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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Want to have your say? Ring Gerard on 1300 736 736. Now, back to Waitley. One for 100. Cast falls. Wetherill pulls with authority out into the deep. He'll only get one for it. He might get two. He's set back. But what he will get to do is raise his bat for the first time in Test cricket. That has been a most classy half century. Indeed, the Gabba rise to him. They're on their feet. They love it.
He's 50 from 45. Jake Wetherill, Australian opener with us on the program. Jake, it's great to have you on board. Thanks for having me, Gerard. Tell us, what does an opening batter do with himself in the opening days of winter at home?
Yeah, not a lot, mate. A lot of coffee and watching miserable weather come down. The wrong time of year to be a cricketer, that's for sure.
It is. You've had the stint in county cricket with Leicester Shear. Tell us about a couple of months there.
Yeah, it was good fun. The weather was a lot better than here, weirdly, which is good. So I got an opportunity to be outside playing some good conditions and some good wickets where the sun was out, which has made a big difference over the UK. So I was very lucky. There's a lot of high scoring games. I got to bat some time, which has made my time over there very enjoyable.
So April was especially productive with graduation through an 80 and 90 and then a century. What were you working on in your game?
I'm obviously still trying to work on the stuff I learned from the Ashes and stuff like that and my technical stuff there. But at the same time, trying to work on some game plan stuff over the UK and understand what the conditions might hold if I go over there for an Ashes series.
So for me, it was just getting to better understand the conditions and what the environment might be like if I was to play over there again, but also work on...
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Chapter 2: What does Jake Weatherald do during the winter months?
um, some things I want to work, um, get right for the potential of the series coming up against Bangladesh. So, um, it was a bit of both things, but at the same time, still trying to make runs and be at the middle.
That's the best place to learn how to bat, but also fading off coaches and stuff there and other players around, uh, county cricket, understanding the conditions there and how the best guy about it with game plans. But that suit my game really.
Had you spent much time in county cricket previously?
No, that was my first stint. I played quite a bit of club cricket over there early in my career. So it is all different. Obviously, the standard is a lot different, obviously, playing county cricket than playing club cricket. But at the same time, you still had a pretty decent understanding of what the ball might do and what the wickets might be like.
So, yeah, I was pretty prepared mentally for what was going on. But at the same time, it's still a good learning curve, which is good.
big decisions to be made at the end of the Shield season.
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Chapter 3: How did Jake's county cricket experience influence his game?
So you've come back to South Australia. What swung you to that?
It was purely my family situation. I love my time in Tasmania. I've been very open about the fact of how well they supported me and obviously got me to my dream of playing for Australia. But my wife's business has gone really well and she lives in Adelaide and couldn't come down to Tassie very often and
Once the Cricket Australia contract was up, I had the opportunity to potentially come back to South Australia and live with her full-time again. And we'd spent a fair bit of time away from each other for the last three and a half years. And potentially the opportunity to have a start of family and stuff like that and settle back into home life here would be the best thing for me and my wife.
So that was just purely a family-based thing. And obviously, I'm coming back into a successful environment and an environment where a lot of my close mates still play. So... I'm very lucky, and I was very lucky that Tassie was so supportive.
It is a great time to come back as back-to-back title winners, isn't it?
Yeah, it sort of just, you know, it sort of looks sometimes from the outside like I've just come back into a winning side, but at the same time, yeah, I'm there just to add what I can, and at the same time, like, I'm eternally grateful to Tassie Cricket. You know, they allowed me to fulfil my dream, so, you know, I'm not going to take that away from them. They were amazing at supporting me.
Jake Weatherall is with us, Australian test opener. I have no doubt an Ashes is pretty hectic. And when it's your first taste of test cricket, with a bit of time to reflect upon it, how do you think back on your first five tests in a bag of green?
Yeah, awesome, challenging and confronting at times, especially with Just everything that goes around it, especially when you play first-class cricket, your game's never scrutinised half as much. So for me, it was trying to get the fact that people that you respect and admire so much are pulling apart your technique or saying things about your game.
Thankfully, it was all pretty positive, but at the same time, there was a lot of things I could learn. And then obviously when you're playing, just the criticism you got from the poms and even your own supporters at times when you're not doing as well as you should be. I think they're things that you need to learn to deal with when you're playing test cricket.
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