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Renshaw is BACK! Aussies fight back against reigning World Test Champs - RSA vs Australia 1st Test, Day 2 Review · The Follow-On

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to another episode of the KO Sports,
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  Speaker 1: Code Sports, joint production.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Courtney Walsh, a senior writer for foxsports.com.au. Very
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  Speaker 2: pleased to be joined by Dan Schoene, senior cricket writer
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  Speaker 2: for Code Sports, after what was a fabulous day.
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  Speaker 1: Two in Durban for Australia in the series between Australia
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  Speaker 1: and South Africa. They're just packing up around us, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear that going on. But I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: who did cash in today, Matthew Renshaw. What an innings.
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  Speaker 2: What did it mean for Australia and what did it mean.
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  Speaker 3: For Matt Renshaw?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was a seismic moment for Matt Renshaw. By
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  Speaker 4: his own admission, we just left the press conference with
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  Speaker 4: Matt Renshaw not long ago. And by his own admission, Courtney,
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  Speaker 4: he said that he doubted he'd get back here. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's been more than almost 10 years since his last
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  Speaker 4: test time, what had been his only test time to
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  Speaker 4: this point, against Pakistan in the New Year's Test Sydney 2017.
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  Speaker 4: And he had several false starts since then in his career.
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  Speaker 4: He went to India and Bangladesh later in 2017. He
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  Speaker 4: was dropped for the Ashes. It took him quite a
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  Speaker 4: while to get back into the side at all. Back
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  Speaker 4: in early 2023, or he did play, sorry, he played
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  Speaker 4: one test in South Africa eight years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Following the ball tampering saga.
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  Speaker 4: Played those tests in 2023, went on several tours, didn't
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  Speaker 4: happen for him. He admitted that with those false starts
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  Speaker 4: in 2023, he thought that's probably going.
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  Speaker 2: To be it.
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  Speaker 4: And then even last month, a couple of months ago
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  Speaker 4: in Mackay when he played, you know, he failed first up.
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  Speaker 4: And then, yes, they picked him for this tour. But
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  Speaker 4: you're wondering, is this ever going to actually happen for him?
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  Speaker 3: And it happens. And of all positions, it happens at
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  Speaker 3: number five, which is a whole other story. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what an incredible innings.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what? It's nice for him that it hasn't.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, clearly it takes a century in any circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: And his breakthrough century in his national cricket came against
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  Speaker 4: Zimbabwe last month in a one-dayer. Now... They're nice whenever
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  Speaker 4: they come, but.
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  Speaker 3: That's chalk and cheese in terms of importance. That was
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  Speaker 3: a relatively meaningless bilateral series.
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  Speaker 4: This was a heavy-duty test match against the reigning world
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  Speaker 4: test champions. Australia was a huge spotter by the six
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  Speaker 4: for 124. And yes, there were excellent contributions from the tail,
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  Speaker 4: particularly Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon.
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  Speaker 3: As a collective, they did really well.
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  Speaker 4: But ultimately, this doesn't happen without Matt Renshaw and his
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  Speaker 4: ability to absorb the strike, to work up and down
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  Speaker 4: through the gears, to be really sensible. to play and
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  Speaker 4: you know, this is a very very South African attack
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  Speaker 4: and it has all bases covered. It had an excellent
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  Speaker 4: seamer in Wian Mulder, who we just heard from earlier.
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  Speaker 4: He'd been bowling with beautiful control.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise.
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  Speaker 2: He's been calling the press conference.
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  Speaker 3: Unrequited Keogh was bowling, you know, lightning.
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  Speaker 4: Marco Jansen coming from, you know, the sky and bowling
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  Speaker 4: left arm and then he had the spinners and Hamer
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  Speaker 4: and Maharaj bowling fingerspin with either hand and he's been
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  Speaker 4: able to withstand it all. And he's done it from
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  Speaker 4: number five, which is again, an interesting topic. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: sure whether he'll remain there, but I think for the
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  Speaker 4: moment it is worth just, just noting how significant this
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  Speaker 4: innings is in isolation for him, but then within the
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  Speaker 4: context of the game and it all credit to him.
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  Speaker 4: This is his finest hour, a moment that we didn't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily think would come, but he deserves all the applause
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  Speaker 4: he gets today, Courtney.
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  Speaker 1: I had a chat to Simon Kadic, who made a
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  Speaker 1: century here back in 2009 with, uh, Phil Hughes, a
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  Speaker 1: famous innings from Phil Hughes and a great effort from
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  Speaker 1: Simon Kadic. It's almost amazing that you're playing sick and
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  Speaker 1: fiddle to a degree when you've made a century as
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  Speaker 1: an opener. And he's here broadcasting for SEN. Now, just
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  Speaker 1: something to check to him in the commentary box afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: He was saying what was really evident to him is
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  Speaker 1: that he played every ball on its merit. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: go out there and approach it using what we've heard
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  Speaker 1: so often and something that he said does his head in.
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  Speaker 2: The phrase that every.
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  Speaker 1: Ball's got a name on it your name on it
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  Speaker 1: there will be a ball in every incident has your
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  Speaker 1: name on it according to cadditch that's uh crap he
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  Speaker 1: says absolute crap you'll excuse my language he said rancho
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  Speaker 1: went out there and he actually showed that you can
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  Speaker 1: bat it was difficult he talked about how testing it
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  Speaker 1: was yesterday and he and he showed great patience great
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  Speaker 1: resilience we talked to him just in there before and
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  Speaker 1: he said he you know early on he decided no
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  Speaker 1: i'm not going to play the pool shot because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it's spongy i saw that uh Herschel
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  Speaker 1: Gibbs was on social media again.
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  Speaker 2: He noted that, is Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Renshaw the only bloke that doesn't, only Australian doesn't pull?
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  Speaker 1: And he does pull, but he put that away. He
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  Speaker 1: shelved that shot. He didn't play balls that he didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to. Mulder, as you said, he bowled particularly well,
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  Speaker 1: took four wickets. But he said that what Renshaw did
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  Speaker 1: exceptionally well was leave the balls that were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on stumps or bouncing over off stumps.
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  Speaker 2: He read it well. So, you know, the concept.
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  Speaker 1: That every ball is, sorry, not every ball, that there
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  Speaker 1: will be a ball that has your name on it.
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  Speaker 1: And so I've got to throw my wicket away or
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  Speaker 1: bat recklessly and get the runs. Well, to an extent,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Renshaw, a bit of old school orthodoxy has shown
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  Speaker 1: that it can flourish. And it's put Australia in a
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  Speaker 1: very strong position leading in. You said it's all about Renshaw. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: you said a lot of it's about Renshaw, but what
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  Speaker 1: he also did well, and I'll get your thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: the ability to dominate and dictate turns to the bowlers
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  Speaker 1: when he's batting with Pat Cummins when he's batting with
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  Speaker 1: Nathan Lyon and you know Stark hung around for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit as well farming the strike on the fourth
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  Speaker 1: and fifth ball and all of a sudden it was
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  Speaker 1: very hard to stop and it's proved crucial like he
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  Speaker 1: said I probably left a few runs out there but
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  Speaker 1: what he did ensure was that the bowlers went forever
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  Speaker 1: like there's a long long heavy load so great performance
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  Speaker 1: from him Was there perhaps a tactical blunder or two
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  Speaker 1: from the South Africans?
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  Speaker 2: Or how did you assess that?
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  Speaker 3: I think Mulder admitted as much.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he did it in a sort of a
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  Speaker 4: way in which he was sort of seeking not to,
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  Speaker 4: it didn't appear that he was massively undermining his Captain
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  Speaker 4: Timber Boomer.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: Although I suppose I do wonder, leading that press conference,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to... But also I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: criticise Mulder for what was quite an open, frank press conference.
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  Speaker 3: He spoke quite nicely and he seems like a really
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  Speaker 3: lovely guy.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 4: I think ultimately, yes, there was an admission as such,
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  Speaker 4: and it can be hard on the run, but 13
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  Speaker 4: consecutive overs in which Matt Renshaw took the first ball.
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  Speaker 3: So they never got a full set at Nathan Lyon.
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  Speaker 4: Nathan Lyon's a guy who's played 144 tests and.
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  Speaker 3: Has never got a 50. So this is a guy that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is very gettable.
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  Speaker 4: Now to it, and to Lyon's credit, he also, it's
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  Speaker 4: the first time in his career that he's been part
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  Speaker 4: of a century stand. He faced 90 odd balls. He
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  Speaker 4: absorbed a lot of balls, but the field placements, the
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  Speaker 4: ability to just not allow Renshaw to, as I said,
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  Speaker 4: to farm the strike, to do that, the old 4-2
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  Speaker 4: setup was outstanding. And there were even overs where he
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  Speaker 4: would take place the sixth ball and would end up,
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  Speaker 4: you know, facing pullovers and they just wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Get a crack at line at all.
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  Speaker 4: It was a real antidote, slightly backtrack, just the context
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  Speaker 4: of the test, a real antidote to... the last three
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  Speaker 4: test series Australia has played.
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  Speaker 3: I'm forgetting one, but no.
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  Speaker 4: The one in the West Indies, there was real shootouts,
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  Speaker 4: particularly the last test in Jamaica, which was over in
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  Speaker 4: two and a bit days. We think back to the
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  Speaker 4: Ashes last summer, two tests that were two days. Look,
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  Speaker 4: the other three were a bit longer, but you certainly
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  Speaker 4: had two, and Baz Ball certainly by the end had
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  Speaker 4: been watered down, but we saw two two-day tests. We
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  Speaker 4: saw the two-day test, of course, in Mackay, as I said,
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  Speaker 4: back in August, the last test that Matt Renshaw played,
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  Speaker 4: the last test the Australians played, and even.
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  Speaker 3: The Darwin one was.
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  Speaker 2: The difficulties from the first innings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: So this was a very, very welcome return to old-school
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  Speaker 4: test cricket. I think you've got to hand it to
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  Speaker 4: the Aussies now that they managed to stick to the
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  Speaker 4: plan and particularly from what was a very tricky spot.
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  Speaker 4: And these were the best batting conditions of the test,
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  Speaker 4: you'd think.
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  Speaker 3: This is... Durban can get pretty flat, and.
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  Speaker 3: This was the opportunity to do so, to cash in.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't look like it right now with the cloud
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  Speaker 3: of air, but it was a beautiful day. It was
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  Speaker 3: quite warm, and they were able to make the most
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 4: The QuickFizz data that we received said that the pitch
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  Speaker 4: was certainly a lot easier. In fact, I think Mulder
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  Speaker 4: said that it was– oh, Renshaw said, sorry, that it
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  Speaker 4: was less bouncy, and that was very much– that.
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  Speaker 3: Was in accordance with what we heard from the data
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: You still had to make the runs, and Renshaw did,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a really strong thing. Just quickly before we
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  Speaker 1: touch on what happened in the last session. Miles in
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  Speaker 1: the leagues. So it's the infancy of the series. So
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  Speaker 1: the bowlers are fresh. But it was, yes, the pitch
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  Speaker 1: was a bit flatter today. It was very warm. It
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  Speaker 1: was really sweaty. It was around 28, 29 degrees. Humidity
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  Speaker 1: was up near 80%. I remember going around and I
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  Speaker 1: haven't got many feathers on my head and going, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that's got some sting in it, that sun.
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  Speaker 2: 30 overs.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. for Jansen, Mulder, what, 26, 27, and Noce?
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  Speaker 4: Luquier was sort of 25.
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  Speaker 2: 25, and his first sort of proper.
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  Speaker 4: He hadn't bowled eight overs in innings for years, and
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  Speaker 4: he's a guy who's a burst bowler.
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  Speaker 3: He's a guy who bowls.
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  Speaker 2: Very, very rapid pace.
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  Speaker 4: Very rapid pace, and he did continue to, even today, but... Um,
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  Speaker 4: was there one that there was, there was a moment where, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember now that there was, I know he got,
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  Speaker 4: he clocked Redshaw actually.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When he was on 131, I reckon.
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  Speaker 4: Um, so yeah, no, it was still bowling quickly, but look,
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  Speaker 4: I think the thing with that with Nokia is that realistically,
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  Speaker 4: I suspect that their plan was never for Nokia to
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  Speaker 4: play all three tests and given Rabada and we've seen
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  Speaker 4: him out the back of the nets and they've been,
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  Speaker 4: he's been going towards probably the second test. So I
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  Speaker 4: think with nations with less bowling depth, it would be
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  Speaker 4: more of an issue. You know, they were, they've got
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  Speaker 4: Corbin Bosch, they've got Dane Patterson, they've got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of options there. Even without, notwithstanding that Rabada's been sidelined
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  Speaker 4: i'm looking at he's not there and um was it
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  Speaker 4: lazard williams has had injuries nandre burgers and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guys that they had injuries but um there is
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  Speaker 4: there is still a fair bit there but no but
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  Speaker 4: for sure particularly as the game wears on and you
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  Speaker 4: know it's a third pass in the third innings particularly
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  Speaker 4: if i had to be back out there quickly you
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  Speaker 4: know if australia can and they're only one down but
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  Speaker 4: if australia can um roll on for 200 250 somehow
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  Speaker 4: um and so the lead's 150 and then australia gets
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  Speaker 4: the chance to make quick third innings runs against the
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  Speaker 4: still not quite fully recovered South African attack, that is
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  Speaker 4: where you can cash in and then they can push them, say,
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  Speaker 4: get them into day four. Look, there are a lot
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  Speaker 4: of moving parts here and I'm getting a cart before
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  Speaker 4: the horse, but no, for sure, it is a factor.
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  Speaker 1: So we're at stumps, early stumps called yet again. It's
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  Speaker 1: time about an hour later and there's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: factors at play. They'd hoped to get 98 overs in today.
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  Speaker 1: They ended up getting 80. by virtue of Josh Hazelwood
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  Speaker 1: coming in right on the fall of, you know, basically
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  Speaker 1: the 30-minute trigger point in the second session, what had
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  Speaker 1: already been a longer session, a two-and-a-half, quarter hour, ended
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  Speaker 1: up going to almost three hours, which was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was quite extraordinary. But again, bad luck comes in.
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  Speaker 1: So 35 minutes of play goes begging at the end
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  Speaker 1: of play today. Yesterday it was about 3.25 or so,
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  Speaker 1: I think, when they called some. So that was a
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  Speaker 1: good 90 minutes. Now they made up a little bit, but...
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  Speaker 1: is Bad Light going to be the man of the match?
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll certainly force it into a fourth day. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it'll go to a fourth day, but will we go
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  Speaker 1: to a fifth?
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  Speaker 2: And will we finish? It's now in question for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, if this keeps happening, then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to struggle to get more than 80 or
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  Speaker 4: so overs in a day. Now, over the course of
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  Speaker 4: a match, the way tests tend to play these days,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you've got an average of, if you've
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  Speaker 4: got 80 overs, say, across what's 40 times 80, so
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  Speaker 4: you've got 380 overs, that's still.
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's getting into a fifth over test. That's
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  Speaker 3: usually enough.
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  Speaker 4: And this could yet accelerate if the pitch breaks up
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  Speaker 4: in particular.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the two South African spinners didn't really have
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  Speaker 1: an impact. Harper snared Renshaw right at the end, you know,
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  Speaker 1: first over after T. But the spinners who we thought
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  Speaker 1: would have a pretty significant impact, that's yet to really
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  Speaker 1: come to the fore at all.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: Harmer was, yeah, got the last one. Sort of funny bit.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when you look at it, Renshaw was the
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  Speaker 4: only guy to fall to spin, having played spin magnificently
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  Speaker 4: through the innings and having been pushed down to five
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  Speaker 4: in large part because of his ability to face spin.
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  Speaker 4: It's an irony for that. And Maharaja was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit underwhelmed by it. He didn't bowl that much, but
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  Speaker 4: he's a great record. And he likes to write off
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  Speaker 4: a guy who's done as much as he has in
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  Speaker 4: international cricket, but didn't quite make the impact that you
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  Speaker 4: might have hoped.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, for sure. I mean, look, it goes back.
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  Speaker 3: We're in October. The cricket calendar is so condensed.
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  Speaker 4: This matches, I know Gerald Cullen wrote an excellent column
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  Speaker 4: on Crick Info maybe a month or so ago about this,
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  Speaker 4: about that test cricket in October in South Africa was going.
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  Speaker 3: To be limiting. And I mean, it is counterintuitive.
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  Speaker 4: And now the fact that they extended the sessions out
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  Speaker 4: the first two by 15 minutes, and then in the end,
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  Speaker 4: the second by the extra half an hour, which was
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  Speaker 4: only because of where Australia were in their innings, meant
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  Speaker 4: that we probably did get more cricket than we.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise would have.
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  Speaker 4: But ultimately, if you want to get more cricket in,
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  Speaker 4: you've got to start earlier. And they're already starting at 9.30,
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  Speaker 4: so you can't really get much earlier than that. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: you started to get sort of seenly early Test cricket starts.
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  Speaker 3: So, look, it's probably okay. The flip side is, you
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  Speaker 3: know what?
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  Speaker 4: From a very selfish Australian audience perspective, this is actually
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  Speaker 4: the perfect result because it means that the matches aren't
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  Speaker 4: going that late into the night. You know, it's actually
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  Speaker 4: finishing at 1 a.m. rather than at 3 a.m. on
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  Speaker 4: the East Coast, at least, of the, you know, Eastern
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  Speaker 4: Daylight Time. And yet the match will continue to go out. So,
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  Speaker 4: it's starting at 6.30 p.m. on the East Coast, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in Melbourne City, Hobart.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to go through every single place.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly on the Western Coast, you're going to see it
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  Speaker 1: all the way through. Some prime time viewing on a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: They've had a pretty good run over the years, the West,
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  Speaker 3: in these sorts of things. But no, for sure. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: that's the quirk of it.
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  Speaker 4: I think it is worth, we're remiss of us though,
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  Speaker 4: not to just finish up in terms of Australia's second innings.
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  Speaker 3: Now, do we think Matt Renshaw will definitely bat at
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  Speaker 3: number five?
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  Speaker 2: At different stages. And I think as recently as.
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  Speaker 1: earlier this month, Andrew McDonald in a piece for cricket.com
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  Speaker 1: with Louis Cameron, um, one of your good friends and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: played a couple of games to Victoria. Um, McDonald said,
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  Speaker 1: are we in a situation where can we see it
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  Speaker 1: in the future? You play two different batting orders for
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  Speaker 1: a first innings and then a second innings based on
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  Speaker 1: how the track, the track is playing or the pitch
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: is playing. And if it's breaking up, do you, uh,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: do you play Renshaw back up thinking that spin might
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: come earlier? It's, it's, it's going to be fascinating. Nick
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Maddison is clearly the elephant in the room in that.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: And what happens there after that really difficult return to
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: test cricket for him yesterday. Renshaw, well, he said, when
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: he was asked, you know, will you be betting at
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: number five or in the opening?
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: He said, it's above my pay grade.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: He was hyper.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: Diplomatic as you would be when you're only in your
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: second test back and you've had that many false starts
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: in your career that you, I mean, beggars can't be choosers.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: He's, He's not in the position in his career where
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: he can dictate terms. And, you know, I.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Suppose on the back of what he's been, his finest
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: day as a cricketer full stop, he'd be happy to
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: bet wherever I'm sure. I think there's a match situation,
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: but leaving whether he opens in the second games, which
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: I suspect he probably won't, I suspect they'll stick to
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: this plan. But the next test, if Cameron Green's back,
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: we know Josh Inglis is already actually back in South Africa, apparently.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: He snuck in. So he's back and he's recuperating from
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: his finger injury.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: But Cameron Green, um you know building his fitness hopefully
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: playing at some point in the series.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: So yeah it's it's going to be it's going to
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: be fascinating it.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Really is well dan thanks for joining uh myself we'll
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: see we'll be able to read your fine work at
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: codesports.com.au uh my work and my colleagues work at foxsports.com.au
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: and always tune in to the follow-on absolute pleasure to
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: have you cannot wait to see what day three brings
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: thanks courtney