Australia looked a couple
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of times what they could be. Taking it away from them, young
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Lauren, filer on, debu showed good pace and she got two
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wickets in each Innings as well. So I think England would have
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been happy with those two and perhaps the others, well, maybe
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the Wicked at the time, probably and it was the same for
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Australia to is that the faster balls didn't really get much out
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of the Wicket, so that made it very difficult for the for the
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seam Bowlers. At least as I said before, there
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were lots of drop chances for England.
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They would certainly be ruining a number of those.
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From the way that the game finished England's Banning of
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course dominated by Tammy Beaumont in that.
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First gig with 208, just positive from the outset as she
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always is and it was a great not real determination from her.
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And this Carries On from when they are out in Australia, 18
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months ago and the way that she was batting out here and she
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just couldn't quite. She got a start and she get out
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all the time and you just thought well, she gets past that
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starts. She's going to be hard to get
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out and she proved that. At in this test and she better
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terrifically hair the night 57 in that first, dig that silver
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brunt 78, which got England right up.
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But that was a problem because I'd gotten to 44 390 in their
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first gig and they would probably been thinking.
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Well we could get a good lead here of at least 50 runs and
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hopefully 100 run lead and then put the pressure right back on
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Australia in their second Innings and as it turns out,
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they didn't get that and they eventually Any they had a little
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behind by 10 runs on the first things rather than 50 or 100 and
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front the second Innings. Again, they got a really bright
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start of, they'll none for 55, but then, they lost 44 18 to be
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4473 late on that fourth day. And with all the gun batters out
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in those four, wickets that pretty much put put to bed, any
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chances. They did have of chasing
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Australia down on that last day for Australia's bowling.
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Well, in that first dig it was interesting at Talia.
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I grabbed was the eight ball used and used very late in the
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evenings became on on. Took 3424 she was bold, much
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earlier in the second Innings. She finished with 1428 so she
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was not bowling terrifically fast, but she was tired.
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She gave nothing to hit. You just moving the ball around
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a little bit. And she was a massive part of
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suffocating England in that second Innings as much as in the
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first Innings as well. When she cleaned up the tail, of
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course, Ash Garner, the absolute staff or 499.
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The first Innings where she bawled really well, and then
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8466 in the second D where it always looked like on that
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fourth night that she was going to be the key to an Australian
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Victory and she absolutely proved that to be correct in the
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long run. Perhaps Australia, just had so
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many bowling options 8 used in the first Innings alone and so
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that we are able to shoulder the burden of not being other it.
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We could say they could really give everyone a chance to have a
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bowl. England didn't have as many
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options and they really Relied on, on Sophie, Eccleston to sort
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of hold up an end and the other will more or less.
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The other end was being held up by other Bowlers and Sophie was
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the one who's looking to try and Bowl Australia out.
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So the eight Bowles thing, I mean, that was the thing in the
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second Innings, you had people like Alana King who didn't even
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get a bowl in the second degree even though she was, you would
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say, probably the first choice spinner.
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But in the long run, you play as a team and I'm sure she was as
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happy as everybody else to win that game.
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One other thing about that was that Alyssa Hurley as it was
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revealed on the final day after the game and finish that she
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been playing with a busted finger on each hand and yet
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didn't complain didn't say anything.
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Just got on with the job you could see a wringing, her hands
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a couple of times when you win the ball, hit on the edge of
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fingers and you sort of all it's just a hit but apparently the
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damage is a bit more important than that.
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Her keeping was just fantastic. She kept up for so much of that
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game because the ball wasn't coming through to her and the
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catch is she took their behind the stumps and the stumping she
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got as well. It's just fantastic performance
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behind the stumps and of course key Captain as well first time
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in a test match for Australia. So she captained she kept and
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then even though she made a duck in the first dig, she made that
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50 in the second Innings which proved to be just about the
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winning margin but offer own. Bats.
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So she's had a fantastic match, and she should be well and truly
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proud of her performance. And I think that's really
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important when you look at and not having a go at the England,
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Kiva. But she dropped a couple of
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chances, couple of probably half chances that hooley didn't miss,
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and that may well have been the difference anyway, so that's it,
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Australia. Now have the edge, they get the
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four points for winning the Test match, and they now move into
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the white ball games. Obviously, the one day game,
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With two points. Each and the T20 is worth one
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point each so Australia off to a good start there.
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Listen Haley's participation is possibly questionable at this
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point. She's got a week before the next
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game, so let's see if she can get herself up for it.
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It's probably the batting that's going to cause a more problems
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than the wicked keeping and I guess that's where the questions
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will be asked as to whether she needs to be replaced or whether
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they can carry her in that regard, but if they don't and if
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they I need someone else will tally.
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McGraw was the captain on the tour of India earlier this year
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and they did really well Australia.
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So with Mooney is keeper, and Tyler is Captain.
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So although they will lose something there, if Lisa can't
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play, there's plenty of backups there who are just itching to
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get a game and I think we're all looking forward to seeing our
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favorite. Queenslander, come into that
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team and get stuck into it. Gracie, Harris looking forward
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to seeing her playing in the white ball games?
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So yes, much more women's Cricket to come.
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It's all going to be terrific and it's all going to be closed.
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They're not going to be any easy games out there and it's just
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fabulous. That this is going on at the
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same time as the men's series. And I think it's, I'm really,
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really looking forward to it. The Cricket World Cup qualifiers
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without going on in Zimbabwe at the moment has been Solutely
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magnificent. And I I'm like I've said before
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on other episodes of this podcast, honestly, I'm really
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against the fact that the Cricket World Cup has been cut
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back to just 10 teams. I really enjoyed the fact that
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the other nations were allowed to play certainly in Australia
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in 2015 where there were 14 teams and I enjoyed the way that
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concept allowed us to not only see them play but allowed them
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to play against the bigger teams and Have a great presence on the
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world stage. And so we've gone away from
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that, although I think it's going to change again for the
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next World Cup. But the idea about this
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qualifying series is that we have 10 teams who have come
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together after the eight who have automatically qualified for
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the World Cup in October and November.
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And then the next 10 here playing in this world qualifying
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series. Now, they're into groups of
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five. So you play everyone in your
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group once. So you have four games, the top
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three in each group, then go through to a super sixes where
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you carry forward your points that you've won all.
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Not one against the teams in your group that are also in the
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super sixes and then you play the other three teams and then
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there's a semi files on the files and it comes down to the
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top two teams will qualify for the World Cup.
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But it's already, it's also a Mini World Cup as it is because
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all 10 teams are getting lots of cricket and the opportunity to
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upset. Bigger names and perhaps, you
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know, maybe make the walk up themselves.
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So I was doubtful of this beforehand but this is really
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turned me around his tournament and I've just think that maybe
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they actually have hit on. What is it?
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An excellent thing because this is the World Cup before the
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World Cup and the teams are all not necessarily fairly equal.
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I mean, you've got teams like the West Indies, and Sri Lanka
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who and And who are you know supposedly big guns in cricket
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and as it turns out both countries have won World Cups.
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West Indies have won. Two World Cups, of course, real
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anchor of 11, and they've played in other finals as well.
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So they've been no mugs in the past.
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So you've got those kind of teams playing against teams,
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like Nepal and the United States of America and Oman.
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And Amazingly. These games have been fantastic.
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Oh man has been fantastic. The Netherlands have been
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fantastic. And the whole thing's been
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turned upside down because the West Indies were cruising after
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their first two games, they won their first two games.
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So comfortably against Nepal, and the US, and then a few days
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ago, they lost to Zimbabwe when they should have one and they
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didn't look like losing really until the last 20 overs of the
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match. And Yesterday they were playing
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the Netherlands and scored 374 and lost the game because the
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Netherlands tied with them after 50 overs.
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So it went to a super over and the Netherlands, Captain came
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out and smashed 30 in the super over and just destroyed the West
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Indies. So the West Indies.
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Now go to the Super Six has, that's not a problem, but
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they're going to start with 0 points because they were beaten
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by the other two. Terms of also made the super
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sixes which is Zimbabwe in the Evelyn's.
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So Zimbabwe will start on four points and the Netherlands will
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start on two points and the West Indies start on 0.
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And then you have the other group where Ireland who rested
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their so-called best bowler, Josh little from the test match
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against England because they said that they qualification for
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the World Cup was much more important.
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Now, Josh little is basically ended up going for about seven
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runs and over for the tournament and this is against no not
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startling to me. This is against the UI and I'm
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on and Scotland and he's going for seven or eight and over and
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not taking wickets and he's basically being a passenger
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island of missed out this stage. They're playing right now
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against the UAE and they will probably win that game, but they
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haven't won a game Oman boot them.
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Scotland, beat them in Scotland fell over and gave them every
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chance to win and then they still couldn't take hold of it.
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And Sri Lanka. Also, beat them fairly
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comfortably. So Highlander going to miss out
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on the Super 6 is not even worrying about the missing out
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on the walk up they can't even make the super 60s and that is a
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disaster for Irish cricket and they've got some real problems
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going forward. Now given that they prioritize
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what ball Cricket making World Cups and now they're not even
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doing that. So I don't know what they're
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going to do, but they really need to do something and find
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some way to get something out of this tournament.
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So like I said, in this group, currently I'm a zombie Speaking
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now I'm watching the Sri Lankan vs Scotland game.
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Whoever wins this game will go to the top of their group and
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they will go through to the Super Six is with four points
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and the other team will go through with to and Oman are
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going to be the third team through because they be Thailand
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and so they will go through but they will go through with zero
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points, but it makes it really interesting now for the West
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Indies, who have to win all three games in the Super Six has
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and then hope that other results going their way for them to be a
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chance of still making the world.
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Up in India, Zimbabwe are currently unbeaten and they've
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been really good and it's being played in Zimbabwe, so they're
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getting good crowds and they've played really well and they've
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shown that they're sort of On The Rise as we saw in Australia
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this time last year when they came out and played 31 days,
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they were I guess fairly comfortably beaten by the
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Australia at the time, but they showed that they had some good
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Bowlers out here and they had some interesting batsman.
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So they're still developing, there's still a big chance.
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Able to make that spot. Now, one of those two spots for
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the actual World Cup, given the fact that they've given the West
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Indies, a Triumph the other day, you'd expect Sri Lanka will go
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through, but as I said that matches going on now, so who
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knows what could happen? Scott would have been a surprise
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packet of well. They've really played very well.
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They've beaten, oh, man. They've beaten the UI and
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they've beaten Island. So they're going to go through
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the super sixes and they'll go through confident because
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they've Got three really good seam Bowlers at the top of their
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order and they've got three really good bats in their middle
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order. So they have improved out of
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sight which is interesting given that 12 months ago I would have
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said that perhaps Scotland was on the way down and Island was
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on the rise and it's the exact opposite.
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So this has been a terrific tournament at still got about a
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week and a half to go. I'm enjoying every single game I
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watch of it and the great thing is because it's in Zimbabwe the
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game start at 5 p.m. our time. He and I go through till about
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1:00 a.m. but you get to see the whole first Innings of the game
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and then you can decide whether you want to stay up and watch
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anymore. And if I've got ashes Cricket on
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one TV and I've got Cricket World Challenge stuff on the
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other, it makes for a terrific evening.
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So anyone who's not watching it? I recommend certainly.
25:01
Now the super sixes are about to start that it's worth watching,
25:03
its on fox tail. It's on KO and yeah, check it
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out because it's as close to World Cup Cricket, as you're
25:12
going to get with the second best 10 teams in the world.
25:23
I guess that leaves us with the ashes if you don't already want
25:27
to talk about the fact that they've just put out the World
25:30
Cup schedule, for India in October, and that India are
25:34
going to play a straighter in the first match of the
25:36
tournament so that should get some disappointment out of the
25:39
way for Australia pretty quickly.
25:42
The next test, the second test in the ashes starts.
25:46
As I'm speaking to you on Wednesday again, as I said
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earlier, if you're listening to this later or earlier, I don't
25:52
know. You probably already know the
25:55
result when you listen to this and you're thinking Bill does
25:57
nothing. Well you'd be right.
25:59
The Wicket at Lord's. Looks like it's Lush and green
26:03
and we've gotten back towards what looks much more.
26:05
Like a typical English. Wicked witch will be
26:10
interesting. It will make for more
26:11
Interesting Cricket. I think then the first test did
26:14
at edgbaston, despite the result in the spot, we went into the
26:17
fifth day to get that result. I think that England obvious
26:21
going to continue to come hard. It looks that way.
26:24
All the talk that's been gone from the last week.
26:27
What a heap of rubbish from both ways which is funny because it's
26:31
generally the English players coming out and saying things
26:33
that Australia don't want to challenge us.
26:36
And that we think that we got the most out of the last game.
26:40
And so we feel pretty good about The fact that we lost but
26:42
they'll create we played. Its yeah.
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Continuing to say that Australia concerned about the sledging
26:49
aspect of it all and all these kind of stuff.
26:52
And we got too many so-called Australian experts, just going
26:56
back at the English. Just let him go.
26:59
Let him say what they want, who cares?
27:01
And they mean, they could turn around and beat us by an
27:04
innings, in 500 in this test. And then you guys are just going
27:07
to look like idiots, and they're going to stand up and say, oh,
27:09
look at us. We're so smart or Could be the
27:12
other way we could roll them and they'll continue to say this
27:14
stuff that they want to let them be concerned or not concerned as
27:18
it goes because in the long run, although some people come in and
27:22
said I was is good banter, and it's great learning up to the
27:24
test. It just filled news feeds with
27:27
utter rubbish, when we should be talking about Cricket rather
27:30
than the other side, the outside crap.
27:34
So changes to the team's, well, we don't know yet at this stage,
27:40
I'm guessing that Australia. Look to play Mitchell stock at
27:43
Lord's. And I'm guessing that there were
27:45
probably risk got bowl and after he received the bit of a
27:49
battering in the first test, that doesn't mean he's gone for
27:51
the series, but it just, I think it's a good opportunity to bring
27:54
Stark in and just try and rattle a few cages.
27:57
Hopefully especially if there's a bit on the deck and of course,
28:00
at Lord's with the slope that should also work to Starks
28:03
Advantage. We hope the rest of the team
28:06
should be as per the first test and you'd also be acting or
28:12
hoping that Smith and lavish and both score more runs, which will
28:16
give a stray a better boost with their chance of winning this
28:20
game. England, we don't really know.
28:23
We don't know if mowing Ali's going to play, they've picked
28:25
this young 18 year, old leg spinner that warn you said, at
28:29
the age of 13 would be playing. First-class Cricket in two
28:31
years. He's certainly been living off
28:33
that he played in India, recently in the last test
28:38
series. England were over there and did
28:41
okay. I don't know that he's going to
28:44
have you look at the deck, I don't think you'll be playing
28:47
with a monell, he's fit or not, there's every chance.
28:50
England will go more seem orientated.
28:53
You'd think Mark would would come in if he's fit and there's
28:58
still the possibility of Chris, why explain their to?
29:00
He's got a great record at Lourdes is record against
29:04
Australia. Is not fantastic but sooner or
29:07
later that's probably going to change.
29:09
It's a big possibility. I do think that if it's
29:11
especially Relief, mowing Ellie's not fit then I would
29:13
reckon that they will go with 4 seamers and Joe root will be
29:17
just balling his little dinky doublers if he needs to and
29:20
apart from that, the batting will be the same and they will
29:23
go hard some talk about Johnny Bears.
29:26
Those Wicked keeping in the last test match and whether he should
29:29
be in the team in front of Ben, Stokes for that England are
29:32
going to change the way they play.
29:34
They've decided This Is How They want to play the cricket betting
29:37
and that bairstow is the batter they want for that.
29:40
So they need to squeeze him in. Whether he catches balls that we
29:44
could keep her or not a couple of years, drops in the first
29:48
test were untidy but they weren't all absolutes.
29:52
It has so it's not to say that he won't be able to do the job.
29:55
Again, I think we're all hoping for a great game and I know that
29:59
obviously all Australians are hoping that Australia can win
30:03
and get to a to Neil series lead.
30:04
But even if they do get their to kneel series lead and you're
30:08
going to feel comfortable about the way, the series is even
30:11
because the way England are playing at the moment.
30:13
They could pop up and win the next three just as comfortably.
30:16
So I think that's what I get most out of this series.
30:20
In other years, even though we haven't won a series in England
30:24
since 2001, I've always felt comfortable in it comfortable
30:28
bed, Australia, being able to compete with England on their
30:30
own terms. Now, it's a little bit
30:33
different. The positivity that England is
30:35
showing is very uh, ning glish, and that's and that's Part of
30:42
the problem. I think that has made them a
30:44
better team because they're quite comfortable in being
30:49
confident in their own abilities and their ability to score.
30:52
And if luck runs their way, then they're going to get big scores
30:56
and I think that's all a massive part of it too.
30:59
If they continue to show confidence to play the way they
31:02
do. When we saw the way that Joe
31:03
route. Now sort of decides he wants to
31:05
play, you need some luck, you need dropped catches or you need
31:10
inside edges, going past. The stumps or your laps.
31:13
Whoops, just bobbing overfill is heads.
31:16
You're gonna have the like running with you in order for
31:18
that to continue to work and sooner or later luck runs out.
31:22
It just depends if your luck runs out for all of them at the
31:24
same time or whether it's just one or two, whichever way guys,
31:29
should be another great five nines viewing and I've truly
31:33
looking forward to it once again.
31:42
I can ask that's enough for me this week on this edition of The
31:45
Casual man. Kadar, if you've made it this
31:47
far and you've listened to what I had to say, I hope that you
31:49
fed it interesting or informative, hopefully both and
31:55
entertaining. There's another one.
31:57
That would be great and maybe that means you'll come back and
31:59
listen to me next time as well for all those who are Cricket
32:04
Fanatics like me. This coming week feels like it's
32:08
going to be another Beauty. And like I said, if no one if
32:10
you're not out there watching the The World Cup qualifiers.
32:14
If you got the ability to sue them on the pay TV scene, get
32:20
out there and check it out because it's been lots of fun.
32:23
Righto. Let's get stuck anywhere day at
32:26
another fun week ahead. Thanks for tuning in.
32:29
And as always, I hope you come back for the next edition of The
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Casual man cutter right here on my little podcast, thoughts,
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