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21:42James Anderson:Because, pun intended, you root for them. And we love Joe Root mainly because he's the greatest English batter we've ever seen, but also because we've been on a journey with him where we've lived his captaincy and we've lived how sad he got when he was not performing how he wanted to perform. and therefore the highs we share together and we share the lows together and it's part of the story. A similar thing this week, Lando Norris winning the World Championship in Formula One. We've been there throughout that whole journey. It's the same with Lewis Hamilton. It's the same in all these sports. They're like, let us in because we want to live it all with you and we would understand Crawley a bit more if we knew about Zach Crawley.

22:27James Anderson:We would understand Ben Duckett if we knew a bit more about what his mindset is. Is he just going out there and trying badly? Obviously not, but communicate it. Just a quick point on that, the media and the situation England are in. I know for a fact that the Australian journalists, a few in the media and ex-players, were ready after day one of the first test to pounce on Australia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The age of the team, the age of the squad, the shape of the squad. they're not you know you look at Steve Smith and Travis Head batting they're not the best shape they've ever been in so it could have been so different if that had gone slightly differently so I think we're we've got to sort of keep on to that as hang on to that as England fans like we were that close to starting this series well the situation we're in is not great but we're in the same situation we were when we landed in Australia we've got to win three tests to win the Ashes fine yeah okay I can get behind that you actually said Greg after you heard Stokes' interview but like for some reason I still believe him that we're going to win the next three tests I would do anything for Ben Stokes there's only one person that can make you feel like that yeah and what I will say is that it was another it was a change of what entertainment is because we've obviously been force fed this idea that hitting every ball trying to hit every ball for six is entertaining but true entertainment at test level is Ben Stokes grimacing while blocking the ball yeah that is when you feel like your face is one inch from that TV screen and you are living every single second with him.

24:02And as we know with Ben Stokes, he tends to peacock what is required and exaggerate it. So the same way in 2019, he scored three off 73 or whatever. Just that last day, if we're going to find reasons to be cheerful, he batted, what was it, two and a half a day with Will Jacks, unscathed. That was another way of Ben Stokes, rather than saying it, just projecting what it takes to play test cricket. and you never know. I mean, are they going to go completely into their shells? Probably not in the next three tests. But there might have been just a glimmer there of this is how you bat time in Australia.

24:37Entertainment for me in Test Match Cricket is seeing Ben Stokes having been doubled over, being hit in the box.

24:44James Anderson:As we've said many times before, selling it like he's Stone Cold Steve Austin with two broken knees. Quickly, let me, exactly. Get the table. I'm going to put, I'm putting Pat Cummings through it. Harrison Ford. Jimmy, question to you. How many teams have you been in where you feel like you've overprepared? And could you have benefited from underprepared? Stop sending Brendan McCollum out for interviews. It was gnarky saying that, I thought. No more. Stop it. Send out a player. So, I obviously know why that's wound people up. Yeah. But I can see what he's saying in terms of when they've had five days of practice before what is meant to be a five-day test match.

25:23that is a lot that is a lot of practice especially if guys are going in every day you know someone like joe root he'll back for an hour two hours each net session so it's a lot when you especially the bowlers you want them to be fresh going into a game in brisbane where it's hot so i can understand that from a mental point of view you actually you've got to find the balance of getting the stuff that you want to get right right and also having enough breaks and so that your body's fresh and your mind is mentally ready to deal with five days of test cricket. He also said in that interview that they're going to look at the training methods.

25:59And I think that means like I'd rather focus on quality rather than quantity. So I'd rather have a one hour net session where the quality is like above test match level rather than doing four hours of nets, just hitting a few balls and making yourself trying to make yourself feel good. Bowl a few to the keeper. Yeah, yeah. You need to, it's got to be intense. It's got to be high energy, high quality. Yeah. That's how teams improve. That's how players get better.

26:28James Anderson:Yeah. Oh, God. Well, no, I'm just, there's so many things in my head that I'm actually fascinated by what's happening in a weird way. And what's going to happen. And what's going to happen. Yeah. My rational brain is saying it's 5-0. Could be quicksand so bad. But I don't want it to be that, obviously. Yeah. But I just want to quickly touch on this Brendan McCullum era, which is known as the Baszball era, whether we like it or not. Is what we're seeing now, and this might be completely wrong in correct theory, a warped version of what everyone worried Baszball might become, and it's suddenly become that, where everyone's trying to play in a way that's not natural to them, and a lack of confidence has meant, oh, we're supposed to be hitting everything.

27:13James Anderson:Are we? It's Baszball, remember? because it's definitely seeped in. They know about the chat around it. So what is happening and why does Oli Pope, why is he batting like he is at the minute? It feels like there's a lack of confidence with a lot of the players and the bowlers seem to be all over the place as well. Is it because there's confused messages because Brendan McCormick wants one thing but the individual players want another and Ben's saying this thing? Is it a lack of cohesion maybe? be. I can't imagine there being a lack of cohesion because I think, you know, when Brendan and Ben took over the captain and coach roles, everyone bought into it.

27:52But I think we all did. I did. We all, we thought that's actually great. You're asking about a crook from a player's point of view.

27:56James Anderson:But now it seems to have just, it seems to have got progressively worse. It started like the idea of everyone being able to be galvanised, be comfortable in who you are, express yourself in the way that you want to express yourself. We're going to be aggressive. But it's been warped into, let's be reckless with our aggression. But actually the clever thing is to just be on the front foot. So I think what you mean is that even if they're not, inclination wouldn't be to play that way, they have sort of, because of the doctrination of this idea, they have to go out and play that way. Exactly. But there's nuance to it, and I think the nuance of basball has gone, if there ever was any, which was Ollie Pope, go and be the best Ollie Pope you can.

28:42James Anderson:Don't try and be Harry Brook. Or actually, Jamie Smith, you don't need to go and be, I don't know, Adam Gilchrist or whatever. You just got to be you in that role. And I just wonder whether it's just got warped a little bit. And with the added pressure, they've all gone, I actually don't know what we're supposed to be doing. Am I supposed to be hitting this or am I playing for time? But they've made that statement because they, for example, dropped Ben Fowkes who kept immaculately, but batted in a more traditional manner. They've played Sam Cook for one test match. Having nibbled it in county cricket and been really successful, Phil was a bit thrown under the bus there and dropped immediately.

29:20Liam Dawson, they've given one test match in not those conditions. So they have flagged to everyone that those types of cricketers and that type of behaviour is not going to get in an England team. So I thought about the way they bowled, sorry Jim, when the way they bowled Nesta especially and I thought, you know, Jimmy, Chris Wokes, Sam Cook on that wicket, different game. Ton. Anyway, Jim, take what you want from that.

29:49I mean, going back to the point of what the players think, I think it looks to me from the outside, again, it's so hard, we're just guessing here because we're not in that dressing room, we're not in the players' heads, no idea what's going on, no idea what the conversations they're having are. But it does look like they're just the added pressure of an Ashes series, the added pressure of a deciding test against India. They're not making the right decisions in those moments. They've got the talents there to play the way they want, but they're not adjusting to the conditions. They're not delivering their skill under that added pressure.

30:24And that's what I'm seeing from the outside. It's not that they don't know whether to stick or twist. They know how they want to play. that each individual knows what their strengths are. Zach Crawley went away after the first test, got a pair, came back with a 75 and a 40-odd. So he's obviously worked at something and he's got the ability to score runs out there. Yeah, he did. He's now got to... And I know he's not necessarily that type of player who has not shown that consistency through his career, but he's got to be thinking now, right, I've shown it this week, now I've got to go one more and get that 100, get that big 100.

30:59But that's the difference. I'd be interested to know how many of those batters came to the ground or after the first test thought, right, do you know what? I messed it up. I'm going to work really hard. I'm going to get a massive 100 at Brisbane because that's exactly what Joe Root did. Ben said it after the game. He apologised to Stokesy and he went, no need to apologise. He's like, I'm going to get you a big one next game. Come on. Goes away, works really hard. And I know it's different because Joe's more experienced. He's got probably more quality than anyone in that team. He's that good a player.

31:28probably more than most people in the world actually. So he's a different animal, but I'd love to see a few more of those guys have that mentality, that mindset of going, right, I'm going to be the guy today. If I get to 20 or 30, I'm going to go on and get a massive 100 and get us in a position to win the game. It's going to be shivers even thinking about that mentality.

31:48James Anderson:I believe it again now. Yeah, yeah. I changed my mind to believe it. I also often thought, it looked like they were trying to get out. like if if like honestly if you're trying to find a way to get out in Test cricket that's how they played if you look at Stark's figures 6-4 or whatever you look at the score you could look at my scorebook if you want that I scored and you think oh Stark was swinging it he was unplayable he pretty much just hung it outside off stump and they all got themselves out and I've said it before on what's happened I'll say it again I have not been more disappointed with as long a wait since the Stone Rose's second coming.

32:29It's like I'm halfway through Stone Rose's second coming and it still could get good. It could still be the first record. Do you know what I mean? But we need love spreads to come on that record very, very quickly.

32:41James Anderson:Let's just put it that way. This is it. This is why we're so frustrated because we know the talent in that side. We've watched bad England sides. Do better than this. Exactly. Do better than this. Yeah, exactly. I've seen better ones do worse, though. Okay, fair enough. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's such a tough place to go. When things start going a little bit wrong, everything feels like it's going wrong. Every little thing you do away from the game as well gets picked up on. It's like the catching. It looked harder to drop those and catch them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of them. Yeah. But it's just like one of those things you're like, how has that happened?

33:23What are you thinking, Jimmy? Are you thinking, because you did text, it's hard to watch cricket. Do you feel like, is your experience like, I want to be, give me the ball? Yeah, it just makes me want to play. Does it? It just makes me want to get out on a field and play cricket. It makes me want to go out in the back garden and start bowling. Does it?

33:42James Anderson:And bowl areas, bowl the correct areas. See if I've still got it. Get out there. Just turn up. I'm not going to Australia. Just go to Australia with your kit bag. Where do you want me? Do you ever think, because you haven't said that up until now, but that sort of prophecy that we need pace in Australia. Yeah. Do you think that's true or is it proving not to be true? Well, it was proven not to be the case. I mean, first things are the first test. You think, yeah, it's a great, great plan. Bolled them out for 1.30. I think it's going well. This test, I mean, we got, I don't know, we got played at a sort of completely the opposite to what we expect to get.

34:21James Anderson:Yeah, it was mad. With the keeper up to stumps? Well, I mean... For Nisa and Boland? It looked like at one point Nisa was... It felt like they were facing Alan Donald. They didn't have an answer to Nisa. And actually the tweet of the year probably... Go on! I know what you're saying. Came from Cameron Ponsonby. Yeah. He said, England spent years not picking from county cricket because it's different to the test game. And now they're all getting out to a 35-year-old Seema with the keeper up. that's what I I thought that again while I was scoring it am I watching Champo Division 2 yes it was though and it's like stood up to it nipping it around but the batting wasn't as good Jim you should be doing that you can go out there and do that batting well both you can go out there with Jamie Smith up for the stumps you'd get a hat full you put it on a plink I made this point to someone the other day I thought it was great a great tactical thing from Australia as I said before but I used to hate bowling with a keeper up.

35:21Still hate bowling with a keeper up. Did your ego hate it? It's not, maybe a bit of my ego, but I just, the visual of, I want to see behind him, I want to, I don't know, I just didn't like it. I didn't feel like it. Oh yeah, you want to see, yeah. I want to see the ball like carry through. Oh. And not just hit his gloves. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just on that though, carry coming up to stumps, he was unbelievable. He took a high, he took a couple super high, didn't he? There was a bouncer, I think, he took real easy. that catch over his head as well the high one where Marnus was trying to jump on his back

35:50James Anderson:Marnus was trying to get there yeah yeah great I just thought their field Smith's catch oh my god game changing catch that yeah yeah yeah Will Jack's catch come on not as good as Smith's no not as good as Smith's but come on yeah it was good slim pickings for us did that justify his selection yes I thought his second innings I would say he played really well yeah and Jimmy's been saying for a while Jack's could be batting free and I think that might end up being the case can I just quickly say essentially I've really tried not to be angry about all this, but something about this second test broke me.

36:21And I became, you know, tail enders is supposed to be the antidote to this, but I became the 80-year-old man shouting at a television, you stupid... Yeah. Yes. You know what I mean? Yeah. But I'm just trying to put a positive spin on it for you. Please do. You scored Joe Root's first hundred in Australia. See, that's nice. I can feel water coming by my eyes even when you say that. Well, look, okay. I've lived every single ball with him there. And do you know what was so beautiful? You hardly noticed he was there a lot of the time. Crawley scored runs quickly. Brooke did for a period of time. He's just there.

37:00Yeah. Just driving the car. Just like cushioning it down fine. That's how he does it. Many are beautiful shot. But he's just part... Driving the car. Isn't he? Just easing on the brakes when it's a red line. And it's like, f***ing Harry Brooks, grabbing the wheel for like five minutes, going, whoa! And Joe Root's like, no, I'm driving it. Get out of a passenger seat.

37:21James Anderson:He's taking a lovely road trip. He's just driving that car from countryside. He's a rally driver. Exactly. And you don't need that sometimes. Exactly. It's a great comparison. Shut up in the back. It's a very like that. That's it. And the rest of the Pope's there with his L-plates on still. Yeah. Having to grab the wheel sometimes. Oh, God, I love... Careful, mind that f***ing car. I feel bad because I do love it. I feel like just... What happens if they win? Like, what happens if they win this Ashes? That's what we want. Yeah. It's all we want. But the vitriol headed their way. How are they going to...

37:55Because it's almost becoming confrontational. Very confrontational now.

37:58James Anderson:It's got to fuel them. It has got to fuel them. It's got to fuel them. It has to. This is it, isn't it? This is why it's so difficult. But, Fee, let's finish on two nice things. Okay. So the Joe Route 100, you barely notice he was there. that the opposition doesn't notice he's there sometimes, just quietly accumulating. And that's what all the rest of the batters need to just watch that and go, oh, we can do a bit of that when the situation needs it. Yeah. How good was his celebration? Great. But did you hear him talk about it? No. Someone said, did you do that on purpose? He went, no, I just sort of, I didn't know what to do.

38:31James Anderson:Yeah. Because I felt like I sort of should have had one already. Yeah. So I just went, hmm? Yeah. I don't know. I'm just, I'm just rude. It was like a sitcom, like the camera fading and it just going to throw it off his face. Signing it, Joe Root. Everyone needs to be a bit more Joe Root in their lives. Yeah, love Joe. Come on. So give us a couple of highlights from that innings then that you were scoring. Because that's a lovely artefact you've got there in that scorebook. Yeah, so I've got it all. I didn't go colour pens. I'd put it on social media. A few people disappointed in that. But I felt like...

39:04Some of them are never happy. I know, they really aren't, are they? Get in the comments. When you are scoring stuff, though, where we talked about it before in tailenders. There is a very small cup of tea window at 4.30 in the morning. So you have to make sure, basically put it this way, when the keeper's up to stumps and the niece is bowling, you cannot make a cup of tea during that over. But if Stark is, and he's holding his back a little bit, then you can go kettle, bang, score, come back. Tea, bang, come back. Well, dot ball, come back again. Oh, Brooks nicked off, of course he has. Wicked.

39:32Come back. Paul and Milken, get a seat, come back in again. Oh, who's out now? James Lewis nicked off. Fine, thank you. F*** off. come back finish the tea bring the tea back to the thing oh right it's f***ing 135 for 6 f*** off I hate you

39:46James Anderson:there you go and that's how's the non-swearing going that's the second sorry I tried to bleep up my swearing f***ing realised my own anger so that's the second test reviewed done tick thank you come on then but that's what we're angry about is we have to get up so early I know you do it because of the breakfast show but we've all got a gap of 3 oh but we're getting up earlier and then we've got to be at 11 in the morning oh I'm going to get on with my day now but I've just had that that's why I text you guys so many times saying, you know David Brent when he's Austin Powers and he's like, do you think I'll take it back and it's a bit ripped?

40:12That's what I felt like this week. There we go. Do you know what this is?

40:16James Anderson:You know what this podcast often is? Now I've got to do my day. It's therapy and it's therapy to the viewers and the listeners. It always has been. It's therapy to us. Thank you for having me in therapy. And it's hopefully therapy for Jimmy as well. Give us your bowling attack for Adelaide. By the way, little subplot that I loved in the post-match interviews is that Ben Stokes kept forgetting that Adelaide was the next test. and he was like, we'll be better by Melbourne. We'll be better for Melbourne. We'll be better by Melbourne. Do you mean that? Oh, we're getting pumped in Adelaide, by the way, but by Melbourne.

40:45James Anderson:We'll be all right. We'll be all right in Melbourne. It's almost 3-0. Don't you worry. But he did it in two interviews and I thought the first one was a mistake and no one went, Adelaide's next, mate. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. I think they saw it in his eyes that they weren't going to question him. Imagine that. Yeah, Agnew just going,

41:04Adelaide next. It's so true. it's like an angry teacher you don't want to bring up like what would Ben have done to Aga's just walked off

41:12James Anderson:just like just peanutted him that's quite a fascinating dynamic that we have in between those two aren't we lovely it's a love story yeah I would love us to win yeah and just see the sort of changing yeah well if they do win the next three tests all the coverage just ends with those two just snogging fade it's so true fade to black Because that sort of tension doesn't come out of nowhere. No. That tension is connection. Something going on there. Yeah. Potentially. Physical. Who's bowling? Who are you taking there? Soundcook, Chris Wakes and yourself. You've got to have some nieces. I think Josh Tong's got to come in.

41:53Yeah. Might as well. We haven't got any nieces. That's what I'm saying. And why is Soundcook not there? Potts is the only one. Matt Potts is the only one that could do that job. We've got the original nieces here. It's Boyd Rankin.

42:08that's what that's what we're getting towards isn't it Boyd Rankin's playing so I bring I bring Josh no one even knows what he bowls sorry I bring Josh Tong in yes I'd probably keep Jackson because his spin looked decent when he bowled

42:23James Anderson:great catch just for the balance of the team as well that's probably my only the only person I think to bring in because I'd definitely give I'd tell Joffre that Steve Smith's been calling him names behind his back out there and just fire him up before he gets out. So I want to see that, that 153km an hour bowling, I want to see that at the start of a test match. Come on. I'm worried that you don't ever come back from that over where you start sledging Steve Smith and he hits you for six and then calls you champion. That's hard, isn't it? That's hard to come back from. He will, I'm sure, but it's hard to.

42:58Such a fascinating use of being condescending, calling someone champion, isn't it?

43:03James Anderson:Yeah. I had to actually turn the telly off on that moment. I think they've played together quite a lot, you know. They've played together like 35 times, Smith and Archer. They've got a great connection. I mean, it's fun, but it's fun if it's not, as you said, 15 runs to win. It's fun on day one of the Test match. That's great fun.

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44:27James Anderson:That's the visual podcast. Oh, okay, that's that. So matching's coming on the non-visualised. Yeah, this is for the audio podcasters only. The ones that we love most. Audio slave. Yeah, don't worry about those. The fly-by-night YouTube fans. They'll come and go. We're broadcasting to the ultras now. Ultras? They're just taking the cameras off, taking the SD cards out of the cameras. Felix has got the guitar now. He's too scared to use that on YouTube. I was. I hate the comments. Jimmy's plugging in his headphones so he can actually hear something. It's best for me not to do that on YouTube just so I don't...

45:04James Anderson:I thought it was quite a nice episode. Yeah, very crickety. I feel quite... I feel like I've exorcised something. Yeah, I felt like in the one previous we were trying to be very positive about things to be truthful about and I feel like in this one, I personally got more angry as we went through the episode. I think anger is funny though. Yeah, it is. Okay. Yeah, so look, we've just got to be honest, haven't we? Just always be honest. Hello. She's the podcast legend. Hello. Yes. Goal, cheers. How you doing, guys? Best we've ever been, thank you. But apart from the fact we're all dressed in black, apart from Sharky.

45:35James Anderson:Yeah. So that's a turn up for the books, isn't it? How are you feeling, Matching? What were your thoughts on the second test? Not great. Not great, was it? Probably over-prepared, if anything, I thought. Speaking of which, you're massively over-prepared for this quiz, because you've had about three weeks to prepare it. Brilliant. Yes. Does that mean it's going to be s***? Yeah. Wow. Expect him to nick off immediately. You'll be pleased to hear. Great. I've got, like you said, we haven't got much time, so I'm going to rattle through this. No, we haven't got much time. I reckon we'll have like seven minutes extra.

46:10James Anderson:Yeah, seven or eight minutes. Here we go. Oh, here we go. This is a brand new original quiz that celebrates the extraordinary career of maybe the greatest off-spin bowler ever. Welcome, Am I Lying? Oh, thanks for having us on Am I Lying? So that's not that topical though, is it? As he hasn't even played, but anyway. Yes, but he's going to be back for Adelaide. So shut up. I might have played it three weeks ago. Yep. So the premise is simple. You're going to enter the metaphorical, quizzical baton. The what? I'm going to tell you. The metaphorical. Metaphorical. Metaphorical. Metaphorical. Metaphorical baton crease.

46:49Metaphorical. Metaphorical. Mesopotamia. Thank you for having us in a metaphorical bat increase. I'm going to tell you an interesting fact about myself, Nathan Lyon. But is it about me, Nathan Lyon, or another member of the Australian Tess squad? You need to figure out, am I lying or am I lying? Would I lie to you? Why don't you call this Would I lie to you?

47:10James Anderson:Because I've got a theme tune. Do you want to hear it? Oh, yeah, please. Because he wouldn't scan with a theme tune. He's over prepared. Please, please, please. Yes, give us a theme tune. Two, three, four. Am I lying? Am I lying? Am I lying? Or am I Nathan lying? Welcome to Am I lying with me, Nathan lying. Thank you for having us on Am I lying. Wow. Is that a ukulele? It's piano, isn't it? It's piano, mate. Yeah. Was it? Or keyboard? It does take a second to get between chords, doesn't it, sometimes? Am I lying? Can't do it again. Don't worry, you're going to hear it a few more times. Okay. I am going to start I am going to try and do an Aussie accent Alright No I want you to To any Australians listening This comes from a place of love I don't know what Nathan Lyon sounds like But this is Do play along at home He said he was filthy didn't he Did he say he was filthy Nathan Lyon It was a filthy decision He said it's a bit filthy No I think he said I'm filthy How you doing he said filthy.

48:18I think it's a way of describing yourself. Yeah, he said filthy. So much. Okay, here we go. G'day. Let's play Am I Lying or Am I Lying? Felix. Yep. Hi. G'day. G'day. Right. I didn't take the usual pathway to being a pro, mate. Right. I was 23, still working as a groundsman in Adelaide where I got scouted by a coach when I was messing around in the nets. Am I lying or am I I'm lying. You're lying. You are Nathan Lyon. That's right, mate. I was just raking the pitch, mowing the grass. Down at the Adelaide Oval. Next thing you know, I'm having a trundle in the nets. Someone reckons this bloke actually turns in.

49:00Boom. One year later, I'm in a test team. Too easy. Am I lying? Am I lying? Am I lying? Or am I Nathan Lyon?

49:10James Anderson:And he got through the course, mate, Gricker. Oh, yeah, that's great. Good. The confidence to roll straight into him. I know. Hi. Hey, Jimmy, why don't you have a chat with your old mate, Nathan Lyon? All right, Gary. Bowling going. I've bowled over 30 ,000 test deliveries without a single no ball for overstepping. Am I lying or am I lying? Oh,

49:35you're lying. No way, mate. I'm Nathan Lyon. And I've slung down over 34 ,000 cherries in over 139 tests. And not once have I dragged my big toe over that line. Brilliant. Q Piano. First Aussie to play 100 tests and take 500 poles without overstepping. Jimmy, do you know how many nobles you've got? I couldn't give a f***. 38, you big galah. Am I lying? Am I lying? Am I lying?

50:07James Anderson:I know we've done an episode where we've been quite down on the England cricket team. I want to say this is one of my favourite games you've ever done. I love the commitment. This, by the way, this is the commitment we need from England's top order. Totally. We're talking about energy. He knows who he is and he's telling us that. He's got everything. He's got timing, rhythm. Yeah. Yeah. Confidence, but not overconfident. Continuity. Talent. Yeah, prepared the exact right amounts. Humility. He knows it's not very good at times, but that's okay. If he makes a mistake, he owns up to it and just goes, hey, guys, I'm matching Tendulka.

50:47James Anderson:Take me or leave me. And all of us, we take it. Accountability. And also what I like is it's very, very manic. So come on. We've only got four minutes, guys. Greg, g'day, mate. Hi, Gary. How's it going? Good. Great hair. I'm not lying. I was feeling... Oh, I just wanted to see how you feel about being left out in Brisbane. I'm going to be back, mate. What did I say before? Filthy. You're filthy. Filthy. I was bloody filthy, mate. Right. G'day, right? When I was a kid, yeah? Yeah. Right? Yes. I lost the top of my middle finger on my bowling hand in a freak accent. Oh. Am I lying or am I lying? I don't know that about Nathan Lyon.

51:33James Anderson:I think I wonder if all of these are Nathan Lyon Nathan Lyon yeah just so he can do more of an Aussie accent I feel like it might be got a minute left I think it might be I think it might be Nathan Lyon nah mate that's my cop of Paddy Cummins Paddy Cummins oh Cummins his his sister slammed the door on his finger when he was attacked right chopped the tip clean off like a snag at Bunnings didn't slow him down though if anything made him bowl faster am I lying Am I lying? Am I lying? Am I lying? Am I lying? Have we got time for one more? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah. Definitely. Sharky's disassociating in the corner, so we're fine.

52:15James Anderson:Podcasts, indeterminate amount of time, duration-wise, so come on. No news to hit. Yes. Here we go. Some of the Joe Rogan ones are three hours. I've got a full commercial pilot's licence, yeah? If the boys ever need a lift around Australia, I could just fire up the engines and off we go. Am I lying? Or am I lying? It doesn't feel very nice but lying. Jimmy's just very, in a dejected way, he just sort of shrugged his head and shook his head so I'm going to say lying. Yeah, that's right, man. I'm lying. But that's my mate, Usman Khawaja. Old mate, fully qualified pilot. Got the commercial ticket, got the degree, could fly the whole squad out to Adelaide if he wanted to.

52:53Or Melbourne. Or Melbourne. Unless his eyes were failing. Am I lying?

53:03Am I lying or am I making that? Good joke, good joke. We've got one more. Lovely. Okay, g'day, g'day. G'day, g'day, g'day. All right, this was for all of you, all right? I took a wicket with my very first ball. Wicked. In test cricket, right? A wicket with your first ball in test cricket. Yeah. One ball, one skull. Am I lying or am I lying? I think it might be lying. I think that happened. I think it might have happened, yeah. You think it happened? I think that might have happened, yeah. Yeah. Nathan Lyon. You're Nathan Lyon. I think you're Nathan Lyon. I'm Nathan Lyon, mate. First ball in goal.

53:38Sanger Kaur and Nick Soff. And I'm thinking, jeez, Test Cricket's a piece of piss. I'm a lion. I'm a lion. I'm a lion. I'm a Nathan Lyon. I'm a Nathan Lyon. I'm a lion. I'm a Nathan Lyon, mate. Too easy. This has been great. See you. See you at the next Test.

53:59James Anderson:Nathan Lyon, thanks for joining us on Tale. So much, Gary. Hey, Gary, can you stick around for the Go Welles? Oh, too easy, mate. Lovely. All right, here we go, then the Go Welles. Can you do the rest of Tell Enders as Nathan Lyon, please? Yes. Every single episode. Yeah, forever. New Tell Enders. Baby! Human being babies, human being ones. Joshua, Aisha and Theo. Go well. Cheers. Birthdays. Human being birthdays, human being ones. Toby and Vicky who's recovering from an op and SJ who's 50 not out Go well Cheers Cricket clubs Human being cricket clubs human being ones Tring Park Calder Grove and new chairman Oz Go well to you Sefton Park Cricket Club Sheffield Collegiate home of Joe Root and Michael Vaughan Oh nice Newcombe and District Cricket Club as well Go well Cheers Cheers Matt was an original listener but then life and kids moving house and all of that meant that he lapsed a little bit but he's back and we want to say a massive welcome back, back into the first team, it's Matt Welcome back, go well Cheers Go on Nathan The Ashes travel well shout outs are quite sad I think because we're just worried that people are inserting yourself into sadness Yeah but we've all been out there Shulker, we've already had a series lost that I have as well.

55:27And actually, the good thing about that is you don't have to worry about the unbearable cricket.

55:30James Anderson:Emma and Andy are honeymooning in Australia and watching the Ashes. Amelia and her parents are off to the Boxing Day test. Go well. Nathan. Cheers. Go well and get well to Matt, who's had an operation on his knee. Go well. Cheers. Also, Ben listened to 10 ,970 minutes of Tear Lenders in 2025. That's nearly eight days worth. Go well. which is more days than we've had Ash's cricket this year move well to Eleanor who's one of our scorers during the summer she's moving from East Yorkshire to Clitheroe for a laugh oh lovely go well Clitheroe nice is it posh and that is the end of today's Go Well's and the Tailenders podcast Gary thank you a wonderful performance from you a lot of pent up frustration about not being picked in Brisbane I can tell that he's filthy and we'll be back for another visualised podcast at the end of the third test and of course you can follow all the action on Test Match Special on BBC Sounds email us tellens.bbc.co.uk yeah we'll use the hashtag tellens what do you like to take over shall I play us out shall I play us out yeah play us out go well everyone cheers am I lying am I lying am I lying or am I Nathan Lyon go well guys filthy hello this is Matt Chorley's Urgent Questions your daily dose of political mayhem from the heart of Westminster order order I call Matt Chorley I'm a supporter of flags it turns out time is finite government doesn't want to be involved in this I do not think the candidates are frivolts Matt Chorley's Urgent Questions subscribe to the podcast and you'll get the best bits every day from around 5 o 'clock listen on BBC Sounds.

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