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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome back to the Cricket Today's Show for all of
your Champions Trophy Final needs. I'm your host, Liam mccallyan,
also as the stats guy. They're already on camera, but
he's up and about Lea Malalley. Are you going You're
ready to go?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Feeling good? Yeah, and here going on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We've got a celebration.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
He picked India from the starts. It is said that
it is that said that Marcus Barzan.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I think probably seventy four percent of the world could
have predicted that as well.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
But you got for being boring mate.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
He picked New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I did have India, but then I realized I had
a personality and I.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Picked South Africa and that was not a good pick
in the end, but they did so they did well.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
New Zealand finished third, fourth, fourth, that they will do.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We've got an awesome show, as always, going to go
through the major highlights of the Champions Trophy Final between
India and New Zealand. India obviously getting the job done
in Dubai of all places. Of course they didn't leave Dubai,
which we'll touch on. We've got the major cricket talking points.
Cricket News some big questions and then fair comments and questions.
As always, we've got some got some fun ones in
the bit of feedback, a bit of everything in there.
(01:07):
So yeah, not a bit.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Of fun before we start.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Be sure to get right around the show on Spotify,
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
Marcus is getting it up. We're very close. What's the
soft count?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The soft count is three point eight three, but the
overall total count is.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Three thy eight hundred and thirty five.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
All right after we post this final wrapper Champions Trap,
we can get to that four k I reckon plus
all the shorts we do, it will be rising there
we go. So thank you very much for cribing.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We're doing a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We're doing We're doing enough. We're doing enough.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And make sure you get around all the socials cricket
today AU. Yeah, there's lots of posts always going up.
And there's Steve Smith last week a few posts about
him which will touch on.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
We'll see other show that's just started started up again.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, af swing AFL today as well.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
If you actually want to see this three as a panel,
This this trio I meant to say every Thursday night,
this is the team show. The team show, and then
we've got a Wednesday mid Week Maness and a Sunday
wrap show for every single round of AFL.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Yeah, just how I like to be in the middle.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Say, like exactly right, the sandwich nuts all right, quick single,
Here we go. Leo has been biding at the jump
for a quick single. Here we go, jump jumping, chumping,
jump jumps, all right. Steve Smith is the first one
in the quick single. He retires from ODI cricket averages
averaged forty three across his career, twelve hundred and thirty
five fifties, two World Cups, which.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Were in twenty fifteen and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Really good, like he'stat's obviously as good as teasing, but
just a legend of cricket. I'm sad that he's retiring
from shoe books out and ven Era.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yep, yeah, I think you're reaching for her down there.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, No, he usually has props.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
We should have got something.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Sad day, ter, Yeah, very sad day. Put a post.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Up up about.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
He's very chill today, chill guy, wile to get up,
and about Michael.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Nice can come into the ah stay Smith, Yes, like
the same age by the way, Michael needs.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
To took six for on the weekend, just.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Saying, oh are we keeping tragger that?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, I've got one thing for the Sheffield Shore.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Just because this just blew my mind. Sam Constance occupied
the crease. He made fifty. You go, oh, we'll fifty
probably be off about forty fifty sixty balls of one
hundred and seven balls. Didn't know he had that in him.
He's like, I'm going to be a test player. That's
it's all good. Fifty one hundred and seven balls.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It makes runs, creaking out, stays in for longer than
twenty balls. That's that's what the headline should be.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
You see he was going to training on the weekend
or yesterday yea or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, some some bloke winning the car park parked his car.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Saw holy crap, that's same conscious just walk back, walk
past with his cricket bag.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
What The bloke quickly reverses into the car park, hops
it at the car, runs towards Sam Constase.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
To grab a flick. Yeah, he hasn't put the handbrake on.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
A month ago, two months ago, we also talked about
this on the show.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
On Instagram reels mate or something.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He has an update of his phone. No, genuinely, we
talked about this. It might have just been.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Grang do a video and he only posted it like
they really.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I swear that was like two months ago. That was
at least a month ago. We talked about it. But
you might have been away, So that's all right. But
I hope he was in the room trying to look
it up on.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
The show.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's where you found it. He's looking at it. I
don't think it was in the last day. I think
it was ages ago.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah, it could have been.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That's all right, it was.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You don't find it, don't worry, let's just quickly move on. No,
he doesn't have to absolutely, uh no, but I don't mind.
At least it was the same concerts related. All I
was saying was the fifty surprised me that he actually
could stay in.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
He's still scrolling.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Just forget about it, mate, you dropped, You're not He
posts too much. Yeah, he does anyway, But that just
surprised me that same concerts like that. Lastly, in the
quick thing, this shouldn't be in the quick single talking
it's rolling into the talking points.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
India win the twenty twenty five champions Trophy. What a
win that was. And my man, my man, I supported.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
He's found a way to bring him into this conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, because he was the player of the tournament.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Rutch and Revenger got the player of the tournament most
runs average sixty nine, one oh seven strike erat three wickets.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Just a great old round tournament from the man.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I think it also helped the majority of the other
games got washed out.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So yeah, but he's still averaged six and still still
very good. I think he made two hudred and sixty
three runs off not many matches.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
In the in the easier group out of the two.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
That's right. India, he's such a beast.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
He's a beast. Pakistan they were very ordinary. Yeah, this tournament.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But I don't know if we're on Pakistan van wagon anymore. No,
we love Pakistan. We're Switzerland. We love it, we love it.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
All right, that's the quick single. Let's get into the thing.
Ever talking about the champions Trophy final talking points. I
don't care if India won.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Glenn Phillips took another scream in my lives, that's all.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I was three for the tournament.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He's such a.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Beau.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
I as India one talked about New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's got that's got a replay.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Of that catch right now, So here he comes, yep, oh,
and we lost and we lost the champions That is cricket.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's a little shot right there now, probably not anyway,
the fact is he the best field in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Right now, I'm saying, yeah, if you hit in.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
The end, Philips the best footballer in the world, in
the world.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
He's the best field Is he the best fielder since
Johnny Rhodes?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh Ja days is up there? We talking about this
a couple of John T.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Rhoads as well.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Also in the Masters, the Granddad Tournament over there, diving
diving catch the Super four.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
He's not that old though, he's still got it. I
think that's overreaction, is this.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Shane Oh, he's fifty five. Shane Watson and Ben dunk
can just go absolutely and hit twenty six?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Is put some respect on Ben legend anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
We'll actually touch on India because they did win the tournament,
so obviously India's I'm going to touch on India's spinners.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
They were unbelievable four spinners, all of them.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I think had an economy under four point five just
stump to stump, so consistent.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Got a couple of l b w's between them.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Yeah, they were. They were very good.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They were very good. That's that's all we want to
contribute about that.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Well, I think you kind of touched on it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, like are they the best? Have they got the
best spinners in the world, Like in terms of a combination,
That's what I'm trying.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Because four combo yeah, yeah, they went with the old
four to two spin paste combo.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, I seen before.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
It's completely it's completely different to Australia as well because
we focus on pace yep conditions in the picture.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
They're all yeah, it's worked to us in most parts
other than age and yeah, but in India obviously spins
the go.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, so I think they grow up more with spin.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The favorite current Indian spinner Chack Farrathi.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
I love him.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He was so good in the final as well. He's
probably been there. I even could it. Yeah, I for
both being you love it. It's all around him as well.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, they're all very talent.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And then you've got Ja just is his weapon as well,
so good.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And then the other side of India obviously Roa Charma
Captain Clutch seventy six.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That was an awesome efforts. I was solid with forty eight.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I don't understand he can go from looking so poo
in a Test series, yeah, I think, and then to
dominating od I and he looked different.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Mental different mental.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It is mental because he's like his technique is usually
one of the best in the world and in the
in the in the Test series against Australia, he couldn't
even hold a bap but he got his confidence back.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He was awesome in the final.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
His family was there.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
His family maybe the moral well, it isn't it India
that they're not all to have their family.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I'm saying his family was there and now that they
can't be there, that's because.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Of there you go easy. He doesn't like the pressure
of possibly.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
And then on the New Zealand side, I didn't get
the job done, but Bracewell he was awesome. He got
fifty three or forty balls two for twenty eight off
his turnovers. I don't know that much about Bracewell, but
he believe. Yeah, he's been doing really well. The last
couple of like tournaments.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Are handy all around.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, he's unassuming, unassuming.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Yes, they love a bracefl I think he's Zealand.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
One of them is related to the comedian Bracewell, at
least I'm pretty sure they're.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
All related down there. Yeah, yeah, but either Doug Bracewell,
the ex cricketer.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yes he did.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
He was a big buff boy.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yes, yeah he was. He was. He was a hard man,
Chunky had it was a hard good chunky. No, not chunky,
just truck truck like Mike Cosgrove.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Veins.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, nice night.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I want to what veins?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Nice good chat boys there, mate, It's not in my
hand of course, of course, were you thinking? Last one
in his film was Darryl Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
He had his last ever fifty but that they had
a big collapse at the start, so I actually respected
his performance.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I was going to mention that they actually put up
a very good fight and considering they lost, uh, they
lost Williamson and ravengo early.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
There were three for Gordons.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
What Avenger got thirty seven, which was solid but he
needed to.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Go on with it. Yeah, they were three for seventy
five and in a whole world of trouble.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Trouble, especially when the last game, India ripped through their
middle order. Yes, after a strong start they had, so
surely the opposite this play around.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, because if you just look at this, cause you
go fifty one off ninety something whatever Mitchell had, Oh yes.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Fifty one off six sixty three or one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
One or sixty three of one hundred one, which obviously
in ODII you don't really want that. But he dug deep,
he stayed, stayed and helped them stay in the game
and get it down to the last couple of overs.
But India, they're just there's too good across the board.
And I'm gonna I was going to bring this up.
I think that overall team is good.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I think you will say and during the week New
Zealand's team possibly a better team.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
India is good.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
No, but India is Actually they actually played well as
a team in this tournament. Rather than they.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Normally choke it, you know what I mean, they do
they do.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
They didn'tchoke it this tandard. That's an awesome effort.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So now they are the current holders of the T
twenty World Cup as well as the Champions Trophy, which
is Australia's list.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yes, everything else.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yeah, India, come on, hold the ash Odio World Cup.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I actually can't believe India don't hold the ashes never
never wanted.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Get good?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What's the how many centuries to.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Keep?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
They don't. They don't hold the warm trophy.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A lot better than them. Come on, when do you
think about it?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
No, in that regard, Actually they as have the World
Test Championship Trophy, which I I M sorry, not the trophy.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
The mace. It's not a trophy. It's a mace.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
What do you what do you what is a mace?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
It's like a.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Staff, like a Have you not seen the mace? It's
literally oh yes, and it's got the ball on top.
He just forgot no genuine spike. Yes, yeah, no, I
don't think it's spike. I'd use that in a zombie
apoc up the bottom of it.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
No, it's just a ball on this thing, a bludgeon.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Search up World Test champions yeap trophy, Yeah, come up.
It's like if we have time, won't be able to
get a picture up on the screen. But that is
that is a good first weapon of zone.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
All all this cricker back roll here, that's true.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It feels like that would cause a concussion.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah they could.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
So they hold the T twenty World Cup, the Champions
Trophe now obviously. And then the last thing we're going
to touch on with this Champions Trophy.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Final that India they traveled.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
They don't have to travel all the whole tournament. Zero
column has traveled. You've got New Zealand seven thousand and
forty eight, lom And has traveled.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Just they helped out India a little bit.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
They I don't know, it's a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
They still played very well and arguably they were the
best team. Still.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yes, they're still the best team. But New Zealand weren't
weren't given any any favors.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No, they won't give it. But India will win the
Champions Trophy. Well they probably deserve.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yeah, they played the same ground for five games. Yep.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They didn't have to go to Pakistan obviously, reason that
so we can't even argue about that. But yeah, fair,
all right, let's finish off as we always do with
the questions and fair comments. There's a lot in here. Actually,
I reckon Leo, you put him in here? Do you
want to read him out?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
For sure?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Mate?
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
The first one is I'm going to butcher this one
at baksh Bandari a very one six.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Very well pronounced.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You go bask you.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
He said, let's all laugh at Australia. Now that's in
response to you saying let's all laugh at England after England.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That is true, but still didn't get a point in
the tournament in Australia were solid so.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That one comment.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
He's look at him.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
And Andrew t sending love to him. We love him.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
From the AFL Today Show.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
This is a long one and this copped a bit
of a.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Chit chat on our comments, this one hoping Australia win
to spoil India's fun. India has great players who play exciting,
high effort cricket, but the b c c I undermines
them by cheating and exploring every advantage they can. India
has enjoyed a significant advantage by playing all their games
and absolutely.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
They are the only team you don't have to didn't
have to travel.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
If they have to play outside of Pakistan, they should
have to play in as many different cities as everyone out.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That is a very good point for a man, man
of the people, man of the people. This guy knows
ball for someone who only recently found out.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
What well he gets his knowledge from us nuggets.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That's true, but I think he knows more than we
might have to get. We might have to do a
video call with Andrew T a one day live call
in show.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I meant like just a little interview, that'd be cool.
What's what's the vibes over there in Canada? Are you
gonna play for Canada one day?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Things like that that'll go, well, yeah, I'm gonna go.
But he's making some very good points I didn't even
think about. They didn't even have to travel like any
city anything at all, So we did just talk about that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, I just wasn't really thinking. I thought that was
a bit of a it was a bit of a
skewed status comments.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
But we're just going to include skewed. I definitely haven't.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
I have not. I'm never liked on the show.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Never asked me any question. I answered, honestly, is a good.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Bloke he's telling me true.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
All right, a man of integrity.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
We love you, mate. We'll finish off with Facebook and Instagram.
Nothing on Facebook, Instagram, Instagram.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
This is on Steve Smith's ODR retirement.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Actually, I think all of these are said, I'm underscore
six says yes, because he is.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
A below average odio player, he doesn't deserve to be there.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Below average comment.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I think that is ament.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
That's a gets a yellow you're heading.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
But then a positive one at cricket dot across dot borders.
I'll remember his century in the semi final all the
way back into fifteen.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
A great memory.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He's got a lot of good centuries in the eyes.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Is a very still average what would you say? Average
forty three?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, the only thing I partly agree to do. He's
not an old time great odio I think, but he's
a very very very good play.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Yeah, that's what he's taking. Some of his best catches
in crickets too, he has yeah good And.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Now this is the big big TikTok at Steve smithy.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
By we made it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
He says, Will the selectors please give constance Steve Smith.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
But we know who he wants. He wants, he wants
speaks Sammy.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
So Steve Smith himself wants to look on our TikTok Smith.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Steve Smith, he's a.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
New South wales Man himself. He wants another new South
was a young gun to come through.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Yeah, I don't know how he's got that that handle.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Steve Smith very verified and everything.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's crazy Steve Smith is in our comments. Can we
just get him on the shows?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I don't want him?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, if Steve good value, If Steve Smith had an
only fans account to be dry him doing throw now
dry yeah, Shadow and last one on the one, let
us get totally.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
New mean j J J J four days.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
He's not related to case. He said.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
That's that's terrible.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Head is Australia. Head is Australia.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Read the sentence.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Head is Australia.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
No, I'm reading this sentence, so I just wanted you
to read it in your head. That's great comfortent Australia
is best white ball batter.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
They need to build a team around him. Do we agree?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
One hundred percent? One hundred percent is an absolute freak.
He's ours our best red bull batter. He's the best
white bowl batter. Just built every team around.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Honestly, the way Cougart's going at the moment, I feel
like I is dead. Yes, and it's the B team
and we build him. We build around him in the
apparently bien around to squad. We got a lot of
good players. That's when coming towards the end of the
career and.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I feel like it's more of a hitt and giggle.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah yeah, I know you're trying to say something else. Yeah, no,
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
It's not as important.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Forget about the ball.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Oh my god, the ball we want to try, Leo
Marcus is going to be canceled and I'm all good.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
That starts with the Cricket Today show. You will dry. Yeah,
we'll get to do this show once a week.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
We're gonna do some might be our content in the future,
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Speaker 2 (19:23):
Subscribe to the YouTube channel Cricket Today. You socials as well.
Thank you very much, Gerald as always, Thank you very much, Leo,
but not much.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Generald is just taking the back end. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Thank you very much, Marcus for doing something.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Thanks man.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Thanks to me. That's another episode of Cricket Today.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Done.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
We're out.