Chris Rogers

Yeah, 40 years.

I've done my research, Gerard.

We've only had two born and bred Victorians who have played over seven test matches, and that's Matt Elliott and Pete Hanscom.

Um, and neither of them averaged 40.

So, so, um, you know, it'd be great to have a Victorian batter who goes and, and, and really leads that the Australian batting.

Um, and it's not just him.

I think we have a couple of others who, who have the potential definitely to, to, um, to be in that conversation as well.

But, but Ollie, you know, he's, he's obviously been identified, um, the Australians, uh, squad and that the management, they, they love what they see.

So I think he's going to get, you know, a number of opportunities.

And I hope he just keeps playing with a smile on his face because he's just such a great person to have in the team.

He brings so much energy.

There's a little bit of naivety with him, but, you know, he just is loving the opportunities that are coming his way.

Yeah, I was just thinking about the highlights of the year, Gerard, and there were some great highlights.

I'll probably special mention the Sammy Harper's 200s at the WACA and a number of other ones I could talk about as well.

But one of the ones that probably goes a little bit unnoticed because you get used to it was him taking the last five wickets against New South Wales in round two.

When we were still kind of trying to understand where we were at and he knocked over the last five wickets, it looked like we were going to lose.

And I said to the group after, I said, just try not to take this for granted and appreciate that you are actually, and I don't use this lightly, but you're in the presence of greatness.

He is, you know, if you look at his record over the last few years, I mean, that is just quite extraordinary what he's achieved.

Um, and it's not just, um, how good he is with the ball.

It's, it's his personality that, that goes with it as well.