Adam Peacock: Australian Correspondent on day 1 of the Ashes

The Ashes have gotten underway in an explosive fashion. 

The opening day saw England bundled out for 172 with Aussie paceman Mitchell Starc notching 7 for 58, the tourists responding by keeping the hosts at 123 for 9 at stumps, as captain Ben Stokes took 5 for 23. 

England is heading into day two with the upper hand, and intend to keep the pressure on Australia.  

Australian Correspondent Adam Peacock told Piney there was some fairly average shot selection from the batters on both teams. 

He says that the greatest thing you can have in test cricket is patience, and the batters who are used to playing T20 just can’t help but try hit every ball. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talks. Edb Our Australian correspondent Adam Peacock has
completely Bonker's day off Ash's cricket yesterday, Adam, England all

(00:28):
at one seven two, Australia one twenty three for nine.
Are we going to get into a third day?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Uh? Yeah, because I stand here outside First Stadium right
now about to go in. It's actually sprinkling, so whether
might play a part today, but no, it's it was
an extraordinary days cricket. It was just unfortunately it feels
on modern cricket because things happened quickly when the ball

(00:57):
dominates the bat. So yeah, I don't know what to
think about what we're going to expect today. I don't
entirely know we can actually confidently anything. But England are
very much on top with this fifty run advantage at
the moment with Australia only one wicket left in the.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
First can you just just clarify the situation, A situation
with Osmond Kwaja who should have been opening the batting
but didn't because what he spent too much time off
the field during England's and things is that right.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, he was off the field when the innings ended,
so you need to be back out there, and I
think with seven minutes you need to be out there
for like a seven minute period. So apparently got a
backspasm and then that backspasm meant that he wasn't ready
to go on and he wasn't quite right, and that

(01:49):
meant he couldn't come out and bat straight away. And
then obviously Australia lost the wicket in his first innings,
so then everything falls back and it was he falls
down the order. So yeah, it wasn't great, not ideal,
but hopefully he gets himself right and he's ready to
take his he's proper place in the lineup in Australia.
Back again.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Mitchell Starks seven for fifty eight. How good was he yesterday?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah? Brilliant. Yeah, just bowled in the right areas but
bold with the right rhythm. Knowing him a bit, he's
kind of prepped perfectly. He built up, built up, built up,
so he's got himself into a physical state which is
really good. He just wasn't happy with his rhythm in
terms of spell on spell rhythm going in to the
Test match, but he found it yesterday. He was fantastic

(02:35):
and he deserved everything he got. Look, the second part
of England winnings was diabolical the way they went about it.
They lost five to twelve and nineteen balls, so there
was absolutely no patience whatsoever there and the Australian bowlers
just put it in a good area and then the
English batters did the west for them. So, yeah, he'd
be really satisfied with his bowling performance. He wouldn't be
verybody happy that he had to go out there and

(02:56):
back in the day's play like he's done his part.
And this is where the division between batta and bowler
exists in a cricket dressing room. And I dare say
that it was a horrible division in the dressing room yesterday.
But there would have been some silent moments between the
two sets of proponents that are meant to be good

(03:17):
at one thing in cricket, and yesterday the batter just
didn't aame up.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, and you.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Talked about some of the English shot making. There was
some fairly average shot selection among the Australian batters too,
wasn't there. Yeah, that just.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Doesn't seem that ability like the greatest thing you can
have in Jess, cricket is patients and how do you
be patient with the ball with the bat, and that's
just don't try and hit every ball everybody, like Travis said,
for instance, he got himself in twenty and yeah he
makes him pay by being attacking. And he just hit
a shot that he picked out on and I'm not joking.

(03:54):
There was no one within sixty meters that guy went
on apart from the bowler, but there was no one
else there. So he was just tempted into that to go,
oh yeah, wow, look at all the space out there.
I'll go for it, and just picked out. He could
not picked out that field or any better. So yeah,
on a ball that you can just let go to
the keeper, don't have to get involved with. But that's
how Travis plays. So but finding that balance, it feels

(04:16):
like it's really finite these days with the in Test cricket,
these batters who are playing a lot of Test ONNY cricket,
they just can't help themselves. So I don't know how
they find a way to rebuilt with that Australia, but
they're going to have to because if they come up
and you know, serve up one hundred and forty hundred
and forty in test matches. That these tests are going
to go to days.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
All right, ninety minutes until day two starts. Just before
you go. The Wallaby's w repp there year with the
Test match against France Paris tomorrow morning. They've lost to England,
Italy and Ireland in the last three weeks. What chance
the Wallaby's gonna end the year on a high and
beat France in Paris.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
It be a miracle. Yeah, I'm only going off the
way that Australia are performing at the moment. And yeah,
that the air has certainly gone out of the balloom.
And there's a few questions been asked if Joe Schmidt
and but we've been here before and I think I've
said it to you more than a few times. When

(05:10):
the depth is tested in Australian rugby, bad things happen
like this. We don't have the depth of the other nations.
We don't live in England. They're making all these changes
week in week out and they continue to win Test matches.
So it's frustrating because that this is where Australian rugby
really needs to look after itself for the future. In

(05:32):
terms of okay, balance the book, get them sorted, have
the lines to have the World Cup, get the revenue
going in the right direction. But rugby league clubs all
around Australia are infiltrating the traditional development pathway of Australian
rugby and that's the private schools. They're becoming rugby league
schools really quickly. So I got a few issues behind

(05:55):
the scenes Rugby Australia to try and rebuild the depth
at the top level. So because things like this are
going to happen, we're going to be structuring around on
tours trying to find solutions that possibly aren't there. And
it's really unfair on the guys who are playing and
also trying to coach a squad when they're just it's
not a fair fight with some of these European nations

(06:16):
and countries like the New Zealand and South Africa.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Interesting times. Hey, great the chat has always Adam, enjoy
our perth mate. Hope Day two goes well and we
get a day three. Always good to catch up. Adam
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