Mercurial Pakistan and Brilliant Bangladesh

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0:59So it's not like new that you've just found that no one else has ever used before? Yes, it is. It's a lost chord, Jimmy. No, no, no, that definitely exists. It could be. Jimmy's right. It could be undiscovered. That probably isn't. That's probably a very basic chord about a million people will be getting in touch. Do you want me to see the Jimmy Anderson chord? What is a Jimmy Anderson chord? Maybe it's that. Either way, really nice. maybe you have you have discovered new ground maybe i've been watching a lot of um because of the eclipse i've been revisiting a lot of brian cox's programs oh yeah and did you know about you know voyager one no that voyager one was launched basically 50 years ago and it's still in space what still out in space what was someone in it no

1:52we have to go get a very good back what was voyager one it's just sort of it was one of the first um one of the first things sent out into space and it's still getting information and finding new stuff out oh wow amazing and we sent it out it's like in the 70s yeah crazy still there still there still still still working away unsung hero a bit like sharky it's currently 15 billion miles from Earth. Like Sharky? Yeah. Sharky is our Voyager 1. The idea of Sharky on Voyager 1 is fantastic. You would be, I think you'd be a great astronaut actually, Sharky. Well, we were just talking about what we'd have done if we weren't, and Sharky said, what did you say, you were going to be a doctor?

2:38You said you would have been Sharky. Am I faded up? Yes, you're faded up. And you're out in a million miles from Earth. If I stay for a return from space and had my arm again and had the ability, I'd have loved to be a footballer or professional sports person or a doctor. I'd have loved to have been a doctor, but sadly, I wasn't that good at physics or chemistry. Or football. Or football. Or cricket. Or any other professional sport. I think astronauts suits you better. Yeah. You'd be a great astronaut. Never too late, is it? It's never too late, Sharky. No, they're off to Mars. They're off to Mars in a couple of years, aren't they?

3:16if you could get involved. Isn't your Mars trip a one-way trip though, isn't it? Is it? Mars? You ain't coming back. I think the first people to go to Mars, I think they're staying there, aren't they? Forever. I don't think they're staying there, are they? I don't think they can get them back currently. Oh, really? Oh. Okay.

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3:54most importantly aside from the eclipse which I hope everyone observed safely I saw you observed it did you see it Jimmy? no you didn't even see it? can't believe it I didn't have any glasses I tried the colander thing rubbish tried the selfie thing rubbish so I didn't see it enough yeah it's an absolute scam it's an absolute scam it was pointless didn't even go dark no it didn't but it was quite a nice light i thought a lovely light what a lovely light i i think it isn't it more it it it's sort of not but the thing is the the eclipse isn't for us it's not like well the moon the moon and the sun aren't putting on a show for us that's that's essentially the point is that we are tiny nothings yeah it's cheery start and this very very rare event just managed to happen i thought it was like i was just walking to the shop and when it was happening and i just thought it was just generally was just a really nice light yeah i thought i'd agree with it but like it was different there you go well more importantly the test match is back next week well thank god it's here actually because i've been off for a for a bit and i've had some time to watch cricket and there's only the hundred to watch and i just think you need a balanced diet in life don't you yeah like a bit of like a bit of the hundred don't mind that just wish it wasn't the entire month when everyone's on holiday and we could actually be watching it's supposed to be it's the summer isn't it is a cricket our summer sport and we only have one choice it's like having one channel back in the old days yeah like the the joy now is we've got a million channels but the only cricket on is the hundred which i can't i watch loads of games but i can't remember any of them yeah i agree but what i have been watching is the 50 over competition oh yeah um which is on at the same time as 100 and i feel like this year because like i feel like there's more overseas players in the 100 this year the standard of the 50 over comps gone up each squad's a bit stronger interesting uh i feel like there's been some really good games and the quarterfinals are today and then the semi-finals on sunday nice this week is this on tv no it's not on tv it's all streamed it's like it's just like championship championship yeah yeah in your normal places your youtubes your county websites and that I'm actually I'm going to watch that that sounds quite nice yeah it's also it's on the radio as well you know Fireball Sports Extra no you're right and Rocky Flintoff hit his first ton for Lancashire which is very exciting yeah he did there's some good stuff were you watching that innings Jim?

6:46I was at the ground for that yeah oh were you? I went to Taunton to watch it yeah oh nice tell us about Rocky Jim because I've seen is it Bumble saying that he's good and has played for England already yeah I mean he's a super talent like he's I think he has got a big future ahead of him but I also think like there's a there's a lot with someone like that you know he's obviously got big expectations with his dad being who he is I think he just he's just finding his way in the game finding who like what sort of player he is who he is and he's had a fantastic 50 over competition and hopefully he can build on this and see where he goes from here.

7:25Is Rocky destructive? He's a destructive hitter like his dad. Annoying question that he's always going to get, but is he like big down the ground? He bats so, there's so many similar shots. Yeah, there are a few similar shots. The pull shot's quite similar, like almost like a straight bat pull. Nice. Over mid-wicket, like long on type thing. But yeah, I mean, there's a few similarities, but I'd say there's a lot that's slightly different. I'd say he's technically a better batter than his dad. He's got better defence. I don't think Fred would mind me saying that. But yeah, I think he's got a lot of his own strengths that he can develop and ensure.

8:08Yeah, really exciting. Some of the highlights of that innings are well worth a watch, actually. Some of the dismissiveness of the boundaries are reminiscent of Freddie. the complete control over the ball and the bowler and just going no that's definitely going to be four or six so yeah there's definitely some of the Freddie Flair Freddie Flair-toff it's a great name as well Rocky Flintoff is a great name you're destined for great things aren't you you are yeah he won't be part of the squad for the first test this time round but who knows where we'll be in the winter or next summer. Might well be featuring.

8:50Joe Root is captain. It's the start officially of Flemball. Ollie Pope and Dan Lawrence are back in the squad. We mentioned Pope last week, didn't we? And said, is he ever going to get another go? Well, we were saying that he was probably a couple of innings from being an England captain. And now he's back in. I was happy for him that he's back in. That's a nice gesture, isn't it? From Joe Root, I think. We haven't forgotten. So Pope will be likely cover for Jamie Smith as keeper batsman and we're expecting Dan Lawrence to be the sort of all-rounder-ish kind of replacement with his spin and batting a bit lower down which he was interviewed at the day on the 100 and sounded pretty excited about because he said that's where he bats for Essex and he's happy there and oh is that the thing he's going to bowl spin and bat six or something six or seven yeah I think that was the plan he's going to okay he's going to bat a bit lower he's in good form this year no bet also Jordan Cox will be at three which is quite exciting and then Jim can I get your take on the bowlers so it's going to be Brydon Kars Matt Fisher Joffre Archer Gus Atkinson Sam Cook Ollie Robinson Josh Tong which of those do you think will start?

9:59Josh Tong definitely for me starts I think he's been the pick of the bowlers in Test cricket so far I'd go with Joffre I'd go with Gus Atkinson and I'd go with Ollie Robinson as a four I think they're they're the ones that have you know when they've played they you feel like they cover a lot of bases swing seam pace control got a bit of everything in that attack I got very excited with the test cricket promos that they were playing oh yeah before the hundred games okay I feel like they should do more of that I got quite emotional I think it was yesterday they played this thing where Atherton was talking about you know it takes courage it's bravery it's da da da it's stories old as time it's all that stuff and I thought that's that's good because wasn't one of the ideas of the 100 to get people into test cricket was that part I mean have I made that up that was partly I think they told people like us that I think get people into cricket as a yeah yeah Yeah.

11:13But it's quite, but I do think they need to, when people are in, like apparently, you know, new people are in, they need to also go, what about this? Yeah. And I think that was the first time I've seen them do a proper test cricket promo. So I thought that's, that's good. More of that. Was it on Sky then? During the hundred type thing, it was like selling you. Yeah, because it looked, because also test cricket is really good. You just have to concentrate a bit longer. Oh, it's so good. And it's also not that difficult to pick up. You can, you can get into a test match with just watching one session.

11:42yeah but also this is a good argument for a tech because we do say that quite often but I was thinking this the other day actually with short attention spans it's better to have something going for five days that you can keep checking into rather than something that's done in an hour because at least there's more chance that you're going to follow it that's true it's so true I get distracted during a hundred game and I forget to go and watch the end yeah you just forget but it's like oh f*** I forgot to go downstairs and see what happened there but isn't that isn't the point just make a good thing and people will like it I think that sounds like a good and we've also we've already got a good thing it's called Test Cricket it's been going for 5 ,000 years older than they started on Voyager 1 they found that out 15 billion years ago Cricket started in I think near Neptune try explaining 100 to Voyager 1 see what that Voyager 1 would make of it that's why it's not coming back to Earth yeah Voyager 1's like well I'm not I'm only coming back if Mike Brearley's involved.

12:45I'm not landing back on Earth for this hundred sh**. Anyway, what was my point? My point was that they pitted Baba Razan next to Joe Root and I suddenly went, yeah, that's good. That's really good. These two very famous, very brilliant, very loved cricketers are captaining at the same time again. And this is happening. So it could be a really good series, Jim. What's your take on it? Where do you think Pakistan are versus where England are? I don't really know, mate, to be honest. That makes it interesting, I guess. I think England should win the series. I think Pakistan have got some good players, but they'll be reliant on quite a few individuals, you know three or four individuals rather than them having a solid sort of team I think the bowling attack is okay I think Mohamed Abbas is still going played against him this year he's bowling in the West Indies yeah he did well still bowling well floating but he there's a lot on his shoulders I think with that nibbling at 70 yeah and obviously relying on a few batters as well Baberazan being one Rizwan.

14:07So I think England should have enough to beat them, but you never know with Pakistan, they can turn up and be absolutely brilliant. And that's what makes it an exciting test series is when someone comes and they are a little bit, what's the word? Unpredictable. Unpredictable, thank you. What's the word we always use with Pakistan? Mercurial. Mercurial, they love that one, mercurial, yeah. Mercurial, enigmatic mercurial. It's probably a nice one for Joe for his first series back to be like, okay, let's get a hold on what we're doing here. It's probably very winnable. Meanwhile, in Darwin, Australia are playing Bangladesh and their road to the Ashes, I've just made that up, starts.

14:51But they've got quite a mad few months of cricket. They've got South Africa, then India, then that random 150th anniversary test match against England, and then it's the Ashes. Nice. And things, and I take great pleasure in saying this. I can see your eyebrows raised. Things are not going Australia's way at the minute. Let's cross live from somewhere in Essex is the BBC's Roshan Alam. Roshan, good morning. Welcome to Tailenders. Yes, Roshan. Morning. Morning. How's everyone doing? I believe this is your second, potentially third appearance on Tailenders. Second I remember Yeah second I think Yeah second Lovely to have you back Hey look best review in the business Is a repeat booking Greg sold it like you were live At the test And from Essex No I couldn't make it sound more exciting Than it is sorry Roche So yes Australia Bangladesh happening Day two is about to draw to a close actually Let's have a score flash Roche what's the latest Bangladesh are 347 for six.

16:04So they are 149 runs in the league. Come on. This is so good. It's good that, isn't it? Come on. It's so mad. It's so good. I'm already a bit worried that that doesn't sound as much as it should be, the 150 leads. Do you know what I mean? It's true. Do you know what? Bangladesh fans, because we've had so much trauma, there is like a reference point for a bad thing in every scenario. And like 150 runs in the lead against Australia, everyone's going but don't forget Fertuller 2003 this happened then and we lost so we're just we're just conditioned to expect the worst and have a reference point for like the worst to happen because have you got a feeling of like oh this has got Australia get 500 and we're bowled out for 90 written all over it type thing literally that there's always a chance the game's over by tomorrow when it's Bangladesh and we're just so trained for that Mercurial well I did yeah the Mercurial I did hear a lot of the Aussie pundits and commentators talking about how this drop-in wicket was going to be slightly uneven on day one and then would flatten out in almost immediately sort of which which was them simultaneously being so hopeful about australia winning but also them immediately excusing them being bowled out for 198 and then bangladesh batting for a day and a half they won the toss in the australia as well i think they won the toss yeah yeah they won the toss and chose to chose to bat which now feels like a very generous decision arrogant yeah do you think it was it was cummins having a laugh i think so a little bit i think we'll just have a go i think it was a bit sunday league cricket decision wasn't it we just fancy getting this done type thing yeah can we have a bat because not not all our team have turned up yet yeah we'll we'll go we'll go and bat because well paul's stock on the m25 and um and steve's overslept i think he was pissed last night so yeah that's um rose can you give us a bit of context around the excitement around this series and how it's come about and why it's in Darwin and where Bangladesh are as a test team at the minute.

18:02Yeah, I think there's like a massive amount of excitement because Bangladesh just don't get to tour countries like Australia very often. I think they were meant to tour in 2018 and Australia cancelled it going not financially viable. So it's been 23 years basically since they've been down under. And so that was like a real cause for excitement. And then I think the other thing was just the development of this Bangladesh side. like they've spent years relying on spin heavy attacks at home but over the last sort of five six years they've got this now like quite good pace unit and they thought australia would be the first place to sort of like properly test it out in conditions that were going to suit them so i think all of that built for a load of excitement um why is it in darwin i mean it's it's out of season for australia um and and i think i think there are very varying kind of reasonings why a A lot of people just think Australia didn't think they'd sell out the bigger stadiums, but Australia have come back and said it's just to make sure there's a bit of test cricket in all the other kind of regions and sort of see how the Northern Territories do.

19:02But yeah, it's so far so good, but I'm obsessed with the drop-in wicket. That's meant to flatten out tomorrow. Drop-in pitch. Yeah. Obsessed with it. Yeah, yeah. Oh, and it's going to flatten out as soon as Jake Wetherall takes guard.

19:21it's in two halves as well and they were like oh yeah we'll just put it in there and it just blend in and stitch together like the curators were not confident about this going the distance there's two halves to the pitch yeah literally like two halves and they're like we'll just sort of fudge it in the middle what can i ask you a stupid question half lengthways or half horizontal it's a fantastic it's a great question i think it's horizontal i think they're basically hoping no one would bowl short balls for like the first few sessions. Wow. Half the other way would be amazing, wouldn't it? If it spins from like from middle stump to leg stump and is flat outside of stump.

19:58Yeah. We need the divide is in middle stump. What, Jim, what's it like playing on a drop in wicket? Halft. What do you notice a difference? Not really. No. Depends where it is. Depends where it is. I've never done one where it's half and half That is weird isn't it We did actually play Do you remember the game that was abandoned in Antigua? Mm-hmm Test match was abandoned after a few overs in Antigua Yeah A few years back And we then The game got changed to St. John's Which was the old test ground Yeah Which had been being used for football And the halfway line Had been like Dug in a little bit And it went straight through the middle of the wicket and I remember Fred got one that hit the sort of front of the sort of down slope of the groove and just rolled along the floor hit him on the foot but yeah drop-ins are normally pretty good like New Zealand use them a lot and obviously Australia mostly most of the squares are dropped in now so they're normally pretty good and they've got better with technology over the years but this sounds fascinating now in two halves.

21:11Yeah. It does. Is it like one person looks after one half, one person looks after one half. We'll just bring it together.

21:20Have you grown your half? Good mate. Steve's half's terrible. Yeah, it's like bake-off. One of them has done a green seaman. The other one's done a dust bowl. It's like, no, we can't have, although that's not a bad idea. It's not a bad idea. It's a good idea. Like in nets and stuff, they have different types of surface, don't they? If you get really good high-end nets, that's what they should do with the test wicket. One end is India, the other end is South Africa. Oh, my God. Sharky's waving. What are you waving for? I have a vague recollection. Are you faded up or what? Excuse me, young man.

22:00I'm a faded up. Oh, I haven't been called young man. Yes, you're faded up and you're a million miles away. Yes, you're faded up. The signal might not be reaching there because you're 15 billion years. way. The first time they used dropping pitch is obviously Kerry Packer in World Series cricket because they had to use non-cricket rounds and I think they also had to do it in halves because I have a vague recollection of some of the players talking about the fact that they were facing the cream of that West Indian attack from back and there was a big ridge halfway down the pitch which was obviously pretty scary when you've got Michael Holding coming in.

22:33When you lift off the ridge or shoot one or another. yeah not good i'll go back to new alpha centauri yeah i love it he pops in from space with a little fact um sorry bro you missed that i could try to quickly ask a question have bangles ever won a test match in australia no i mean we've barely played i think the last time we played in australia was 2003 whoa swept aside by an innings both both times um they've been australia once in 2017 that was like a classic bangladesh home test like in bangladesh aggressively spinning yeah sort of pictures but this is the first time they've sort of gone away and and sort of like had a team that could potentially like it could be massive couldn't it this could be so great it's trying not to get too excited guys i'm genuinely i'm trying not to get too excited i'm very tired having stayed up to watch it i'm like i'm so anxious that it's gonna go left field yeah well Well, that's why we love test cricket, because it ruins our lives and wastes our time.

23:39But it's the friends we make along the way, isn't it, Roche? I just wanted to, before we get into a little bit of who's shined for Bangladesh so far, we talked about Darwin and the Northern Territories. And it really caught me off guard, the fact that this test match was in Darwin. And I did a bit of Darwin research yesterday. And it just made me realize, again, how insane Australia is. That essentially, they're still having summer in Darwin and Melbourne's basically in winter. That's how stupidly massive Australia is. Melbourne is currently 15 degrees and raining. Darwin is 32 degrees and like the middle of summer.

24:22And obviously, that's one of the reasons they've chosen to go there. The ground, by the way, also is so... it's, I don't want to be mean, it's quite village in a charming way, isn't it? It's quite, it feels nice and old fashioned in that way that people are kind of sitting around on the boundary. You can see the workings of the ground. It doesn't look too advanced because they haven't had a test match there for what, 18, 19 years or something? Yeah, I think it's like 18 years. I think they had a couple of T20s last year, but this is the first like proper test match in like nearly two decades which is why the curators are having a massive panic panic can you imagine it's it's that it's like when we when me and fee are watching the county championship and suddenly there's an amazingly tight finish and all the commentators who are used to performing to three people suddenly have 15 000 people and they start panicking and of course you would of course you would um so tell us who's been who's been starring for Bangladesh then?

25:23What's been impressive? So far, so with the bowling, Hassan Mahmoud took six wickets come on yesterday. He is, he's probably the best swing bowler Bangladesh I've ever produced. And shame to say that it's taken 20, 25, 26 years to get there, but he's sort of young, like still in his sort of mid-twenties, had a little stint at Kent in the county championship, which I think has done him like a huge, huge favour just being able to sort of play in conditions that sort of favour him a little bit more. So he took six impressive wickets, King Steve Smith yesterday. So that was good. And then this morning, Tanzed Hassan, the Openers scored a century.

26:01Bangladesh has struggled for openers after like Tami Mikval and that sort of gang kind of retired from the game. And he is sort of considered more of a white ball cricketer. And everyone's like, a little bit aggressive for test cricket, but sort of counterattacking the Australians overnight tonight just looks like Gunnars managed to notch up his first century in his second test match. Brilliant. those two were the sort of ones to look for. And then I think generally at the moment, Bangladesh's sort of pace attack at the moment is the best it's ever been. It's a kind of contingent who can sort of go abroad and win.

26:34You know, so you've got Hassan Mahmood and then you've got the other guys, Tuscan Ahmed in there, who took a couple of wickets, Eberdott Hussain. Again, just all of them sort of bring something slightly different. I have to say that we're all gutted that Nahid Rana's not in Australia. I don't know if you guys are across Nahid Rana. He's like the fastest bowl of Bangladesh I've ever produced. he gets up to like you know 140 150 clicks so genuinely quick ball but then got injured just before the series so we're all good that he wasn't there but like it looks like we've had enough depth to skittle the australians has that been a conscious thing inside bangladeshi cricket that you need to develop fastball to compete elsewhere type thing that must have been some sort of long term planning right yeah 100 i think like in like the 2010s it was all about bangladeshi winning test matches and they sort of went right how do we do that let's just lean on our strengths which was just aggressive spinning pitches and spinners yeah and then as soon as they beat England and Australia in sort of 2016 2017 it turned to going okay cool you can win at home but how are you going to win away and so they basically they brought in a series of really quality bowling coaches Otis Gibson and Alan Donald those sort of guys just to develop like not just one or two paces for sort of you know taking the shine off the new ball but actually yeah a kind of a squad of Farsbollers who could go away and win.

27:47So I think that's basically where the team are at the moment. And it's worked, you know, one away in Pakistan, Hassan Mahmoud's got a fiver against India in India, and now he's got one in Australia. So it feels like Bangladesh are readying themselves to be a test team who can run abroad. It must feel like revolutionary from inside it, where you're like, oh, we can do this. Yeah, it's really exciting. I think the frustration has been just waiting for the opportunities. And if I'm honest, I know there's a lot of criticism of the World Test Championship, but the fact it forces teams to host Bangladesh is brilliant.

28:17Yeah. You will have Bangladesh for a test match. Yeah, great. Yeah, that is good. And actually, Bangladesh are in England. Oh no, hang on. England faced Bangladesh early 2027. So that's, is that in Bangladesh? Yeah, two tests in Bangladesh and then the one-off one at Lourdes in May. So I mean, yeah, the opportunity to play against England three times in the calendar year. Yeah. Brilliant. In an Ashes year as well. Fantastic. Yeah. Could do some damage too. What's the, What are the levels of excitement for test cricket in Bangladesh? Good question. This is a country that obviously loves its cricket, but how much does it love its test cricket?

28:54It varies. I think when Bangladesh are playing a big side, like Australia or England or India, there's genuine interest. But I'll be honest, I've watched plenty of tosses when it's Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Silla, and I don't think anyone's turned off on the first morning. So it really does fluctuate depending on who the opponent is. And I think if I'm being brutally honest, I think sometimes Bangladesh should have felt a bit left out outside in the cold and just sort of going for the motions of trying to stay a test team and keep that kind of like test format alive in the country but I think having these kind of big series against Australia and then England I think that just reignites the excitement and I think if Bangladesh get a win over in this in this test match I think that's just gonna just sort of set light to the hunger for the format again.

29:32It must feel like quite a thankless task sometimes when you like haven't got the history but the other teams have to keep test cricket alive that sort of incentive to sort of grow it the other way around. That must feel, I can imagine that must feel so hard. So fair play to everyone that's working so hard in Bangladesh to get that going. I mean, that must feel so good. And now you've got Australia like on the rack. 100%. Yeah. I think like the thing is when you get an opportunity against Australia, you have to perform. You've got to like, even if you don't win the test match, you've got to rewrite your PR and reputations to that.

30:02Teams like Australia or even England, who are sort of leaning in and watching this, can they go, actually, this side can compete. They're not pushovers. they are commercially viable. And I think if that is the one thing that comes out of this series that everyone goes, actually, they can compete abroad. Let's book them a few more times. Then for Bangladesh, that's as big a win as winning the actual test. Roshan, thank you so much for joining us. If you want to follow Roshan, you should on Twitter. He's Roshan Alam. You'll hear Rosh on TMS doing actual commentary. And of course, the Bangla Cricket Podcast if you want more from him and to find out more about Bangladesh cricket.

30:38and give us a score flash before you go. 351 for six, the lead of 153 runs. Four overs left to go today. It's time to get excited. I'm nervous about this tomorrow. No, they're hanging on. They've not lost a wicket for an hour. I'm nervous to wake up tomorrow in Australia, 400 for two. So am I, Felix. Honestly, so am I. I don't think they will be. I don't think they will be. Come on. All right, let's go with that. I think they're overcooked. Come on, Bangladesh. Where are we? What's that? What's that? What's that Australian batting lineup? What is it? Yeah, Labashane, Smith. Head? Head. I mean, obviously dangerous.

31:18Weather old. Jimmy said, crap. Labashane. When did I say that? You've said that to me privately. Uh-oh. Privately. You said that to me privately. I have not said that. He has. I've got the receipts. Labashane's not scored a run for about 10 years. Smith, obviously, yeah, he could score 800 on his own. Cameron Green I don't know what I don't know that's not quite not happening at the minute Carey fine Bo Webster love him shades of Graham Hick yeah sure then you're into Cummins Stark Lion Hazelwood Bangladesh are winning this test match I'm sorry could it have could it have been even better could did Smith nick off and was given that out yeah oh yes what was all that Roche yeah that was a that was a madness wasn't it so could it he got he ended up getting 70 yeah he got the old 70 but yeah he he nicked it and then the old snickometer said that he didn't but he was like yeah i think i think i think i think i hit it he said he shot the boy here yeah yeah technology frustrating like we're gonna have had them for that 150 yard yeah shame did you hear the australian fans shouting at steve smith to get on with it with a sight screen they said you're a princess smudger yeah quite cutting but it's quite a cutting detail thing to shout from a distance yeah it was very dead it was dense wasn't it yeah it could have been shorted that catchphrase yeah it was really dense analysis to shout from another thing while i've got you it's real i said another thing it's really off putting when you do your little fiddling before you take your guard every time you face a deliver i said every time you face a delivery yeah so good it's like you know like sometimes it's on tv being like an India or subcontinental cut to fans that have written very detailed instructions.

33:07So they'll be like, nothing silly, just rotate the stride and let's see where we're at in five overs time. They've written that one like a massive. Hey, Cameron Green. Cameron, listen to me here. Now, you're the future of Australian Test cricket, but at the moment you're not fulfilling your full potential. I don't know quite why that's happening. You're surrounded by greats of the game. No, I said, you're surrounded by greats of the game and I just don't know why you're not quite firing at the moment. Just take some time and work on your technique because you are the future captain if you want this to happen.