Matthew Hayden

You could just reel them off.

Maybe even the universe boss is another great example, right?

Chris Gale, you know, he's a 300 club.

He lets us all know about it by the hats he wears.

But the reality is, you know, due respect, he is an all-format game.

But he's also a very good test cricketer.

so youngsters get out there in the nets and learn and listen about technique in the game because it will not do you any harm you will develop power as you grow you will amass this great body position that's required if you want to be a short format cricketer and that's going to take time and unfortunately i think our kids our fans and

And certainly a game maybe isn't giving enough credit, you know, to exactly those acquisition of skills.

My father was a very simple man.

He was a peanut farmer and we lived out in the bush about seven kilometres away from any other household.

So it was a strong bike ride before I get anywhere near a back game of cricket at my neighbours.

But he always said to me one thing.

Son, never ask a question, answer a question with a question, but if you can allow me a moment whilst you've got your laptop open and we can get the actual numbers, can you just go to Shubman Gill's profile and just tell our audience how many franchise clubs he's played for?

I rest my case.

Our audience will work out what my point is very quickly.

Look, cricket is a warfare.

You can fraternise with the enemy as much as you like, but at the end of the day, your resources need to be...

you know, enclosed behind enemy lines.

And the reality is we have a damn lot of resources in the Australian cricket team and the set-up.

I mean, it was the apple of the eye for three or four decades and yet we are bleeding that intellectual property because it's just allowing us the opportunity to not...