Michael Atherton
speaker
293 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Michael Atherton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
I mean, so easy when they are basketballing and getting out, we criticise them.
And when they're trying to be defensive and then they get out, we're criticising them again.
I go back to what Steve Smith, Steve Smith did that interview before a ball was bowled in the ashes.
And he said, just watch out.
The last few years, and this is a flat pitch, but the last few years it's been about skill in Australia and not about pace.
And do you think England have just read it wrong?
They've picked a side obsessed.
We've heard what Rob Key has had to say about pace.
And I'm not interested in bowlers who don't bow 85 plus mile an hour.
Do you think they've been obsessed by pace and not skill?
And Stokes, the Stokes innings, I mean, in the past, he would have once they got six down, he had maybe put his foot down, but he was struggling with cramps.
I don't think he could have done.
So he just sort of dug deep.
And once he's made the speech he did before the game where he wants fight and character and dog,
He certainly showed that in abundance.
Complete confidence lost in the system.
I think the players have lost confidence.
There was one moment with the Jamie Smith, the first Jamie Smith one,
where he clearly gloved it right in front of his eyes.
And the third umpire was just checking if Kawaja had caught it.
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