Josh Inglis notches a century in Harare: Australia clean sweep Zimbabwe | The Wisdom & Experience of Robert Craddock (21.09.26)
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What made Josh Inglis’s century the highlight of the Australia‑Zimbabwe series?
Whiteley on SEN. Shot. That's a good shot. Confidence. To get himself to a hundred. We just play a lot of T20 cricket now and I think it's just me finding the right tempo for one day cricket and I think I I sort of found that today. Um playing in slightly different role with a with a younger team, I've probably got to take some more responsibility and batting at number four. The way I wanted to play was just to to sort of own those middle overs and just keep the scoreboard ticking over and be there towards the end. Uh wasn't there right at the end but to get there. until the fortieth over and get a hundred I'm happy with
Josh Inglis made the century for Australia last night, so it was a thriller. Australia won by a wicket, but it means across the three games there were centuries in all of them.
Why is Cooper Connolly being pushed into the Test side ahead of veteran players?
Renshaw, Head and Inglis, and Cooper Connolly was the man of the series. Robert Craddock, there there was this was much less about results and much more about performance, and it felt like some of the right performances were there.
Yes. Cooper Connolly's the guy I've been watching very closely, Jared. I know you have as well. I've got him in the first test team in South Africa, ahead of Bo Webster. I just think it's time for that infusion o of new blood. A and and he he's a fearless sort of kid. Um, averages over forty in first class cricket, never scored a first class century. It seems extraordinary that you could sort of you know push his name for to be rushed into the test team. But this is the world we live in now and it's all about, you know, his basic batting skills are very good. Nathan Ellis also great.
How did Travis Head’s middle‑order century impact the series and what technical flaws did he expose?
Uh I think it was nine wickets at fourteen for the series. Uh I I i it's great when Australia's attacks just got an old fashioned scrapper in it who who just a bit of a sort of a gets in d junkyard dog, sort of never beaten and he's and he's fought his way through the system and that's what Nathan Ellis is and he'll be World Cup bound next year in South Africa. That that which these matches are a a trial for that World Cup next year in about a year's time. So he he was very good as well.
And Travis Head made a century in the middle game which was uh which was needed. He nearly chopped on again, but once he got through that he he made the score that would have settled a few of his nerves.
Yeah, I saw that. Chopped on four times in a row and nearly five. And that is enough for him to realise that he has some technical stuff that he has to work on. A little bit of more tightness between bat and pad. And we shouldn't underestimate Josh Ingalls' century, Jared, because
Is Josh Inglis a fringe player or a future cornerstone of Australia’s middle order?
Look, there there there's gaps there for them, isn't it? And and his big two years of his career's coming r up here n uh the next two years, no one really knows what he's got. Is he just a nice fringe player who who happens to have scored a test century and and can fill in here and there, or or have we all underrated him and he could be a really crucial man in the middle order? Still not sure. Um at some point Alex Carey will remain. Retire, he's in his you know mid-30s now, so that that could extend his career. But uh there is a big watch on Josh English. So I know the selectors really like him in a few different capacities as a leader, as a calm sort of guy. So um you know he's got he's got something, and it was nice also to uh see Zimbabwe show a bit of cheek in the last game.
You know, they're they're tours that uh that Australia have always enjoyed. There was a A beautiful story on cricket dot com dot AU by Louis Cameron the other day on Sean Mar uh Mitchell Marsh going back to Zimbabwe and meeting up with the ground staff and everything that he knew twenty years ago when his dad was coached there.
What’s the plan for moving the Gabba pitch to Victoria Park for the 2032 Olympics?
Yes, nice. All right, Craig, just as we let you go, they they're gonna salvage the Gabba pitches for your new Olympic.
Stadium? Yes, as we speak, I'm just sitting outside the Gabba and the Premier David Chris of Lee's had a press conference saying that the pitch is heading over to Victoria Park in 2032. You'll hear the crack of willow in the gold medal game of cricket at the Gabba, then the Gabba will never host another game.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What made Josh Inglis’s century the highlight of the Australia‑Zimbabwe series?
0:01–0:51
2
Why is Cooper Connolly being pushed into the Test side ahead of veteran players?
0:51–1:41
3
How did Travis Head’s middle‑order century impact the series and what technical flaws did he expose?
1:41–2:39
4
Is Josh Inglis a fringe player or a future cornerstone of Australia’s middle order?
2:39–3:42
5
What’s the plan for moving the Gabba pitch to Victoria Park for the 2032 Olympics?
3:42–4:19
6
How will the ‘Gabba Wicket’ roadshow celebrate cricket heritage across Brisbane?
4:19–5:09
Speakers
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