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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
A week is a long time in sport and apparently not long enough to figure out what to do next. The Stoke Atkinson curfew saga continues into a second week as England's second test squad is announced with a raft of changes. Can New Zealand do anything this week at The Oval Barney Ronay is on the show from America to preview the second test and possibly the match against Croatia.
The Women's World Cup has begun and everyone you'd expect to win has won, but it remains the most open World Cup in years and that is perhaps the greatest insult to Australia since the 90s. Speaking of which, Bangladesh claimed their first ever ODI series victory against a hapless Australian 3rd XI But we do get a look at a Cooper Connolly 149 in game three.
And that's just about good enough for a nation that's more focused on Iren Kunda than Labu Skakni. Alex Malcolm is on the show to give us a lowdown of BBL privatisation meetings overnight and possibly preview the Socceroos match against the US. Ask TGC. A bit of Suryavachi push and shove. And Kane Williamson, of course, retires. Another bumper episode of TGC this week. Pezza.
Lots happening around the world, but this is the real stuff. This is The Cricket Show. which was a show on Channel 9 in Australia in the 90s. This is a separate version of that. That was a wonderful show.
Chapter 2: What are the implications of the Stoke Atkinson curfew saga?
It was a good show. It was a good show with good people.
When you're 11 years old and Ian Healy is taking you into his cricket kit, you are, well, you're staying at the Shangri-La when it comes to content consumption. That's right.
Anyway, still, you know, sport around the world is just going off at the moment. You know, US Open Golf Week, you know, Knicks in five, you know, Football World Cup. It's all happening. But I want to know what's going on with England and their cricket team.
Hmm.
Well, you know... Stokes, he loves this. Hey, let me shout out. If you want some normal conversation about this, normal people with like accessible, rational views, I do commend Taylanders from last week, Felix, Greg, Jimmy, Matchin. They just can talk normally about what it's like being a fan and a player in this situation.
When you're an outsider looking in as an Australian, you're like, what are the japery angles?
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Chapter 3: How does the Women's World Cup impact cricket discussions?
You know, how do we experience – how do we angle in on japery here? And yet there's a lot of coded language about mental health and you're like, ah, is that – yeah, what do we do with that? Where can I angle my japery? Are we outside the japery perspective here? And then, you know, you take a beat and you're like, no, there's heaps. There's heaps of angles. I mean –
Well, there'll also be plenty of J-Pretty, our live show in Darwin. TJC is coming to Darwin the night before the first test against Bangladesh. That's Wednesday, August 12th as part of the Darwin Festival. Alisa Healy will be our special guest on stage. Tickets at greycricketer.com.
Plenty of people all of a sudden, very interested in getting themselves to Darwin to see Midge on stage with the boys.
One of the most alpha presences in Australia, nay, globally. And in, you know, negotiations with Midge and her people, and by that I mean just text messages, she was super keen to do this. So Midge on stage, Alpha, you know, summer's evening. Well, the dry. It's the dry season.
Yeah.
It could scarcely be better heading into a test match against Bangladesh, who we will speak about as well. Don't sleep on them. I ain't sleeping on the Deshies. I feel like I can say Deshies. Just let us know. I mean, Australia's lost to Bangladesh, he goes. Cricket's version of Chernobyl. And a little, was it a little looking glass into like Australia 2s, 3s and the weird period that may loom?
Do you know what I mean? Like obviously we're resting players, et cetera, and, you know, we're very far away from the 15-man squad for the World Cup and it's bilateral ODIs and any other caveat you want there. But you still – I was looking at Bangladesh versus Australia in this three-match series where I did watch every single ball.
And because there weren't that many people at the ground, I could hear Bangladesh in the field and they were, to use an AFL parlance, they were up and about. You know what I mean? Like they had no – they had no tunnel issues with Australia. Australia has lost tunnel aura when it comes to Bangladesh away, if we ever had it. They've got young blokes bowling 150s.
They're playing with a syntho deck adjacent to it. And I just wonder if we've got a weird period looming. But what I also wonder is whether none of that matters if a young buck can make a daddy white ball hundred, as Cooper Connolly did. You know, does that justify the format? Does the ends? of the loss of Deshi Tunnel Order justify the means? Do you know what I mean?
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Chapter 4: What are the concerns surrounding Ben Stokes and England's cricket team?
Okay. Yeah. And, you know, Rick Finlay has got era scores as well that I don't understand them, but Steve Smith's on top, so it looks good to me and I agree with it. Well, that would be right then. That'd be right. I don't pretend to understand it, but... Yeah, being in the conversation is pretty good, I guess, for Kane. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, and for a certain sect of people. And possibly the greatest era of New Zealand cricket. So close on so many occasions, but the World Test Championship final down the Aegeus Bowl, still just a wonderful moment. Before we speak to Barney, this show is brought to you by NordVPN, nordvpn.com forward slash TGC. Where would we be without... NordVPN.
Well, we'd be sponsorless on the show for a start, but NordVPN gives you threat protection and security. It gives you security. And it gives you options. It does. It does certainly give you options. Obviously, there's nothing greater in the world than a northern summer.
But if you can't afford to travel this summer through various reasons, then you can just pretend you are by just changing your virtual location through NordVPN. If you want to go to Brussels, for instance, if you want to go to Antwerp, Have you thought about summering in Antwerp? Have you thought, you know what, things are a little tight right now. What I'll do is I'll pretend I'm there.
I'm going to tell my computer that I'm there.
I do get a little thrill when you just press a button that while you can't be there physically, your computer is. And I do use the term computer.
So I've been watching the World Cup games and whoever's playing, like the first name on the team sheet, the first team on the scorecard, I change it to Saudi Arabia, for instance. Yeah, the kingdom. The kingdom. I change it to the kingdom.
Yeah.
What was the score in the Kingdom v Uruguay? Chuck would know. He's watching it right now. Chuck? It was 1-1. 1-1 or Uruguay equalised?
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Chapter 5: What insights does Alex Malcolm share about Australia's cricket future?
For this man's voice, for his perspective, amid tumult in the Australian game as a dark future looms. I'm, of course, talking about ESPN Crick Info's Alex Malcolm, who has been at the coalface of not only Australia's cricket future, its conversations about privatization, but also Cooper Connolly's daddy hundreds against Bangladesh. And I want to start there.
Why don't we start on that note of everything's fine for a long, you know, every other country has been producing young guys doing things, you know, Surya Vanchi, Bethel, et cetera. And we just got the cartel chipping away and we've been, and nobody can score runs. And we talk about who might be the new shapes and stuff, but we're basing it on shapes and shapes alone.
Finally, we have a young man who scores the hundred. We can pick him in the next games because he scores a hundred.
Chapter 6: How does Cooper Connolly's performance affect Australia's selection decisions?
Does the entire Bangladesh series make sense now that a guy scored a hundred for Australia?
Yeah, when he produces the shapes and he wears Sean Marsh's number. Yes. And he looks that way and, you know, he's shaved the head now.
Yeah, looking lean as well. Is it a lost puppy fat hundred?
Svelte. We need the neck tattoo, right? Is that the next thing, the neck tattoo? Yes. No, it's a win for the investment in the long-term future of a talented player. I think it's quite right to question the way Australia's selectors have gone about that one. They've picked him on – Exactly that, the shapes and the X factor and the skill set rather than any evidence at any level.
His highest list they scored before that was 64. His first professional 100 had come in the IPL only a month ago. He's got a shield of 90.
He bossed the IPL, though, relative to the Australian.
Yeah, the only thing I would say with that, and this is actually – the Australian camp are aware of this. He's actually had the highest false shots percentage of any player in the IPL just gone. I was going to say that. There was a bit of luck in that. One of his scores, I think he was out LBW and Richard Pant forgot to review it and it was Plum.
Are you saying the data showed he's had a lucky tournament? Yeah, yeah, it has. It actually has.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of privatization in Australian cricket?
Batting on a really flat wicket. But there's so many positives there. The innings he played the other day in Mirpoor was outstanding. It was phenomenal. He carried Australia on his own. made some really good decisions, went through the gears, did everything that you'd want from a young player to do.
So that would really please the Australian selectors because I know for a fact there were concerns about the batting group underneath coming through. And it should be remembered actually, you guys have probably joked about the fact that this is Australia's twos. There's only really, if you go forward to...
If you go forward to the first game of the World Cup next year, there's actually only probably five guys from the first-choice XI that were missing from this tour. So you still – if you think about it, it's Marsh, Head, Cummins, Hazelwood, Stark – If you think about the rest of the team, the other six guys, they're all on this trip.
You know, that top order from, with the exception of, Connolly's probably in that conversation now, but Labashane, Green, Carey. Inglis? Inglis as the standing captain and the keeper, and then Renshaw. They're the five batters behind Head and... who are going to be a part of that top order. They just haven't quite worked out who fits where. Marnus' form has been a big question mark.
Green's been pretty underwhelming over the last six months or so, although his ODI form has actually been pretty good if you look at the numbers. And then Kerry's had a rough tour recently Renshaw's had a rough tour with the Baddies Bowl very well. But yeah, they haven't got the mix right. Matt Short hasn't come through. They invested some games in Jake Fraser McGurk a little while ago.
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Chapter 8: How do the current challenges impact the future of Australian cricket?
That didn't work out. Hardy got sent away from the White Bull squad. He's now back in the T20 squad. So they've invested time in some guys, but they haven't come through to the level they wanted so far. So... Cotterley getting a score is a big step. But then again, he's not going to open the batting in the World Cup. So where do you fit him? Does he slide into the three slot?
Do they set him up lower down the order? He's got to come back to bowling at some point. He's still got a back issue that's kept him out of bowling for the last three months or so. So there's all of that to work through. But it's a positive sign, as you say.
I honestly can't figure out who plays which format anymore. I mean, so focused on getting Steve Smith into the, into the Olympic setup, possibly in the skateboarding. I'm not really sure that I break dancing. I think, I think break dancing's out next year. Is it? Yeah. Cause Smudger doing break dancing would be. I'm in for that. It makes a lot of sense, actually.
Mate, I watched bits and pieces of this Bangladesh series and Bangladesh were good. They got a guy buying 150 rockets. The opening batting partnership was good. The fielding was good. They outspun us. And yet it is nothing short of an absolute fucking disgrace that Australia nearly lost the series 3-0.
Saying that, they were sort of cruising that last game and then lost, what, 4 for 5 in 10 minutes. Yeah, that was good. Bangladesh good, Australia bad, but are Bangladesh good?
They're good, yeah. Certainly in home conditions, and it's not the old home conditions. They're doing it with pace and bounce. Nade Runner bowling 147, 150 he touched on, and then Shuraful bowling 147. Good gas in that last game, the left armour. Tascan swinging it up front. So, yeah, they're good. They've won, I think, at least their last four, if not their last five ODI series. Okay.
And the Fizz as well. The Fizz as well.
And then, as you say, good batting, left-handers who hit the ball hard. Good spin options. It's a pretty well-balanced side. Yeah, and in conditions where 280 to, well, in this case, sort of 260 all the way up to sort of 310 getting the job done, they're very good. The question will be whether they can win games that are like
350 plus 340 that's where they would fall short they probably haven't got that gear um they found that out in the last world cup they made over 300 against australia and got run down within about 40 overs when boston made 170 or something so uh that will be the question in south africa and then extra bounce for their guys the thing is the thing about the thing about the wickets over there they can't i mean the pace was a problem but it was like skinny and a bit
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