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Domesticated - "The summer of Marnus is here!" Where does Labuschagne bat after historic run? + Ashes hopeful Jake Weatherald talks Shield form, staying grounded & Ashes contention · The Follow-On

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  Speaker 1: Manus Labashaine makes an irresistible case for Ashes selection. Is
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  Speaker 1: Fergus O'Neill shaping as a smoky for the squad and
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  Speaker 1: will be joined by Jake Weather or demand on everybody's
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  Speaker 1: lips ahead of this Ashes summer, I'm justin Edwards, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to domesticated Fox Cricket, right, and Nick Savage is alongside me.
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  Speaker 2: Nick, let's get straight into it.
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  Speaker 1: Manus Labashaane, he just cannot stop scoring runs at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the summer of Manus is officially here. Four hundreds
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  Speaker 4: in five games. He's looking back at his best. It's
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  Speaker 4: obviously been a quiet a couple of years in the
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  Speaker 4: Test arena, but I mean, sitting here now, looks like
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  Speaker 4: he has to play that first Test, does it?
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  Speaker 5: We don't know where, but it looks like he has
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  Speaker 5: to be in at eleven.
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  Speaker 1: That certainly looks like the conversation has moved from will
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  Speaker 1: Manus bat in the ashes to where will Manus bat
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  Speaker 1: in the ashes? Whether it's opening or number three. We
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  Speaker 1: said a couple of weeks ago we felt like if
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  Speaker 1: somebody got three centuries, they'd be in. Manus has got four,
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  Speaker 1: so he's well and truly making the case, but the
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  Speaker 1: question remains, is it going to be opening or number three?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems to be an issue for the past
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  Speaker 4: couple of years. You know, we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 4: strong middle order batters, but we don't have anyone at
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  Speaker 4: the top of the order, and an easy fix would
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  Speaker 4: be putting minus into open. He hit it during the
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  Speaker 4: World Test Championship Final. He's done it a little bit
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  Speaker 4: in county cricket in the UK, but obviously he's preferred
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  Speaker 4: position and where he's been so successful has been number three.
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  Speaker 4: The obvious problem there is you have to bring in
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  Speaker 4: a specialist opener, someone who's probably unproven, hasn't played a
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  Speaker 4: lot of Test or ashes cricket, and you have to
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  Speaker 4: probably squeeze out and all round her one of Cameron
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  Speaker 4: Green or Bow Websters. So that's the juggling act. That's
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  Speaker 4: the dilemma over the next few weeks four weeks for
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  Speaker 4: that first Test, and it doesn't really seem to be
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  Speaker 4: an obvious solution to it, but everyone seems to be
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  Speaker 4: saying Minus can open. He's capable of doing it. He
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  Speaker 4: seems to be open to doing it. Quietly, actually preferred
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  Speaker 4: a bit number three, but it's gonna be interesting a
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  Speaker 4: few weeks ahead to see how that kind of shapes up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole lot of difference between opening and number three,
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  Speaker 1: because number three you might be in the first over anyway.
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  Speaker 1: The scores of one hundred and fifty nine and one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty in the Shield at number three, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty and one hundred and five in the
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  Speaker 1: One Day Cup, it's just an irresistible case. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is the all rounders, and you would have to squeeze
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  Speaker 1: out one of Green or Webster to fit Manus in
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  Speaker 1: at three, but both are injured at the moment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Webster hasn't really started his summer yet, has He's
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  Speaker 4: missed both those first two shield rounds of Tasmania. Apparently
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  Speaker 4: that second game was precautionary. He probably could have played
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  Speaker 4: that second game, but crick Australia rapt in cotton Wool
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  Speaker 4: said no, no, no, we're gonna wait for you to
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  Speaker 4: come into that third Shield round. And Camen Green just
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  Speaker 4: recently last week a minor side issue.
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  Speaker 5: He's been ruled out of the Odie Eyes.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently that isn't going to impact his chances of serving
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  Speaker 4: as an all rounder for the Ashes. But we'll speaking
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  Speaker 4: just before we recorded this, he's only bowled four overs
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  Speaker 4: in professional cricket over the last twelve months and those
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  Speaker 4: numbers just don't suggest someone's ready to be an all
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  Speaker 4: rounder for an Ashes series, for our five Test Ashes series.
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  Speaker 4: So both of them have a few little question marks
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  Speaker 4: heading to this series. And if it does count come
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  Speaker 4: down to one or the other, it kind of looks
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  Speaker 4: like where it was the most fit could be playing
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  Speaker 4: that first Test. We'd want a full strength all round
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  Speaker 4: of supporting the three quicks and Nathan Lyons. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: kip a eye on them over the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I do think Webster is more likely to be hurt
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  Speaker 1: by his absence than Green is. It's a far different
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  Speaker 1: conversation going into that first Ashes Test when you're weighing
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  Speaker 1: up Webster or Green if that is the contention, If
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  Speaker 1: Webster's got a Shield hundred that his back and some
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  Speaker 1: Shield wickets, then it's a lot more of a toss up,
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  Speaker 1: I think. Whereas Cameron Green has multiple Test centuries, he's
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  Speaker 1: got the imperious Shield record averaging fifty and shield creed
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  Speaker 1: he's got a five. We get haul in a Test match.
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  Speaker 1: He feels like, if it's a fifty to fifty, they'll
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  Speaker 1: go with Green. They think he's the player of the future,
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  Speaker 1: the one that's been emarked for a long time. Webster,
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  Speaker 1: I think if he plays that third Shield game, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred would go so well for his chances at playing
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  Speaker 1: in that first Test. In terms of the makeup of
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  Speaker 1: the team, are you what would you have at the
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  Speaker 1: moment Manus at three and one of Green or Webster
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  Speaker 1: or Manus opening and both Green and Webster.
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  Speaker 4: I think if they were both Green Webster both fully fit,
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  Speaker 4: I'd be leaning towards minus Opening, But considering we do
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  Speaker 4: have some concerns for both them, I prefer to see
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  Speaker 4: Manus as a preferred position, Cameron Green a little bit
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  Speaker 4: down to the order. I think it's all kind of
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  Speaker 4: widely agreed Number three is a little bit high for him,
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  Speaker 4: and then pick a specialist opener that's a partner Quaja.
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  Speaker 4: The past two years we've trialed so many middle order players.
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  Speaker 4: We've had Nathan McSweeney up there with Chucked, Steve Smith
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  Speaker 4: up there, Travis Head and the subconsin. We put Manus
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  Speaker 4: Slavish up there for the World Tess Championship final. None
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  Speaker 4: of them have really nailed it. And look at this
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  Speaker 4: Ashes series. You want the best siding leven. I think
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  Speaker 4: two special sloptions is probably the way to go at
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  Speaker 4: this stage.
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  Speaker 2: I think I am with you.
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  Speaker 1: I am manus at three one of Green or Webster,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd have Jake weatherworld opening. And I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: saying that because we're about to speak to him. The
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  Speaker 1: other opening contender, Sam Constace, got his first significant score
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  Speaker 1: of the summer a half century in the Shield, but
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  Speaker 1: he had a mishap in the One Day Cup. He
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  Speaker 1: got out ramping. Now, I don't think a match that
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  Speaker 1: was reduced to thirty six ers because of rain is
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  Speaker 1: actually going to play too much into selectors thinking for
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  Speaker 1: a Test match. But it wasn't ugly dismissed.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't it.
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  Speaker 5: No, of course.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we saw him in that second innings of
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  Speaker 4: that Shield game in Victoria looking really solid. He was
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  Speaker 4: driving well. He ramped Scott Bowland over the boundary for
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  Speaker 4: six as well, so we still got it in his arsenal.
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  Speaker 4: But I think with Constans he is still a work
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  Speaker 4: in progress.
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  Speaker 5: He just turned twenty.
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  Speaker 4: He only has a handful of Shield games under his belt,
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  Speaker 4: let alone Test cricket, and there is a big futurehead
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  Speaker 4: of him. We know that was when Kwaja is approaching
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  Speaker 4: that end of his Test career. I mean he may
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  Speaker 4: even retire this summer.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know.
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  Speaker 4: He's about to turn thirty nine. That spot feels like Sam's.
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  Speaker 4: When Kouwaja decides to hamp the boots, that's when Sam
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  Speaker 4: can probably slot in.
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  Speaker 5: I would love to see him just go back to shield.
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  Speaker 4: Fine tune his game, find his feet a bit more,
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  Speaker 4: get some runs under his belt. So when that chance
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  Speaker 4: does come, he'll absolutely nail. I've got no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 4: We all can see the talent. We know he's capable
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  Speaker 4: of big things. I just don't think this Ashes series
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  Speaker 4: is quite ready for him yet. Actually weather around, he's
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  Speaker 4: not quite ready for the Ashes at this stage.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, exciting player.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see him playing him Perth and the general
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  Speaker 4: consensus is not he's not going to be there.
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  Speaker 1: He does still only have the three first class centuries
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  Speaker 1: to his name. He's so young as a cricketer. It
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  Speaker 1: does feel as though, and it's quite rare that in
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  Speaker 1: the Constance Weather ruled discussion. It's more complex than that.
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  Speaker 1: But if we boil it down to Constance, be weatheroled.
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  Speaker 1: It's rare that picking the debutantes, which would be Weather ruled.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like the safer option.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like the lower risk play it to go
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  Speaker 1: with Weather or do you feel like you know, I
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  Speaker 1: know a bit more of what you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: with Weatherorld, whereas Constance is the higher risk, potentially high
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  Speaker 1: reward play. Like I can see you can see Sam
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  Speaker 1: Constance if he was playing in the first Test at
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  Speaker 1: Perth charging Joffra Archer in the second over the test
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  Speaker 1: match shape, whether it's not going to do that, so
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  Speaker 1: you are getting you know, you are getting a higher risk,
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  Speaker 1: high reward with Constance in that he could play an
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  Speaker 1: innings that turns the entire series, like he did at
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  Speaker 1: the MCG against Boomra. But Weatherorld is perhaps the safer
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  Speaker 1: pair of hands for a long series.
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  Speaker 4: Whether World has a decade's worth of experience in the
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  Speaker 4: domestic circuit in all three formats, he has that under
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  Speaker 4: his belt, which we've seen so many players make their
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  Speaker 4: debut in their early thirties for Australia, I mean Michael
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  Speaker 4: Hussey is an obvious example and absolutely nail it and
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  Speaker 4: flourished from there because they.
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  Speaker 6: Had that experience.
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  Speaker 4: And whether he's very capable of having those match winning
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  Speaker 4: knocks as well, just like Conscious. We just saw it
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  Speaker 4: this week down in Tasmani. He got a runnable ninety
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  Speaker 4: odd one player at the match to get tas Mania
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  Speaker 4: a pretty thrilling win. It was largely down to his knock.
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  Speaker 4: So he's more than capable of hitting a changing a
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  Speaker 4: game in a session. Whether he's rampant or not. He's
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  Speaker 4: a very darent player who can score quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk more about Jack, whether or it's innings with
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  Speaker 1: him later on to the bowlers. Now, with Cummins as injury,
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  Speaker 1: it's looking increasingly likely that Cummins won't be fit for
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  Speaker 1: the First Test, so they'll probably have four quicks in
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  Speaker 1: that first Test squad. Three of them pick themselves Stark,
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  Speaker 1: Hazelwood and Bowlands. The fourth looks to be open and
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  Speaker 1: Fergus O'Neil, who he flagged before the summer, five for
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  Speaker 1: twenty six in a match the where Scottboland also got
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  Speaker 1: five wickets. We know how good Scott Boland is, but
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  Speaker 1: Fergus's first inning spell was fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the thing that's working in Fergus's favor is he's
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  Speaker 4: actually fit. So many of those other candidates are nursing
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  Speaker 4: some sort of problem. Sewn abbot during this round of
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  Speaker 4: Shield damaged the webbing in his hand and he's.
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  Speaker 2: Just played to be subbed out of a Shield match right.
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  Speaker 4: Injury exactly, and as part of that he now needs
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  Speaker 4: to serve a mandatory twelve day stand down, so he's
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  Speaker 4: out of action at the moment. Brendan Doggett hasn't played
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  Speaker 4: in any Shield cricket yet, even just today Ben DWARFSHWSS has been.
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  Speaker 5: Ruled out of the odies.
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  Speaker 4: Not that he was really an Ash's candidate to begin with,
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  Speaker 4: but all of these other players who were a chance
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  Speaker 4: of playing are not available the moment.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not proving themselves, folks and Neil five wicket haul.
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  Speaker 5: Will he be picked for Perth?
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't think so because I think his bowling style
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  Speaker 4: will be more suited for the pinkball Test the Gabba,
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  Speaker 4: his home ground of the mcg If going horses for courses,
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  Speaker 4: he's probably more likely for those tests. He could be
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  Speaker 4: in the squad as a backup. Potentially.
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  Speaker 5: Does he have the pace for Perth? Though not exactly.
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  Speaker 4: He's high one twenties, low one thirties damaging bowler.
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  Speaker 5: You don't need pace to be damaging bowler.
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  Speaker 4: In Perth, but I'd see them leaning more towards an
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  Speaker 4: Abbott a dog at someone who has a bit more experienced,
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  Speaker 4: a bit more pace and has been around the Test
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  Speaker 4: squad for a bit more over the last twenty four months.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys don't appear to be available yet for Perth,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, this whole summer. If with the injury cloud overcomings,
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  Speaker 1: there's an injury to bowl and Stark or Hazelwood, that
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  Speaker 1: could be big trouble for Australia, especially like Hazelwood hasn't played,
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  Speaker 1: has barely played a five Test summer in the last
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  Speaker 1: ten years, could be trouble for Australia. On the spinning front,
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Swepson did fantastically well for Adelaide, career best haul
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  Speaker 1: ten wickets. If something was to happen to Nathan Lyon,
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  Speaker 1: I think Mitch Swepson could be in the frame, especially.
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  Speaker 2: For that Adelaide Test.
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  Speaker 1: Adelaide being a day Test this year, not the pink
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  Speaker 1: ball day nighter, and spin has played a big factor
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  Speaker 1: in the Shield matches at Adelaide Oval so far this year,
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  Speaker 1: if line will get picked for all five tests, if
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  Speaker 1: he's fit, and I can't see Australia going with two spinners,
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  Speaker 1: but the neck line is closer to forty than he
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  Speaker 1: years thirty. So if something was to happen to Nathan Lyon,
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  Speaker 1: I think miss Swepson is right in the for that
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  Speaker 1: next in line spot at the moment, especially in Australia
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  Speaker 1: where perhaps the legies are more suited than saying Matt Cuoneman,
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  Speaker 1: who's more suited to the subcontinent.
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  Speaker 4: Well, certainly you look historically Sydney has been traditionally the
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  Speaker 4: spinning wicket.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't seem to be that way.
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  Speaker 2: It was seeming all over the place the.
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  Speaker 4: Last few times I've tried to beg a second spinner
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  Speaker 4: Ashtonago I think of a few years ago, and so
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  Speaker 4: that's goo they haven't really done terribly well. But now
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  Speaker 4: it looks like Adelaide might be that new pitch. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: we don't know exactly what the pitch is going to
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  Speaker 4: be like for the Ashes, but certainly there's a chance
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  Speaker 4: there On Swepson, big fan of swepts, love a leg spinner.
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  Speaker 4: I want him playing more Test cricket. I don't see
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  Speaker 4: it being in Australia though, however, put him down flag
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  Speaker 4: him for the twenty twenty seven Border Gabska Trophy in India.
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  Speaker 4: I'd love to see him in that squad over there.
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  Speaker 4: I think he could do some real damage for if
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  Speaker 4: there was an injury to Nathan Lyon, I think they're
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  Speaker 4: more likely to go for Corey. Rocacholi and off spinner
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  Speaker 4: gets a lot of success on bouncing decks in Australia.
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  Speaker 5: He's been the leading wicket.
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  Speaker 4: Takeer among spinners the last couple of years in Shield
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  Speaker 4: tough On Cooneman, tough On Todd Murphy, who have both
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  Speaker 4: played Test cricket this year. Even but I see Rocket
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  Speaker 4: to Holi it was being more likely if there was
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  Speaker 4: God forbid an injury toneath the line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked the Rocketcharlie call as well. Great spin
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  Speaker 1: stocks in Australia at the moment. Coming up, we speak
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  Speaker 1: to the man on everybody's lips, Jake Weatherorld and Ashes contender.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody has scored more runs in the Shefferd Shield in
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  Speaker 1: the last twelve months than this man, Jake Weather or
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  Speaker 1: Jake thanks so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome.
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  Speaker 6: Oh thank that me, guys. Cheers.
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  Speaker 1: Now we'll get onto your excellent innings against Western Australia shortly,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to start with that crazy finish to
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  Speaker 1: the match. On the last morning, you guys went in,
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  Speaker 1: you needed two wickets, WA needed forty odd runs, WA
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  Speaker 1: needed seven runs and you guys still needed two wickets.
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  Speaker 2: But you're one. Just talk us through that morning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a pretty dramatic finished through fair It
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  Speaker 6: was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: That's what live sports all about and professional sport's all about.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, it was. We probably thought were out of
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  Speaker 6: the game.
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  Speaker 3: When they were cruising away there at like five, not
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  Speaker 3: for nearly the score, and then we got a couple
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  Speaker 3: of wickets and then we thought were right on top,
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  Speaker 3: and then yeah, we probably went into that final day
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  Speaker 3: thinking we'll probably a good chance to win this. The
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  Speaker 3: bowls are refreshed. But to their credit, that bowl that
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  Speaker 3: battered really well. Curtis batted really well and so did
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  Speaker 3: Rock as well. But at the same time, and you
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  Speaker 3: only you know, you only need two wickets, you just
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  Speaker 3: never feel out of it.
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  Speaker 6: And thankfully had.
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  Speaker 3: Very two high class bowlers you could bowl right at
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  Speaker 3: the end there and it snake two wickets, But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was full of drama, which is great.
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  Speaker 4: As is often the case down in Hobart. It was
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  Speaker 4: obviously dominated by the seamers early. I don't think anyone
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  Speaker 4: got a fifty in the first innings. Then you came
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  Speaker 4: out and got a runnaball ninety odd which in the
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  Speaker 4: end obviously proved the difference between the two sides. You
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  Speaker 4: have to talk us through that innings and what went
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  Speaker 4: well for you that day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Wicked always gets better. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna not going to say that it was the same
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  Speaker 3: as the first innings. It was tough for everyone on
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  Speaker 3: the first day and a bit wickt definitely hardened up
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  Speaker 3: a bit. There was a few diibots, but at the
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  Speaker 3: same time you've got a bit more award for your shots.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I just sort of took some took some
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  Speaker 3: percentage risks, obviously square the wicket, try to make sure
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  Speaker 3: I'll impose myself on the bowling and make sure i
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  Speaker 3: put someone pressure on and making feel as though they
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  Speaker 3: can't shit a spot where I feel as though they
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  Speaker 3: could be more challenging. They were some high class bowlers there,
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  Speaker 3: so it was just about putting pressure on them early
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  Speaker 3: my innings, and then from there just trying to trying
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  Speaker 3: to give back any good balls, but if they bowled
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  Speaker 3: any bad balls, trying to put them away, and even
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  Speaker 3: if they bowled some good balls, trying to put pressure
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  Speaker 3: on them as well too.
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  Speaker 6: So thankfully it worked out. Yeah, it was. It was
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  Speaker 6: fun to be out there and contribute the way I did.
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  Speaker 1: So, Yeah, ninety four from ninety nine balls when you
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  Speaker 1: got out there, when you walked out to bat, I
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  Speaker 1: think the top scorer in that game to that point
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  Speaker 1: was something like forty two.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: Was it a.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Deliberate approach to go at something like a run and
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: ball thinking that the pitch was a little bit tricky
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: or did that just happen naturally.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit of both, but probably
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: mainly just the fact that the ground itself is quite
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: high scoring, quick scoring anyway, maybe a high scoring but
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: quick scoring so and when when the conditions of bowl
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: of friendly does open up opportunities to score. So I
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: probably took my chances a little bit, especially outside of stump.
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: Probably wouldn't look to be as aggressive outside of stump
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: early meetings as I normally am normally do, but I
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: sort of said, well, you know, this is opportunity to score,
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: and with the way the week it was playing, it
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: was the best opportunity to put some pressure back on.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: So for me it was just, yeah, take your opportunities
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: outside of stump and then if they got straight, trying
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: to hurt them through the lead side, anything short, trying
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: to tuck into that as well. But the wicket itself
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: was definitely getting a little bit better. But yeah, it's
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: just sort a bit more of a positive approach and
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: at high schooling high fast going ground which helps as well.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, you obviously made the decision
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: to move down to Tasmania, which has proven.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: Quite fruitful so far.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: You're having to talk us through why he came to
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: that decision, and you know, how has life been done
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: in TASMANI it seemed to be absolutely loving it down
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: and Bell re.
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I love batting down Man.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: It's obviously one of the best batting strips going around
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: for white ball and red ball. It can have their
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: challenges as early in the game, but also there's a
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: lot of high value there as a batter, a lot
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: of run down there now, So I love being there.
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: I love playing there. The community down there is great.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Obviously my club side I really enjoyed playing for as
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: well King Bra I've basically close friends. It's just a
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: small town, country vibe sort of thing, so similar where
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: I was back when I'm back back lived in Darwin.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: You just sort of enjoy being around your own coffee
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: spots and all that stuff. And the move came because
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: I wanted a bit of a fresh start. It wasn't
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: anything towards South Australia. I think they've done so much
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: great for the great things for me, but at the
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: same time I was looking for a fresh start and
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: fresh perspective on my career and thankfully they were able
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: to let me go and I'm able to, you know,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: go on and do different things now and play cricket
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: in another state which has been called.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: It might be the first person that was to say
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: TASMANI is similar to Darwin. Jake certainly not in terms
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: of climate, they're.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: Not, definitely not.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: What has clicked with your batting in the last twelve
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: months Sheffield she had leading run scorer last year. It
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: just seems like your batting has gone to a new level.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Can you put your finger on what's just gone right
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I think it's just, you know, the fact that we've
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: got such an awesome first class cricket system, and the
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: fact that you know, we've got great coaches within our country,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: and and the conditions and the players you play against.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: You just naturally get better as you as more cricket
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: you play.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: And I'm very fortunate to have played against some really
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: great cricket, has played with some great cricketers, and to
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: learn and to absorb all that stuff, and I just
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: I feel like my age is getting to a point
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: now where I'm in my prime.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: I'm playing good cricket. I've learned lots, and I've done.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: My study, as some would say, and now I'm just
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: in a position where I understand what I need to
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: do to make runs in first class cricket and hopefully
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: that's transferable to the next level. But at the same time,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I feel like in a good place, and I've been
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: very lucky to have such a long period in domestic
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: cricket and to be able to serve my time and
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: learn a lot from some awesome coaches and players.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: You mentioned it just there, But there's of course a
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Nash series just around the corner. And there's a spot
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: up for grabs potentially at the top of the order.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: You mentioned that ahead of this summer, before the summer
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: got on the way that the national sector has reached
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: out to you and said that you know, if runs
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: continued flowing, the chances would come. Have they reached out
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: to you at all since in the past few weeks.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Have they given any indication of what you need to
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: do to be in the frame for that Perth test.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, there's definitely we've We've had some correspondence. Nothing, nothing
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: more than just talking about my batting. Nothing about technical
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: stuff or what's going to happen or selection, nothing about that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: It's just you know, you're moving well, you look like
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: your gains in good order. Just keep keep being simple
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: and walking out there and doing the same things, and
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: if the opportunity is there, you know you're going to
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: take it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: So I think it's nothing more than that.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Has been pretty pretty simplistic, nothing too complicated, Just keep
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: making doing the things you're doing now and hopefully opportunity arises.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Really, the way you back Jake with your strike rate
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: is just about the best strike rate in the Sheffield
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: She would for an opener, do you feel like that
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: gives you a real edge over some of the other
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: contenders and you can potentially be that guy. Not to
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: compare you to David Wanner, but you can play in
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a similar way keeping that strike great up.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's certainly what my strength is and
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: why I think that people are talking about it. But
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: at the same time, the players that are also being
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: chatted out have their own styles and the way I
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: want to go about things, and I'm sure, you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: if they got the opportunity.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: That would take it as well.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, yeah, that's what I probably
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: bring to the table and compare to other players, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: hopefully that's the way they want to go, you know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: be an awesome opportunity to about the top of the
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: order and be a part of the great team and
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: some amazing players. But yeah, I'm not sure if that's
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: going to get me over the line or not, but
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: you know, I think it's the way it runs, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: hopefully the way I do it helps me a little bit.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: And you were involved in the One Day Cup game yesterday.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Was that a management thing? Was that a selection thing?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Whyn't you out there for the game yesterday?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we sort of I've worked closely with Tazzy to
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: sort of just prioritize certain formats of the game when
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I can and sort of get make sure that I'm
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: in the right frame for Sheld cricket. And I feel
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: as though that if I'm playing too much white ball
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: cricket sometimes my game can be compromised.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: A little bit.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: But in general, you know, I played the first two
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: one days leading into the Red Bull season and got
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: me ready to face some good high class bowling. Obviously
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: played some good teams leading in, but then yet during
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: shield games. I like to have a bit of a
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: break between Shiel games just so that I can prepare
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: the way I need to to get ready for Red
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Bull cricket, which has been awesome from Tazzy.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: That's why you know, I extended my contract with them.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: They've been so supportive in the way they go about
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: their program, and the coach there, Jeff Forrn, and the
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: whole management team there has been awesome with me. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: also just you know, as a player, you want to
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: make sure that you're fresh and ready to go mentally
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: and physically, so it's good.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's prioritizing Redbell cricket is certainly working out for
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you at the moment, Jake, in these last couple of
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: shield matches and the ones coming up. You're not naive
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: if you know that you're a contender for this ashes spot,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Is it difficult to sort.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Of compartmentalize it?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Or I know if I was in your position, I'd
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: be running off the ground checking the scorecards straight away.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Oh god, Manus has got another hundred? How are you
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: doing much of that? How's it been? Yeah?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Look, you know, as a as a sportsman, you're obviously
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: naturally competitive.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: That's just the way you are as people.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: When you want to you want to bet everyone that
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: you play against or competing against.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, like I know, that doesn't
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: really serve me that much.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: It doesn't serve my career, It doesn't serve what's going
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: to happen in my future and in terms of what's
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: going to happen in the Australian team or how many
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: runs I'm going to make, And it's only going to
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: add confusion to me. So for me, it's just, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: try to rock up and just shut it out and
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: just enjoy batting and try to be as competitive I
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: can out in the field with the people I'm playing against,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: and then when you know, whatever happens happens. I can't
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: control me runs I'm going to make. I can't control
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: what I do when I'm on the field. But if
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: my mindset's in the right place and I'm consistent with
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: that off the field, I know I can walk into
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: games and be fresh and ready to compete and not
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: be daunted by things that probably don't serve me very much.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: So and obviously this summer Joffer Archer and Mark Wood
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: are going to be steaming in plenty of water to
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: go on the bridge. But how do you feel about
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the potential challenge of coming up against them this summer
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: on some bouncy decks across the country.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's going to be exciting to be fair.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: You know, facing high, fast, high pace bowlers is always
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: a challenge, and again boating in Australia is one of
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: the best places to do it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: It's got consistent bounce with and plenty of reward as well.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: So from a batting point of view, I'm just going
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: to see it as a great opportunity to score all
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: around the ground. Obviously, square the wicket is where I
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: love scoring, so I think those guy it's going to
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: be a great challenge, but at the same time, I
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: feel as my games in a place where I can
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: hopefully put some pressure back on them as well and
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: use their pace to my advantage.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: You have the chance to be one of the first
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: fully fledged cricketers from the Northern Territory to play for Australia.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Damien Martin spent a few years there but moved to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Western Australia when he was pretty young. You spent a
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: lot of time there. What would it mean to you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to represent the NT on the big stage.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it it'd be awesome.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I think I'd just be so cool just to to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: reflect it when I was a kid. Obviously, growing up
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: you never had you know, you had your club role
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: models and the people that played club cricket, but you
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: never had any great representation in the in the international
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: domestic scene. To a spy too, and you know that's
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: something that you compete against with the AFL. Obviously they've
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: got some great players that have come from the territory.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: But for me, it was to be able to provide
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: that for some kids back time would be awesome boys
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and girls there, to be able to vide the show
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: that there's a pathway from playing the INNT, which is
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: obviously quite a small pace place relatively and probably a
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: long long way away from from a different paths for
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Australia and a long way away from you know, what's
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: going on the rest of the world. It provides a
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: bit of a pathway for kids and I hope that
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: represent that, and it'd be cool for me to represent
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: the territory and show that, you know, there's some great
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: players that can come from there if you give them
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: the chance.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: And crick Australia has flagged the potential of Darwin hosting
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: a Test match next year potentially obviously still a few
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: things to saw it out there, but what would it
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: mean for the Darwin and Northern Territory to host a
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Test match? And I think that my timelines right here.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: But were you potentially there for the most recent test?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I think it was about twenty odd years ago the
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: last time Darwin hosted a Test match.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I was there.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I was there, I was there, I met obviously got
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: to meet people that end up idolizing and that that
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: experience for me probably drove a lot of my abition
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: to play for Australia and not having the experience a
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: lot of kids for so long is it's probably stunted
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: a little bit of growth up there in terms of
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: having real life people that you can physically touch and
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: talk to and having having international cricket round done when
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: it's probably stunted maybe cricket up there a little bit.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: But my experience was I've got to be around Brettley
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: and Jason Gillespie and Darren Lehman and stuff like that,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: people that I got to watch on TV and then
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: actually speak to them and get photos with them and
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: stuff like.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: That was an amazing experience.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: And to be able to hopefully provide that for some
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: kids back home, and even if I'm not a part
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: of it, just to just to see test cricket back
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: there would be great for the kids. I don't know
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: how much they love it up there, and they just
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: start with the staff of high quality cricket and you
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: saw in the T twenty series against South Africa that
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: you know they love their cricket up there. They would
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: feel that stadiums up there, and people didn't think that
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: was possible considering it's such a fully dominated place, So
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: to be up there would be great and great for
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: the kids well, you.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Are doing great work representing the Northern Territory and of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: course Tasmania at the moment.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Jake, thanks so much for joining us.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Good luck for whatever cricket is ahead of you in
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the next month or so.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Alwise, thank you jeers guys,