Sam Perry

I don't know where this game is being played, but I mean, I don't think Australia has claimed to the lands that this game is being played in.

So I've enjoyed that.

I've also just enjoyed Travis Head later in the piece just hitting a cover drive and DOS fucking blowing out my headphones just as Australia moved to Nunva 88 or whatever.

I was like, you know what?

These boys have driven four hours in a car from Colombo to Pallikelly, I think it was.

And this is their game as much as anyone else's.

And fair fucks to those guys because they had to actually go and watch that game.

And no one else in Australia did.

Mate, I've got to say, I really enjoyed the anger with which the Australian team played this game.

Like, you know, we've been – I think everyone in Australia has been talking about –

There's, like, a delineation of things, right?

There's, like, there's the underperformance of the team and then there's also this happens quite a lot to Australians in T20 World Cup, maybe not exit this early, and also the separation of care factor for Australians' fans in this format compared to others.

And, like, that would have really hurt the players.

It would have really hurt the players, like, hearing all that stuff.

And I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get to talk to them for, sort of, six months as punishment.

But, like...

But I really enjoyed how fucking angry and I wouldn't say like it wasn't didn't want to be there because they executed their skills well and for the most part and they played well and they smashed a fucking third grade team.

But I really enjoyed how there was no smiling.

There was no laughing.

The appeals were muted.