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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Oh no, he's back. I was hoping he didn't turn
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Return of the King. I just shout out to Marcus.
It's his birthday today. Yes, drop some happy birthdays in.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The get around at Marcus. He's not on the show
again today, but it is his birthday. Thanks again to
Tom for jumming on yesterday. It was good fun. In
your replacement. You actually had a cricket knowledge, which was
very weird on this show.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah you're not used to that.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, no, no, I just host and just hope for the best.
You know, just look through me.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We don't listen to each other, so this will be Actually,
we don't listen to each other usually.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Marcus is a bit of a media so this would
be great fun.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
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about all things cricket, we've got the women's ashes, We've
got I just chucked in a bit about the train
cause you didn't get talk about the hurricanes yesterday. We've
got mainly though, the Sri Lanka Versus Australia series starting.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Today today LA three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Perfect time.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We talked about this Tom and I yesterday three thirty.
I think it is in Melbourne. It's sorry, beautiful timing
for us to take a day and night test.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, finish at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You can go to bed, you can do your work
during the day and then when he hits three thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, we need to get out of work done before
three thirty because the productivity is going to go down
after that.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
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Speaker 2 (01:37):
Five, very point two seventy five.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'd say around that now, because yesterday we're about three
thousand and seventy.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So that, oh, we'll just take that and we'll run
with it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
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Speaker 3 (02:00):
What are you all rightly?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm sure you missed this not being on the show yesterday,
the quick single. Yeah, let's go first one on the
quick single. I just wanted to talk about it because
you didn't get to talk about the Cane Train.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But I wasn't on a live stream talking about them.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, but you didn't talk about the more. We were
on a live stream for four hours talking. That was
good fun. It was actually check out some clips that
might go up on the socials about the last Shame.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, just a couple of Marcus been quirky clips.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just it's a been of a quirky guys. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They look to be celebrating hard, the cane Train, the Hurricanes.
Tim David and Maddie Way are doing their best Travis
Head impression. I read that they've got the speedy speed
dealer Sunny's on.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Did you see Tim David's interview? No? They I think
it was ABC interviewed him, and he's just after he's
got his phone out. He's got the trophy next to interview.
Not really short time it is, but it's sunny today.
The sun came up a couple of hours ago, and
he's a time.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
To celebrate.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
They've had an awesome Singaporean king. I can't call them
a queen.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It could be a queens, can be whatever he likes.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But yeah, also that they're at that down and hoe.
But everyone I reckon, I said this Yesterid. Everyone in
Hobart is trying to get a touch of that trophy,
or everyone in Tazzy.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Going to have a public holiday on top of the
public holiday.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Maybe I might You know, I saw a lot of
people like from Tazzy just not going to work.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Do they genuinely work down there?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Really it's that small.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Like who do I know that's from down to the
BEV show? He works hard?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't know anyone else from Tazzy.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
There you go, Webster, he works hard, Britten Shae Cricket team,
Jesus move on.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I can't think of anyone else from Fricky Ponting. He
works hard.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
He's from Tassy, but he doesn't work hard in tazzy.
He works hard outside.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's true, that's true. I will will I investigate that
I don't have an economy down there. What are you
talking about anyway?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Next one in the quick single le Sorry, I was
gonna say, Joan is mashing between the cameras right now.
He's like, come on, guys, the women's ashes with Australia
dominating best England. So tomorrow is the ninetieth anniversary of
women's cricket really, which I didn't think of is that
far back?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
But there was. I've seen it in the mc MCG.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
There's like photos of first ever women's cricket match, so
it must be that as the nineteth anniversary, which must
have been at the MCG or in Melbourne. So they're
playing it day night test at the MCG tomorrow, which
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, yeah, very good. We're going to go what's the
word again, We're going to clean sweep them, white wash them, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
White wash all that.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I feel like crickets there's I feel like crickets are
very yeah, whitewashed. But yeah, I don't know if you
can say that anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, I think that I'm joking in mind
over here I think it's fine, Queen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We'll say clean sweep, clean sweep. Yeah, that's a tongue twister.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Is it clean sweep?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, queen sweep because clean sweep. Anyway, the AUSSI is
absolutely dominating England. I don't even know why England turned up.
We're just absolutely smashing.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, I don't I don't know why either. They know
this has been a warm up match for Australia. They're
going to go on and play the England men's and
win that. I reckon, honestly they could. Australian women's are
greater than baseball balls ball, I like it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And the last one in the quick single which will
roll straight into our Stri Lanka versus Australia discussions trave
ball travel.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Ball timely from the very first ball the match.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
If we are about but Travis head is confirmed as
an opener replacing Concerts in the top order against Stri Lanka.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
How do we feel about that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, it's very interesting. Tom was right yesterday. Marcus should
be happy he didn't want conscious to open.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Ye, what do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't mind Pawn, I don't really, I don't mind it.
I'm on the fence, you know, give me something. I'll
give you something. I'll give you a piece of the fence,
because that's where I'm sitting.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Mate. I've never I'm on the fence, but I'll give
you a piece of defence.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What do you mean you asked something?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh my god, look god, I mind.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
We don't need to win. So like it's with chill them.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I want Consis in the team, and I feel like
they're not going to play him in the middle order.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
If he's not opening, I would.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Rather him opening, but especially when Travis Head has dominated
it like four or five, so I don't know. I
don't like him moving and changing the order.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So I'm hoping maybe they just want Head to face
the harder ball.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So well, apparently talking a few people last night, including
my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Actually they want shout out Dad, yep, shout shout out Mark.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He was coming on the list stream. That was funny.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
They want Travis Head to not face spin when he
first bats, because apparently he takes they're going to open
with spin. Oh that's the question. They open with spin,
then that'll change it. But if they open with they've
got some really good fast.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Balls at the moment.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They'll open with at least one spinner anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They don't want Travis head to face spin from the
very first ball. Apparently it takes a bit of time
to get in if he's facing spin.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That's the that's a I don't mind it. Harder ball
will be here. I don't mind it because the ball
gets soft, faster, be harder to hit later on. So
I don't mind it.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I don't mind it. But I'm just feel for conscious
because he sort of took it up to the Indian.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
He's nineteen. He's act probably in the Lankan clubs right now.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well like actually it's in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, he could be.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
He'd be going off here, will be all right? That's
enough for the quick single? Was that quick enough to no? Long? Actually?
That was pretty quick alright, anyway, get excited. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I never look like it, shall I give us Australia
predicted elevens.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'll go through. You can go to Australia actually, because.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You're going to give me slang. Nah, I'm well known
in this Yeah, yeah, I'm going to ask you what
everyone does tea yeah, yeah, the predicted eleven I think
we've got this off crook bars, but a little bit
of our own cook of today's sprinkle of knowledge in there.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It's not much.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's the larger head Laber, Shane Smith, Webster, Inglish, Carry Stark, Line,
Curonerman and then for the last spot between Boland and
so obviously you got one now Boland and Murphy.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Murphy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think we've got enough spinners between Line and Cuderman.
You've got the left arm with Cuonerman, you got the
right arm with Line. They're very different spinners. Obviously we
talked about head opening, but then you got English coming
in for his debut, which potentially potentially the rumors that's
been the latest room.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes, that Josh Inglis would come.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I think he's an awesome cricketer. He's going to be
a great cricketer in all three format.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You love it. But he's taking Constance's spot.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, but I don't want Constats in the middle order.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
If they're going to open with hands, I'd rather concerts
up top and no English or Constance out and English
in the middle.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's what I'm saying. You love you love English playing,
but he's taking Yes, but my head's sort of taking conscious,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that.
You know, I'm very happy with English. He's a classy man.
He can he can go from ball one as well
if you need to. He can play a bit slower.
I don't know you play a spin so yeah spin, Yeah, okay,
I don't mind that. Uh and in base selection?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yes, so on that Bowling on Murphy, what do you go?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Look, I think it depends how we want to use
website if we want to. If we want Webster the
bowl medium pace, then Murphy. But if we want him
to bos spin, then bowl.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Or can I lost oss? Why don't we have both later?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Both? What Murphy?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, Webster bowls spinner and paste.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No, because I think think I think with Stark in
the just Stark in the team, we need someone else.
Bolin could genuinely bowl thirty over straight to.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Say bowling, could Bol spin? He's not. I feel like
he's too big and I don't know, don't think.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What would he bowl off spin?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Or he's not bowling leg spin? Yeah, it's too like robotic?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I think they might lead towards Boland and give
Webster a few spinning overs. But then the other option
was last time we went over there, Tom was talking
about it. They opened with cam Green with bowling. Could
they opened with bow Webster if if Bo doesn't play,
they could.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Which is wild and the thing. The other thing to
notice we also have head who can bol spin. Yes,
I don't want man Manes.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's what he talked about yesterday. Is Marn's going to
get a bowl?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I think col I just should getting over.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
God, maybe like two overs.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't mind it. Has he ever better than Marnas?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How haven't we just dropped Marnas bringing in constant this
and there's your team and then give concert and then
as soon as Smith gets his ten thousand, we dropped Smith.
Bring McSweeney in. That's your team's winning the Ashes.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I don't know about that. I don't want McSweeney. And
once it's in the ashes, just oh, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Know what I was sitting on the events.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh my god, what are we talking about? Anyway, that's
the Australian team, which I'm very excited to see. Josh Inglis,
Travis ed will be. He will be ballistic at the
top order, even if he makes a quick fire thirty
or something, but hopefully he gets a fifty. The stri
Laker side, which I am absolutely loving Leo. I know
so much about some of the pronunciation. I'm pretty good
with I know I knew a guy with his last time.
(10:38):
So Karuna Ratney is opening the batting with Fernando one
of the Fernandoes. I'm not sure Fernanda of course. And
they've got chandamar We've got Matthew's Kimindu Mendus, We've got.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The Mendes putting up Bradman numbers. Yes, he was for
average danger Man.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It was really really good to silver and next Kusso Mendes,
Jay Soriyah, which you were saying is there'll be their
best spinner, I reckon, which is very handy that he's
coming in that early in the order. If he's one
of their best spinners, So that's very good.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Paris in the next day.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Kamaras might be wrong, but it might be his debut
if place I just don't remember, have a look at him.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, I think you might be Rother. Then we got
Kamara and then Fernando as well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, I see the Fernandese, Theanda Fernandos, but that's just
a predicted eleven could change.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
But that's actually a pretty good team.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, it'll be They're they're they're batting, does have some strengths,
like they've got good experience with Karuna at A. Matthews
is like fifty years old.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Now, how old is Angela?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I feel like he's been around thirty before you were born,
thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty seven, he was around before
I was born. Because he's older than me.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I meant playing cricket.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Nothing saying cricket, just locally.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh my god, I thought, yeah, so what he's been
playing probably for about nineteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, you're about your Yeah, it could be in my dad.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
He would have had you any close together. Yeah, pretty sure,
I can I reckon.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
People have said that about yeah really anyway, I do
think they have a pretty good team. You've got Yeah,
Jason Ray has been awesome. I did have a look
at his stats the other day, but I don't know.
He has been getting a lot of wickets. And they
put up a pretty good fight against most teams. And
at home they're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yes, they're very hard to beat at home. Comindu Mendes
said it before. He's the danger man, a beast. Yeah,
he's the danger man. If he can put on a
big score, a few batters can batt around him. I
think he'll be in the box seat.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Interesting, I think will be a really good match, especially
Australia's trying a few different things and we haven't been
batting well ourselves like in jener.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right against India, but could be easily be better.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And the subcontinent it's a bit trickier.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That is some expert enough.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah, thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
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Speaker 3 (13:03):
Are you all right? Let's continue the.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Chat between for a sorry straight Lanka versus Australia. Actually
both matches, did you know, are in goal the same
same place, which is a bit weird. So like the pitch,
whatever the pitch is going to be, it's gonna be
very similar to the Second Test, so you can plan.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
For that a bit more. We'll talk about that. A
bit of a weird one, but it must be just
pitch availability. Must be some junior games on elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I just couldn't travel to another ground.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, they come travel. Yeah, maybe let's get into some predictions.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Come on predictions.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I've I've hardly thought about this, but we can just
we can do we can just vibe it. We'll start
off with most runs in this series. We're gonn we're
gonna go the series.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Fair, We're going the series?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Should we just go the first Test match? We'll actually
goes first.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
TI, I'm getting ahead of my yah are most runs
in this first Test match? I don't know if I
want to usually in towards Strava said, but I think
changing it up, I'm going to say bo Webster, big
website leaving. He's leaving is the I reckon he's got
all the shots in the arsenal to combat to these spinners.
I know it's his first time in the subcontinent, but
(14:06):
the way he sort of plays, I just think he can.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hit the hit through the line a bit more and hit.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He's going to bat pretty quickly against the spinners. So
I reckon he can get the most runs. Interesting that is,
I just thought that through that he's never played in
some cont you never know.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You never know now.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Sort of my second sort of one. He's really really
good in the subcontinent, dominated in Pakistan, has made some
good scores in India. I'm not sure about Sri Lanka.
But yeah, he's really good in the subcontinent. Interesting webster
and then slight on, what about you, Matte, let me
paint you there we go. I haven't know, and I'm
(14:46):
about to and I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Ready to cook here let him cook Australia. Australia at first.
Therefore for fifty oh god, God, who better to be
(15:08):
left to resurrect the innings? I don't know if that
was English. So that's that works, okay, ye.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Then the little man from Leeds, josh On debut.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He's going to come out and he's going to bring
that English bas ball energy and he's going to make
a century, not around the ball, but maybe like a
seventy five strike, right, He's going to put it back
on the striking bowlers. He's a nifty little batter.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We don't even know if he's in the side.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm want to promise that if he's in the side,
he will make a century. If he's not in the side, probably.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Said yeah, unfair. But I don't mind that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
He's just going to come in and he's just gonna
he's gonna look at home. We're gonna watch him bat
and we're going to be like his home. That Leeds
is not his home. This is his home, his home.
I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm We've both just picked the two most experience and
experienced players in our team.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I love that's been a crap anyway, INGOs and Webster
are going to tear it up together.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Massive partnership. Joshing the century would be fan that would
be awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
One debut it would be cinema.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I love it all right, Leo least painted as a picture.
What an honor it is.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
How does that picture compared to the Constance picture? When I
said he'd make it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
High because it was at the body sixty sixty?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So if INGOs makes sixty, if English makes Sixtystralia stats guy.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Will host the next show without his shirt on.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah we got it, trust on my legs.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Just joking.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No one wants to say that, mate, except for you.
We have gerald probably have a high female audience. Oh yeah,
from Australia. Specifically that one.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, the next one. Most wikets we've gone through
most runs. I don't know how we go the most wiggets.
You're gone first this time?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Could he throw me under the bus last time?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I think Juria for good our bath yep, last time
we laid them in Sri Lanka. He was the deadliest
sinner for him, always attacks the stumps left orthodox. I
think troubles a lot of our batsman. I know Steve
Smith struggles against that type of spin. I think it
(17:17):
can cause problems for someone like Bo Webster if you
can bowl a quicker one into my cause issues for
Travis Head two. So I think he's the danger man
and I think he will take the most wickets for
the game.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Do you want to hear his stats in Scholenka? This
is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I do. That was this hold my argument.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yes, he's got eighty one wickets in ten.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
He's gone to eight point one wickets a match.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No way average he averages twenty three, which is that's
good for a spinner two point Yeah, he's a danger
man seven fifty two and he's best bowling in a
match is twelve that was probably against that is crazy.
So he' said nine to five for two ten in like,
(18:06):
yeah matches.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He just matches up really well against his batting lineup.
So I think I reckon. In Australia, he'd take wickets.
Not not to that level, yep, but he would. He's
just a wicket taker. He's a born wicket he's just
born host.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh thanks, Mate was a born legend. Yeah, yeah, he's
just a legend.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Man. And Marcus is a born Bunda.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, I don't know about that. Where did you you
cut me off? Man, I didn't know what you were
going to say.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Most wickets for me? Should I lean towards On in Australia?
Probably should?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I will go this is how much research we put
into that I have.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I have a look.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Agree with me and say, Jason.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I think it could be him, but I'm going to
leave me coonman. They're saying that he's going to be
in the side he dominated when he plays in Asia
in the past.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Let me just have a quick look at his status
again India it was yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Good, I'm trying to get it up actually versus India
here it is nine wickets in three matches, pretty solid.
The average is a bit of a way thirty one,
but he's a lot more experienced.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Remember the Indian camp when we took Lyon Murphy Cooneman
there or was India shrilank I can't remember anyway, the
opposition camp, they said it was the best spinning trio
that has ever been brought to the subcontinent at that time.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Really yeah, that's yeah. So that means they're obviously thinking
the same with this one.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Line has been a little bit out of form. So
I think Couoneman is.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Going to get a few more wickets. We're talking yesterday.
Line likes the bounce and the overspin. Cuonerman, I think,
is going to turn it a bit more with the
left armor. Can you'll get a few wickets to the
right handed.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But here there we go.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Lastly, we don't know. I should have just said who wins?
Big call? I've said, I'll say Cuonman will take a
five fer? Is is that that's pretty big? Called six?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
About six? Career high six? Has he got a six
before seven? It will take a seventh? Yea seven for
ten six seven seven? Jesus no, I think he'll take
a six for Cuonerman? Who in Leo? Who wins the
first Test.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
It's tough, it's real tough, and I'm gonna think about
it while you answer.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Oh my god, I just threw to you now, but
I think you go first. I'm I'm just being it's
so tough, just.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Go for it, go with your gut. That means you're
gonna go against Australia.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It goes.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I think Australia r did, but yeah, I think it
could be. It's tough, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It could be a draw, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
go Australia as well. I think we get the job done,
even though there's a few changes in the I think
we got more power in the bowling. And then if
the batter is more more well rounded, more well, that's
a good wording.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, more well rounded, good, good at wording. Yeah, I'm
going to go with Australia as well. Be Australia.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Just I agree with you now, Yeah, it'll be a
good game, I reckon, Yeah, be really good.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah. What are you looking up now?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
No? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh, there we go.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All right, that's our predictions for AUSTRALIANKA versus Astralia first Test.
Let's finish it off as we always do with the
question slash fan comments.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I forgot about these.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, there was actually some really funer was I'm gonna
start with this one actually on YouTube, Andrew t e
beloved Andrew.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And number one fan.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I think he is certified.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Jim Bonni to lift their game certified.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Plumbo was commenting yesterday Social girl Olivia's cousin was commenting,
I think.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You've got to say Olivia's cousin was certified pomboy.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
No, maybe I don't know. No, I don't think she is.
He is Andrew Ty. He's a super fan from Canada.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
He says Monday's live stream was epic, Marcus jumped into
a wall stats guy Aidenberger.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Which was it on camera? We needed on camera?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
That's all I got.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You mentioned for Leo Mox, Sam peper Gate, I forgot
about that. That was brilliant and hit a century and
we got a Gerald face revealed.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah we sucked him into, didn't we.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
If forgot he was on camera for a second. I
reckon that was That was very funny. He was great
work by Gerald, but great comment by Andrew. He's just
covered it all.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Love Andrew.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
We might have to clip up that Sam paper thing.
As well. It was pretty funny. I reckon, but good
call by Andrew there on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Heading over to Facebook, we've just talked about Travis Head
opening the bad We did a post about him. There's
a few comments on there. Ben Graham, he's not happy,
and then he was sort of happy.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
He changed his.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Mind off I through, but I'll read this one out.
Ben says, I knew this was coming. McSweeney and Constance
were just cannon fodder for Boomra because no one else
had the balls to.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Face him with the new ball.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I like that, that's honestly fair Like Constance, I don't
know about McSweeney just got pushed into the opening spot,
but Constace had the balls to ramp him.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But in saying that, they both had an opportunity to
make a big score and cement that spot, and they
fail a bit short, they'll bounce back. Now, I agree
with the first thing you said. The second part, I
don't think McSweeney hat was given enough opportunity to make
a big score.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Do we think six innings look like as long as
they go back to him in the future, yes, and
not overlook him, and it'll be and.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Then same as Constance. He did make one big score sixties.
That's a really awesome effort on debut. I think either
way they'll both be back in the side, so worry
about that.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, well, I've been saying it in a few shows,
but spoiler alert, they McSweeney and Constant summer opening pair
for the Ashes. Really yeah, mate?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
He looks young, still does he?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He hasn't been struggled against. He can shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
He was struggling, UZI I could see maybe being used
on the slobber wicket like the SCG.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay, oh yeah, actually struggled.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He struggles with pace. And if they bring archery.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Maybe Travis Head will still be opening.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Then no, he won't be opening.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We'll see next one.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
On Travis Head opening, tatality said why play Constants in
two tests? Then I sort of agree with him. I
think if you're going to stick with him, especially when
this test doesn't mean as much with the World Test Championship,
keep him mean, even if he's batted lower in the order.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
He's still around the squad around balls still hidden get
experience like experience like the nets over there would be
tailored to the spinning wicket, so it's still an experience,
not the experience.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
But true, it's something. And he's nineteen land that's true.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, that's true. I was the most English comment.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It's nineteen lad, What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
He was fourteen when COVID started.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That is wild.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You were about fifteen, you know I was thirty. You're
actual eighteen.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That's a bit weird. We're having drinks the other night, jeez.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, just some nice refreshing soft ing.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Absolutely, you're you're old enough.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Some soft solos, some soft some what we're going one
top solo and two hard times like that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Alright, last comment we're going to go through on Instagram. Oh,
our favorite sec Jimbo. He comments, the only team not
to win the Big Bash now is the Stars.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Sucked in your green, slimy animals, Disagreine Maggotee. They have
Glenn Maxol, they have Marcus Steiners, they got Marks, they
have the Tom Rogers and they still can't win a
bloody final.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And they're supposedly going to get heaps of players in
the off season, which won't happen.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
They got cart right, they got bo Webster, Sama Mears
turned into Bloody Prime Y shame warn Prime shamee worn
and they still don't win the final.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
They are an absolute joke. The Renegades are a joke,
but at least they've won it. Thank you for joining
me on the start.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Empathetic, empathetic, he says, pain at Marcus Bars and so
Marcus on this show also stars man.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
They are going to be crying.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Renegades could give him Fraser McGirk, Josh Brown, who else, Bethel?
We could give him all of it, and they still
they still.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Talking about the Redegames. Don't even put this in the
quick single. Did you see who the Renegades recruited yesterday?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's not Richardson, No.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It's exciting player of the year.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So they've got Berenorf who took the most wickets in
the Big Batch last season. I hate Tom Rodgers. I
don't think you should be playing, but he took the
second most wickets.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
It's pretty good. But Tom Rodgers leave mate.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
So Tom Clark on the show yesterday was talking about
Tom Rogers and he gave a shout out to you, saying,
come on there.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Tom Rogers, Tom Clark, time to learn Chinese. The same
flight con Dong rovers.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
We love Tom but yeah, I agree which Tom both.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I love Tom Clark love Tom.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
No, I don't like Tom Bross either. He shouldn't even
have a big best contract. And exactly anyway, exactly exactly,
that's enough comments. We've had an absolute shambles, but it's
been a quick show that Leo absolutely loves.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I feel like we've been here for a while.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Return of the King. I just shout out to Marcus.
It's his birthday today. Yes, drop some happy birthdays in.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The get around at Marcus. He's not on the show
again today, but it is his birthday. Thanks again to
Tom for jumming on yesterday. It was good fun. In
your replacement. You actually had a cricket knowledge, which was
very weird on this show.
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Yeah you're not used to that.
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No, no, no, I just host and just hope for the best.
You know, just look through me.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We don't listen to each other, so this will be Actually,
we don't listen to each other usually.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Marcus is a bit of a media so this would
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got mainly though, the Sri Lanka Versus Australia series starting.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Today today LA three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Perfect time.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
We talked about this Tom and I yesterday three thirty.
I think it is in Melbourne. It's sorry, beautiful timing
for us to take a day and night test.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, finish at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You can go to bed, you can do your work
during the day and then when he hits three thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, we need to get out of work done before
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I agree with that.
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Speaker 3 (02:00):
What are you all rightly?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm sure you missed this not being on the show yesterday,
the quick single. Yeah, let's go first one on the
quick single. I just wanted to talk about it because
you didn't get to talk about the Cane Train.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But I wasn't on a live stream talking about them.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, but you didn't talk about the more. We were
on a live stream for four hours talking. That was
good fun. It was actually check out some clips that
might go up on the socials about the last Shame.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, just a couple of Marcus been quirky clips.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just it's a been of a quirky guys. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They look to be celebrating hard, the cane Train, the Hurricanes.
Tim David and Maddie Way are doing their best Travis
Head impression. I read that they've got the speedy speed
dealer Sunny's on.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Did you see Tim David's interview? No? They I think
it was ABC interviewed him, and he's just after he's
got his phone out. He's got the trophy next to interview.
Not really short time it is, but it's sunny today.
The sun came up a couple of hours ago, and
he's a time.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
To celebrate.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
They've had an awesome Singaporean king. I can't call them
a queen.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It could be a queens, can be whatever he likes.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But yeah, also that they're at that down and hoe.
But everyone I reckon, I said this Yesterid. Everyone in
Hobart is trying to get a touch of that trophy,
or everyone in Tazzy.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Going to have a public holiday on top of the
public holiday.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Maybe I might You know, I saw a lot of
people like from Tazzy just not going to work.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Do they genuinely work down there?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Really it's that small.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Like who do I know that's from down to the
BEV show? He works hard?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't know anyone else from Tazzy.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
There you go, Webster, he works hard, Britten Shae Cricket team,
Jesus move on.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I can't think of anyone else from Fricky Ponting. He
works hard.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
He's from Tassy, but he doesn't work hard in tazzy.
He works hard outside.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's true, that's true. I will will I investigate that
I don't have an economy down there. What are you
talking about anyway?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Next one in the quick single le Sorry, I was
gonna say, Joan is mashing between the cameras right now.
He's like, come on, guys, the women's ashes with Australia
dominating best England. So tomorrow is the ninetieth anniversary of
women's cricket really, which I didn't think of is that
far back?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
But there was. I've seen it in the mc MCG.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
There's like photos of first ever women's cricket match, so
it must be that as the nineteth anniversary, which must
have been at the MCG or in Melbourne. So they're
playing it day night test at the MCG tomorrow, which
is awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, yeah, very good. We're going to go what's the
word again, We're going to clean sweep them, white wash them, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
White wash all that.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I feel like crickets there's I feel like crickets are
very yeah, whitewashed. But yeah, I don't know if you
can say that anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, I think that I'm joking in mind
over here I think it's fine, Queen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We'll say clean sweep, clean sweep. Yeah, that's a tongue twister.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Is it clean sweep?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, queen sweep because clean sweep. Anyway, the AUSSI is
absolutely dominating England. I don't even know why England turned up.
We're just absolutely smashing.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, I don't I don't know why either. They know
this has been a warm up match for Australia. They're
going to go on and play the England men's and
win that. I reckon, honestly they could. Australian women's are
greater than baseball balls ball, I like it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And the last one in the quick single which will
roll straight into our Stri Lanka versus Australia discussions trave
ball travel.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Ball timely from the very first ball the match.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
If we are about but Travis head is confirmed as
an opener replacing Concerts in the top order against Stri Lanka.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
How do we feel about that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well, it's very interesting. Tom was right yesterday. Marcus should
be happy he didn't want conscious to open.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Ye, what do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I don't mind Pawn, I don't really, I don't mind it.
I'm on the fence, you know, give me something. I'll
give you something. I'll give you a piece of the fence,
because that's where I'm sitting.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Mate. I've never I'm on the fence, but I'll give
you a piece of defence.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
What do you mean you asked something?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh my god, look god, I mind.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
We don't need to win. So like it's with chill them.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I want Consis in the team, and I feel like
they're not going to play him in the middle order.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
If he's not opening, I would.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Rather him opening, but especially when Travis Head has dominated
it like four or five, so I don't know. I
don't like him moving and changing the order.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So I'm hoping maybe they just want Head to face
the harder ball.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So well, apparently talking a few people last night, including
my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Actually they want shout out Dad, yep, shout shout out Mark.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He was coming on the list stream. That was funny.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
They want Travis Head to not face spin when he
first bats, because apparently he takes they're going to open
with spin. Oh that's the question. They open with spin,
then that'll change it. But if they open with they've
got some really good fast.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Balls at the moment.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
They'll open with at least one spinner anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They don't want Travis head to face spin from the
very first ball. Apparently it takes a bit of time
to get in if he's facing spin.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That's the that's a I don't mind it. Harder ball
will be here. I don't mind it because the ball
gets soft, faster, be harder to hit later on. So
I don't mind it.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I don't mind it. But I'm just feel for conscious
because he sort of took it up to the Indian.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
He's nineteen. He's act probably in the Lankan clubs right now.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well like actually it's in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, he could be.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
He'd be going off here, will be all right? That's
enough for the quick single? Was that quick enough to no? Long? Actually?
That was pretty quick alright, anyway, get excited. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I never look like it, shall I give us Australia
predicted elevens.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'll go through. You can go to Australia actually, because.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You're going to give me slang. Nah, I'm well known
in this Yeah, yeah, I'm going to ask you what
everyone does tea yeah, yeah, the predicted eleven I think
we've got this off crook bars, but a little bit
of our own cook of today's sprinkle of knowledge in there.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It's not much.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It's the larger head Laber, Shane Smith, Webster, Inglish, Carry Stark, Line,
Curonerman and then for the last spot between Boland and
so obviously you got one now Boland and Murphy.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Murphy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I think we've got enough spinners between Line and Cuderman.
You've got the left arm with Cuonerman, you got the
right arm with Line. They're very different spinners. Obviously we
talked about head opening, but then you got English coming
in for his debut, which potentially potentially the rumors that's
been the latest room.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes, that Josh Inglis would come.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I think he's an awesome cricketer. He's going to be
a great cricketer in all three format.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You love it. But he's taking Constance's spot.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, but I don't want Constats in the middle order.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
If they're going to open with hands, I'd rather concerts
up top and no English or Constance out and English
in the middle.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's what I'm saying. You love you love English playing,
but he's taking Yes, but my head's sort of taking conscious,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that.
You know, I'm very happy with English. He's a classy man.
He can he can go from ball one as well
if you need to. He can play a bit slower.
I don't know you play a spin so yeah spin, Yeah, okay,
I don't mind that. Uh and in base selection?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yes, so on that Bowling on Murphy, what do you go?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Look, I think it depends how we want to use
website if we want to. If we want Webster the
bowl medium pace, then Murphy. But if we want him
to bos spin, then bowl.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Or can I lost oss? Why don't we have both later?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Both? What Murphy?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, Webster bowls spinner and paste.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No, because I think think I think with Stark in
the just Stark in the team, we need someone else.
Bolin could genuinely bowl thirty over straight to.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Say bowling, could Bol spin? He's not. I feel like
he's too big and I don't know, don't think.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
What would he bowl off spin?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Or he's not bowling leg spin? Yeah, it's too like robotic?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, I think they might lead towards Boland and give
Webster a few spinning overs. But then the other option
was last time we went over there, Tom was talking
about it. They opened with cam Green with bowling. Could
they opened with bow Webster if if Bo doesn't play,
they could.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Which is wild and the thing. The other thing to
notice we also have head who can bol spin. Yes,
I don't want man Manes.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's what he talked about yesterday. Is Marn's going to
get a bowl?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I think col I just should getting over.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
God, maybe like two overs.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I don't mind it. Has he ever better than Marnas?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How haven't we just dropped Marnas bringing in constant this
and there's your team and then give concert and then
as soon as Smith gets his ten thousand, we dropped Smith.
Bring McSweeney in. That's your team's winning the Ashes.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I don't know about that. I don't want McSweeney. And
once it's in the ashes, just oh, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Know what I was sitting on the events.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh my god, what are we talking about? Anyway, that's
the Australian team, which I'm very excited to see. Josh Inglis,
Travis ed will be. He will be ballistic at the
top order, even if he makes a quick fire thirty
or something, but hopefully he gets a fifty. The stri
Laker side, which I am absolutely loving Leo. I know
so much about some of the pronunciation. I'm pretty good
with I know I knew a guy with his last time.
(10:38):
So Karuna Ratney is opening the batting with Fernando one
of the Fernandoes. I'm not sure Fernanda of course. And
they've got chandamar We've got Matthew's Kimindu Mendus, We've got.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The Mendes putting up Bradman numbers. Yes, he was for
average danger Man.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It was really really good to silver and next Kusso Mendes,
Jay Soriyah, which you were saying is there'll be their
best spinner, I reckon, which is very handy that he's
coming in that early in the order. If he's one
of their best spinners, So that's very good.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Paris in the next day.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Kamaras might be wrong, but it might be his debut
if place I just don't remember, have a look at him.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, I think you might be Rother. Then we got
Kamara and then Fernando as well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, I see the Fernandese, Theanda Fernandos, but that's just
a predicted eleven could change.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
But that's actually a pretty good team.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, it'll be They're they're they're batting, does have some strengths,
like they've got good experience with Karuna at A. Matthews
is like fifty years old.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Now, how old is Angela?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I feel like he's been around thirty before you were born,
thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty seven, he was around before
I was born. Because he's older than me.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I meant playing cricket.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Nothing saying cricket, just locally.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Oh my god, I thought, yeah, so what he's been
playing probably for about nineteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, you're about your Yeah, it could be in my dad.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
He would have had you any close together. Yeah, pretty sure,
I can I reckon.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
People have said that about yeah really anyway, I do
think they have a pretty good team. You've got Yeah,
Jason Ray has been awesome. I did have a look
at his stats the other day, but I don't know.
He has been getting a lot of wickets. And they
put up a pretty good fight against most teams. And
at home they're pretty good.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yes, they're very hard to beat at home. Comindu Mendes
said it before. He's the danger man, a beast. Yeah,
he's the danger man. If he can put on a
big score, a few batters can batt around him. I
think he'll be in the box seat.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Interesting, I think will be a really good match, especially
Australia's trying a few different things and we haven't been
batting well ourselves like in jener.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right against India, but could be easily be better.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And the subcontinent it's a bit trickier.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That is some expert enough.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah, thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
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Speaker 3 (13:03):
Are you all right? Let's continue the.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Chat between for a sorry straight Lanka versus Australia. Actually
both matches, did you know, are in goal the same
same place, which is a bit weird. So like the pitch,
whatever the pitch is going to be, it's gonna be
very similar to the Second Test, so you can plan.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
For that a bit more. We'll talk about that. A
bit of a weird one, but it must be just
pitch availability. Must be some junior games on elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I just couldn't travel to another ground.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, they come travel. Yeah, maybe let's get into some predictions.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Come on predictions.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I've I've hardly thought about this, but we can just
we can do we can just vibe it. We'll start
off with most runs in this series. We're gonn we're
gonna go the series.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Fair, We're going the series?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Should we just go the first Test match? We'll actually
goes first.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
TI, I'm getting ahead of my yah are most runs
in this first Test match? I don't know if I
want to usually in towards Strava said, but I think
changing it up, I'm going to say bo Webster, big
website leaving. He's leaving is the I reckon he's got
all the shots in the arsenal to combat to these spinners.
I know it's his first time in the subcontinent, but
(14:06):
the way he sort of plays, I just think he can.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hit the hit through the line a bit more and hit.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He's going to bat pretty quickly against the spinners. So
I reckon he can get the most runs. Interesting that is,
I just thought that through that he's never played in
some cont you never know.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You never know now.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Sort of my second sort of one. He's really really
good in the subcontinent, dominated in Pakistan, has made some
good scores in India. I'm not sure about Sri Lanka.
But yeah, he's really good in the subcontinent. Interesting webster
and then slight on, what about you, Matte, let me
paint you there we go. I haven't know, and I'm
(14:46):
about to and I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Ready to cook here let him cook Australia. Australia at first.
Therefore for fifty oh god, God, who better to be
(15:08):
left to resurrect the innings? I don't know if that
was English. So that's that works, okay, ye.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Then the little man from Leeds, josh On debut.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He's going to come out and he's going to bring
that English bas ball energy and he's going to make
a century, not around the ball, but maybe like a
seventy five strike, right, He's going to put it back
on the striking bowlers. He's a nifty little batter.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We don't even know if he's in the side.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I'm want to promise that if he's in the side,
he will make a century. If he's not in the side, probably.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Said yeah, unfair. But I don't mind that.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
He's just going to come in and he's just gonna
he's gonna look at home. We're gonna watch him bat
and we're going to be like his home. That Leeds
is not his home. This is his home, his home.
I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm We've both just picked the two most experience and
experienced players in our team.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I love that's been a crap anyway, INGOs and Webster
are going to tear it up together.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Massive partnership. Joshing the century would be fan that would
be awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
One debut it would be cinema.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I love it all right, Leo least painted as a picture.
What an honor it is.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
How does that picture compared to the Constance picture? When I
said he'd make it.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
High because it was at the body sixty sixty?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So if INGOs makes sixty, if English makes Sixtystralia stats guy.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Will host the next show without his shirt on.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah we got it, trust on my legs.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Just joking.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No one wants to say that, mate, except for you.
We have gerald probably have a high female audience. Oh yeah,
from Australia. Specifically that one.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
All right, the next one. Most wikets we've gone through
most runs. I don't know how we go the most wiggets.
You're gone first this time?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Could he throw me under the bus last time?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I think Juria for good our bath yep, last time
we laid them in Sri Lanka. He was the deadliest
sinner for him, always attacks the stumps left orthodox. I
think troubles a lot of our batsman. I know Steve
Smith struggles against that type of spin. I think it
(17:17):
can cause problems for someone like Bo Webster if you
can bowl a quicker one into my cause issues for
Travis Head two. So I think he's the danger man
and I think he will take the most wickets for
the game.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Do you want to hear his stats in Scholenka? This
is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I do. That was this hold my argument.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yes, he's got eighty one wickets in ten.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
He's gone to eight point one wickets a match.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No way average he averages twenty three, which is that's
good for a spinner two point Yeah, he's a danger
man seven fifty two and he's best bowling in a
match is twelve that was probably against that is crazy.
So he' said nine to five for two ten in like,
(18:06):
yeah matches.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He just matches up really well against his batting lineup.
So I think I reckon. In Australia, he'd take wickets.
Not not to that level, yep, but he would. He's
just a wicket taker. He's a born wicket he's just
born host.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh thanks, Mate was a born legend. Yeah, yeah, he's
just a legend.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Man. And Marcus is a born Bunda.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, I don't know about that. Where did you you
cut me off? Man, I didn't know what you were
going to say.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Most wickets for me? Should I lean towards On in Australia?
Probably should?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I will go this is how much research we put
into that I have.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I have a look.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Agree with me and say, Jason.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I think it could be him, but I'm going to
leave me coonman. They're saying that he's going to be
in the side he dominated when he plays in Asia
in the past.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Let me just have a quick look at his status
again India it was yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Good, I'm trying to get it up actually versus India
here it is nine wickets in three matches, pretty solid.
The average is a bit of a way thirty one,
but he's a lot more experienced.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Remember the Indian camp when we took Lyon Murphy Cooneman
there or was India shrilank I can't remember anyway, the
opposition camp, they said it was the best spinning trio
that has ever been brought to the subcontinent at that time.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Really yeah, that's yeah. So that means they're obviously thinking
the same with this one.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Line has been a little bit out of form. So
I think Couoneman is.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Going to get a few more wickets. We're talking yesterday.
Line likes the bounce and the overspin. Cuonerman, I think,
is going to turn it a bit more with the
left armor. Can you'll get a few wickets to the
right handed.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But here there we go.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Lastly, we don't know. I should have just said who wins?
Big call? I've said, I'll say Cuonman will take a
five fer? Is is that that's pretty big? Called six?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
About six? Career high six? Has he got a six
before seven? It will take a seventh? Yea seven for
ten six seven seven? Jesus no, I think he'll take
a six for Cuonerman? Who in Leo? Who wins the
first Test.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
It's tough, it's real tough, and I'm gonna think about
it while you answer.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Oh my god, I just threw to you now, but
I think you go first. I'm I'm just being it's
so tough, just.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Go for it, go with your gut. That means you're
gonna go against Australia.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It goes.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I think Australia r did, but yeah, I think it
could be. It's tough, it's tough.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It could be a draw, but I'm gonna I'm gonna
go Australia as well. I think we get the job done,
even though there's a few changes in the I think
we got more power in the bowling. And then if
the batter is more more well rounded, more well, that's
a good wording.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, more well rounded, good, good at wording. Yeah, I'm
going to go with Australia as well. Be Australia.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Just I agree with you now, Yeah, it'll be a
good game, I reckon, Yeah, be really good.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah. What are you looking up now?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
No? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh, there we go.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All right, that's our predictions for AUSTRALIANKA versus Astralia first Test.
Let's finish it off as we always do with the
question slash fan comments.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I forgot about these.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, there was actually some really funer was I'm gonna
start with this one actually on YouTube, Andrew t e
beloved Andrew.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
And number one fan.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I think he is certified.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Jim Bonni to lift their game certified.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Plumbo was commenting yesterday Social girl Olivia's cousin was commenting,
I think.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You've got to say Olivia's cousin was certified pomboy.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
No, maybe I don't know. No, I don't think she is.
He is Andrew Ty. He's a super fan from Canada.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
He says Monday's live stream was epic, Marcus jumped into
a wall stats guy Aidenberger.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Which was it on camera? We needed on camera?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
That's all I got.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You mentioned for Leo Mox, Sam peper Gate, I forgot
about that. That was brilliant and hit a century and
we got a Gerald face revealed.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah we sucked him into, didn't we.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
If forgot he was on camera for a second. I
reckon that was That was very funny. He was great
work by Gerald, but great comment by Andrew. He's just
covered it all.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Love Andrew.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
We might have to clip up that Sam paper thing.
As well. It was pretty funny. I reckon, but good
call by Andrew there on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Heading over to Facebook, we've just talked about Travis Head
opening the bad We did a post about him. There's
a few comments on there. Ben Graham, he's not happy,
and then he was sort of happy.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
He changed his.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Mind off I through, but I'll read this one out.
Ben says, I knew this was coming. McSweeney and Constance
were just cannon fodder for Boomra because no one else
had the balls to.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Face him with the new ball.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I like that, that's honestly fair Like Constance, I don't
know about McSweeney just got pushed into the opening spot,
but Constace had the balls to ramp him.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But in saying that, they both had an opportunity to
make a big score and cement that spot, and they
fail a bit short, they'll bounce back. Now, I agree
with the first thing you said. The second part, I
don't think McSweeney hat was given enough opportunity to make
a big score.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Do we think six innings look like as long as
they go back to him in the future, yes, and
not overlook him, and it'll be and.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Then same as Constance. He did make one big score sixties.
That's a really awesome effort on debut. I think either
way they'll both be back in the side, so worry
about that.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, well, I've been saying it in a few shows,
but spoiler alert, they McSweeney and Constant summer opening pair
for the Ashes. Really yeah, mate?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
He looks young, still does he?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He hasn't been struggled against. He can shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
He was struggling, UZI I could see maybe being used
on the slobber wicket like the SCG.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Okay, oh yeah, actually struggled.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He struggles with pace. And if they bring archery.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Maybe Travis Head will still be opening.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Then no, he won't be opening.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
We'll see next one.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
On Travis Head opening, tatality said why play Constants in
two tests? Then I sort of agree with him. I
think if you're going to stick with him, especially when
this test doesn't mean as much with the World Test Championship,
keep him mean, even if he's batted lower in the order.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
He's still around the squad around balls still hidden get
experience like experience like the nets over there would be
tailored to the spinning wicket, so it's still an experience,
not the experience.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
But true, it's something. And he's nineteen land that's true.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, that's true. I was the most English comment.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It's nineteen lad, What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
He was fourteen when COVID started.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That is wild.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You were about fifteen, you know I was thirty. You're
actual eighteen.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That's a bit weird. We're having drinks the other night, jeez.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, just some nice refreshing soft ing.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Absolutely, you're you're old enough.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Some soft solos, some soft some what we're going one
top solo and two hard times like that.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Alright, last comment we're going to go through on Instagram. Oh,
our favorite sec Jimbo. He comments, the only team not
to win the Big Bash now is the Stars.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Sucked in your green, slimy animals, Disagreine Maggotee. They have
Glenn Maxol, they have Marcus Steiners, they got Marks, they
have the Tom Rogers and they still can't win a
bloody final.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And they're supposedly going to get heaps of players in
the off season, which won't happen.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
They got cart right, they got bo Webster, Sama Mears
turned into Bloody Prime Y shame warn Prime shamee worn
and they still don't win the final.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
They are an absolute joke. The Renegades are a joke,
but at least they've won it. Thank you for joining
me on the start.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Empathetic, empathetic, he says, pain at Marcus Bars and so
Marcus on this show also stars man.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
They are going to be crying.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Renegades could give him Fraser McGirk, Josh Brown, who else, Bethel?
We could give him all of it, and they still
they still.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Talking about the Redegames. Don't even put this in the
quick single. Did you see who the Renegades recruited yesterday?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's not Richardson, No.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It's exciting player of the year.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So they've got Berenorf who took the most wickets in
the Big Batch last season. I hate Tom Rodgers. I
don't think you should be playing, but he took the
second most wickets.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
It's pretty good. But Tom Rodgers leave mate.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
So Tom Clark on the show yesterday was talking about
Tom Rogers and he gave a shout out to you, saying,
come on there.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Tom Rogers, Tom Clark, time to learn Chinese. The same
flight con Dong rovers.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
We love Tom but yeah, I agree which Tom both.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I love Tom Clark love Tom.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
No, I don't like Tom Bross either. He shouldn't even
have a big best contract. And exactly anyway, exactly exactly,
that's enough comments. We've had an absolute shambles, but it's
been a quick show that Leo absolutely loves.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I feel like we've been here for a while.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
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