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Bavuma STUNS Aussies! Lyon gamble BACKFIRES as Proteas dominate - RSA vs Australia 2nd Test, Day 3 Review · The Follow-On

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to another episode of the joint fox
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  Speaker 1: sports and code sports podcast the follow-on we're coming to
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  Speaker 1: you live at the end of day three at st george's.
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  Speaker 2: Park uh in kuburka.
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  Speaker 1: Tremendous performance from south africa today to turn what was
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  Speaker 1: a position when they're under significant pressure at stumps day
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  Speaker 1: two into a position where realistically they're the only notion
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  Speaker 1: that can win the win the match.
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  Speaker 3: Behind us, we have some fun sunflowers. Yesterday, we said
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  Speaker 3: the sun was shining on Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Timber Mavuma, with the assistance of a couple of
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  Speaker 1: magnificent performances from Michael Hansen and Simon Harmer, just turned
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  Speaker 1: this around.
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  Speaker 3: An amazing performance. Tell us what happened, Dan.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was very much South Africa's day, as you
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  Speaker 4: touched on, Courtney. It was finally a full day's play
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  Speaker 4: after the short ones we got across day one and two.
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  Speaker 4: The conditions were considerably more batting friendly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we came here, got up this morning and Mirka,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a beautiful day.
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  Speaker 3: It was okay.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, got up this morning here and in PE, and
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  Speaker 4: it was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, and
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  Speaker 4: you had a sense that we were going to.
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  Speaker 2: Get a full day's cricket.
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  Speaker 4: There was just a bit of buzz around town, and
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  Speaker 4: that played out in the field for South Africa.
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  Speaker 2: I did lose an early field a.
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  Speaker 4: Long time ago when Bjorn Mulder fell to Mitchell Stark
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  Speaker 4: to become his 450th test victim.
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  Speaker 2: It was a beautiful short piece.
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  Speaker 4: Of bowling, but from then, the match just turned quickly,
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  Speaker 4: and I mean quickly because Marco Jansen batted very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it was a contrasting partnership in every sense.
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  Speaker 4: You've got the long, I mean, it is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it is.
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  Speaker 2: Classic cliche. It has been a cliche. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a long running joke.
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  Speaker 4: Every time they're batting together or they're standing next to
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  Speaker 4: each other, people like to take photos of them because
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  Speaker 4: it's so absurd. See this 206 centimeter giant and this
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  Speaker 4: 162 centimeter not giant.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Who was called Shorty. He was called Shorty
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  Speaker 2: by Simon Harmer. when he reached triple figures. And they
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  Speaker 2: put on a lot.
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  Speaker 4: They put on 120, I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: No, more.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot. Yeah, 120 on a pretty quick time.
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  Speaker 4: And Jansen raced to 82 before he fell.
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  Speaker 1: And really aggressive batting. It was just some powerhouse hitting.
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  Speaker 1: One straight six I thought was about to burst through
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  Speaker 1: the press box and actually hit the It's just below
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  Speaker 1: the media, the radio below us.
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  Speaker 2: It did have a little bit of that basketball feel
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  Speaker 2: about it when things can just.
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  Speaker 4: And it was only coming from one innings, but Boomer
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  Speaker 4: was batting much more conservatively and sort of more conventionally
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  Speaker 4: and sort of went probably around a 45 strike for most.
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  Speaker 2: Of the innings or around that mark. Your take? But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Jansen was going close to a runner ball, whacking him everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he was on the verge of what would
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  Speaker 4: have been one of his first test centuries, his first
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  Speaker 4: professional century.
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  Speaker 3: Which is remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: I think there was stuff going around. He hasn't got
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  Speaker 4: one since he was 13 or something. And anyway, it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't quite to be for him. But, you know, Simon
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  Speaker 4: Harmer picked up where he left off and then they
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  Speaker 4: put on 183, I think it was, for the seventh,
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  Speaker 4: the eighth wicket, which was a record for South Africa
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  Speaker 4: in test cricket. Yeah, just Jansen, just... getting it going
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  Speaker 4: so quickly. And then the thing for Australia was that
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  Speaker 4: it was very good batting conditions. The bounce wasn't quite
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  Speaker 4: there because, yes, it was a day three. It hadn't
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  Speaker 4: been at all worn because they'd been under the covers
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  Speaker 4: for most of the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: The sun was out. The grass had sort of worn off.
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  Speaker 4: And the key part, particularly for Australia, was that they
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  Speaker 4: remained a bowler down.
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  Speaker 2: For the first session because Josh Hazlewood had that stomach
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  Speaker 2: bug yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't allowed to bowl in the first session of
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  Speaker 4: the day under rules because he wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: He had to be off.
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  Speaker 4: He couldn't bowl for as long as he'd been off
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  Speaker 4: late on day two. And then perhaps even more importantly,
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  Speaker 4: even when he bowled, while he fought his heart out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right. He was not at his best. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, this was the test where Australia went in
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  Speaker 2: without a specialist spinner, Nathan Lyon.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the merits of that, it's an interesting situation to
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  Speaker 4: judge because Scott Boland's taken five.
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  Speaker 2: For him in the pick of the bowlers.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't leave the other three out because they're
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  Speaker 1: all fit and firing and ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: And exactly. Easier in hindsight and all that.
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  Speaker 4: And Bo Webster, to his credit, actually held up an
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  Speaker 4: end pretty well and was pretty tight.
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  Speaker 1: I think at one stage he was 18 overs and
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  Speaker 1: basically going at two and over.
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  Speaker 3: None for 36. And he had a few that beat
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  Speaker 3: the outside edge.
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  Speaker 1: There were some near misses, but it was a pretty
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  Speaker 1: tidy bowling performance for a long period.
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  Speaker 2: So when I look at today, I mean, I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think the key battle, ultimately, and there are a
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  Speaker 4: lot of different battles, but the key battle was Bavuma v.
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  Speaker 2: Cummins, the two captains. And that was emblematic of the day.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there were clearly other bowlers in the attack, and
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  Speaker 4: obviously Jansen and Hammer's respective roles were significant.
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  Speaker 2: But Bavuma, who went on to a career-high 170-odd, his.
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  Speaker 3: First test century against us. 546 minutes in the crease
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  Speaker 3: over three days.
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  Speaker 2: So what's that? Almost nine hours. More than nine hours.
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  Speaker 3: Extraordinary.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought it was emblematic when he.
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  Speaker 4: pulled Pat Cummins for four to bring up his ton,
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  Speaker 4: with the brass band blaring not far from here, and
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  Speaker 4: that added so much to the energy of the day,
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  Speaker 4: as it always does here, even when there aren't that
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  Speaker 4: many people in the house.
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  Speaker 2: But he was all over Cummins for the most part.
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  Speaker 4: Cummins had a couple of moments earlier in the day
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  Speaker 4: where I thought his short stuff was quite on point,
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  Speaker 4: but as the sun came out more and the pitch
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  Speaker 4: became easier to bat on, it just seemed as though...
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  Speaker 4: It was just a bit too easy for the South Africans.
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  Speaker 4: And he wasn't overly venomous.
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  Speaker 2: And they just didn't have the options. And I do
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  Speaker 2: wonder if they missed a trick by probably not bowling
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  Speaker 2: a bit fuller.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: And look, Pat is actually second worst test figures today.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: None for 96 from 26 overs. And of course, there
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  Speaker 2: are other factors. And look, it's easy to say he
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  Speaker 2: could have bowled.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think he necessarily bowled.
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  Speaker 2: Badly, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, he definitely had periods where he was
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  Speaker 1: threatening early on, and you touched on that. But Fuma
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  Speaker 1: did get on top of him. I think that is
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  Speaker 1: fair to say. But Australia went from being cock-a-hoop in
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  Speaker 1: the morning.
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  Speaker 2: They were up and about.
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  Speaker 1: After securing the wicket of Mulder, understandably, because you had
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  Speaker 1: them at six for 120. Was it six for 140?
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  Speaker 1: Not even. Six for 110. So six for 110. And
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  Speaker 1: you are well on top in thinking the only team
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  Speaker 1: that's going to win this match from here is Australia.
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  Speaker 1: And by the end, they were looking as flat as
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  Speaker 1: a tack. And, you know, and perhaps, look, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. You know, two more days to go here.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows what unfolds? There is a five-day break between
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  Speaker 1: the next test in Cape Town. But they were out
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  Speaker 1: for a long time in one regard, 112 overs. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a decent amount of time bowling. Whether it has
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  Speaker 1: an impact, look, I'm not sure because it is just
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  Speaker 1: the one innings. Like we don't, I think if South
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  Speaker 1: Africa had a win, they probably don't want to bat again. No.
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  Speaker 3: So it's, uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: On the back of quite a bit of bowling in, in, um,
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  Speaker 2: German as well.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, we're missing us to mention though, Australia has started
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  Speaker 4: batting and has won three. And this in one respect
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  Speaker 4: coming out of this test match, this may be the
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  Speaker 4: biggest story of all, depending on what happens to the
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  Speaker 4: remainder of the match. Nick Maddison made another duck. Now,
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  Speaker 4: he's sort of bought it back and it looks, it looks,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. It looks probably not that dark behind us.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is clear. Like it's, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: We have all those times. Oh, this 628 PM.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, It's still relatively light, but not light to the
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  Speaker 4: extent that you'd want to be facing Gayser, Rabada, and
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  Speaker 4: the poor Nick Manson, really.
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  Speaker 2: He's been thrown into the deep end with the series. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he's an experienced cricketer, but nonetheless, first time opening in
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  Speaker 2: test cricket this series, comes out there. Rabada back. Rabada back.
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  Speaker 3: Rabada prime.
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  Speaker 2: He's been in the field all day.
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  Speaker 4: He's always had his first test wicket a couple of times,
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  Speaker 4: Nick Manson as well. Jansen, a couple of chances where
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  Speaker 4: Jansen almost chopped on. But, yeah, steaming in. And he
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  Speaker 4: looked all at seeds, to be honest, and then eventually
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  Speaker 4: nicked off fourth ball it was. And where he's particularly unlucky,
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  Speaker 4: so his second duck in three innings for Dick Manson,
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  Speaker 4: which given that Cameron Green was batting out the back
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  Speaker 4: and he was closing on the return, depending on what
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  Speaker 4: happens to the remainder of the test, I think there's
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  Speaker 4: definitely a world in which Renshaw opens in the third
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  Speaker 4: test and Green comes into the middle order.
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  Speaker 2: Or conversely, Webster drops out of the side.
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  Speaker 3: And English, if Green saw fit. Or Green.
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  Speaker 4: Green comes in and they just roll the dice with
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  Speaker 4: four bowlers and then part-timers. We saw how that went today.
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  Speaker 4: Not particularly well. Yeah, really, because that was the situation
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  Speaker 4: for a lot of today without Hazelwood. But yeah, particularly
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  Speaker 4: where Madison was unlucky was he, after facing the one over,
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  Speaker 4: that was the only over of pace that they faced
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  Speaker 4: because the very next over, Simon Harville was bowling and
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  Speaker 4: the next one, Aidan Markham was bowling because they weren't
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  Speaker 4: allowed to bowl pace. The line was so bad. And
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  Speaker 4: then eventually they came off the bad line altogether. Scott
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  Speaker 4: Boland came in as a night watchman to bat with
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  Speaker 4: Travis Head. So, yeah, this is where it is very
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  Speaker 4: harsh on Maddison. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: he's made two ducks.
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  Speaker 2: In three innings.
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  Speaker 1: And, look, just listening to Talyn, we've got just over
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  Speaker 1: behind us Phil Jase and Jason Gillespie, the former Australian cricketers,
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  Speaker 1: having a similar type of chat recording. It's always interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see the former test cricketers on the tools. Simon
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  Speaker 1: Cadditch is another former player here. He said, in that circumstance,
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  Speaker 1: you've just got to find a way to get to stumps.
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  Speaker 1: And I think what wasn't well thought through, as well
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  Speaker 1: as what Rabada was bowling, as difficult a situation was,
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  Speaker 1: the second ball, it was a lot, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: went for a while, the drive on the second ball
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  Speaker 1: was lucky to not get out there. The third ball,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there was some question marks about his footwork.
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  Speaker 1: Even the way he went out both innings in Durban,
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  Speaker 1: he was bowled both innings and there was some, you know,
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  Speaker 1: worries about his footwork.
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  Speaker 3: The third delivery was, you know, he kept it out.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't, you know, it was sort of a great,
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  Speaker 1: and then the fourth out. So it was just entirely
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  Speaker 1: unconvincing and, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really difficult situation, but it's also, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's a question.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder in hindsight now, I suppose, look, there's two
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  Speaker 4: ways to put this, because.
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  Speaker 2: Where was I? Yeah, I wonder, I mean, was there
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  Speaker 2: an argument to say, head's like the first ball?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's small things, clearly head's the more senior player,
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  Speaker 4: but he's younger than Maddison, but he's the more established player,
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  Speaker 4: he's the guy they're trying to protect, and given that
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  Speaker 4: they then brought in Boland as the night watchman, shows that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's a dynamic there where they're trying to
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  Speaker 4: protect the more senior player, but it also means that.
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  Speaker 2: For a guy like Maddison, you are just a lamb
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  Speaker 2: to the slaughter. But conversely, you're also 34 and have
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  Speaker 2: played a lot of first-class cricket.
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  Speaker 3: And you are the Australian test server.
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  Speaker 2: This is sort of the situation you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to face yourself. It was a very tough spot for him.
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  Speaker 2: Will he bat again in the match?
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  Speaker 5: That ultimately likely hinges... I suspect he will. He probably will.
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  Speaker 5: The way forward for South Africa here is that they
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  Speaker 5: take a quick look at tomorrow and manage to pull
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  Speaker 5: Australia out.
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  Speaker 4: And potentially, and we so seldom see this in test
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  Speaker 4: cricket these days for myriad reasons, that they do enforce
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  Speaker 4: the follow-on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that may well be the way to win
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  Speaker 2: this match.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like if.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the only path forward is for
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  Speaker 1: them to knock Australia over, to enforce the follow-on, because
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  Speaker 1: I think if they have to go.
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  Speaker 3: Back in and bet for the 2030 overs.
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  Speaker 4: That could cut too much time out of the game,
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  Speaker 4: bearing in mind that there is some rain forecast still.
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  Speaker 2: So it could all be a moot point. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: just a strange situation.
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  Speaker 4: One that's reminiscent of when Australia's had a few tough
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  Speaker 4: days in the field under Pat Cummins. Not too many,
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  Speaker 4: because they've been a bloody good team. But it certainly
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  Speaker 4: took me back to Manchester 2023. That day when Johnny
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  Speaker 4: Bairstow and Zach Crawley got away from them. And Cummins conceded,
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  Speaker 4: I think, the worst figures of his career. Or maybe,
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  Speaker 4: I think it was 131. Yeah, so not quite as good.
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  Speaker 4: The most expensive, but not the worst because he took
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  Speaker 4: a wicket on that occasion. And to be fair, if
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  Speaker 4: that comes in his defence, he should have had a
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  Speaker 4: wicket about 24 hours ago because Manus Labashain dropped one.
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  Speaker 2: Off his bowling.
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  Speaker 3: And he has said he was quite unlucky.
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  Speaker 2: Early days. So look, these things can balance out over
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  Speaker 2: a period of time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, they may well, it could all be a
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  Speaker 4: moot point, but ultimately, thank God there's life back in
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  Speaker 4: the series because we left here yesterday and I think
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  Speaker 4: it was A fair sense, given South Africa are already
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  Speaker 4: five down, the Maya, all of us doing incredible things.
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  Speaker 4: You thought, well, this could easily end today. Not end today,
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  Speaker 4: on day three, but as a contest, Australia could be
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  Speaker 4: so far in front that it would be South Africa
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  Speaker 4: clinging on to try to stave off defeat. Whereas now
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  Speaker 4: it's flipped and there's a fair chance, it's not been
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  Speaker 4: on the realms of South Africa, it could go one all,
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  Speaker 4: get us one all. Rabada's in the contest, Bavuma's in
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  Speaker 4: the contest, you've got some star power there. Finally, particularly
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  Speaker 4: given some of the crowds have been underwhelming, it feels
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  Speaker 4: like the series is alive.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Particularly heading to Cape Town, there's actually some excitement in it.
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  Speaker 4: And it's good that Australia is at least going to
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  Speaker 4: have to work for this.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Which I think, in the grand scheme of things, is
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  Speaker 2: good for test cricket.
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  Speaker 3: And look, it was here eight years ago that things
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  Speaker 3: started to turn. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: South Africa bounced back strongly. A lot was made in Durban.
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  Speaker 1: They hadn't played for 12 months. They hadn't played a
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  Speaker 1: test for 12 months. Clearly far sharper for Voomer. And
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  Speaker 1: he worked really hard. And we shouldn't really just touch
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  Speaker 1: on Babuma. It was a remarkable performance. He was so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, early on in the innings, don't forget he
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  Speaker 1: came in face to hat-trick ball. Yes. So face to
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  Speaker 1: hat-trick ball against a rampaging bull, Scott Boland.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a near run. You got an inside edge.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very tight thing.
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  Speaker 1: But early on, he dabbed. You know, he was soft hands.
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  Speaker 1: He was just rotating the strike, trying to get himself
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  Speaker 1: into the game. From then into the match, from then on,
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  Speaker 1: He batted judiciously. He was exceptionally good. It's his highest
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  Speaker 1: test score. We asked him just before he came into
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  Speaker 1: press afterwards, you know, he asked him to make another
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  Speaker 1: cameo on the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: He said, look, I've done all my batting in the
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  Speaker 3: inside nets. But we asked him where it sat.
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  Speaker 1: Now, clearly, the historic century, the first black South African
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  Speaker 1: cricket to make a century a decade ago, that one
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  Speaker 1: sits at the top with various reasons and good reasons.
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  Speaker 1: But this one, exceptionally important because it was against Australia
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  Speaker 1: and it was against Australia an Australian attack that has
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  Speaker 1: these legends and, and it threw me back. And I,
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  Speaker 1: and I went back out of chat to Josh Hazelwood
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  Speaker 1: in early September at the SCJ and was trying to
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  Speaker 1: pull together something on temporary, you know, this man of history,
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  Speaker 1: you know him, you know, what would be Australians? I said,
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  Speaker 1: because he doesn't play franchise cricket, they don't have heaps
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  Speaker 1: to do with him outside of that. But what Josh
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Hazelwood said at the time was one thing I really
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: respect about Tim Boomer is that he comes in and
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: he makes runs in tough conditions when South Africa made them,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: there was none tougher than the position.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: That they found themselves in when he first came to
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: the crease.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Even this morning, there was none tougher when they're 6-4-1-10.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: And it was a masterclass, a masterful innings, and one
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: of the better testing innings you'll see.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: It was really, it was the inverse of Matt Renshaw
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: last week.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, but probably even more remarkable given they were
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: even further on the back foot and they were already
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: one rubber down and against probably a more accomplished attack,
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: all these considered, even notwithstanding that line being dropped in.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Josh Hazelwood being down.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: So yeah, look, there's, there's, there's life in the series again.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: And you know, we have Timber Vavuma, Keith Sarabata, Marco
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Janssen and Simon Harmer to thank for that.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: And maybe a dodgy prawn. Maybe a dodgy prawn. Just
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: like I said that Josh Hazelwood would have had it.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: Poor old Josh Hazelwood. That could be, um, just dodge
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: the prawns. I'll tell you what, if the series does
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: turn South Africa somehow win this.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: 2-1, don't go the raw prawn. Prawn gate. Maybe, um, yeah,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: may become a narrative of the series retrospectively.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Um, As always, you can read Dan's fine work at Codesports.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll have a couple of analysis. I expect
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: this to come on what was the bowling performance from
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the Australians, what it all means for tomorrow. We also
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: have extensive coverage at foxsports.com.au. Thanks for joining the follow-on podcast.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings. If it's a
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: batting masterclass from the Australians, well, you know, it might
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: be a bit more of a conventional day five game
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: just making runs. But if Rabada gets up and going
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: early and he was menacing in that one over tonight,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: who knows what we've got to bring in tomorrow night.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.