Jim Dolan: Australian Correspondent on cricket, athletics, rugby league

Our Australian Correspondent Jim Dolan gives us the latest from the wonderful wide world of Aussie sport. On today’s agenda:  

The bowlers have done their bit in the second test, plus the lights go out?  

Wide-ranged excitement about the school's athletics carnival. 

Rugby league and the never-ending drama. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Dancy
Waldegrave from Newstalk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Seven thirty seven regular Australian corresponding and good human being
Jim Dolan joins us. Now, hey, Jim so cracket Australia
not paying their bills. That's why they keep turning the
lights off last night.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Right, Yeah, perhaps they should move the lights the switch
away from the bar or something, because yes, the lights
went out Adelaide twice in ten minutes. To not exactly
what you want. When you're batting against the pink ball
and you've got Boomer and Co bowling at over one
hundred and forty ks, and you have battling for your career,
probably it's just a distraction you don't need. But the

(00:45):
Ossie pair of McSweeney and Manus saw their way through
that to be thirty eight and twenty not out one
forty six Australia India all out for one hundred and
eighty And if you'd been following it, the young Indian
opener who's got plenty of talent, but he also likes
to have a chat. He told Mitch Stark in the
first Test speaking the need Tod Perth that he wasn't

(01:06):
bowling fast enough because the ball wasn't coming out of
the bat the way he wanted it to. He was
matching it everywhere. I'd imagine the first ball the day
was plenty fast enough for him because he was fine
his way back to the pavilion. Didn't get the feat moving.
You missed it with the bat at l w and
six from Mitch Stark. That was pretty impressive. Scottie Bowland,
first Test in two years, probably would have liked the

(01:29):
fielding to be a bit better because he had two
catches dropped from his bowling and he missed out on
a wicket from a no ball. But yeah, we're a
little bit excited that Australia might actually be competitive in
this Test match. So the pink ball record is good
apart from the last Test against the West Indies. But yeah,
it should be a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
McSweeney's birthday at home.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Is that right? Will be if he gets hundred?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
All right, I was very impressed. I didn't watch a
great deal of it, but looking at the way the
Australian openers dealt with that swinging rows a ball at
that stage of night, I think we should be commended
for that, right now, that was a Brett Lee as
I'm not mine, Okay, I just dropped his name in there,
like his made of mine?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, like that tasteless.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
All right, it's still to come another day. Night, great
for us to the wist smalls. What about athletics, So
what's going on in the schools? Are you guys fighting
the next big thing?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Are you? Well? Stoles is on for a lot of kids.
But then some of the sensible ones have gathered in
Brisbane and we're all excited because you've probably heard of
him and seen him run on the highlight. Sixteen year
old Queensland gout. He ran ten zero four in one
hundred and eight yesterday. That was wind assisted across out

(02:50):
time wise. Then he ran an under eighteen's record of
ten seventeen in the finals. So we're all pretty excited
by him because he wants to win Olympic gold medal
for Australia. And the best thing is he's got a
couple of chances because today he will attempt to break
his own record in the two hundred. He is super
impressive as well and looks like a flying machine, so
we're looking forward to seeing him running that today. An

(03:12):
exciting future for young doubt out and Patrick Johnson the
only Ooty of course, to go below ten seconds. He
did that in two thousand and three. And this kid,
I just love the way he smiles after a race,
and you know everything's about athletics for him. So yeah,
very exciting young man and very fast. What was his
name again, Jim gout gout gout gout?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
All right, yeah, forget that's pretty.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Enough from six. Yeah, yeah, he's you can't forget any
what you see him run. He is just yeah, fantastic.
It looks like you when someone says it's your shout.
Oh that fast out of the blocks quickly.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
The trouble is, I get up and I've had three
or four and I'm wearing an E F tongue. I
just fall over already, move there fast at all. Let's
be honest about it, and you on a future when
it comes to athletics. You should listen to bo Ritchie,
a guest coming up, seeing young lady who's got fire.
All right, no doubt about that.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Let's move away from athletics and let's go to the
never ending drama of a game we call rub away.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yes, it might be Christmas. The players are back in
pre season or putting their feet up after the Pacific Championships.
But Brandon Smith, i'd imagine the morning, has been on
the phone to his manager saying, well, what are we
going to do? Because the Roosters have signed the Blues
Rhys Robson to a four year deal that will start
at me in this time next year, he'll be sipping

(04:35):
the lathes at Bondai. They of course already have Connor
Watson at dummy half, who they like because of his
utility value. So you don't have to be hinds underwork
out the Brandon going to be the man squeezed out here.
The Cowboys say they couldn't match the offer that was
made to Robson three million dollars I think for following
years is what's been bandished about. They also want the

(04:57):
clear pathway so that one of the most promising youngsters
on the horizon, he's a dummy half is avi at
Kerik names to watch. He's coming through and they think
he's the future and that Reese is moving back to
yourself and you start with.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
A name that people will mispronounce forever and ever. Are
mean do you go xavier or are you throwing an
egg xavier just to confuse people.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Jim, Yeah, no, I go with the Xavier because it's
probably easier that Kris is the one I'm worried about.
Got to count my teeth afterwards, great stuff, pick.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Him out of your beer. Looking forward to the continuation
of this rose ball test match and we'll see next
time around. Old Joyce well understands the concept of if AFO.
If I have to explain that to you, I'll be
removed from the airway, so I won't. Jim Dolan, thanks
very much for your time, mate. You look after yourself.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Have a great weekend.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
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