November 11, 2024 • 31 mins
Australia vs Pakistan ODI Review - Haris Rauf Stars & Struggling Aussies | Cricket Today - Monday November 11.
The Cricket Today Podcast breaks down the ODI series between Australia and Pakistan, with Pakistan fast bowlers dominating, as well as going through cricket news, with the Aussie Test squad announced and who should be the next coach!
The boys become heated, debating who should be in each side, go through plenty of fan comments across the socials and then finish with a quick preview on the Australia vs Pakistan T20 series starting this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to the Cricket Today podcast. I'm your host,
Liam McAll and also known as the Stats Guy, and
a very very sad Aussie fan joining me as always.
Not Liam Malalay he's not here, but Marcus Barzana. He
always rocks up. He always rocks up. I don't know,
I reckon he's crying that Australia lost because we're pretty
sad about it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Think I think he's a Pakistan he's a little bit hungover.
But if we won't lose to anyone, we won't lose Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So weirdly like Pakistan on this show, as a lot
of people know. But they were too good, too good,
which we'll get into. Some of the cricket has started.
ODII series has been wrapped up, so we're going to
wrap up the ODII series the Friday match at Adelaide
Oval and then the Sunday match yesterday at it was
Opter Stadium, so really exciting matches there for a Pakistan fan.
We're going to go through some big questions. Make sure
(00:49):
you hang around at the end. We're going to go
through the fan comments and questions. Loving All the comments
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Speaker 2 (01:01):
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Speaker 1 (01:12):
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Just let's get the comments in there. We love it.
We want to talk about I don't know, fashion with
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(01:33):
So make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel as
I just mentioned, Cricket Today Podcast. Let's get into it quick. Look,
we sometimes do news, but we're just going to have
a quick look over here because there's lots of things
to talk about in the cricket world. We'll start off
with Pakistan making history the first od I series win
in Australia since two thousand and two. Had a really
good team sort of early two thousands and then nineties
(01:53):
and stuff like that, with some fast bowlers and all rounders.
They've done it again. Somehow. No one from no one
would have thought this was gonna happen. Yeah, no one
would have thought it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They played very well in the first game, but you're
like the Australia just a little bit off their guard. Yeah,
but in all fanness, they dominated, oh yeah to almost
to a length where it was unacceptable for Australia to
be losing like that on home soil.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah. There was a lot of young players for Autrali yesterday,
which we'll touch on. But in the third game, even
that it's in Australia that you know the conditions, there
was a lot of wa players and the team that
know the pitch and things like that, only making one
sixty three and then one forty, which we'll touch on.
Very embarrassing. But Pakistan bowlers, they're batters at the top
Botto were great as well. But their bowlers changed this
series awesome. I think we'll get into it later. But yeah,
(02:37):
surprisingly it was the quicks inlaid when we thought it
would be the spinners. Yeah, so their quicks has just
been awesome, very good wrecker raff which we'll touch on
Dizzey Gilaspie. You predicted it in one of our little
shorts see Coaches Pakistan. Ossie legend played into a lot
of Test wins, a lot of Test matches, a lot
of bowler probably didn't get as it was recognized as no.
(02:57):
So he played with Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, all those
sort of great mons, the likes of them, and then
you got probably him on that next tier, which was
a great ball of Australia, and then he's become a
great coach for South Australia and the Big Bash. He's
coached him to a Pakistan Pakistan ODI series win against Australia,
a Test series win against England, two of the big
nations and Pakistan were not favorites at all in those ones.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He was only supposed to be temporary yes Australia tour
as the format coach stepped down.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, they had a lot of beef behind the scenes apparently.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So he could get the gig as an all format
Pakistan coach. And you know, after this performance in this series,
it's kind of hard, It's kind of hard to argue
against I saw him talking on the Triple M coverage
that he's learning.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
He learned a bit by the socials. That was very good.
That's funny. So he's learning a bit of But their rule,
he said, all the Aussie coaching stuff that he has,
they have to learn swear a naughty word, he said,
every every session. That's their rule. So I don't even
think he's really learning, he's just learning all the naughty
you count. That's the first word you learn when you
(04:03):
learn true. I feel like that's your type of vibe. Yeah,
as an Aussie, I'm actually pretty proud that he's doing
really well. I wouldn't be surprised, as you said before,
there could he be Australia's next coach because that's probably
why he's coaching Pakistan right now. He wants to move
up the ranks. So is he a better coach than McDonald?
For what to do with the cricket in general is
(04:23):
a lot. I don't think he's to do with the coach.
I think when the guys aren't batting well, I think
I think I think he might be better. He's a
better coach at the moment. That's big cool.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I just wasn't a huge fan after he came enough
to the Langer left yep, because the players had a
bit of good results. Obviously, he's obviously one. Yeah, well exactly,
he's been very good. Yeah, but you might be in
line for the next one.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Maybe next time. I want to touch on. I said
that we had some young guys coming in for Australia yesterday.
Cooper Connolly, first time he's battered, but he had to
retire hurt on seven. So he heard his I believe,
first time in OD. Yeah, batting for Australia. Someone on
Twitter wasn't happy that he was batting for Australia. His
list day stats. I think that's with Australia a and
then a few other one days and things like that.
His list day stats one hundred and seven runs at
(05:09):
a seventeen average and he's batting it five for Australia.
Do we think that he's obviously rushing a few players
to the Australian team.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't know, possibly, but I guess it's sort of
our and downfall because that's what Australian fans have been
screaming out for. We don't want to see the same
people in squad all the time, and I think it
was just a case that we rested a good players
for the Test series against India. So personally him in
(05:40):
there get the experience, even if it's bad experience, you'd
probably like that more than a positive experience because you
can learn from it. So I don't mind some of
the selections, as we will talk about j Croze, McGirk etc.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Younger guys. Yeah, I think I don't mind that. Talking
about selection before we touch on something crazy. The Test
squad was announced for Australia against India in the Border
Gavaskis Trophy. The big names I'll just quickly go through.
You've got Pat Cummins, Scott Bowland, Alex Carey, Josh Hazelwood,
Travis Head, Osmond Kawa, Ja Minus Labershane, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh,
(06:18):
Steve Smith, Mitchell Stark and then the inclusions are Josh Engliss,
which I really like because he's been on his bandwagon
saying carry should be out. I think I think Josh
ing this is a very good player.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
But in all fairness to Alex Carey, he's battered very
well in the Shield yep.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, he's about up.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Centuries a couple of adies here and there, so he's
in better form and deserves his sport.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I think he's a better I think Harry is a
better keeper. Yep. I think English is probably the better
battery of the Yeah. Nice, nice, So yeah, I'm happy
with that selection because Engless has been in good form
and the other one is Nathan McSweeney. So he's never
opened until the last week for Australia. Made I think
not many, not many in the first thing, and then
he did. He makes constant. That makes it he didn't
(07:01):
make many opening for Australia. So that's a bit of
a worry. He's never opened, and I feel I'm looking
through the list he might open for Australia for someone
who's never opened before. It's either it's either he ll
open for Australia or they push everyone up the order
which you put head. Possibly that's that's that's what I say.
You did say that.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I did say that, but that was when I was
That was when I was including Michael Nissa in the team,
which he is not in the squads that I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
He didn't get picked because he's injured. Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He did do his hammy in the Australia game. I
assume he would have got picked. I hope he would
have got picked. I think he would have over Scott
Boland probably. I love Scott Scott Bowland, but I think
a bit more consistent. Yeah, I'll give you that, and
it's a bit more of an all rounder. And Nissa
got four from the first innings of the second Test
after not playing the first Australia against India a most recently.
(07:53):
But McSweeney, yeah, was probably that's the biggest one. Yeah,
that's a big so I think because Harris did well
in one innings seventy five, seventy three, but no one
really claimed this. Bancroft didn't play well. Cons perhaps too
early for him as well. But yeah, pushing McSweeney to
open for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We don't know yet, but it looks like that's where
it's heading towards. But I don't I don't mind Travis
Head opening because it's like that AUSSI can work it
around a bit. David Warner would go something from ball one,
Travis Head, not even from all one, but like build
into a bit quicker. Maybe Travis he could do that.
But yeah, that's the Test squad which we'll get into that.
That's only in a couple of weeks away. Actually it's
about eleven days away to the first Test against India,
(08:34):
which we're very excited. It's actually kind of crazy. I
know that early, I know earlier than usual. I don't know. Yeah,
just November. Yeah, they're like India, Australia. Everyone loves it.
Let's just let's just get some more.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Make it a seven Test match to got to go
on ten every state in territory in Australia they were playing.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Why don't we just get rid of the odio eyes?
No one likes him anyway because Australia rest the twenty twenties. Yeah,
I'm more of an ode person. I like twenty twenties
more than odio. I think I'm happy to get rid
of odio. Interesting, just boring interesting. But that's I shouldn't
And as we're going to talk about the Australias Pakistan,
the second odio wrap that was Adelaide Oval on Friday.
(09:13):
I'll go through the scores and then we can talk
through it a little bit more. Australia bowled out for
one sixty three or thirty five overs. Pretty embarrassing there.
Pakistan one hundred and sixty nine for one. They were
only one down. They won in the twenty seventh over.
Pakistan win by nine wickets. What the hell happened there?
Nine wickets? Yeah? Look was it? Yeah? We thought the
(09:36):
spin would get the job done. It later, no, it was.
It was good, but it was the quick Yeah, it
was the quicks. Look Ralph five far I reckon row
five and twenty nine. It was great, second best sorry,
equal bestudio figures in Pakistan history. I had to look
at because there's only been a couple of Fife as well. Interesting,
he is awesome at the moment.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He is so fast, he's in great nick and would
be good to see him over the summer as well.
Obvious seeing the big bush Melbourne stars still we do
at the stars, so I believe so people will be
lying up to watching him five between ninety it was awesome.
And then on the other side, Australia just played a
lot of stupid dumb shots at times, like trying to
get the crap out of it, whereas Pakistan were a
bit more controlled and they proved it was great.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The commentators before the game, I'm just watching it, they
were like great condition for batting. It's perfect weather, the
pitch is nice and flat, it's like a road. Well,
Pakistan proved it. Yeah, that is I approved that. They
only lost one week and one hundred six and nine
runs and Australia just what the hell? Steve Smith was
okay with thirty five or thirty eighty. He had to
sort of anchor the inning, sort of like the past
where no one else everyone's fallen around him, and he's like, oh,
(10:41):
so I was actually okay with how ebout it because
he sort of had to hang around. Got a few
four's things like that, and no one else.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
No one really got on with it. Lamp for the
next there's a lot of teens, there's nineteen. Yeah, nineteen was.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
With Matt Short was the next top score, followed by
Zampa in English for the eight it's hamper making eighteen
is the third top score. Is a massive once.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, no it it is a bit of a worry.
Oh and this wasn't like the rest of the team either.
This was decently stack team. Yeah, full of batters as well.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We bat all the way down to basically this is
like our best team technically or.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Close to Matt Short. Fraise McGirk Smith, Marnus Inglis Hardy Maxwell.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Maxwell was really poor to get a series.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, he made sixteen in that game, but then he
got out for another duck, didn't he in the third game?
So it wasn't too good talking about Maxie I forgot
to write that in the thing in the run here there.
But since the World Cup, so since that epic double century,
he had both his legs cramping up and everyone's like,
this guy's one of the best white boall players in
the world. He has made odie I scores of one, two, seven,
(11:50):
thirty to zero, sixteen zero, So that's two ducks, six
scores under seven and a thirty. Yeah, look, that's great.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What is it? What has happened? He's had a few
injuries in there.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
He has a player of his caliber just because he's
so unpredictable. You come to sort of expect that with
Glenn Maxwell, but not much of a lull for that many.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I don't know if we can call him the big
show right now, that's his nickname. We can't. Here's the
big disappointment, can I Can I say that? Is that
a bit? He should not be able to go. Max
is like a legend, but he is the big disappointment
Glenn Max, I'm not the big show there. That's just
grab that. No, No, it's or form. It's been disappointing.
(12:38):
He's like the older sort of guy that you go,
all right, he's gonna be in the middle of oarnings
that he can make take some runs. He's coming this
series probably a little bit unlucky because everyone around him
sort of collapse and he can't play a natural game
a little bit. But got to do better than that,
so I thought he would, and I thought he would
have got more of a job with ball in hand
as well. Yeah, which is too many big Knights in
(12:59):
Adelaide again. Maybe is that what it happened last last year? Think? Yeah,
so maybe that's why you didn't play the field. There
we go, all right, that will just quickly. You want
to finish the game early. Maybe off the red square,
Nathan Lion. You still always hang out. Yeah, yeah, oh
that's that's funny. The wallshed with the bull, it's very fun.
(13:20):
You're going to sign your life away just in case
something happens, just on the ball. But yeah, if you
stick the hole on the store, you'll probably wake up
and show that's dangerous. That place anyway, that's the second
older I rapped done. We're going to have a look
at the Pakistan. They won by nine wickets, dominated Pakistan.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
To level the series, which made this game even more important. Yeah,
this game ended up being really important.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
The third eardy I wrap in Perth yesterday in Australia. Awesome, awesome.
It was actually a pretty fun match for Pakistan fans again.
So Australia bowled out for one hundred and forty. I
didn't think we could get worse than last time, but
we did. Then Pakistan one hundred and forty three for
two exactly the same over the twenty seventh over they won.
So do you get you should get some money back
(13:59):
for your ticket because both these matches only had like
sixty overs in them, fifty overs pretty much, and they's
supposed to be one hundred overs of cricket.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So I would be disappointed. Australia was an a fan
a lot more money, so Pakistan not so much. I
reckon they got their money's worth one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
They're going crazy, Like when we're at the g for
the first one, I felt like we were in Pakistan.
There's ninety percent just Pakistan fans was green. Every you
were in there with your rooster head. We saw the Hult,
the famous Pakistan Hulk fan. He gave you a greasy.
It was a good day out. Yeah, he gave me
more than a greasy. In fact, he was his rooster dancing.
Yeah he did that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Did he wasn't a fan, but look again it was
too good again, really bad with a bat.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Australia top score thirty short Abbott short Abbitt is technically
an all arounder, but he's a bowling all rounder. We
don't want him making the top score.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So there was let's have a look here, six scores
under ten from the Australian side.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What could ducks in there? If we went out there, right,
I think I'd bring this up every week we went
out there. We could just get a few as anything
off the sneaky five, anything off the bat, we could
probably make some runs off. So but I'd be backing
away facing Harris Ralph bow one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Or yeah, look two players only made two players on.
They made over thirteen in this Australia embarrassing, really embarrassing.
One hundred and forty. We finished four. Yeah, Freddy was
really good yeah, the quicks again, we're back at it.
Ralph actually were me in the match. Two for twenty
four or seven a little bit surprising just because of
FREDI I thought was probably the better three for thirty two.
(15:32):
I seem Shah as well. Three for fifty four getting
the job done.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Back and ball this series. They've always since the World
Cup when I was here and I watched them against England,
g and now bowl and heat on those in Australia conditions. Yeah, Perth,
it's really bouncy. Yeah, I was thinking before the game
this actually could be close because they're just so quick.
They can get bounced very unlike in Pakistan. That's probably
in Pakistan and as good as some other places across
(15:58):
the world because it's like spinning.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Pitches and things like that. Agreed you A sorry they're
playing in your Yeah, more like subcontinent pitchures. But yeah, look,
Lance Morris was probably the only quick for the.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Aussies that really did. Yeah, twenty four really good. He
bowled pretty consistently. Two for twenty. Spencer Johnson was a
right as well.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah he didn't get reward in terms of wickets, but
he got none for twenty eight or eight which is
fairly decent.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, I'm okay with you know how we're talking about
we can talk about this later as well, the young
guys coming through and things like that. I'm actually I
feel okay with the bowlers because like in the short
format at LEAs, and like even like Lance Morris looks
really good, Men Johnson looks really good. But the thing is,
I feel like in the in the short formats with
quick bowlers, yeah, it's easy to hide a little bit
(16:40):
and have tastier figures because you're only more off the
batsman and trying to hit bigger sh and their way.
They're playing bigger shots, more risk, more rewards sort of thing. Yeah,
but then again you could say Devil's hat a cicket
and they could have none for yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
But look they have been proving stuff and hour bowling
(17:01):
cartel actually is getting a little bit older now, isn't it.
With hazel Wood say they're all going to retire around
the same time. Will So that's why I'm I reckon
we're going to have a bit of a lull, which
is very hasn't happened in Australian cricket since an examp
aper gate when we haven't really had a bad.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Sort of even even you know, backup bowls for Australia
Scott bowling, he's he's yeah, well he's it be thirty
four is he?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm pretty sure. Result he made his debut with like
thirty two I think thirty five? Yeah, how was Michael Nissa?
Let's have a look. It was like, is about like
twenty nine? I think thirty is he thirty four? Thirty four?
Scrap that and so everyone coming through is old. Yeah,
all our backups, so yeah, we need to Morris to
(17:46):
fire up locks of driver. He was always injured. Leo
was excited that we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Pakistan win again. Hoai eight wickets like win the series too?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
One first time and two as we mentioned before them
one series was great, forty two or fifty two was great.
I know he only made second game, so yeah, second game,
Barbara's arm twenty eight not out. I just have to
mention him because although he only made twenty eight, some
of the drives he did just like he's so nice.
It's like there's some quick bowls and he's just gone
straight down the ground. Looks so easy, made it look
(18:17):
easy with captain see off his shoulders. He just looked relieved.
He does he does. And the rizz king it was
pretty slid. I think he made thirty seven in that
last match. Serious. He actually in the second match I
didn't touch on. Rizwan was on track for the most
catches in an ODI match by wiki keeper. Ooh with
he already had six. So that's all. He dropped a
siller and he would have had. All the Pakistan fans
(18:40):
in our comments are actually talking about it, and he
would have had the most catches in an ODI match
by keeper running back with the flight. All right, it's hard.
You've got big gloves on, mate, You've got to taste
for baseball player celebrating to catch. Got that big glove
easy try cricket, try cricket exactly. Riz one, you've got
two big gloves. Use him. So he was really good.
(19:00):
Six catches in the end, yeah for that game is one. Yeah,
so that was I think it equaled the record for
most odio catches by a keeper and he would have
had the record. That's a the cool little record to
have in Pakistan as well well, not especially in Australia
against Australia. Yeah. But also also that's the other thing
I didn't talk about across this series. Riz Onan. I
like him as a captain, but he appeals for everything
(19:22):
and Zampa had a go at him. Yeah, everything, he
gonna appeal for everything, mate, And then he didn't hit it.
It was about a meter away from Zampa's bat and
he's like, Zampa should I Adam, should I review this?
And Adam's like, yeah, yeah, he got mate, and he
didn't realize he was taking taking the piece he's hed.
He was joking reviews it and then he goes, ah,
so I like that it wasn't nothing. It wasn't it
(19:45):
wasn't siner stuff. But yeah, he just appeals for everything
and he the commentary is like, he's a good captain,
but he needs to stop a feeling because he confuses.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We could keep it on the stumps. I think everything's out.
But I guess in the subcontinent India do that a
lot as well. What the seems so also do it? Yeah,
they just get excited, I think so. I think so
fair enough.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Anyway, Pakistan win the series two one nine wicket win
and then an eight week at win over the weekend.
That's crazy. Against Australia, No One does that in Australia.
Even when India win, it's usually pretty close in Australia.
So that makes makes this twenty twenty series a little
bit more exciting. Yes, because Australia will want to fight back.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And a lot of those players in that ODO team
will be playing in the twenty twenty I assume Phrase
McGirk will, yep, I assume Matt Short will, So they've
got to prove their worth, yes, in an Australian squad.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Good col All right, last, second
to last, we'll go big questions and fan comments. We're
going to be doing this all season long, all summer
of cricket because we've got so many comments to talk through.
I'll just touch up with two big questions I wrote
down and then we'll get into some fan ones. First
big question for you, Marcus, I was going to say
for everyone here, it's just you pressures on. I haven't
(20:51):
seen these yet. Actually, are the young guys coming through
not ready? And a worry for Australia. We'll say. I'll
just say yeah, no, we're not.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh that's so tough because it's sort of a swing.
I'm swinging both ways. But i'll go, I'll go. No, Yeah,
I think they when are they going to be ready?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Like you got?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Perhaps they're a bit too young. Maybe it's the play
style that they're being told to play.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
McDonald.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Obviously, Australian coaches come out and said we're going to
stick to an attacking brand. I don't mind that, particularly
in ODI formats, which I don't mind. It's going to
happen eventually. So uh look, I'd rather than get the
experience now then need it when we need to rely
on them. Yeah, I agree with that that they need
(21:34):
to get game time in.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
But I am a little bit worried because I don't think,
like as we talked about last night, I don't think
Frasse McGirk is ready to open. I don't think Matt
Short is a bit more experience. I'm happy with him
still at the top of the I think about if then.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I don't think was available for the series. Fraser McGirk
wouldn't play, true, Yeah that's true. Cooper Connelly wouldn't normally
play in this series because we rest the players so but.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, it's just the thing to think about as Ossie fans,
because like you said, all that good players are getting older. Yeah,
and we can't rely on smith manus to make the runs.
In all fairness, they haven't had a great probably two years. Yeah,
both of those boys. Yeah, so a little bit worrying
as an Aussi fan. There next one. Pakistan fans like
this one is the next big thing for Pakistan, I think. So. Yeah,
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he's really exciting. He's an awesome player to watch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Again he's another attacking opener, yeah, which is what you
like in short format cricket. So if he can make
runs off the top of it sort of takes some
pressure off the off the shoulders of Bubba and Wiz one,
which has been the case for for quite a while
ten years. So it was good to see that the
openers sort of dominating. Yeah, Pakistan wins and Bubba just
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ticks over the line for.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So sequ the w Yeah, I like it. I'm having
a look. He's already he only played three matches actually,
so that was his first series. There you go, so
forty one average through the series, awesome, averaging twenty seven
in tests through six matches. That's okay. He said three
fifties already in the tests and he's got a fifty
already already eyes in about ten matches, so he'll be
really good. So that's exciting for Pakistan because their young
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bowlers are killing it, so their batters just need to improve.
And he's gone, Well, all right, you wrote down some comments.
I'll read them out and we can discuss through them
at gaming point two nine eight. This is on YouTube,
so thanks for commenting on there. Make sure you comment
if you're watching this. Sam will probably bowl spin if
it's a spinning pitch. I like to see that. So yeah, yeah,
we wrote this down just because we thought it might
be a spinning pitch in Adelaide. What did you write
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down here?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He finished with he did both three overs for fourteen,
so we did get it. Did get a good crack
at it bowl. Okay, but yeah, as we mentioned before,
quick surprisingly got the job done.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Analytois were two good in Adelaide. Next one was Ramsey
st Lens twenty twenty four on YouTube. Love the content, guys,
just put that in there. Just yeah, you guys to
tays a pump us up a little bit. I like that.
We actually yeah, any comment you want to do, any
question like you said, if it's about Marcus.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Lead personal, if you want me I don't know how
we've to do. I have, I may have more than
ten or less than ten. You won't know until you
answer the questions. These are the big questions.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's everyone wants to see that on your only fans
right as well? People still come yeah, nice, nice? Is
that guy actually six foot fight next to Marcus? What's
what's the question for Leo? Personal life? Question? Is Leo
Libra is Leo Leo? What? Oh my god? I want questions? Right, questions?
(24:26):
All right, there we go the well, I'm not going
to just start signs in this I'll die before we
get into star signs on this ship. All right, Next tie,
we want to talk about you wrote down the community
these out if you want the Jake Fraser McGirk performers.
So everyone's talking about it because he's a young guy
opening the batting. We've talked him up. You've won a
Buddy Rooster hat yeah sorry, rooster mask, and we've been
very excited by him. But he's not performing just yet.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And particularly on our Instagram posts, he went a little
bit off in the comments section just talking about Jake
Fraser McGirk, which is good to see. But we'll start
off with a comment on TikTok by oas away with
a few is in there. He is a twenty twenty player.
He can't play one day, is too impatient of a
player war. I thought that was a bit a little
(25:08):
bit hard.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Where he's coming from at the moment, He's probably spot
on because into twenties there's yeah, there's more rooms and
you can go from ball one. Yep. He probably just
needs even just like an over or two rather than
exactly from ball one, because as Leo said last week,
do we drop him down the order? I like him
at like five or six, sorry, six or seven.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But Tom Clark on Instagram, yes, the years in the
office with us, he he disagreed with Leo on that
front about putting him down the order. He goes disagree
field up and new hard ball is perfect for a
hard hitting opener. Leave the middle order to the others
for the likes of Maxwell and hard.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, I don't mind that. But I'm just a bit worried,
Like I think his techniques is good, and he just
he just plays some dumb shots, and I feel like
you can get away with some dumb shots more possibly
in the middle order.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It can if it he fix his balls a little bit,
a little bit more and just play more generally on
the deck so he can't get caught in situations like those. Yeah,
but I say, see Jimbo Yeah number one he said
on Instagram, we absolutely are introducing Frase McGirk incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't think he's the.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Right fit for this ODI side until he fixes some
critiques in his game that he reckons keep him in
the twenty twenties.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, so a bit of a similar theme here. It's
weird because we were calling him in the side for
ages and now quickly I think if he has a
decent yeah twenty twenty things, he just needs a bit
of confidence, I think, and similar nine ninety four and
Instagram also said still early for him to be in
the OBI team, So I think, like what Le said,
I don't min him putting him down the order. I
think he should be in the team because he's so
(26:48):
he's a really good player. Like even I think he
made what did you make the other day? Fifteen or
whatever he made, but he hit his boundaries. The comment
is like that is one of the classes, some of
the classes, like he just hits everything, so yeah, and
then you'll just do something silly or miss an easy one,
or I don't know. It might even be just a
bit of confidence. I'm hoping he gets some confidence from
the T twenties and then that'll flourish into other part.
(27:09):
Undred percent.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I think we're still going to see a good side
of Jake Fraser mcgok this summer, and I believe whether
that's in the Big Bash, whether that's in the upcoming
twenty twenty series, which hopefully it will be yep, I
think so. But he might relish the short boundaries in
in Hobart. Yeah, that'd be good down at Ninja Stadium.
We'll get onto our twenty twenty predictions.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Nice T twenty predictions. So the next one, next series
we've actually got against Pakistan is a three match series, Yes,
against Pakistan in the twenty twenty, so we're very excited
about that. First one is at the Gabbart, then we've
got a match at the SCG and then Monday at
Ninja Stadium.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Formerly known as if you're not familiar with Baleri, it
still is in Tasmania Ninja Stadium.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
What is that? The new interesting Ninja Ninja? Don't they
do appliants? The clients Ninja creamy and Ninja bullet and
linger bullet. Yeah, I think I have one of those
yeah plugs. But if they want to jump on you,
if they want to sponsor to us the Ninja bang
a Ninja bullet right there, there's a lot of space
there for it. Actually, we could multiple products, multiple products.
(28:12):
I will dress up as a ninja tom Yeah, let's
getting We could have the Ninja studios. We'll dress off
as Ninja next Amazon purchase, get it. I like it.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We'll rock up to Ninja Stadium in Ninja efforts.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yep. Honestly, I might just do that anyway, even if
we don't get a spin, it just feels right, it does. Yeah, anyway,
Teach winning predictions. So obviously Pakistan won the series series
two to one. This is another three match one. What
do we think can the Aussies bounce back with we
actually have really good TEA twenty specific players because of
the Big Bash. Yes, I think so. I'm leaning towards
like a two to one Australia win. But I'm they're
(28:51):
in much better form Pakistan, they are, But on on
your sord, I'm going to go to one Australia win. Okay,
in the series.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I just think, you know, we have a lot of
quality players who play in the I p L is well, yep,
that's true. Maybe a few of those won't play because
of the Test series yep. Like with the likes of
maybe Pac Coummans, Mitch Stark, et cetera. Will lean more
towards Lance Morris, Spencer Johnson. Yeah, but then more definitely
more than capable. Spencer Johnson actually featured in the IPL
(29:18):
as well. Yes, didn't as much as we go, but
still feedure is still good. Yeah, and I think I
don't want to say it helps, but Pakistan players not
being allowed to play in the IPL, yea, they play
less twenty twenty three than some Australians.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So look we'll go. Yeah, if you're saying two to
one where I reckon that that pakstunkle winn at the
Gabba because it's a bit more fast paced and the
bowl is there seg is usually pretty spin worthy and
then Ninjastadium, I reckon Australia a bit more experienced down.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
There, but I think so. But it doesn't look good
for weather wise at the Gabba. At the Gabba, oh no,
it's going to be storms in thirty degrees, so bring.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
It down here in Melbourn under the roof for mahavel.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Look, I mean it doesn't look good, so that like
get washed out, and in Sydney it always gets watched out.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I might have to Sydney. Wants to check the weather
for Sydney. Tested Sydney on Saturday. Looks good.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Okay, we're going sunny twenty nice, that'll work. And but
you never know.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Didn't know we're going to get a weather up down
all this. I like this this one with the.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Man raining Sunday for clear Monday. So we might get
cricket for two of those three games. Hopefully we get
it for all three and hopefully, hopefully hopefully yeah, Aussie
two one. We're predicting.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Let us know in the comments your predictions for the
upcoming T twenty series. Are we done? I think we're done.
We're done, all right? Stumps stumps for the Cricket Today Show,
we'll be back with this next week. Check out the socials.
We're going to do a lot about the T twenties
over the upcoming days. We're going to do a lot
for BBR Super Coach. We're going to do a lot
for T series commentaries coming up, So we're gonna do
a lot about eleven days. I can't believe it's eleven days.
(30:46):
That's crazy, I feel it. Footy season was just there.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
There's so much going on at the moment, so full
shows a week and we're coming to you from next week.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
We'll talk about that afterwards, but we'll have to have
a look. Yeah, let us know if you want to. Yeah,
that's guys. Gerald's in the comments on the to get
stuffed anyway, send any questions. As we do on every show,
we're going to read out the fan comments. Thank you
very much, Joe behind the camera. Thanks Marcus, I didn't
forget you this time. Yes, thanks to that sky and stuff. You'right.
You'll be back on for next show, thanks to me.
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Liam McAll and also known as the Stats Guy, and
a very very sad Aussie fan joining me as always.
Not Liam Malalay he's not here, but Marcus Barzana. He
always rocks up. He always rocks up. I don't know,
I reckon he's crying that Australia lost because we're pretty
sad about it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Think I think he's a Pakistan he's a little bit hungover.
But if we won't lose to anyone, we won't lose Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So weirdly like Pakistan on this show, as a lot
of people know. But they were too good, too good,
which we'll get into. Some of the cricket has started.
ODII series has been wrapped up, so we're going to
wrap up the ODII series the Friday match at Adelaide
Oval and then the Sunday match yesterday at it was
Opter Stadium, so really exciting matches there for a Pakistan fan.
We're going to go through some big questions. Make sure
(00:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:01):
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Speaker 1 (01:12):
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it can all right, it can there you go, yeah, whatever,
Just let's get the comments in there. We love it.
We want to talk about I don't know, fashion with
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So make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel as
I just mentioned, Cricket Today Podcast. Let's get into it quick. Look,
we sometimes do news, but we're just going to have
a quick look over here because there's lots of things
to talk about in the cricket world. We'll start off
with Pakistan making history the first od I series win
in Australia since two thousand and two. Had a really
good team sort of early two thousands and then nineties
(01:53):
and stuff like that, with some fast bowlers and all rounders.
They've done it again. Somehow. No one from no one
would have thought this was gonna happen. Yeah, no one
would have thought it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They played very well in the first game, but you're
like the Australia just a little bit off their guard. Yeah,
but in all fanness, they dominated, oh yeah to almost
to a length where it was unacceptable for Australia to
be losing like that on home soil.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah. There was a lot of young players for Autrali yesterday,
which we'll touch on. But in the third game, even
that it's in Australia that you know the conditions, there
was a lot of wa players and the team that
know the pitch and things like that, only making one
sixty three and then one forty, which we'll touch on.
Very embarrassing. But Pakistan bowlers, they're batters at the top
Botto were great as well. But their bowlers changed this
series awesome. I think we'll get into it later. But yeah,
(02:37):
surprisingly it was the quicks inlaid when we thought it
would be the spinners. Yeah, so their quicks has just
been awesome, very good wrecker raff which we'll touch on
Dizzey Gilaspie. You predicted it in one of our little
shorts see Coaches Pakistan. Ossie legend played into a lot
of Test wins, a lot of Test matches, a lot
of bowler probably didn't get as it was recognized as no.
(02:57):
So he played with Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, all those
sort of great mons, the likes of them, and then
you got probably him on that next tier, which was
a great ball of Australia, and then he's become a
great coach for South Australia and the Big Bash. He's
coached him to a Pakistan Pakistan ODI series win against Australia,
a Test series win against England, two of the big
nations and Pakistan were not favorites at all in those ones.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He was only supposed to be temporary yes Australia tour
as the format coach stepped down.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, they had a lot of beef behind the scenes apparently.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So he could get the gig as an all format
Pakistan coach. And you know, after this performance in this series,
it's kind of hard, It's kind of hard to argue
against I saw him talking on the Triple M coverage
that he's learning.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
He learned a bit by the socials. That was very good.
That's funny. So he's learning a bit of But their rule,
he said, all the Aussie coaching stuff that he has,
they have to learn swear a naughty word, he said,
every every session. That's their rule. So I don't even
think he's really learning, he's just learning all the naughty
you count. That's the first word you learn when you
(04:03):
learn true. I feel like that's your type of vibe. Yeah,
as an Aussie, I'm actually pretty proud that he's doing
really well. I wouldn't be surprised, as you said before,
there could he be Australia's next coach because that's probably
why he's coaching Pakistan right now. He wants to move
up the ranks. So is he a better coach than McDonald?
For what to do with the cricket in general is
(04:23):
a lot. I don't think he's to do with the coach.
I think when the guys aren't batting well, I think
I think I think he might be better. He's a
better coach at the moment. That's big cool.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I just wasn't a huge fan after he came enough
to the Langer left yep, because the players had a
bit of good results. Obviously, he's obviously one. Yeah, well exactly,
he's been very good. Yeah, but you might be in
line for the next one.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Maybe next time. I want to touch on. I said
that we had some young guys coming in for Australia yesterday.
Cooper Connolly, first time he's battered, but he had to
retire hurt on seven. So he heard his I believe,
first time in OD. Yeah, batting for Australia. Someone on
Twitter wasn't happy that he was batting for Australia. His
list day stats. I think that's with Australia a and
then a few other one days and things like that.
His list day stats one hundred and seven runs at
(05:09):
a seventeen average and he's batting it five for Australia.
Do we think that he's obviously rushing a few players
to the Australian team.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't know, possibly, but I guess it's sort of
our and downfall because that's what Australian fans have been
screaming out for. We don't want to see the same
people in squad all the time, and I think it
was just a case that we rested a good players
for the Test series against India. So personally him in
(05:40):
there get the experience, even if it's bad experience, you'd
probably like that more than a positive experience because you
can learn from it. So I don't mind some of
the selections, as we will talk about j Croze, McGirk etc.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Younger guys. Yeah, I think I don't mind that. Talking
about selection before we touch on something crazy. The Test
squad was announced for Australia against India in the Border
Gavaskis Trophy. The big names I'll just quickly go through.
You've got Pat Cummins, Scott Bowland, Alex Carey, Josh Hazelwood,
Travis Head, Osmond Kawa, Ja Minus Labershane, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh,
(06:18):
Steve Smith, Mitchell Stark and then the inclusions are Josh Engliss,
which I really like because he's been on his bandwagon
saying carry should be out. I think I think Josh
ing this is a very good player.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
But in all fairness to Alex Carey, he's battered very
well in the Shield yep.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, he's about up.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Centuries a couple of adies here and there, so he's
in better form and deserves his sport.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I think he's a better I think Harry is a
better keeper. Yep. I think English is probably the better
battery of the Yeah. Nice, nice, So yeah, I'm happy
with that selection because Engless has been in good form
and the other one is Nathan McSweeney. So he's never
opened until the last week for Australia. Made I think
not many, not many in the first thing, and then
he did. He makes constant. That makes it he didn't
(07:01):
make many opening for Australia. So that's a bit of
a worry. He's never opened, and I feel I'm looking
through the list he might open for Australia for someone
who's never opened before. It's either it's either he ll
open for Australia or they push everyone up the order
which you put head. Possibly that's that's that's what I say.
You did say that.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I did say that, but that was when I was
That was when I was including Michael Nissa in the team,
which he is not in the squads that I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
He didn't get picked because he's injured. Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He did do his hammy in the Australia game. I
assume he would have got picked. I hope he would
have got picked. I think he would have over Scott
Boland probably. I love Scott Scott Bowland, but I think
a bit more consistent. Yeah, I'll give you that, and
it's a bit more of an all rounder. And Nissa
got four from the first innings of the second Test
after not playing the first Australia against India a most recently.
(07:53):
But McSweeney, yeah, was probably that's the biggest one. Yeah,
that's a big so I think because Harris did well
in one innings seventy five, seventy three, but no one
really claimed this. Bancroft didn't play well. Cons perhaps too
early for him as well. But yeah, pushing McSweeney to
open for the first time.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We don't know yet, but it looks like that's where
it's heading towards. But I don't I don't mind Travis
Head opening because it's like that AUSSI can work it
around a bit. David Warner would go something from ball one,
Travis Head, not even from all one, but like build
into a bit quicker. Maybe Travis he could do that.
But yeah, that's the Test squad which we'll get into that.
That's only in a couple of weeks away. Actually it's
about eleven days away to the first Test against India,
(08:34):
which we're very excited. It's actually kind of crazy. I
know that early, I know earlier than usual. I don't know. Yeah,
just November. Yeah, they're like India, Australia. Everyone loves it.
Let's just let's just get some more.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Make it a seven Test match to got to go
on ten every state in territory in Australia they were playing.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Why don't we just get rid of the odio eyes?
No one likes him anyway because Australia rest the twenty twenties. Yeah,
I'm more of an ode person. I like twenty twenties
more than odio. I think I'm happy to get rid
of odio. Interesting, just boring interesting. But that's I shouldn't
And as we're going to talk about the Australias Pakistan,
the second odio wrap that was Adelaide Oval on Friday.
(09:13):
I'll go through the scores and then we can talk
through it a little bit more. Australia bowled out for
one sixty three or thirty five overs. Pretty embarrassing there.
Pakistan one hundred and sixty nine for one. They were
only one down. They won in the twenty seventh over.
Pakistan win by nine wickets. What the hell happened there?
Nine wickets? Yeah? Look was it? Yeah? We thought the
(09:36):
spin would get the job done. It later, no, it was.
It was good, but it was the quick Yeah, it
was the quicks. Look Ralph five far I reckon row
five and twenty nine. It was great, second best sorry,
equal bestudio figures in Pakistan history. I had to look
at because there's only been a couple of Fife as well. Interesting,
he is awesome at the moment.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
He is so fast, he's in great nick and would
be good to see him over the summer as well.
Obvious seeing the big bush Melbourne stars still we do
at the stars, so I believe so people will be
lying up to watching him five between ninety it was awesome.
And then on the other side, Australia just played a
lot of stupid dumb shots at times, like trying to
get the crap out of it, whereas Pakistan were a
bit more controlled and they proved it was great.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
The commentators before the game, I'm just watching it, they
were like great condition for batting. It's perfect weather, the
pitch is nice and flat, it's like a road. Well,
Pakistan proved it. Yeah, that is I approved that. They
only lost one week and one hundred six and nine
runs and Australia just what the hell? Steve Smith was
okay with thirty five or thirty eighty. He had to
sort of anchor the inning, sort of like the past
where no one else everyone's fallen around him, and he's like, oh,
(10:41):
so I was actually okay with how ebout it because
he sort of had to hang around. Got a few
four's things like that, and no one else.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
No one really got on with it. Lamp for the
next there's a lot of teens, there's nineteen. Yeah, nineteen was.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
With Matt Short was the next top score, followed by
Zampa in English for the eight it's hamper making eighteen
is the third top score. Is a massive once.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, no it it is a bit of a worry.
Oh and this wasn't like the rest of the team either.
This was decently stack team. Yeah, full of batters as well.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We bat all the way down to basically this is
like our best team technically or.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Close to Matt Short. Fraise McGirk Smith, Marnus Inglis Hardy Maxwell.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Maxwell was really poor to get a series.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, he made sixteen in that game, but then he
got out for another duck, didn't he in the third game?
So it wasn't too good talking about Maxie I forgot
to write that in the thing in the run here there.
But since the World Cup, so since that epic double century,
he had both his legs cramping up and everyone's like,
this guy's one of the best white boall players in
the world. He has made odie I scores of one, two, seven,
(11:50):
thirty to zero, sixteen zero, So that's two ducks, six
scores under seven and a thirty. Yeah, look, that's great.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What is it? What has happened? He's had a few
injuries in there.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
He has a player of his caliber just because he's
so unpredictable. You come to sort of expect that with
Glenn Maxwell, but not much of a lull for that many.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I don't know if we can call him the big
show right now, that's his nickname. We can't. Here's the
big disappointment, can I Can I say that? Is that
a bit? He should not be able to go. Max
is like a legend, but he is the big disappointment
Glenn Max, I'm not the big show there. That's just
grab that. No, No, it's or form. It's been disappointing.
(12:38):
He's like the older sort of guy that you go,
all right, he's gonna be in the middle of oarnings
that he can make take some runs. He's coming this
series probably a little bit unlucky because everyone around him
sort of collapse and he can't play a natural game
a little bit. But got to do better than that,
so I thought he would, and I thought he would
have got more of a job with ball in hand
as well. Yeah, which is too many big Knights in
(12:59):
Adelaide again. Maybe is that what it happened last last year? Think? Yeah,
so maybe that's why you didn't play the field. There
we go, all right, that will just quickly. You want
to finish the game early. Maybe off the red square,
Nathan Lion. You still always hang out. Yeah, yeah, oh
that's that's funny. The wallshed with the bull, it's very fun.
(13:20):
You're going to sign your life away just in case
something happens, just on the ball. But yeah, if you
stick the hole on the store, you'll probably wake up
and show that's dangerous. That place anyway, that's the second
older I rapped done. We're going to have a look
at the Pakistan. They won by nine wickets, dominated Pakistan.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
To level the series, which made this game even more important. Yeah,
this game ended up being really important.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
The third eardy I wrap in Perth yesterday in Australia. Awesome, awesome.
It was actually a pretty fun match for Pakistan fans again.
So Australia bowled out for one hundred and forty. I
didn't think we could get worse than last time, but
we did. Then Pakistan one hundred and forty three for
two exactly the same over the twenty seventh over they won.
So do you get you should get some money back
(13:59):
for your ticket because both these matches only had like
sixty overs in them, fifty overs pretty much, and they's
supposed to be one hundred overs of cricket.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
So I would be disappointed. Australia was an a fan
a lot more money, so Pakistan not so much. I
reckon they got their money's worth one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
They're going crazy, Like when we're at the g for
the first one, I felt like we were in Pakistan.
There's ninety percent just Pakistan fans was green. Every you
were in there with your rooster head. We saw the Hult,
the famous Pakistan Hulk fan. He gave you a greasy.
It was a good day out. Yeah, he gave me
more than a greasy. In fact, he was his rooster dancing.
Yeah he did that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Did he wasn't a fan, but look again it was
too good again, really bad with a bat.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Australia top score thirty short Abbott short Abbitt is technically
an all arounder, but he's a bowling all rounder. We
don't want him making the top score.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So there was let's have a look here, six scores
under ten from the Australian side.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What could ducks in there? If we went out there, right,
I think I'd bring this up every week we went
out there. We could just get a few as anything
off the sneaky five, anything off the bat, we could
probably make some runs off. So but I'd be backing
away facing Harris Ralph bow one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Or yeah, look two players only made two players on.
They made over thirteen in this Australia embarrassing, really embarrassing.
One hundred and forty. We finished four. Yeah, Freddy was
really good yeah, the quicks again, we're back at it.
Ralph actually were me in the match. Two for twenty
four or seven a little bit surprising just because of
FREDI I thought was probably the better three for thirty two.
(15:32):
I seem Shah as well. Three for fifty four getting
the job done.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Back and ball this series. They've always since the World
Cup when I was here and I watched them against England,
g and now bowl and heat on those in Australia conditions. Yeah, Perth,
it's really bouncy. Yeah, I was thinking before the game
this actually could be close because they're just so quick.
They can get bounced very unlike in Pakistan. That's probably
in Pakistan and as good as some other places across
(15:58):
the world because it's like spinning.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Pitches and things like that. Agreed you A sorry they're
playing in your Yeah, more like subcontinent pitchures. But yeah, look,
Lance Morris was probably the only quick for the.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Aussies that really did. Yeah, twenty four really good. He
bowled pretty consistently. Two for twenty. Spencer Johnson was a
right as well.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah he didn't get reward in terms of wickets, but
he got none for twenty eight or eight which is
fairly decent.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, I'm okay with you know how we're talking about
we can talk about this later as well, the young
guys coming through and things like that. I'm actually I
feel okay with the bowlers because like in the short
format at LEAs, and like even like Lance Morris looks
really good, Men Johnson looks really good. But the thing is,
I feel like in the in the short formats with
quick bowlers, yeah, it's easy to hide a little bit
(16:40):
and have tastier figures because you're only more off the
batsman and trying to hit bigger sh and their way.
They're playing bigger shots, more risk, more rewards sort of thing. Yeah,
but then again you could say Devil's hat a cicket
and they could have none for yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
But look they have been proving stuff and hour bowling
(17:01):
cartel actually is getting a little bit older now, isn't it.
With hazel Wood say they're all going to retire around
the same time. Will So that's why I'm I reckon
we're going to have a bit of a lull, which
is very hasn't happened in Australian cricket since an examp
aper gate when we haven't really had a bad.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Sort of even even you know, backup bowls for Australia
Scott bowling, he's he's yeah, well he's it be thirty
four is he?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm pretty sure. Result he made his debut with like
thirty two I think thirty five? Yeah, how was Michael Nissa?
Let's have a look. It was like, is about like
twenty nine? I think thirty is he thirty four? Thirty four?
Scrap that and so everyone coming through is old. Yeah,
all our backups, so yeah, we need to Morris to
(17:46):
fire up locks of driver. He was always injured. Leo
was excited that we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Pakistan win again. Hoai eight wickets like win the series too?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
One first time and two as we mentioned before them
one series was great, forty two or fifty two was great.
I know he only made second game, so yeah, second game,
Barbara's arm twenty eight not out. I just have to
mention him because although he only made twenty eight, some
of the drives he did just like he's so nice.
It's like there's some quick bowls and he's just gone
straight down the ground. Looks so easy, made it look
(18:17):
easy with captain see off his shoulders. He just looked relieved.
He does he does. And the rizz king it was
pretty slid. I think he made thirty seven in that
last match. Serious. He actually in the second match I
didn't touch on. Rizwan was on track for the most
catches in an ODI match by wiki keeper. Ooh with
he already had six. So that's all. He dropped a
siller and he would have had. All the Pakistan fans
(18:40):
in our comments are actually talking about it, and he
would have had the most catches in an ODI match
by keeper running back with the flight. All right, it's hard.
You've got big gloves on, mate, You've got to taste
for baseball player celebrating to catch. Got that big glove
easy try cricket, try cricket exactly. Riz one, you've got
two big gloves. Use him. So he was really good.
(19:00):
Six catches in the end, yeah for that game is one. Yeah,
so that was I think it equaled the record for
most odio catches by a keeper and he would have
had the record. That's a the cool little record to
have in Pakistan as well well, not especially in Australia
against Australia. Yeah. But also also that's the other thing
I didn't talk about across this series. Riz Onan. I
like him as a captain, but he appeals for everything
(19:22):
and Zampa had a go at him. Yeah, everything, he
gonna appeal for everything, mate, And then he didn't hit it.
It was about a meter away from Zampa's bat and
he's like, Zampa should I Adam, should I review this?
And Adam's like, yeah, yeah, he got mate, and he
didn't realize he was taking taking the piece he's hed.
He was joking reviews it and then he goes, ah,
so I like that it wasn't nothing. It wasn't it
(19:45):
wasn't siner stuff. But yeah, he just appeals for everything
and he the commentary is like, he's a good captain,
but he needs to stop a feeling because he confuses.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We could keep it on the stumps. I think everything's out.
But I guess in the subcontinent India do that a
lot as well. What the seems so also do it? Yeah,
they just get excited, I think so. I think so
fair enough.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Anyway, Pakistan win the series two one nine wicket win
and then an eight week at win over the weekend.
That's crazy. Against Australia, No One does that in Australia.
Even when India win, it's usually pretty close in Australia.
So that makes makes this twenty twenty series a little
bit more exciting. Yes, because Australia will want to fight back.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And a lot of those players in that ODO team
will be playing in the twenty twenty I assume Phrase
McGirk will, yep, I assume Matt Short will, So they've
got to prove their worth, yes, in an Australian squad.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Good col All right, last, second
to last, we'll go big questions and fan comments. We're
going to be doing this all season long, all summer
of cricket because we've got so many comments to talk through.
I'll just touch up with two big questions I wrote
down and then we'll get into some fan ones. First
big question for you, Marcus, I was going to say
for everyone here, it's just you pressures on. I haven't
(20:51):
seen these yet. Actually, are the young guys coming through
not ready? And a worry for Australia. We'll say. I'll
just say yeah, no, we're not.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh that's so tough because it's sort of a swing.
I'm swinging both ways. But i'll go, I'll go. No, Yeah,
I think they when are they going to be ready?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Like you got?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Perhaps they're a bit too young. Maybe it's the play
style that they're being told to play.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
McDonald.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Obviously, Australian coaches come out and said we're going to
stick to an attacking brand. I don't mind that, particularly
in ODI formats, which I don't mind. It's going to
happen eventually. So uh look, I'd rather than get the
experience now then need it when we need to rely
on them. Yeah, I agree with that that they need
(21:34):
to get game time in.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
But I am a little bit worried because I don't think,
like as we talked about last night, I don't think
Frasse McGirk is ready to open. I don't think Matt
Short is a bit more experience. I'm happy with him
still at the top of the I think about if then.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I don't think was available for the series. Fraser McGirk
wouldn't play, true, Yeah that's true. Cooper Connelly wouldn't normally
play in this series because we rest the players so but.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, it's just the thing to think about as Ossie fans,
because like you said, all that good players are getting older. Yeah,
and we can't rely on smith manus to make the runs.
In all fairness, they haven't had a great probably two years. Yeah,
both of those boys. Yeah, so a little bit worrying
as an Aussi fan. There next one. Pakistan fans like
this one is the next big thing for Pakistan, I think. So. Yeah,
(22:19):
he's really exciting. He's an awesome player to watch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Again he's another attacking opener, yeah, which is what you
like in short format cricket. So if he can make
runs off the top of it sort of takes some
pressure off the off the shoulders of Bubba and Wiz one,
which has been the case for for quite a while
ten years. So it was good to see that the
openers sort of dominating. Yeah, Pakistan wins and Bubba just
(22:45):
ticks over the line for.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So sequ the w Yeah, I like it. I'm having
a look. He's already he only played three matches actually,
so that was his first series. There you go, so
forty one average through the series, awesome, averaging twenty seven
in tests through six matches. That's okay. He said three
fifties already in the tests and he's got a fifty
already already eyes in about ten matches, so he'll be
really good. So that's exciting for Pakistan because their young
(23:08):
bowlers are killing it, so their batters just need to improve.
And he's gone, Well, all right, you wrote down some comments.
I'll read them out and we can discuss through them
at gaming point two nine eight. This is on YouTube,
so thanks for commenting on there. Make sure you comment
if you're watching this. Sam will probably bowl spin if
it's a spinning pitch. I like to see that. So yeah, yeah,
we wrote this down just because we thought it might
be a spinning pitch in Adelaide. What did you write
(23:28):
down here?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
He finished with he did both three overs for fourteen,
so we did get it. Did get a good crack
at it bowl. Okay, but yeah, as we mentioned before,
quick surprisingly got the job done.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Analytois were two good in Adelaide. Next one was Ramsey
st Lens twenty twenty four on YouTube. Love the content, guys,
just put that in there. Just yeah, you guys to
tays a pump us up a little bit. I like that.
We actually yeah, any comment you want to do, any
question like you said, if it's about Marcus.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Lead personal, if you want me I don't know how
we've to do. I have, I may have more than
ten or less than ten. You won't know until you
answer the questions. These are the big questions.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's everyone wants to see that on your only fans
right as well? People still come yeah, nice, nice? Is
that guy actually six foot fight next to Marcus? What's
what's the question for Leo? Personal life? Question? Is Leo
Libra is Leo Leo? What? Oh my god? I want questions? Right, questions?
(24:26):
All right, there we go the well, I'm not going
to just start signs in this I'll die before we
get into star signs on this ship. All right, Next tie,
we want to talk about you wrote down the community
these out if you want the Jake Fraser McGirk performers.
So everyone's talking about it because he's a young guy
opening the batting. We've talked him up. You've won a
Buddy Rooster hat yeah sorry, rooster mask, and we've been
very excited by him. But he's not performing just yet.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And particularly on our Instagram posts, he went a little
bit off in the comments section just talking about Jake
Fraser McGirk, which is good to see. But we'll start
off with a comment on TikTok by oas away with
a few is in there. He is a twenty twenty player.
He can't play one day, is too impatient of a
player war. I thought that was a bit a little
(25:08):
bit hard.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Where he's coming from at the moment, He's probably spot
on because into twenties there's yeah, there's more rooms and
you can go from ball one. Yep. He probably just
needs even just like an over or two rather than
exactly from ball one, because as Leo said last week,
do we drop him down the order? I like him
at like five or six, sorry, six or seven.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But Tom Clark on Instagram, yes, the years in the
office with us, he he disagreed with Leo on that
front about putting him down the order. He goes disagree
field up and new hard ball is perfect for a
hard hitting opener. Leave the middle order to the others
for the likes of Maxwell and hard.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, I don't mind that. But I'm just a bit worried,
Like I think his techniques is good, and he just
he just plays some dumb shots, and I feel like
you can get away with some dumb shots more possibly
in the middle order.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It can if it he fix his balls a little bit,
a little bit more and just play more generally on
the deck so he can't get caught in situations like those. Yeah,
but I say, see Jimbo Yeah number one he said
on Instagram, we absolutely are introducing Frase McGirk incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't think he's the.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Right fit for this ODI side until he fixes some
critiques in his game that he reckons keep him in
the twenty twenties.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, so a bit of a similar theme here. It's
weird because we were calling him in the side for
ages and now quickly I think if he has a
decent yeah twenty twenty things, he just needs a bit
of confidence, I think, and similar nine ninety four and
Instagram also said still early for him to be in
the OBI team, So I think, like what Le said,
I don't min him putting him down the order. I
think he should be in the team because he's so
(26:48):
he's a really good player. Like even I think he
made what did you make the other day? Fifteen or
whatever he made, but he hit his boundaries. The comment
is like that is one of the classes, some of
the classes, like he just hits everything, so yeah, and
then you'll just do something silly or miss an easy one,
or I don't know. It might even be just a
bit of confidence. I'm hoping he gets some confidence from
the T twenties and then that'll flourish into other part.
(27:09):
Undred percent.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I think we're still going to see a good side
of Jake Fraser mcgok this summer, and I believe whether
that's in the Big Bash, whether that's in the upcoming
twenty twenty series, which hopefully it will be yep, I
think so. But he might relish the short boundaries in
in Hobart. Yeah, that'd be good down at Ninja Stadium.
We'll get onto our twenty twenty predictions.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Nice T twenty predictions. So the next one, next series
we've actually got against Pakistan is a three match series, Yes,
against Pakistan in the twenty twenty, so we're very excited
about that. First one is at the Gabbart, then we've
got a match at the SCG and then Monday at
Ninja Stadium.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Formerly known as if you're not familiar with Baleri, it
still is in Tasmania Ninja Stadium.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
What is that? The new interesting Ninja Ninja? Don't they
do appliants? The clients Ninja creamy and Ninja bullet and
linger bullet. Yeah, I think I have one of those
yeah plugs. But if they want to jump on you,
if they want to sponsor to us the Ninja bang
a Ninja bullet right there, there's a lot of space
there for it. Actually, we could multiple products, multiple products.
(28:12):
I will dress up as a ninja tom Yeah, let's
getting We could have the Ninja studios. We'll dress off
as Ninja next Amazon purchase, get it. I like it.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We'll rock up to Ninja Stadium in Ninja efforts.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yep. Honestly, I might just do that anyway, even if
we don't get a spin, it just feels right, it does. Yeah, anyway,
Teach winning predictions. So obviously Pakistan won the series series
two to one. This is another three match one. What
do we think can the Aussies bounce back with we
actually have really good TEA twenty specific players because of
the Big Bash. Yes, I think so. I'm leaning towards
like a two to one Australia win. But I'm they're
(28:51):
in much better form Pakistan, they are, But on on
your sord, I'm going to go to one Australia win. Okay,
in the series.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I just think, you know, we have a lot of
quality players who play in the I p L is well, yep,
that's true. Maybe a few of those won't play because
of the Test series yep. Like with the likes of
maybe Pac Coummans, Mitch Stark, et cetera. Will lean more
towards Lance Morris, Spencer Johnson. Yeah, but then more definitely
more than capable. Spencer Johnson actually featured in the IPL
(29:18):
as well. Yes, didn't as much as we go, but
still feedure is still good. Yeah, and I think I
don't want to say it helps, but Pakistan players not
being allowed to play in the IPL, yea, they play
less twenty twenty three than some Australians.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So look we'll go. Yeah, if you're saying two to
one where I reckon that that pakstunkle winn at the
Gabba because it's a bit more fast paced and the
bowl is there seg is usually pretty spin worthy and
then Ninjastadium, I reckon Australia a bit more experienced down.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
There, but I think so. But it doesn't look good
for weather wise at the Gabba. At the Gabba, oh no,
it's going to be storms in thirty degrees, so bring.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
It down here in Melbourn under the roof for mahavel.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Look, I mean it doesn't look good, so that like
get washed out, and in Sydney it always gets watched out.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I might have to Sydney. Wants to check the weather
for Sydney. Tested Sydney on Saturday. Looks good.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Okay, we're going sunny twenty nice, that'll work. And but
you never know.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Didn't know we're going to get a weather up down
all this. I like this this one with the.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Man raining Sunday for clear Monday. So we might get
cricket for two of those three games. Hopefully we get
it for all three and hopefully, hopefully hopefully yeah, Aussie
two one. We're predicting.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Let us know in the comments your predictions for the
upcoming T twenty series. Are we done? I think we're done.
We're done, all right? Stumps stumps for the Cricket Today Show,
we'll be back with this next week. Check out the socials.
We're going to do a lot about the T twenties
over the upcoming days. We're going to do a lot
for BBR Super Coach. We're going to do a lot
for T series commentaries coming up, So we're gonna do
a lot about eleven days. I can't believe it's eleven days.
(30:46):
That's crazy, I feel it. Footy season was just there.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
There's so much going on at the moment, so full
shows a week and we're coming to you from next week.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
We'll talk about that afterwards, but we'll have to have
a look. Yeah, let us know if you want to. Yeah,
that's guys. Gerald's in the comments on the to get
stuffed anyway, send any questions. As we do on every show,
we're going to read out the fan comments. Thank you
very much, Joe behind the camera. Thanks Marcus, I didn't
forget you this time. Yes, thanks to that sky and stuff. You'right.
You'll be back on for next show, thanks to me.
(31:13):
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