Barney Ronay

So they have bowlers.

And...

i i think they really needed stokes i mean i know we don't talk about the ashes but that bowling attack with stokes for next summer look really strong and now i actually think it's in chaos i think without stokes it's a mess it's a massive mess do you want do you fear ollie pope's captaincy uh sure um

That's a very good point.

The MLC, they've been in touch with me since I've been here.

I have an invitation to the Captain's Day on Wednesday, which is a chance to meet all the captains, plus Liam Plunkett, who seems to be the kind of guru of the whole thing.

He's the kind of, I don't know, the sachin of the MLC.

Matt Short, Nicholas Puran, Faf de Plessis, wouldn't mind meeting him, Glenn Maxwell, Jason Holder, they're all going to be there.

But it seems a doomed enterprise.

I mean, Dallas is so hot.

I mean, you literally can't walk heat.

Nobody goes outside.

It's one of those cities where everything's just really concrete and there are no people.

And it feels like you're on Mars or something.

It's full of immaculate parks with a single wanking homeless person in them and nothing else.

There's a lot of that, actually.

It seems to be – that's the fashion here.

I've seen five so far.

One in a wheelchair, which was, you know, fair play.

I don't condemn the wanking homeless people of Dallas, you know,