Gerard Whateley

You never know what can happen.

And weirdly enough, more dramatic things seem to happen when they actually win games more than when they lose games.

I do rather like that.

All right.

So what...

What did you think of Cooper Connolly's century and what it might mean for his... We just need sort of markers along the way with him, don't we?

The early stages of his Australian representation just didn't give us anything, but he's having his moments along the way.

I think what we saw in the IPL, we're just seeing the next level in his development journey.

I mean, it's no mean feat making an IPL 100.

I know we sit here and often just bemoan the fact that, oh, it's

so easy to make runs on those pitches in the IPL, but the pressure and everything else that comes with it.

So I think what he did, and he scored consistent runs for Punjab as well.

So he showed that he's comfortable batting in that top order.

And look, I think it was an irrelevant ODI.

Bangladesh had won the series.

Yes, Australia, you know, even if they had lost, I mean, who, how many people would have cared that, oh, Australia got whitewashed or,

cleaned up by Bangladesh.

But it was a pretty irrelevant ODI.

But to play the way he did, to make 149 runs after having fielded, and it was 35 degrees, Jared, I think 92% humidity.

And it was extreme.