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Chapter 1: What is the current situation in the Adelaide Test match?
England are 8 for 213, they're 158 runs behind, Stokes is at the crease, so is Joffre Archer. It could have been a lot worse, but you know what, this is Australia's day.
This is a day that Australia have played really, really well, and we have given England a whole heap of shit, and I've got to say for the right reasons, because the chat's been garbage, but you know what, it's not about them today, because I don't think they've played that badly.
This was a day where you got to see that this Australian cricket team is a serious cricket team, and if you're an Australian fan, you have to enjoy this, because in two years' time, 18 months' time... England are likely going to win the Ashes at home.
Chapter 2: How did Australia perform on Day 2 of the Test?
And it just goes to show that these guys, that these Australian cricketers in these conditions are good. They're really good. And Australia fundamentally were fantastic today, Pezza. It's a day of work.
It's just a day of work where Australian punters around the lands get to lie back and Pour the glass of milk. Watch the horses just throb away. Here, horsey, here's some salt lick. Here's a carrot. What a wonderful day's work it was. This is... It's a day of quality defeating supposed talent. I want to talk about that later, but... the cartel was back. It was rounded. It was sophisticated.
Chapter 3: What factors contributed to Australia's dominance in the match?
It was disciplined. It was patient. And its quality simply dismantled an England team that cannot live with them in these conditions. And most of the dismissals today, frustratingly for this show, were just good deliveries getting guys out. A couple of dumb things, all good. That'll happen in innings of cricket. But today it was about the return of familiar...
shapes and worldy players who have been largely defined as workmanlike battlers by certain corners of the media. And really, the truth is they're just eons ahead of who they were playing against today.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Stokes' performance on England's strategy?
We'll see again. I keep thinking about the future because this series is over. But we'll see in England, they will be very hard to beat when they have a very specific set of conditions that they can make. And then they have excellently, highly skilled bowlers with that ball in those conditions. That's how winning at home works, right?
But what you saw today, and I understand the criticism from overseas fans, particularly English fans, who'd say, like, watching Australia is boring. Well...
cricket in australia is supposed to be just on televisions on desktops on your phone in the car with you whilst you go about your day farming the land living off the land you're walking in and out of rooms and it's just percentages it's strangulation it is it is uh asphyxiation it's asphyxiation it's discipline it's mastery of one's craft
And today I just saw a cartel hitting lengths and lines as the members were as well over and over and over again until an exceptional piece of cricket was delivered either with the ball, sharp bit of glove work as well with Carey tactically and literally trying to fucking catch a missile at 136 Ks an hour. And Batsman didn't really make many mistakes. Say Ollie Pope did probably, you'd say that.
But you just got to see like a really good cricket team, a really good cricket team just do their skills at the highest level over and over again until it succeeded for them. It's boring though, I get it.
I love the way that you've conceived that, and maybe it is boring, but if boring is watching my horses execute the highest craftsmanship during my summer while I am walking in and out of rooms, conducting errands, et cetera, exhaling through my nose, trying to manage relationships. Crop dusters. Exactly. Managing relationships and crop dusters.
Exactly, which is what 95% of Australians do, if you're not from here. There's a kangaroo. They're a pest.
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Chapter 5: How does the Australian bowling attack compare to England's?
A delicious meat though.
High in protein.
That's right. I reserve the right not to really be paying attention as to whether we're bowling well, but I expect that everybody's figures are fucking tidy. And I expect that when I decide to tune in for three balls, that those balls are at the off fucking bale or we're mixing up their footwork with a plan. And that's what we saw today.
Now, you know, if you think that's boring, then consider me Miles Davis.
Oh, look at that. I've pissed my pants. Pat Cummins, three for 54 off 14. Boland, two for 31 off 12. Nathan Lyon, two for 51 off 22. Remember him? Cameron Green, one for 22 off eight. Mitchell Stark, will Nisa come in for the four test? He's taken none for 54 off 12. I think it's time for change. He's a watch. I have to make it 50 this morning. He scored another 50.
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Chapter 6: What role does Nathan Lyon play in Australia's bowling strategy?
And now he has more runs than the entire England team except for Root. It's a hostile country. That's right.
And they are all over you out here.
I hope they enjoyed Noosa though for a week and a half or whatever.
Anyway, so look, Australia's got, you know, I was thinking about until this team, the Australian team, give us something remarkable like an away Ashes win or a win in India, or, you know, I think they were so close to, you know, winning back-to-back World Test Championship finals, which would have really been a crowning achievement for the Test side.
That like, you know, it's still like, fuck, it's nearly so good. They've nearly given us so much. Sorry, they have given us so much. But like, probably just now looking for that next thing where it's like, fucking hell, it's incredible. What I'm asking for is perfection, I guess. Because when I'm looking at them at home and it's like, this is, how do you beat this at home?
And by the way, we've missed one of the best plays in every test match ever.
Hey, this morning it looked ominous for Australia. 38 degrees incoming, fucking northerly off the stony desert coming in. Kratz is looking like fucking Yuvraj Singh batting. It's World Test Championship final vibes where every... One run for Australia equals two for England. You know, Crawley and Duckett licking their chops at what's ahead.
And even in those opening overs of Australia bowling, it looked like balls coming onto the bat nicely. But by the 10th over, they were three for. And... And we just watched these guys go to work again. Alex Malcolm said it on our show about two months ago. I'm like, how does Australia win these ashes?
And I think he was kind of harking back to us as well, but he was just like, mate, get enough runs and the cartel goes to work. And that's what's happened. Look, as we asked Dizzy last night, was it true that Australia simultaneously left 300 out there and had 100 too many? Yeah. Was that true?
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Chapter 7: What are the criticisms of the Snicko technology in cricket?
And so it's proved. And so it's proved. And look, the return of Cummins and Lyon is one of the safest installments we've had in Australian cricket. Papa's home. Look, Papa's come home. Good old perfect Pat comes and makes his presence felt in the series. Familiar shapes, familiar quality, la familiar. Gets Crawley. Crawley hits a couple of fielders. He's absolutely smoked two balls to fielders.
He smashed them. Duckett goes and has a chat with him and says, well, it's time to get out now.
Fuck's old brother, check it out now.
And then Cummins bowls him an absolute fucking seed. We don't even get to say that Crawley did a dumb thing. Baby did a dumb, dumb thing. It's just a seed, and you're kissing your teeth. It's a fucking children's department store seed. Mate, and him and Lyon coming into the side, it just stiffened the side, didn't it? It stiffened something.
Chapter 8: What predictions are made for the remainder of the series?
Exactly.
The quality of Lyon and Cummins coming in, and Lyon just the perfect bowler for these conditions right now, exposing again limitations in England's
entire game plan and approach etc it was a joy to watch really like today was a exhibition of high quality bowling on a deck that offered a little bit but it was a batting day 38 degrees how many times i have to say it yeah get out of here and they just they just dismantled guys who were not good enough this wasn't even this wasn't even like a castigation of basketball game plan stuff i want to get to that but
I'm pretty sure Ben Stokes has personally excused himself from basketball. It's recess on basketball for Stokesy. I don't know. Is basketball just whatever Stokes does? I'm not sure what it is anymore. But whatever it has been, he's out. And I think he's dismissed himself from it. some time ago, maybe midway through the Brisbane test. By the way, with cramp. Of course.
It was a grimacing, fighting, sweating Stokes today. And that's the right kind of dog, I thought, that he showed.
Nathan Lyons first over, by the way, Pezza back into the side after, you know, whatever, two for two. Picks up Olly Pope, then bowls an absolute jaffer to Ben Duckett. Pope shot was good. Pope looked good today, didn't he? Yeah, yeah. Poor old Popey, he's untenable. Yeah, I'm afraid so.
I'm sorry, Popey. Close your door on the way out. Yeah, I reckon you're just like, yeah, one day people will go, is that how you wanted to bat in your test? Anyway, play on.
Do you want to talk about Snicker? So yesterday we didn't talk about it because we are once again backstage for our second live show here in Adelaide. We've got Darren Lehman joining us in about an hour's time, I guess. So that's where we are on this couch in the green room again here at Hindley Street Music Hall.
And shout out to the guys lining up to the strip club next door as we were leaving this venue last night. Yeah. And I lost Charlie on the way. Actually, he said he had to go back for his keys. He left his hotel keys. That's not a bad double. TJC into a gripper. With keys. Anyway, yeah, so Snicko happens yesterday.
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