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February 24, 2025 • 30 mins

India beat Pakistan + Australia down England - 2025 Champions Trophy | Cricket Today Show - Tuesday February 25.

The Cricket Today Show wrap up an amazing first week of the Champions Trophy, as Josh Inglis steer Australia to a classic win over England, Virat Kohli was amazing for India vs Pakistan and New Zealand look very strong!
The panel debate who will go well, predict the winners for week 2 of the tournament, debate Marnus' form and go through some fun fan comments/questions!

Join the Cricket Today Show with Liam 'Stats Guy' McAllion, Leo Mullaly and Marcus Bazzano to hear about all things Australia and Champions Trophy!

00:00 Intro
02:30 Quick Single
07:17 Marcus’ story time
09:42 Champions Trophy Talking Points
21:41 Champions Trophy Week 2
26:10 Questions/Fan Comments
29:48 Outro

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to the Cricket Today Show for all of
your Champions Trophy needs. I'm your host, Liam McCain, also
known as the Stats Guy. He's riding straight.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
From the part. It's Liam. Here you go.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
You in my bed?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, I heard you were very drunk.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
He told you that. Have he told you that.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Here's a few spicy and brooches.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
That's all good now I'm feeling good.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Champions Trophy in full swing, very there's an there's actually
a few games that I'm very.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Excited to talk about. Really a little bit humble, pipe
in your face?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Are you going to remember what you're going to talk
about in this show?

Speaker 5 (00:38):
How much more energy we have in the show already
before pre Champions Trophy, when we thought Australia were going
to be absolutely.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Exactly I still could be. And I'll give him an intro.
Marcus also, he's pretty cool now he has his own place.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Are you going moving in the new house?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Very fun, drunk whenever he wants, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
Right around the house naked as Oh, no one wants
trust me, I have Oh I didn't ask.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I was watching the cricket.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
I was watching the cricket naked, watching this is century
cuick single.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, let's get into the show.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Awesome show as always, going through the major highlights of
the Champions Trophy so far.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Week one.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I didn't realize how quick this tournament is. It goes
two weeks and then the finals.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I like that, I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I like that is short. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
In the eight teams, an awesome Aussie win over England,
which we'll get into. There was a big Pakistan India
game and lots of other ones in between, gones with
some cricket news, some big questions and of course comments
slash questions, So.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Get around that before we start.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Be sure to get around this show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,
subscribe to.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
The YouTube channel. It's been a week and Marcus has
had all week to get this soft point six.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
We went six six, very good, very good, very good.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
But I was like, very good. All right, here we
go and get around the socials at cricket today AU
as well.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I was chucking up some things on there. We've got
some all things Champions Trophy, so get around that.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Actually, let's hit a goal. What's aim to hit a
goal for the hit Okay, By the end of the
Champions Trophy. Oh, that's all right, let's do it two weeks,
you guys, two weeks now, yeah, week two weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Don't let us down.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Subscribe to this show please.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
If it doesn't get to four k, we'll do what
the top comment says.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
That's an incentive for them not to subscribe, comment.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
For them to subscribe and co and then the top
comment will be terminate your channel.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I guess we've got to do all right. Let's get
into the quick single, the people's segment. First one I
want to touch on a bit of I would say,
your favorite leado, Mitch Moose Owen, do you want to
you want to talk about him?

Speaker 4 (02:43):
While he made one hundred and forty nine or sixty
nine balls, century of forty eight balls? But tas he
yet he's just continuing his form. Should we get him
into the Champions Trophy squad get late?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, we won so after game one for Travis Head
if he was playing, because what do we make through
fifty six would have made.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
He's not a Moose. He didn't score one fifty he didn't.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
I just kids a gun.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
He's an absolute Gunjohn.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
He's got after Jamis Trophy at least ball obviously he's
got to be.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
In the ass. I don't think this is the most
exciting thing of the game.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
The most exciting man of the game young Ozzie Nevethan
Radah Krishnan.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I'm very good.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm pretty sure that's what's good. Words in this run
sheet there is he's an AMPI dextro. He was balling
and then what does that mean? That's called I think
most people would know what it means.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
But right and left arm combination bowling. You've very rarely
see that two for sixty one. There's a few pies
in there when he was bowling left arm. I think
I had a look at his highlights, but he was
bowling both arms. It's good in short format crickets.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
A little maestro.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, yeah, he's a I think you could do some
bits maybe in the big Big Bash next season. It's
in the big bas because like, if you're TEA twenty
club and you're like, oh, just a bit of a
changeup that can bowl both arms.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Let's let's just call him Dave or someone give give
him a nickname.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, give you nrk ye.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'm just trying to okay, Okay, Yeah, that's those letters
in there.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Don't worry mate. Anyway, he did pretty well. And yeah,
we're really strong in the One Day Cup, so I
think that was in the semi finals. So they're in
the way.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
I actually don't and made it because Victoria and Callaway
Australia finished.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Anyway, that's another's a story for another day.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
Jackson Bird, Jackson Bird is what one of six or
seven ball of to get four hundred?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I think he's played up there. Actually he's played
a lot of games.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
But with the best leverage, by the way on that list.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's true, the bird, the bird.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I was thinking about it all right.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Next one of the quick single lea, you're involved in
a crazy fight? No, get that, not obviously, Marcus. But geez,
so what what league was this in?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'm not sure Dragon league. I think the sticks?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
What's that sticks? It was an a grade crew game.
Cod Sports are ported on it.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Gorman Dale, thank you to frog Box.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yes, caught the brawl, Yes, Gippsland in Gippsland. Yes, so
the bowl ahead buttoned the batsman. Yeah, jeez, there was
not w W. He just played a bit of local
park crickets.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
It seems like he bowled the ball, they got to run.
He went down the other end, a bit of words exchange.
They went face to face, bowler goes bang. Then a
fielder comes in, gets him in.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Their headlock, walking away. So then obviously the batsmen said
something again or chirped off.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yes, and then the fielder has come in put him
in the headlock, and the bowlers started getting up for a.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
D lily vibes.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I think there'll be a few bands because it will
be you know what that in like local footing now
or any footy, but like.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Cricket, probably they will probably kick kick both clubs and
the camp.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Probably didn't didn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
No, but like when it happened, we played.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
We played two seasons ago, so this is I've got
to I've got two stories.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Actually, all I know is I don't probably shouldn't name
the club.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well you just did, but.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
If you want to blow that jol.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
But they got into a scrap with with some team,
I think I think it was them. If it wasn't,
I'm sorry the club I mentioned. Uh yeah, they there
was there was a brawl and both clubs got kicked
out of.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
The comp This is cricket, Yeah, I reckon, there's very
rarely braws. Yeah, the gentleman's game. That's the gentleman's game.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
When you get down to it, it is like white
line fever.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
But I've never had a brawl like I've always had exchange.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
It gets heated, but then as soon as the game
is done, like yeah, you sort of chill club rooms
and chilling with them.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Have you been in a cricket I've almost I had
a fight. One guy tried to meet me in the
car pa with his bat. That wasn't good, but that's
because he gave our sixteen year old to send off.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
He wanted to meet you in the meet you in
the car park and give you a bad Yeah. Yeah,
he had a really nice cooker, but you buddy. Anyway,
the story story.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
I didn't know there was story time in market, story time,
little Markets, little Mark, little under twelve, under under twelves.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Cricket. Cricket.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yes, plane in the blast and Park area, Dorney Brook area.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Okay, unnecessarily part of the story. Anyways.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
On bowling, bowling to the batsman, Ye bats when hits
it straight to one of my mates in short cover
catches him is out.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm plugging it out right, that's when thinks he's bump boarded.
The typical bump bails it bounce.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
I said that, And anyways, he wasn't He wasn't too
happy that he got given out.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
So you can imagine if you're a little tanny, he's
having a scream.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
He charges my mate's dad, who was at square with
the bat, goes and tries to swing at him, runs
around him, and then people were going.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Like, come on, get off the ground, get off the ground.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Walks off the ground, smashes his bat into the into
the fence around the ground, then walks off.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
His mum is scoring and his mum's had to go
at him. Don't you ever do that again? Good on
the mon He slaps the mom. That's the one I'm joking.
You can't hear that. Don't slap in the ground. He
slapped the mum Jesus across the face was the backside palm.
And then one of our teammates of mine, dad, he

(08:53):
got up. He wasn't having it. He just grabbed the
kid by the collar.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
And oh my god, that kid is now in jail.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, gee, I wish we had frog boxing undertst but
you wish that. When I was twelve. The moral of
the story don't slap your mom is that I took
the wicket. It wasn't above wall. Honestly, I don't know.
I don't think it was okay. That was actually pretty good.
It was on the tour. There we go, There we go.

(09:21):
Violent man. I did not.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Think that that was going to happen anyway. He's threatened
with the band and he slept his one.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
What the hell? Don't do that in cricket. No, no
fights in cricket. It's not the game for that. You
got me a better career average at the end of
the day. There you go, you got the wicked. That's
the moral of the story.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I'm getting rid of that high the quick single, and
we are swiftly out of the quick single. What a
quick single? That was Champions Trophy talking points, lads? Any
more stories or are we good for We're good?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
That was moving on. That's pretty interesting.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
First one, I'm just going to go through some of
the highlighted games from week one. New Zealand demolished Pakistan
in the opener. Looked very well rounded with youth and experience.
Because I've I've I've obviously back to New Zealand from
the start of the tournament.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
Oh sorry, he said that.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I read Africa in my head, but I said New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Back New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sorry, you back New Zealand. And they look good.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, looking good.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
South Africa smashed Afghanistan. Ricky sorry, I one hundred runs.
I didn't realize how good he was to be. He's
in good form, that man. And they had four players
score fifty plus against Afghanistan. They looking really good. Yes,
very big game which we'll touch on to Africa.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Australia obviously the classic match of the whole week so far.
This is going to be the best match of the tournament.
England versus Australia. Lads, and we just do it again, bastball.
We go.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
We didn't even not one of us picked Australia and
then we go even back coming said he's.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Like, we just left for the big tournaments, tournaments. You
know what. They've done it again. I'm doing it for
the second week in a row. It's an apollo. G
you said they were sorry.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
I'm sorry to the Australian team. Under estimated how much
joy you bring me. And I found myself at times
very excited and jubilant whilst I was naked on the
couch watching that perform.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
He turned it off for two for twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
I turned it off all in all fairness, but he
was still nate.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
It was after the first Premier game of eleven thirty
and I was waking up at four thirty to watch
the Aston Villa Chelsea game. Fair enough and we went
to twenty seven. I'm like, oh, here we go again,
Here we go again.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
But I woke up and it was like Christmas. It
was Christmas when I woke up. That was That was awesome.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Obviously on the English side. The only man that's worth
talking about, Ben Duckett.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
It was awesome.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
I predicted for the most runs he's well on his
way one hundred and sixty five or one hundred and
forty three I saw. I think it was duper c
or some it was a South African cricketer this morning
said that he should have batted a bit quicker and
that's why they lost.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Is it all right?

Speaker 1 (11:57):
He literally fifty He made one sixty five, one forty three.
They made three fifty because of him. Yeah, I think
he battered perfectly. I get know what you mean, but
I felt like the other batters, it wasn't on them.
I feel like he was knocking it around. Was the
end of the hiw Yeah, he was knocking it around.
There was a lot of ones and twos in there.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Could have got some more boundaries, but he made one sixteen.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
But then, but then it relied on like Butler and Livingstone,
who's just come in to hit those boundaries whereas it
should be the way around.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Probably I agree with that fair enough. But still he
is so good, very good.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
On the Aussie side, dwarf shairs with three far he
was good, expensive.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
A bit expensive. I think everyone was expensive.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
I honestly felt like our best bowler was Nathan Nelislice. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
best ballers, but he just didn't get the reward.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
I feel like happened to him in Big Batch as well.
He just gets a lot of dot balls, puts it
in the right era every time.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
So I give that. And then martas the bowler, I
think he's a bowling all around and now.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
It has to be but he got too far famously
said he did not get to that.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
He got two for those, so I'm happy. Good on him,
good on him. He's shutting down the haters likely over there.
There we go.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
But I think you talked about in one of our
group chats amazing fielding. But I know that they made
three fifty. But our catching, our field, just our fielding
in general.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Could that be the reason why we won the game?

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Why is Carry in the oufit?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
That's what I was about to say, carry out a classic? Actually,
I think he took two really good catches, took classic
catch one hand up. He's a wicket keeper. Why was
he in the effort? Just festival?

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Well, by the way, we just went past Glenn Phillips
catch like it was the best catches.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, we've seen that. We've got to talk about him
in the We talked about best fielders at the point.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, he is.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
He is nuts. He's taken mentioned.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think I may have may have mentioned him.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
But that was an awesome catcher, That's very true. But
Carry's catch is awesome. You're right, Why do you reckon
he's not in the gloves? Do we think just give
him a I think Carry is the better keeper.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
That always they always keep carrying field English? Yeah maybe
got that because he's a no man.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Maybe yeah, maybe English might not have called that, or
he's just not that good at.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
I think honestly, Carry is taller, so if you have
him on the rope, if you have him deep, there's.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
More chance maybe catching one on the rope.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
He's probably thinking, oh, I'll have to be in the outfield.
But it worked out well and he took some classic catchers,
so good on him. In God obviously made a monster
score through fifty one. They were like, boys, just take
it easy, went the ball through fifty one.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
They're not chasing that. It was a Champions Trophy record
as well for fifty one. Yeah, and then the odd
is going to we'll chase it down in forty eight
over as easy as it easy done, easy done, so
two for twenty seven as you went to bed.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
So we were struggling and then short was sixty three.
Alex Carey made sixty nine minus made forty seven. But
it was the Josh English show. This man is the future.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
President past of Australian cricket and passed. It had to
be the former Pom to do it.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
I don't do the man from Leeds, he's done it again.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
The little man from there try to convert him.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
They try to convert him, but he knows better.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
I don't convert everyone, don't they He.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Was born there, It's not that much of a conversion,
but yeah he was.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
But they've still fail most.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Of their players.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Army one hundred and twenty off eighty six for the
wind and he stayed in for a very very long time.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
The fewest innings for a ton in all formats by
an Aussie player ever by about fifty innings. He's had
fifty six innings to make a ton in all three formats,
and I think the next best was like one hundred
and one.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
So there was only four players off the top of
my head, got on my phone Swornson, Glenn Maxwell and
David Warner.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
No, she's looking on the ball. Knowledge there I can
actually checke back. Here it is.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh you missed one? Wait did you say, Maxwell? Oh
he's got them all than what he've done well.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
So Ingress was fifty six innings and then the next
best is Maxive with one hundred and seven.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
So Inglish is just he's just doing it all.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
He's doing it all that man, he will know what
I loved about his innings. He just kept it simple.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
He played spin perfectly, and then with Wood and Archer
it's just like you're bowling, so buddy Quick, I'm just going.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
To board and going I should learn off that.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Who should learn?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Just play a bit smarter manus No Jake praise, Oh yeah,
Jake to watch English.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
That little annoying little guy.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
He would chine hit Joe, he's becoming.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
He would chine it joffer one hundred and fifty five
back over.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yah, which is idiot. That's why he's none of the team.
That's well.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
It did become a bit of repetitive though, didn't it. Right,
arm Quick bowlers would would Archer and uh Cask got
smackedst smacked around a little bit.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, they needed to get some more wickets with the
with the ball with spin and things like that, because
they only had not one English bowl I had more
than one wicket he didn't.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yeah, he's always pretty good, even Livingston bowler right for
a part time? Yeah, yeah, what draft for? Archer dropped
an absolute pole?

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Did he did?

Speaker 5 (16:45):
So?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
That dropped?

Speaker 5 (16:46):
I didn't say that Alex Carey smoked one spaghetti he
was carries on forty nine.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
No smoked us straight to him. Dropped it.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Not only that the ball spills out and he's on
the ground going oh no, whilst.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
They're got before, so they ran too.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
I think Carry ended up making like another twenty eighteen
or something like that, which could have been the difference,
but actually came in and made a quick thirty or.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
About ten quick one on England.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
There was a few excuses, as you want to touch on,
I did get it up before. Literally I saw this
last night and I was like Liam Levingston go on says,
I don't personally believe that performance.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Deserved to lose, and that nome Ducket said something else
said said.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
They said, said, I got it word for word, said
the pitch obviously changed.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
But like it word for word.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
It is the conditions.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Obviously you could have just said para. But yeah, they
always have to have excuses. Just say you lost to
the better team, we didn't bowl that well, you're bad.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well, but you know who I really want to hear
from Ben Stokes? What's he got to say about this?

Speaker 2 (17:55):
True?

Speaker 3 (17:55):
He probably thinks they wont.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, we made it three undred and fifty. And then
I just stopped.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Thinking, Actually he's probably enjoying life because he could just
switch support to New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Exactly right.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
They bottled it and you can't say you deserve to
win when you lost.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
We haven't even touched on.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
This is an Australian team without coming exactly, without Stark,
without Hazelwood, without Mitch Mark.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Without Marcus without that is fine all around. Josh Inglis
is the goat there.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
So sucked in you pummy twack?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Can I say? They says someone some kind of anyway.
So that's the AUSSI.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
He's got the job done in the first match, so
we're going to win it all now. We didn't even
think we're gonna. We didn't eve think we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
It's a tough group. That's New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, I mean you think well one win gets us through,
really don't? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, but South Africa and Afghanistan tough games.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
I also love that this was a really good game
because we could have talked about like every single game
and this could have been a smashing either way.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
But that was literally the game of the tournament so far.
We'll talk more about Australia as well, of course, but
it just was handing it, but.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Not as much as India Pakistan. I'm taking his job,
stats guy, honestly, go on, go on, right, Welcome back,
to the Cricket Today show.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
I wanted the next game and just what he wanted
to do the headline.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
No, he said, I was the next host.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
I was just going along with the India smash Pakistan
two forty one, Pakistan, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Not good enough?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
King, Bobiere Colie just Indio? Is he the best odio
cricketer ever? I think I don't even I even't looked
at the stats, so don't don't roast me on probably,
and I'm a big Colie hater, but he is like.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
That consistent in odio cricket. It's as his best format.
I think he was Pakistan. Let me have all of
his stats. I don't know. There's players, there's other players
like he average is fifty nine. He's got fifty one
hundreds seventeen fifties. That's pretty good. A strike eight, I

(20:01):
don't know, but it was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Ninety four its pretty good.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
A bit of West Indian because they're very good at
one day cricket for the longest of time.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, who though, Chris Gal, Yeah, you're right, you're right,
the West Indies and it said.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
No, Cole has played two hundred and ninety nine that's crazy.
So he's got his three hundred, he's got you get
a banner, you go maybe cricket. I don't know about
that name.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
It was superb. India look really good. I think the
main threat to my beloved kiwis winning at all.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, I'd say India looked the best.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Of your missus pumped up about New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, she loves it, she loves it be kame Williams and.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Fan Yes, yeah about ratching, ratching, but yeah, yeah, that's true.
Your man ratchet, I didn't even talk about.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
I forgot.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I haven't actually looked at last last night. Yeah, I
love he's a the jet. He does it all that man,
good looking man. He doesn't does it all YadA as well.
Three far. I think one of you guys tipped him
for most wickets in the time, said Rashid. Oh, maybe
we just talking about it India's most wickets because he
looked really good and I think he'll dominate in these

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sort of conditions. It was a bit funny that Paks
done home game obviously, but they had to play it
in the bye But that's because India can't go Dubai
otherwise they might die. So fair enough yeah, it might
get pretty much legit.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
So all right, that's the Champions Trophy talking points where
the energy on this show. You're right if Australia lost
to England, we'd.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Have been slumped in our chair.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
So it's all good wealking about never in doubt. All right,
Champions Trophy Week two, we're going to quickly go through
the matches. Well, we'll touch on Australia, South Africa tonight
a little bit more and then quickly the rest of
the other ones.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
That is that right with you guys? Yeah, yeah, that
sounds good.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
All right.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Australia ver South Africa. Leo, you said you've got some
points on this one. You're very excited. Did you said
something about it before? Give us some insight.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
I don't think I said that the game.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
I think I look Australia obviously very impressive performance, but
it's a tough group, very and leading up to the
England game we couldn't make over two hundred with the
bat and gets to Pakistan against fr Lanka, South Africa
Afghanistan are still danger games. We win one with chilling,
but I just want to see how we go death.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Africa have the best bowling attack in our group as well.
Team Yeah, I agree, and their batting is insane form.
So yeah, i'll tell it's on part with England.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah maybe I think England has better batting than them.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, but also Australia needs to knock and see above
three hundred win like we need to just because we're
not going to make three fifty again, that was a bit.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
It depends on the pitch because that was I score.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, I don't know. I think we can definitely chase
down three fifty, but.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
The conditions obviously changed. That's got yeah, yeah, yeah, England
deserved to win.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah apparently.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah. So what do we think on this one? Australia
vers South Africa?

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Lean the Aussies I reckon.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Really yeah, we really have No I'll go Australia.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'll go South Africa because I have tipped them for
the whole thing. But I think it's going to be
really close, hopefully hopefully as super robo I say that
all the time, we need a super A super a
super all right, So that's Australia tonight.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Hopefully we get the win.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Afghanistan versus England is the next one. Are they going
to come playing against?

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Surely England win this one win, they'll bounce back and
then they'll say we're the best Crooked team and hopefully
they don't make it out the group stage. Next one
is Pakistan versus Bangladesh. Honestly, they've lost. Pakistan lost in India,
so what's the point anymore. On the thing is they
set themselves up well in India.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
There were two for a hundred.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Yeah, if they just collassed the two four hundred and
fifty have a long tail and then and it just
went to they just think.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
I think Pakistan win. But what I'll say is if
they needed to win this to make finals, that they.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Would lose, so well, they pretty much do. You can't
afford to lose more than one game.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Forgot New Zealand one too in India one.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah already, So they'll probably win this because it means nothing,
is what we're saying. Yeah, Pakistan win. Afghanistan versus Australia
another big one choice. I think that would be a
fun match because last time we played Afghanistan, Oh, no,
last time we.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Played Afghanistan it was a bit of a string.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yes that was twenty though.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Last that was. Last time we played America was oh
that show looks he looks on form. He sitting.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
He needs to come in last ten overs. He can't
come in before that.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
And have like he's not going to be cramps gramps
while he's batting and hit him hit two hundreds.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
He might actually go out against Afghanistan and just be
like just this is trauma for me and then.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Retire and walk off. That would be good. But yeah, wait,
surely the Aussie's get a big win.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
There two close games for the Aussis.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
But actually if we lose to Africa, smash Afghanistan.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
It no, no, we could just beat Afghanisan.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I'm just saying, oh, yeah, that's true. Can you can
get through with twos? He's trying to work out, Well,
you can still not make it, That's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Unlike, okay, South Africa verse England. This is a really
good match up for the I think it's on the weekend.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
What do we think I'll go England?

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Oh wow, ah yeah that means England make it on
my calculations, my calculations how much.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I don't know if it's a net run RAI or
head to head probably equal points on them that run
roun I'm pretty sure they have a look at the run.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
South Africa to lose the next two games is what
I'm saying. I'm tipping England to win.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
The next two would be Australian England going through.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh wow, wow, okay, wow, that's amazing. All right, we're
going South Africa England. I'm going because the Poms are
gonna lose in England gold.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
All right.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Last one, New Zealand verse India. This could be Oh
that was quick. This could be one of the biggest
match of the tournaments. New Zealand. Now you gotta go in.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
This will be the final.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh they'll meet it again in the final. I they
well and truly could, don't think so. But India, I
think we'll win this. They match up really well. They
got a good team. I think you're going to win
the thing.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
I think New Zealand win the thing. India could win this,
but New Zealand will win it.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
All okay, you heard it first?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Was their team? I love it?

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Man.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
All right, good, we.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Got a meeting, So so let's get into the question.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Slash Fan comments, We'll start off with YouTube at a
certified plumb boy.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
He says India will win. He was talking about the tournament.
We will celebrate good times. What do you think about that?
Is that just facts?

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (26:18):
I'm happy, are you actually? Because in the video India,
I thought about it more and I just this is
what you get on your shows. We think about it
and we know when we're wrong.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Sometimes sometimes we are off and wrong. Yeah, yeah, especially
you about Manus.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, talking about Marnus Andrew he says, put some respect
on Manus's two wickets?

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Do you want to put do you want to go
into the TikTok comments?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm happy to as well because it's all about the
same video. So Andrew t was on YouTube shorts, so
you have a look at YouTube shots.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
We'll get on TikTok. I know I just got battered
on TikTok just from other things as well.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Comments up a video saying Manus did and do much
or whatever and he didn't.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
So he got forty seven and two.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Two junk time wickeds and the forty it's like so
unmemorable when there is a Josh English who was dominating
and carry and shaw.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yeah, I agree that it wasn't like amazing, but you can't.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'll be honest. I didn't really look at the full score.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
He's not his man on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
I think Leo got versed and this is oh my god,
what's on about cricket podcasts?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Shout out to them? How can you have basball? Sorry,
that is not that is not what it's supposed to say.
How can you hate basball but love watching Harry Brook?
But Harry Brook is the epitome of basball classical.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
I was going to reply to this, but I didn't
want to appear rattled, So now I declined to comment.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
No, like, just because Harry Brook is a gun and
he has no excuse for football has done Jack all?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yes, it's Harry Brook.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Sorry to cut you off again.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, no, you were talking, No, you talk.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Harry Brook in Test cricket is a top three batsman.
Bastball is not a top three cricket team.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Breaks.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Why what's he on about cricket podcast? What are you about?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
What about?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
I didn't get rattled.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
It was cool, like a player without liking the team.
I agree, I agree, that's that in the basketball's really
about Test cricul.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Not I Well, he's just taking over cricket.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
So yeah we do, we do like Harry Brook. Yeah
on the show. Yeah, he doesn't and he doesn't come
out in the media with excuses like Ben Duck and
Ben Stuck, So don't mind him not. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Last one on TikTok Abaut Shake fifty five, it was
my combined eleven for Pakistan India.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I did say very.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Quiet hate for this.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
You should have got some man, I said, I hate
m put him on my team. But four, that's true.
I said that I hated college been under my breath.
I didn't know that they might pick that up.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
But then he says, if you hate Coligue, One he
bashed your team badly. Two he's better than every player,
including your favorite player. Two Possibly he's because he's a
very very good player. But one he doesn't bash our
team badly.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
All the time. Who's your favorite player? Player is moose Owen,
including including past.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
My current player?

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Ever is warning he probably warn one of your Ricky Ponting.
We've spoken about this.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I don't think is better than them. No, mine's as
better than get.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Easy.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, but he didn't bash our team recently, did so.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I don't think of that.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Retract that comment of no, but we like the comments.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Thanks for comment. There was lots of comments on that
one on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
So thank you for the comments, get around the YouTube
and more comments on there getting people.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
A little bit. Yeah, that's yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Anyway that stumps for the Cricket Today Show. Will continue
to do this show every week on a Tuesday. Most
likely we'll be back after the group stage of the
Champions Trophy then the finals of next week, so we're
very excited for that. Make sure you subscribe Cricket Today
Show on YouTube. Follow Cricket Today. Are you on older socials?
Sending any questions and comments? We love reading them out
on the show.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Joe behind the camera killing it as always, laughing at
us everything. Marcus says, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Later, thank you all, Thank you very much, Macus, thank
you and thanks to me. That's another episode of Cricket Today.
Joe right, what's gambling really costing you? For free and
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