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This is thoughts from the metal cabin, where only one opinion
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matters, and it's not yours. How many times over the years,
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have we sat in front of their TVs or sometimes even at the
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ground and soon, Australia gets so close to winning a test match
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by a miraculous intervention, with either bat or ball, only to
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see them drop and fall by the barest of margins.
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Too many times for my liking we can go back to many many years
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ago, back to Sunday, December 30th 1982, When Alan border and
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Jeff Thompson did the unbelievable padding into the
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fifth day and not getting dismissed by the first ball the
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day. And getting to within three runs
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of defeating England in that fourth test match before.
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Thompson was finally caught at slip with the, the teams, just
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so close and Australia falling microbes Winning that match.
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Then you can go forward to Tuesday, January 26, 1993 where
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Australia played the West Indies in Adelaide in the fourth test
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of that summer, in Australia, who hadn't beaten the West
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Indies in a test series for 17 years.
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At that time, we're chasing 186 in the final Innings laying out.
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Had made his debut in that game and he'd made 54.
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But when he was dismissed Australia, still required, 42
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runs with only one Wicket in hand and Craig.
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McDermott and Tim met at the crease and yet, they crept
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forward closer and closer and closer until they were just one
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run behind, and then Craig McDermott.
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Apparently feathered a ball off his glove, through to the keeper
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and was adjudged caught behind by umpire Darrell here.
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Leaving Australia, the loser again, and not only that.
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Then losing the fifth test the following week to once again
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fall and not be able to beat the West Indies in a series.
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For another 3 years, then you can go forward to January 6 1994
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where Australia played South Africa, at the scg and
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Australia, where only chasing 117 runs to win in the fourth
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Innings and even on that, fifth day, when they started the day
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tied, for 463, they still had to be favorites.
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And then came that famous shot of diamond Martin's who lofted
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into the covers to be caught and then be blamed for that.
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For the next four years of his test career being banished from
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anywhere near the Australian team.
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Because of that one shot and eventually it was glad McGraw,
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who hit the ball, straight back to, finally, de Villiers for
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Australia to, once again, lose by the barest of margins, Then
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you can go forward and go to edgbaston in 2005 and that
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second test where Shane Warne and Brett, Lee and Michael
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Kasparov, each had to score a hundred and seven runs on the
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final day between them in order to win that test match, having
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won the first test winning this test would therefore mean that
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the ashes were almost Australia's.
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And, of course, as we know, Australia got so very, very
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close and then unfortunately, Casper Rich got The ball behind
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and was caught by the keeper and Australia had lost by two runs.
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Then you can go to other particular instances beyond
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that. How about when Australia went to
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Pakistan in 1994 and they needed?
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50 runs for the final Wicked to win that game and somehow the
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pakistanis got there, on the back of ins Imam, Al haq and
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wish deck, armored with Haley, missing the leg side stumping,
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that then went through his gloves for for and gave the
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winning runs to the Pakistan team.
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And then, of course, if we really must revisit how about
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edgbaston for years ago? Sorry, not edgbaston.
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Let's try again. Headingley four years ago, we've
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somehow been Stokes manufactured a way to get to the end with
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Jack. Lew each with Australia falling
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over them. So horse in order to lose that
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game once again by the beer is margins of England.
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Winning by a wicked Australia, has suffered so many near
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defeats They've also had some amazing victories.
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Two of those being in South Africa, 111 years ago.
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Sorry, 12 years ago. Back in 2011, when Pat Cummins
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on debu had just taken six wickets in the second innings
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for against South Africa, held his nerve to Tibet, Australia to
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Victory and score. The winning runs with himself
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and Mitchell, Johnson at the crease with Australia, reaching
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84, 310, and winning by two wickets.
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And then three years later. When Ryan Harris, took two
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wickets in three balls to bowl, Australia to Victory with just a
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couple of hours to spare. And then no one will ever forget
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a delayed in 2007, but that was a different guy.
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When Warren Bowl, debt England on that final day and then
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Australia, race to Victory with a few hours to spare.
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But most of the close ones seemed to go against Australia.
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They just find a way to fall, just short or the opposition,
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find a way to just get over the line.
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And that's what ended up facing us again here, at edgbaston in
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the first test of this 2023 ashes series by now, you know,
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the result. And you know that finally for
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the good guys, they've chalked up a win and an amazing one.
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So let's look back and see if we can discover what?
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It may have brought that fabulous Victory right here on
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the Casual, man quatre on thoughts from the middle Cavern.
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I don't know about you, but I'm pretty exhausted from the past
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five nights of cricket. It's been mostly exhilarating at
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times frustrating and at other times, quite amazing and the
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fact that England have been taking on this new attitude with
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their Cricket, which the media have dubbed baseball now whether
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or not their coach enjoys that name and whether the team
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themselves enjoy calling it that or Certainly, the opposition
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either it have to say that it has provided, some exhilarating
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test Cricket over the last 12 months.
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And anyone who's been watching England, especially in there to
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test in New Zealand earlier this year, would certainly say that
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at least the games have been exciting and you're coming down
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to a close finish, you wouldn't have believed that that yet,
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again, that this match ended up getting it going that way.
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But there are so many things have happened to, to the action
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went To, and fro and both teams had their moments, where they
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appeared to be on top and then fill behind again, as the
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opposition got up. In the long run, the media have
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blind one thing and one thing only and that is the Declaration
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by England. Captain Ben Stokes at the end of
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day 1 with their team at 84 393, and seemingly just pushing along
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nicely with Joe root and Ali Robinson at the crease.
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But Ben Stokes decided that the opportunity to try and snare one
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or two quick wickets at the end of day, one was too good to to
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turn down. And so he declared that Innings
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and pretty much since that moment.
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So called experts around the world have been questioning that
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decision to the point that once the game was lost, that, that
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was brought to be the point where England lost the game.
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Now, I think you'll find that that's absolute rubbish and of
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course, personal view only But there are lots of things that
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happened between that point and the game being lost and there's
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one in particular that I think will come to later on where I
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think the match turned the Declaration itself to me was a
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smart decision. Decision. 393 runs in a day for
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a start is amazing. The only thing England could do
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then to push beyond that was the bat the rest of the day and
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Baton to the next day and score. Another 50 to 100 but there's no
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guarantee of that. If Robinson all route, Phil Then
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the probability was that John Jennison would fall very quickly
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afterwards and if england had done that and wasted an
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opportunity to get two wickets before stumps on that first day
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they met will look back on that and thought to themselves
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perhaps that was the turning point in the match so that was
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never the case. It never really was the case for
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the, for the sake of another 40 or 50 runs which people of
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course, now are saying. Well, if they'd done that 40 50
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runs they would have won the game.
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It wasn't the first Innings they needed to score Those runs.
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It was the Second Innings, the fact that England won the toss
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and then batted on a strip that was purpose made for what
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England captain and England coach had been asking for was
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again, pure ask for the Englishman not only that once
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they'd won the toss and the skies had sort of burned away
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for them, everything worked perfectly for the English
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batsman to start with. I would thought that they would
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have hoped that they would have done better with the Baton.
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Guess up, the top border duck at made 12, Pope 31 Harry Brooke
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the young wunderkind. Apparently 32, of course, it was
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Johnny best as 78 at a run. A ball that was soon to be also
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very influential. But in the long run, what was
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also spoken about? Was the Australian field and the
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Australian bowling perhaps? Now it's interesting that I
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think that a lot of people Talked about Australia's filled
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me too - that Cummins immediately put players back in
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order to stop boundaries which didn't really succeed too much
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rather than talking about the lines and lengths that the
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Australians were borrowing it. Now, the Englishmen were
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charging down the wicked. They'd made no secret of the
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fact that they were going to charge both Hazelwood and Boland
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because they felt that they could be attacked off their line
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because they just bowled like metronomes.
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And you have to say that in some ways they succeeded.
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Part of the problem for Australia was at Pat, come and
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still wasn't up to his usual. Terrific standard with the ball
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and that was what cost Australia as much as anything else.
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Nathan line, of course, took 4 wickets and I have 4 149 at a
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run rate of about five, but the point that he kept getting
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Wicked showed how important he is to Australia in this series.
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A couple of simple catches would drop by Australia, which didn't
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help their situation. And of course, there was On
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controversial catch by Young Cameron green.
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That was absolutely a catch and there was no problem at all.
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But of course, once it was sent up to the third umpire and the
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third umpire. Ruled in the Australians favor,
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the crowd in particular, and the media second place, started
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jumping up and down themselves. So the first day was won by
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England Australia. Had done reasonably well to get
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those eight wickets in essence, I believe that in that first
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day, Australia would have thought if we can bowl England
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out, then we will be in the match.
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Now, they didn't bail them out, but the fact that Stokes had
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declared allowed their men to put themselves in a position
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where they could work the game in their own favor at their own
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rate. For all this talk of baseball
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and going at five runs and over and the the Run rate is just
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magnificent. When they're batting Australia's
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reply, was then supposedly tarnished by the fact that
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Australia took too long to get going and that certain players
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took far along to school. There, runs Australia.
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Ended up scoring 396 in their first Innings, which considering
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where they'd started from was Pretty fair effort and only lift
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them, those seven runs behind on the first Innings and it took
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168 hours at a run rate of three point three three, which is
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generally what is considered a good run rate that would
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basically give you 300 runs in a day of 90 overs and pre the last
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12 months. That was soon as that.
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Excellent days. Play for a batting team.
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Of course Australia batted longer than the day and will
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lead of course by Osman khawaja. Who was absolutely magnificent
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with 141. The fact that Warner failed
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again with nine that - Leba Shane got his first golden duck
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in test Cricket. That's do Smith made only 16 off
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59 balls before doing being dismissed was seen as
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problematic. Travis heads, 50 was terrific
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and then Cameron green, 38 and Alex carry 66.
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That was the one Australia needed from their five six and
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seven. It was always going to be a
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series where you would hope that the opens could do their job,
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that man has and Smith would go out there and score.
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Their usual runs, but it was Australia's five six and seven
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that had to contribute with the bat in this series.
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If Australia are going to win this series and when you get
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50-38 and 66 out of them you've done pretty well.
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Pat comes then contributed 38 at number eight as well.
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So Australia had done well. I helped Along by the fumbles of
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bairstow at keeper for England. Now, of course, best I was
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picked in this test, he's been out for 12 months with injury,
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and he was brought in at the expense of been folks, who has
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basically been his replacement as Wicket keeper.
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And number seven bat. For those 12 months, he isn't,
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he's an excellent batsman, really for a wicketkeeper
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batsman, he's considered the best in England.
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His hands are the best and Estos, I've never really been
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terrific, but England's decided once again, as they have done
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for as long as I've been alive that if it came to picking a
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better batsman than I glove man, then that's who they go with and
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they did this. So often with guys, like Alex
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Stewart over say, perhaps Jack Russell, who was considered the
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best Keeper at that time. But they keep picking guys who
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can bat rather than people who are the best keeper.
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And sometimes it lets you down and it certainly did with
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England in this test match. Now we know they're not going to
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change that going forward, but absolutely Johnny Bears, does
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fumbles of the Australian batsman, really helped out their
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eventual total of 386. It's interesting too that they
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brought in mowing alley for this test match.
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And by the halfway through that second day, mowing Ali had
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already got blisters on his fingers and you could see that
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there was quite a bit of abrasion on his spinning finger
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because he suddenly had the ball more than 10 overs in a day.
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In fact, he went better than that.
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He had the bowl 33 hours in that Innings.
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And you could see that by halfway through that second day,
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he was in a lot of pain and it was affecting his Bowling.
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There's a lot of full tosses coming out and a lot of short
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balls eventually he missed part of the second Innings as well
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because he just wasn't able to grip the ball properly and bowl
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like a normal off-spinner. So that is something that
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they'll be looking at going forward as well.
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And the fact that he didn't really trouble the Australian
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batsman, he did get two wickets. He certainly got Travis head out
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and Travis will be kicking himself to a day dies, for
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hitting that straight to midwicket and diebold Cameron
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growing through the gate with what was an excellent delivery,
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but it was the only one that he really turned of any
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significance through the whole innings.
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Interesting thing that we had two things come out of that last
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bit of play. Is that during when khawaja was
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dismissed for 141, as I said, the highest score of the match
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and a terrific Innings, where he batted for more than four
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sessions, he gots ledged as he walked off by Ali Robinson, who
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bowled him and with a interesting field, khawaja try
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to hit him through that field, it missed it, and got bold and
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Robinson's Legacy. Age was basically F off.
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You effing prick. Now this is the kind of classy
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display. You expect from someone to a
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batsman who is never seen him. Do a sledge, the anyone in his
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life but certainly not nastily and has just made 140 against
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you, but only Robinson who, of course, his has been fined and
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suspended for historical tweets that he'd made in the past that
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were seen to be racial and other things.
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This is the kind of reaction. He gave At the press conference
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at the end of the day, of course, all he came in and said
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there was nothing in it. And if the strands couldn't
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handle it, they should basically just harden up a little.
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He also suggested that the Australians had three number 11s
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banning at 9 10 and 11. And that they feel as though if
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they can get seven wickets, then they've basically got 10.
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Now, the accuracy of that could be probably sued in the first
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Innings where the nine ten eleven made two runs between
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them. But the point being is that Ali
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Robinson was pretty. Much lining himself up for a
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whole lot of hurt. If Australia could come back and
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stuff it down his throat in the rest of the Test match.
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So, at the end of the first Innings Australia behind by
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seven runs, and now it was up to England to see if they could
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create a lead. The match turned in the second
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innings for England at a particular point in time, and
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England had lost three. Early wickets for 77, seeing the
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back of Zach. Cruelly been duckett and Ali.
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Pope and at 3477, they were looking in trouble.
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Over the next eight overs do with Harry Brooke at the crease
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and Joe route. They put on 52 runs and it raced
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away to 34 129 and looked in complete control, they didn't
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look in any trouble at all from the bowlers and looked as though
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they could just take control of the match themselves and they
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could burst away and put any school they wanted on the board
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and then Joe root decided that he was going to charge down to
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Nathan lime, his head held in the air and try and smash him
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over midwicket 46 and he was completely beaten in the flight
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and turn from Nathan, Lyon and Route was It's by almost the
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length of the wicked. He then threw his head back in
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the air. As if he'd said, oh my goodness,
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what have I done and walked off to a standing ovation from the
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English crowd? And I don't know why, because
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this is the moment that you can pinpoint, as where the tide
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turned in the match. This was where Australia took
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back the match then because England then went on to lose 7,
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444 from that position. And the lead for us, England was
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only At the end of the game, and not the 332 350 or 380, that
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they could have been. If Joe root had just held his
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head and played the cricket, it was alway already playing.
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Now, after the first Innings, of course, strea had been or
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Cummins is filled positions had been questioned that they were
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too - they were letting too many runs.
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Easy runs through should have been attacking more.
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And this middle part of this second Innings, is where Pat
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come and stood up as a bowler as he had to and also with the
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field placings and the way that he did attack the English
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batters because suddenly, we had Stokes who came in and was very
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slow initially and ended up making 43, but off 66 balls, at
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a strike rate of whatever that is 66 or something and best.
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I came in and made twenty of thirty, nine and hit.
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These are two of the guys who are supposed to be the most
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positive players in the english team.
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So, they felt the pressure, the Joe root had created by Getting
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out and then Harry Brooke being dismissed, not long after that,
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both by Nathan line. So that sort of Drew the game
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back Australia's way. If england were going to play
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what they consider to be the true baseball that they want to
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call it. They've basically been coming
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out and saying that like their one day, Team, all they do is
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just they keep attacking because they feel as though that is the
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way to win games and that certainly didn't happen.
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Once Joe rude got out as I said, Pat Cummins stood up
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magnificently with the ball. In that second Innings, the ball
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that he dismissed. All he Pope with the inswinging
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Yorker was just an absolute Peach and Nathan line.
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Again, took 4 wickets for 80 this time, which is interesting.
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Then in the first things he went for five runs and over in the
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second Innings, he only went for three runs and over.
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So a massive change coming over the game.
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With the two Australians who needed to pick themselves up in
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this second Innings and they both did it and they did it
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fantastically. Well, so dismissive.
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Singing them for 273 off 66 hours, they're only scored at
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four runs per over in the second Innings left Australia, a total
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of just over 280 to win the match in the second innings.
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Questions have to be asked as to whether Australia was indeed up
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to that. Now, the problem being for
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England in that because they had asked for this specific Wicked,
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the Wicket was doing nothing, it was providing nothing for the
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faster Bowlers and that left them in all sorts of trouble.
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Because their spin Bowl, they picked was obviously under some
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injury cloud and the fast bowling Threesome that they had
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picked along with their Captain, Ben Stokes.
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We're going to have a pretty difficult task on this week at
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trying to bowl out 10 Australian wickets.
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Australia's second Innings has probably been pretty well
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reported by the time you get around to listening to this once
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again, Australia got a terrific start.
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And to be honest at 1478, we're looking really good and none for
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61. So, the open is put on 61 before
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Warner went And then - had started to look good and then he
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and Stephen Smith both dismissed on that fourth evening.
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So for both times in this match, both lavish and Smith failed to
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really put a score together. So the fact that Australia won
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this game by two wickets, without either of their best
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batsmen scoring any runs is probably a really good thing for
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Australia because those two will not be kept down for the entire
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series. At some stage, they will need to
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break through and they will break through and score runs.
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So the fact that Australia has won this test match, not
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conclusively, but did so, without their two best batters
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and once again, without much from David Warner shows that
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they're in a pretty good thing, At 5-4 192 Australia had to be
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in the box seat and this was just after 2:00, and it was,
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then that they lost Cameron green, and, and husband khawaja.
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And both of those were two balls that were slow, that they played
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on to their wickets. And England had started to do
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this kind of thing, two bowls lower balls in order to try and
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get their wickets. But once the tile came in, they
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suddenly decided that they had to do.
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What Australia has often done wrong in the past and Just
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Bounce the tail in order to try and get those final few wickets.
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And that was massive because even though Carrie had again,
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been caught and bowled by Joe root and left Australia,
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requiring 55 runs with just two wickets in hand.
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Surely it was the way that they were getting wickets.
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That they should have continued to buy.
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All to but they didn't they change their tactics and they
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decided that they were going to bounce both Pat, Cummins and
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Nathan line out. Nathan line is a compulsive
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hooker and they basically had four men out for that shot Ben.
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Stokes. Of course did drop one a tough
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chance. That again, the media jumped on
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saying our Ben Stokes has dropped the test batch again
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incorrect. As we said earlier, And instead
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of just bowling up and making the strains, play through the
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ball, diving onto the front foot, and trying to get an edge
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or the slower ball back between the gate, they decide they're
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going to bounce them. And Pat, Cummins played the
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Magnificent, he's quite happy to back away and smash it through
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the offside which she did and Nathan lines quite happy.
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Just to go about getting you singles and twos.
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They brought on the new ball and of course the new a hard ball
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seemed to race off the bat a bit harder for the Australians and
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of course they got a way to that Victory.
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It's interesting too that much of what was said today about
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this game. Was that Australia?
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Had an easier Chase in the second Innings?
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Well, the fact was that the Outfield was very wet and
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because the Alfred was wet, therefore the ball was slower.
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And there are a lot of balls that would have gone to the
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boundary on any of the other four days that certainly did not
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on. On day five, so maybe Australia
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could have won easily ER easier. That's not a word.
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Much more easy. No, that's not a word.
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They should have one better know, who cares?
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They won. So, Australia is one of the
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first tests. How do we progress from here?
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Do we get the same sort of wickets for the rest of the
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series ones that to be honest? Do not suit England.
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They're very, uh, ning glish wickets, the green seamers are
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England's wickets and you would think that they would suit
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England better, but no, they want flat fast wickets which
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they didn't get this time. They got Flat dull Wicked.
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And that means that if they're going to go down this route
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again, they can't possibly pick James Anderson because one we
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could for the test match. Once again, 0 wickets in a
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second Innings, which he does a lot and has a lot over the last
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six to seven years, to be honest.
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But that doesn't really get talked about much and surely
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mowing Ali. Is he going to be ready for the
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next test either? I don't can't see that
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happening. So there's a couple of
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challenges changes of probably have to happen for England.
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Mark would come into that tomb would be a good decision and I
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don't know if they go with a lie, or they go with the
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different spinner, perhaps, it doesn't matter.
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It Lord's for Australia, obviously, there's every chance
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that there will be a change to the bottling line up.
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You would expect Mitchell Stark would come back into the team
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for the second test and whether that's at the expense of Hazel,
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wood or Boland. I don't know.
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You could probably pick or choose to see who At this test.
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And then I start thinking about the third test and the rest of
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the lineup, you think would stay the same?
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It was a great test match and a great Testament to Pat Cummins
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whose tenacity with. The bat has come under question
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in recent years, since he's taken on the captaincy.
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Both of these innings were very, very important in Australia,
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winning this match, and he's bowling in the second Innings,
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probably more. So, and the fact that Nathan
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Lyon stuck to his guns with four wickets in each Innings.
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Just once again, proves what a tremendous Warrior, he has been
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for Australia. The second test will be just as
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frantic England will not back off.
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They will play the same way. In fact, they may even be more
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frantic given that in that second Innings, they sort of
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pulled back a little bit and went against the grain of what
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they've actually been doing the last 12 months which is
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basically just flailing until the end until the last batsman
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is dismissed perhaps they may look at that and think that
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perhaps if they done that they may still got in the way with
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this test match. It's eight days away, till the
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next test. And let's hope it's just as
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enthralling as this one. Let's hope that Australia win
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again, because that would be even better and would be almost
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home with the ashes after two tests.
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Thanks again for tuning, into my cricketing part of the podcast.
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