Matthew Hayden

engaged within, you know, great minds.

I mentioned a few before in Ricky Ponting, Justin Langer came and he was seen off, you know, because allegedly he was a little grumpy and a bit too hard on the players.

Yeah, I mean, the thing is, learning's not easy.

In fact, learning's damn hard.

And so too has change, you know, so there's very...

You know, it mounts a compelling case that I think that it's just trying to just harness our resources a little bit, you know, within nations like England and Australia that have, you know, such enormously proud cricket cultures and traditions.

You know, we've seen one of them come and go underwhelmingly this summer.

You know, the Ashes was as big a build-up as what we saw the Pakistan and Indian game the other night and it was equally as dissatisfying.

Because the quality and the standard of the game is just not allowing us to really enjoy the benefits, the fruits of our labour as cricketing communities.

There is still, yeah.

Yeah.

But surely that's a contractual issue, right?

It's something that you'd have to... We obviously don't know this, but it should be all squared away.

You know, that those players, international and domestic players, prioritise...

their own tournaments, just like India are doing very smartly.

And they're reaping the benefits of it as well.

I mean, they have so many talented cricketers that just, I mean, can you imagine where, I'll give you one great name, Shubman Gill.

Would there be a side across this World Cup that wouldn't have him as their opening batter?

Well, it depends if he's got any Italian heritage.

Canada certainly haven't, but it's full.