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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Now, back to Waitley. Yeah, we've got a bit of changeover in personnel.
Chapter 2: What recent changes have occurred in Australian cricket personnel?
The guys are really looking forward to this series. No doubt it's been a tough tour, but we're going with high hopes to hopefully win this series and play some really good cricket.
Mitch Marsh returns to captain the Australian team against Bangladesh. So the men at six o'clock tonight, the women at seven 30 tonight, both T20 fixtures, the women in a world cup, the men have three T20s to round out this tour.
Chapter 3: What are the expectations for the Australian team in the ODI series against Bangladesh?
Bharat Sundaresan is with me. Bharat, hello. Hello, Gerard.
Yeah, it's been quite a week of sport in Australia. I'm loving it. Can I just say, Gerard, before we get into the cricket, this, when Australia beat Turkey it was a big moment for me as well the first time I could proudly say my country is playing in a FIFA World Cup so it was quite special and I just love how Australians get behind the soccer teams both men and women because
That's one of the rare occasions, I guess, we get to play underdogs. And even this narrative coming out of, oh, look what America said about us. We feel bad about it. And he's going to show them how bad we feel about it. We don't get it in cricket or most of the other sports or even in the Olympics, do we?
No, that's nice. That's nice, Bharat.
Chapter 4: How are the Australian men’s and women’s teams performing in their T20 fixtures?
All right. Welcome to the Socceroos family. And so actually tonight's a great night of cricket. I'm going to be straight up and down here. I'll be watching the test match between England and New Zealand and I'll flick to see the scores of how the Australians are going, men's and women's. But what a coincidence that both teams are playing Bangladesh.
Isn't it? Yeah, no, exactly. And two obviously very different Bangladesh teams. Can I just say, I know, I mean, we focus on what Australia are doing and, you know, we'll talk about Cooper Conley and even that brief glimpse we saw of Oli P. But my big takeaway from this Bangladesh ODIs, Jared, was I'm excited to see their fast bowlers on our pitches for those two test matches in August.
Especially Naheed Rana, who's consistently the quickest bowler in the world. I mean, who would have ever thought there would be a Bangladeshi fast bowler who would be spoken of in that vein, right? So that's really good. But yeah, I mean, I will be watching the Test match as well, mainly Jerd, because... England are the new Pakistan of world cricket. You never know what can happen.
And weirdly enough, more dramatic things seem to happen when they actually win games more than when they lose games. I do rather like that.
All right. So what, what, What did you think of Cooper Connolly's century and what it might mean for his... We just need sort of markers along the way with him, don't we? The early stages of his Australian representation just didn't give us anything, but he's having his moments along the way.
I think what we saw in the IPL, we're just seeing the next level in his development journey. I mean, it's no mean feat making an IPL 100. I know we sit here and often just bemoan the fact that, oh, it's So easy to make runs on those pitches in the IPL with the pressure and everything else that comes with it. So I think what he did, and he scored consistent runs for Punjab as well.
So he showed that he's comfortable batting in that top order. And look, I think it was an irrelevant ODI. Bangladesh had won the series. Yes, Australia, you know, even if they had lost, I mean, who, how many people would have cared that, oh, Australia got whitewashed or whatever. cleaned up by Bangladesh. But it was a pretty irrelevant ODI.
But to play the way he did, to make 149 runs after having fielded, and it was 35 degrees, Jared, I think 92% humidity. And it was extreme. And he's going to take so much from this. And I think, A, Australia might have found their number three for that 50-over World Cup next year. So I'll be surprised if it's not headmash Cooper Connolly at the top of the order. In 50-0 cricket.
And I think he might have already earned himself a spot on that flight to India for the test. I don't know whether as a 16th member or as a 15th member. Because you need that kind of fortitude to bat for long. And I know different format and all of that. But he showed so much in that one innings. Maybe he was thrown into the deep end last year.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Bharat Sundaresan provide about the Bangladesh cricket team?
It's just, look at all the great things he's done for English cricket. Yeah, but, you know, it changed. And now it's reached a point where it sounds like, based on what Key and McCullum have said, he might come back and play international cricket. Who knows? But I don't think he'll come back as captain. And now, this morning, I don't know whether you came across this, Gerard,
They're even talking about possibly Joe Root continuing as captain for a while before handing it over to Harry Brooke, who is vice-captain but can't be named captain. What is happening in English ticket?
Yes, yes. So there's clearly a lot of background briefing going on, which I might have been a bit oblivious to, and then reading between the lines what's going on. Yeah, poor old Joe Root has to captain again, and that really never suited him. Hey, just give me your – I listened to the new ball last night. How is the BBL going to go in Melbourne –
with the Stars and the Renegades for an additional season after, with a pen stroke, they were written out of existence, but they're going to have to play as, I don't know, as ghost teams for another year.
Especially if you are playing for the Renegades team, Jared. I mean, I called them the granny flats last week on the new ball, saying what Victoria are trying to sell, the granny flat at the packs. But, I mean, imagine you've already been kind of written off as the, you know, the child that nobody cares about.
And, yeah, I mean, if you are the renegades, you'd feel abandonment issues at this point. And not to make light of it, because, you know, you're right. I mean, they were gone. And, okay, the Stars at least were supposed to become Victoria's team and all of that.
So at least they have the narrative of, oh, let's see, maybe, you know, how these things work or they might end up winning that BBL after all, after being, after nearly being extinct. But you feel for the renegades and I don't know what it does for the value of that team either, Jared. Just speaking to a couple of people, potential investors, let's call them in India.
I just don't think anyone's ready right now to get their hands into or get their hands on any product right now related to the BBL. I think there's a wait and watch approach saying, okay, we don't understand what is happening. Let them clear the mess out because we don't know who's sitting where on the table when it comes to this whole privatization thing.
And even if, you know, at the moment, everybody says the renegades are for sale, renegades are for sale. I don't know who's buying, if that makes sense. So yeah, it's been, it feels like such an almighty mess what's happened in the last couple of months. And we're back to where we started where, I guess as we get into the BBL, everything was just the same.
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