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[interviewer] What's the greatest
Australian side you've ever seen?

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Um...

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I mean, probably the early 2000s.
That's what I grew up watching.

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Probably my most
vivid memory is that '05, '06, '07.

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We had seven or eight legends of the game.

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Hayden, Langer, Ponting.

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[Head] Gilchrist, McGrath, Vaughan.

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They just were different level,
weren't they?

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[Cummins] They won in India,
they won in England.

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Just that test team that no matter where
they go in the world, they can adapt.

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That's the gold standard.
That's what you aspire to.

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The worth of the modern test team
is largely taken offshore.

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For Australian teams, that has been
at its most difficult on the subcontinent.

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Sri Lanka isn't a world power
in test cricket,

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but they are
fearsomely hard to beat at home.

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If you're going to become a great team,
these are the wins

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that become the markers along the way.

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This is an early defining period,

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the Cummins' era.

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[Cummins] My love of books started
as a kid just reading fiction.

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Mum and Dad always read books.

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So summer holidays, I'm one of five kids
piled in the car, and all of us

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would have a different book, which,
looking back, we were actually dream kids.

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[chuckles]

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Harry Potter, classic, I loved.

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I would just read
the first book through to seven,

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go back to the first through to seven,
just constantly.

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Like every other kid,
I wanted to be at Hogwarts.

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These are the books
that just keep highlighting,

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even Principles by Ray Dalio,

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that everyone's really different,
and that's a good thing.

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I feel with each book, it just kind of
helps shape you a little bit,

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even if you don't remember the specifics.

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It just kind of changes my thinking a bit.

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So I love the books that change your...
will change my kind of biases.

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I think I hardly have any cricket books.

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I think a lot of...
the kind of the leader I'd like to be,

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or even just the person I'd like to be,
comes from outside of cricket.

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I think one of the... some of the books
that really gel to me

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was actually kind of the scientific books.

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So like, Bill Bryson,
History of Everything

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or Richard Dawkins,
Greatest Show on Earth.

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I was reading them thinking,

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"Wow, we're really insignificant
in the world."

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It's been here around
for billions of years.

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We always think
we're the centre of the universe. Um...

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Whereas, you realise there's a whole
big world out there.

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We're a tiny little part of it, so...

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[narrator] Sri Lanka is going through
an unprecedented economic crisis.

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President Rajapaksa tried to keep
the country afloat,

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but his policies failed.

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They blame him and his government
for the mess their country's in.

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There are shortages of food,
fuel, and other essentials.

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The struggles of Sri Lankan's people
still goes on.

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And all over the country,
life is incredibly hard.

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[Cummins] This is a country in crisis,

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and we're playing something
so insignificant.

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We're just hitting a ball around.
Bowling a ball.

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[Marsh] I wasn't that keen to go,
but that wasn't on safety grounds.

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That was purely just seeing
a country that's on its knees.

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Like, this didn't feel right.

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[narrator] Anger is being felt
right across the nation.

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People have been protesting
for the past three months.

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[Sangakkara] I think the tour
going ahead was very, very good.

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And Sri Lanka needs tourism.

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It needs for the country to keep
functioning and bringing people together.

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The people you meet were saying that
they were so thankful we came,

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gave them a break
from the realness of life

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to be able to just watch cricket
for a few hours,

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which, uh, they obviously love.

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Thank you.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[indistinct chatter]

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Australia brought optimism
after the series in Pakistan,

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but there's a hiccup.

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Travis Head has a hamstring injury
heading into the first test,

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and Australia
has an awkward choice to make.

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Does it stick with its incumbent,

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or does it bring in Glenn Maxwell
for the mission?

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I sort of have an inkling that
they might add me to the squad late.

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We sort of got towards the end
of the ODI series,

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and I was speaking to Aaron Finch,
we had a team event.

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And I was chatting to him,
I was, "Uh, I wonder if I'm staying."

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He goes, "Well, the coach is just there.
Why don't you ask him?"

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I said, "Oh, what are the chances?"
And he goes...

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"Um, there's 99% chance you're staying."

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And right at that moment... I cried.

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Like, happy tears. Like, just...

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I couldn't... I actually
couldn't believe that I was

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back around the test squad again
after, what was it, five years out of it?

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[commentator] That's how he get started.
That's six, surely.

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[commentator 1] He comes again!
This one is hit even better.

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Oh! Shot of the series!
Don't worry about that!

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The Big Show is probably...
he's unbelievable in the short form.

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Oh, I think he's a massive X factor.

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[Hazlewood] The way he plays...
[indistinct] at times.

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You always think you're still in the game
with Maxi playing.

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[commentator 2]
A six for 100, and a win for the Aussies.

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I love that bloke. He loves
playing cricket for Australia.

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He's so desperate
to wear his baggy green one more time.

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There's a sense that he hasn't
completely fulfilled himself

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at test level, and he'd like to.

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Test cricket...

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It's been frustrating. Had an opportunity,

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felt like I grabbed a hold of it,
and then, um...

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Got binned off pretty quickly.

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And that was pretty hard to take.
Really hard to take.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Hills] Uh, so, we're at this selection.

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What are we...
Who's our best... [indistinct]

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Just an update, just catching up
with Heady...

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the crux of that conversation is that...
day one of the test will be

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day eight of a two-week injury.

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Um, there's...

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There's gonna be risk
associated with... if he plays.

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So Jonesy and Dock are pretty...

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They're not super comfortable, are they,
with Heady playing? Really?

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[McDonald] Now, Jonesy also has said
that he may rule him out,

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and he's happy to do that.

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So he'll get to a point
where this is way too much risk.

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But at the moment,
because he's tracked so well, it's like...

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there's a lot of risk,
but he's tracking well.

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Because what we don't want to do,
what we're talking about here,

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my biggest fear is
going with ten men. Day one.

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So...

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I mean, I...

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I think, it's Heady or Maxi.

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That's... smart game. Thank you.

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I was actually quite comfortable with,
you know what, test career's done.

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Guys in there are doing a good job,
and then you get a bit of hope.

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I don't know, I sort of... I think
I'd come to grips with those emotions.

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I think the fact that there's
still that little bit of unknown, like...

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Like, with the fitness test tomorrow...

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Yeah, he's probably
going to get through it.

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Yeah, he's gonna be fine.

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Just the wallowing. Self-pity.

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Always used to hold in
my emotions and hold in, um...

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Hold in information,
what was going on in my life, and...

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because I hated being public all the time.
I hated being in the limelight.

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So I just tried
to basically fake everything I did.

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2019, I went through depression

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and took time off from the game,

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and that was on the back of 18 long months

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of trying to do everything right by
everyone else.

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It just basically just drained me,
just wore me down, and, um...

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I was basically just a shell of myself.

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Who would have thought, eh?
Who would have bloody thought?

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When I put my hand up
and said I was struggling,

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if I hadn't let it go,
a couple of weeks later,

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who knows where I would have been?
That could have been the end.

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I could've just...

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would have had enough and walked away,
and that would have been it.

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One of the big things I changed
after 2019 was,

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any time I had something
just niggling me or on my mind,

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I'd get someone into my room, any player,
coach, whatever it is,

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or go meet someone somewhere
and just have a chat.

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And as soon as you actually
get those words out

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and you're not sort of holding them in,

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it can be a sort of
just a relief off your shoulders.

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And I think having a lot
more guys in the squad that I feel

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probably more open to talking to
has helped that.

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I've not done a hamstring before,
so I wasn't until the day before

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when I had to get the full speed.
I was nervous getting to that stage.

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That would've been
the first time I was fully going,

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and if it was gonna go,
it was gonna go then.

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And if it did, that was the series done.

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It's horrible, 'cause you're watching...

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Well, you're concentrating
on your net session.

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You can see him doing the sprints.

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You're looking for a limp,
you're looking, sort of, "How's he going?"

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Like, "Is he all right?"
Everyone knows what's going on.

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Everyone knows why I'm there.

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Ready? Two, one, go. Come on, Heady.

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Come on, mate. Get the bat down.

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So, everything's in order, mate?
That's good.

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Yeah, sounds good. Thank you. Thanks, man.

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[indistinct chatter]

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That was one of the most heart-breaking
things that I reckon I've gone through.

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And, um...

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And as I said,
they made the right selection call 100%.

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But to sort of just let yourself believe
that after five years

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you're about to play another test
for your country,

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and I let myself start to think
of the fairy tale,

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and it's going to be awesome,

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and it just got taken away.

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It hurts.

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But I'll be giving it
every last dying breath

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to try and play another one. And...

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Who knows?

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[Sangakkara] Galle has always
made life very difficult

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for any visiting team

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because of the fact that we dominate sides
and spin works.

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Against most international sides,
it's been a happy hunting ground.

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[interviewer] What were your memories
of the 2016 Sri Lankan Tour?

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Fuck. Shit.

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[commentator]
Oh, he's bowled him! What a hammer blow!

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2016 tour? What tour?

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[commentator 1] Got him!

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[commentator 2] And Australia in tatters.

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[commentator 1] Sri Lanka slicing through
the Aussie batting.

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You know, their spin bowlers
were just class.

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And our batters weren't good enough.
As simple as that.

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[commentator 1] Got him!

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Memories were horrible.

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I was getting beaten both sides of the bat
with the spinning ball.

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It's just not adapting
quick enough to the conditions.

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So, like, this is the way I play,
and this is how I'm gonna play.

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And it just doesn't work in Sri Lanka.

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[commentator 1] Bowled him!

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[Khawaja] Some tours
just give you, like, nightmares.

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There's some tours you just look back on
and you're like "Eugh!"

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[commentator 2] That's a toss... Yeah!
That's given. That's it.

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It's all over! Sri Lanka win the series!

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[commentator 1]
It's a three-nil whitewash.

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[commentator 1] So the news
from the centre is that

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Sri Lanka have won the toss
and they're going to bat first.

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This pitch looks dry.

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It's going to take a lot
of turn, and it's going to be

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a huge challenge for the batters.

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[commentator] It wasn't going to be long.
And here he is, Nathan Lyon.

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[crowd exclaims]

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[commentator] Oh, wow! Oh, wow!

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Gaz came on, and first ball he bowled,

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and hit Carey flush in the face.

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Like, if he didn't have
the helmet on, he would have...

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[mimics explosion sound]

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And I just, like, walked up to him.
Like, "You all right?"

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He's like, "Yeah. Holy crap." I'm like,
"Yeah. Welcome to Galle."

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[commentator 1] Sri Lanka lose another.

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[commentator] Silly point.

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[commentator 1] They're asking
for a catch. That's given.

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[commentator] Brilliant.

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[commentator 1]
Another ripping delivery from Swepson.

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[commentator 2] That's a lovely catch.

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-Catch!
-[commentator 1] Whoa, brilliant!

237
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Seeing how tough the Sri Lankans found it
kind of made it even more clear

238
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about how we had to go about
playing our cricket.

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[commentator 1]
That's the end of the Sri Lankan innings.

240
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These conditions, they won't be easy for
the Australians. It will pose challenges.

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[Agar] The confidence was definitely there
after the bowling innings,

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but we knew that that pitch was gonna
take some serious spin.

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We knew it was gonna be really difficult.

244
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[commentator 1]
That has to be. That has to be. And it is.

245
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Against Sri Lanka,
as soon as you lose a wicket,

246
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everything changes.

247
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[commentator 1]
That's what this surface can do.

248
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[indistinct chatter]

249
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I fucking keep missing those!

250
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[objects clattering]

251
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[indistinct yelling]

252
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[commentator 1] Marnus sweeps.
Straight to the fielder!

253
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And he can't believe it. Marnus departs.

254
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[indistinct muttering]

255
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...shit.

256
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[commentator] He has trouble.
He has trouble!

257
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And that will be out. That will be out.

258
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Steve Smith is absolutely furious. Livid.

259
00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:55,720
Jeez. Um... Yeah, well, it wasn't ideal.

260
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It was a difficult surface.

261
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And, you know, given that, um, you know,

262
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I'm probably the most experienced player
on those conditions,

263
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um, getting out without sort of
being challenged by the bowler,

264
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um, probably took me a little bit longer
to get over this one.

265
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[commentator 1] He's on his way
back after scoring six.

266
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Australia, three for 83.

267
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[Smith] Fucking run... [bleep].

268
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[indistinct shouting]

269
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[indistinct muttering]

270
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Fuck me.

271
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For a batsman who sets himself
such prodigiously high standards as Smith,

272
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it's doubly confronting.

273
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Having gone to Sri Lanka
and failed as a captain,

274
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I think he did feel as though
he had unfinished business.

275
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[commentator] And play will be called
after the first day.

276
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[Khawaja] I remember sitting here in 2016
and feeling like absolute death.

277
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The pressure is on you.
You make one mistake, you're out.

278
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When you're young, you are a bit worried.

279
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Don't complicate it man, show intent.
Create some luck.

280
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[Green] Yeah, yeah, of course.

281
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Show intent, just keep showing intent.

282
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The times I've struggled here is
when I haven't shown intent.

283
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I've gotten out once, got out twice
and shat myself,

284
00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,080
no intent, and then its game over.

285
00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,800
A 50 out there is massive,

286
00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,040
if you're getting 50 its massive.

287
00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,040
If everyone just gets like 20 and 30's,
that's massive, don't aim too big.

288
00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,280
That's awesome. Thank you.

289
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[Green] Myrtle!

290
00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,080
I'll be going out for
three-and-a-half years?

291
00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,240
We both grew up in the same area.

292
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A lot of my friends actually
call him the Big Friendly Giant.

293
00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,480
[laughs]

294
00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,520
Yeah. He's an emotional kind of guy.

295
00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:52,640
And it's funny hearing what it's like
on the inside. Maybe not as it seems.

296
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-The tail... He's happy. [indistinct]
-Yay!

297
00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:02,560
[Redwood] So this is Little Myrtle.
She is six-and-a-half months old,

298
00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,760
and she is a Cavoodle.

299
00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:09,040
We picked Myrtle because she was the one
in the litter that used to whine the most.

300
00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:10,640
So, Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter.

301
00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,080
[laughs]

302
00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,920
Cricket's a really funny game
where there could be things

303
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,200
kind of out of your control
that you can't do much about.

304
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And, Myrtle, shake. Paw.

305
00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,520
Cam reached out quite early on.

306
00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,080
Pretty much as soon as
you got the call up for Australia

307
00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:27,720
to, like, a mindfulness courage.

308
00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,880
Whoo! Myrtle! Myrtle, ready?

309
00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,000
Anyway that you can kind of improve
your off-field, hopefully helps on-field,

310
00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,960
because there's not much
about international cricket that's calm.

311
00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaking to the mindfulness coach
or to the psychologist was probably

312
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a way that I kind of thought
I could kind of help with that.

313
00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,280
Anytime you kind of find a bit of space
for yourself, I think, is really key.

314
00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:47,640
I think Cam's doing really well.

315
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,040
He's got, like, lots
of support systems in place

316
00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,320
and has dealt with
the kind of rapid rise quite...

317
00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:54,520
quite well.

318
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,680
[man] Everybody's talking about this
young kid over in WA, Cameron Green.

319
00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,000
[man 1] He's essentially
Bradman and Lillee.

320
00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,080
[man 2] This could be the player
we haven't had since Keith Miller.

321
00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:05,200
[man 3] He's been one of those guys

322
00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:06,960
that's dominated his age group
all the way through.

323
00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,080
[man 4] We are seeing the emergence
of a tremendously significant player.

324
00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:12,440
[man 5] He's going to be a lethal weapon.

325
00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,880
[man 6] The best batting talent
I've seen since Ricky Ponting.

326
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,080
Talent like this
doesn't come along very often.

327
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,320
Cameron Green's
been a prodigy from earliest days.

328
00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,440
He looks a little bit like
a sort of an overgrown Boy Scout.

329
00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,560
It's only when he kind of gets a bat
or a ball in his hand

330
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,760
that you see the incredible possibilities.

331
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,440
[Green] It's a game with ten teammates,
but it's really a game in yourself.

332
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,680
No one's bowling the ball for you,
and no one's batting for you.

333
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,400
It's kind of all up to you to perform.

334
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,000
Debuting relatively young at 21,

335
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,560
I think you kind of feel
all the eyes watching you.

336
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,440
I think it still takes a while
to kind of feel that sense

337
00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,480
of being comfortable at this level.
I think that's still progressing.

338
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,920
Yeah, I think it's a long way off
feeling comfortable at this level.

339
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,920
Um, yeah.

340
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,400
[Cummins] I just try to remind myself
how young Cameron Green is.

341
00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,000
He doesn't have a lot of
professional cricket behind him.

342
00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,280
I've been there. I've been
playing for Australia and thinking,

343
00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,640
"I've never played on a wicket
anything close like this before."

344
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,880
[commentator 1] Australia still trail
Sri Lanka by over 100.

345
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,280
At the moment,
everything in the favour of the bowlers.

346
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,760
Clearly, the lead that Australia
could achieve was going to be crucial

347
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,080
to the overall outcome.

348
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,240
And a lot of the burden
settled on Green's shoulders.

349
00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:41,640
It's so hard to do it, honestly.
Until someone's gone out there with a bat,

350
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,320
playing for Australia
in the middle of the wicket,

351
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,160
you have no idea what it feels like.

352
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,760
-[players exclaim]
-[commentator] Oh, that's nicely bowled.

353
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,800
It was chaos.
It was absolute chaos out there.

354
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,800
[commentator] Batters have had
to deal with plenty here.

355
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,200
It's almost like
playing on a beach at times.

356
00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,560
[Maxwell] It could go at your head,
at your toes,

357
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:00,680
or everywhere in between.

358
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,560
[commentator 1] Lot to look forward to
for this young man, Cameron Green.

359
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,160
His test average of 36. Fine all-rounder.

360
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,280
But these conditions, they will test him.

361
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,480
[players appealing]

362
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,240
[Green] I went out with a pretty
clear plan to just use my feet.

363
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,720
I think the ball
was spinning a bit too far

364
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,800
if you weren't quite to the ball.
So I think all of us kind of thought,

365
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,720
"Geez, I think we need to sweep
to survive."

366
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,560
[commentator 1]
This time he tries to sweep.

367
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:33,920
[commentator] Enormous appeal.

368
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,040
Might have hit him just outside the line.

369
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:37,560
[Green] Probably haven't
swept much, you know.

370
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,200
Maybe swept one or two balls
in my professional career before then.

371
00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,040
[commentator 1] Yep.
He's come out with his broom.

372
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,400
You know, there's an element of risk,
I think, to sweeping the ball

373
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,520
when it's spinning away, um, you know,

374
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,480
particularly, I guess,
the way he was playing it.

375
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,600
I think you kind of have to tell yourself,
"I have to fully commit to this."

376
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,960
Yeah, you kind of just got to be brave.

377
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,480
[commentator 1] He's hit that nicely.
Right between the two fielders.

378
00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:06,320
Cameron Green.

379
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,320
He was able to just employ
a strategy that was hard to stop.

380
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,280
On a... In conditions that were
almost impossible to do that.

381
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,160
[commentator] He's here to play,
Cameron Green.

382
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,240
The character he showed there, to just go,
"No, this is what I'm going to do.

383
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,400
I'm going to trust it the whole way."
And that's it.

384
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,400
[commentator 2] Swept behind square leg,
that's a boundary.

385
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,080
[Labuschagne]
I think that was a moment that I was like,

386
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,960
"Geez, this team is moving forward."

387
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,200
[commentator 1] Yep, there it is.
He has hit it so hard.

388
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,520
Now, this is a half-century
he will cherish.

389
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,000
He's batted Australia
back into the test match.

390
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,400
[man] Every run that he accumulated,
you could see the Sri Lankans

391
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,360
growing more and more dejected.

392
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,760
They could sense the test match
slipping out of their control.

393
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,680
It's not too often you can see
a young kid come out on a difficult wicket

394
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:05,000
and score 77, which was probably worth
about 140 on that wicket.

395
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,400
This boy's gonna be
the fucking best player ever. [laughs]

396
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,760
It's his first tour to Sri Lanka,
and he's just adapted and found a way.

397
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:19,880
You could see before he even faces up,

398
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,080
you just know that he's comfortable
in his own skin to play the way he wants.

399
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,160
And that's
the most rewarding thing for a captain.

400
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:32,040
When you see the team humming, you know,
playing their own way, it's awesome.

401
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,040
[crowd cheering]

402
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,440
Cam Green's innings sets the game up.

403
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,120
It's a huge win in that first test match.

404
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:48,080
To conquer the conditions,
that is a moment in time for this team.

405
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,480
[cheering]

406
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,880
[commentator 1] Australia will celebrate.
It's a comprehensive victory for them.

407
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,880
Just one win away from a series win.

408
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,800
[Lyon] Green, your first man of the match
for Australia.

409
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,600
There's going to be a lot more to come,
you bat and ball.

410
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,000
But, mate, so incredibly proud of you
on the way you went out there

411
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,600
and achieved what you did.
So well done, mate.

412
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,840
[all cheering]

413
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,800
Cheers to many. Cheers, boy.

414
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,000
Young man, have yourself a lager.

415
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,000
Well done, champ.
First time's a fluke, mate.

416
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,480
Second time's consistency.

417
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:26,360
Thanks.

418
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,640
[all laughing]

419
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,440
That's congratulations from David Warner.

420
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,240
-Let's stay humble.
-I'll take that.

421
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,880
I think the game
was a good one for him moving forward.

422
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,440
He's now got that belief
that he can play that game,

423
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,480
he can do that in those big moments.

424
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,400
There was a validation of
where we are at as a cricket team

425
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,280
and that, yeah, we are good enough
to beat anyone on our day.

426
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,520
[excited chatter]

427
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,640
[Smith] The way I like
to go about my business

428
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,400
is preparing really well
and doing everything I can

429
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,320
to ensure that I give myself
the best chance to be successful.

430
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:42,760
What are you doing over there?

431
00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:46,120
Replacing my thumb pieces.

432
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,720
With what?

433
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,000
Taking the foam out
and putting, like, softer foam in.

434
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:53,880
Oh!

435
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:54,760
Does it help?

436
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:55,640
Feels nice.

437
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,280
You are a weird person.

438
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,040
-I am, correct.
-Yes.

439
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,360
Tell you what, it's a process
when you do it to every pair of gloves.

440
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,080
Especially when you have 3,000 pairs...

441
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,120
That's correct.

442
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,480
[Smith] I'm always looking at things,
looking at ways to improve.

443
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,600
Reflecting and being honest
with yourself is, you know,

444
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,320
part of growth and getting better.

445
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,760
Back in 2019, in the Ashes,
I was in one of those spots

446
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,680
when you sort of know
that when you walk out,

447
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,200
you're almost going to have success.

448
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:31,880
[commentator] Back-to-back hundreds
in the same test match for Steven Smith.

449
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,480
It's difficult to be in that space
all the time.

450
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,400
I don't know why. I wish I had the answer.

451
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,600
[commentator 1] Bowled him!
Perfect bowling!

452
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,080
[commentator 2]
...three in the first hour.

453
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,520
[commentator 3]
Steve Smith's gone for a globe.

454
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,440
And Australia
in all sorts of trouble here.

455
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,600
Every test that he didn't score 100,
for him, that eats away at him.

456
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,200
[Smith] It can be difficult
to turn it around sometimes

457
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:00,920
when you're not hitting the ball
as you'd like to

458
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,160
or you're not making the decisions
you'd like to.

459
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,720
I critique everything I do.

460
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,840
Some days I'm just like,
"No, I don't feel like I'm moving well.

461
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,400
I'm not picking the ball up well.

462
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,080
Things aren't feeling
quite as good today."

463
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:30,520
I think Steve is probably a victim
of his own greatness, if you like.

464
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:36,360
He's been such a good player
for so long that people just expect that.

465
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,240
So if there's stages where he's
not scoring 100 after 100 after 100,

466
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:42,440
people ask you question.

467
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,120
And I think at times he probably puts
that pressure on himself as well.

468
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,160
Someone like a Steve Smith...
He's his own best coach.

469
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,680
Just leave him to it. Get out of the way.

470
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,320
Mate, if you need anything from me,
come and chat to me, but go do your thing.

471
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,680
-[Smith] How are we, crew?
-[man] Here he is.

472
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,760
[Smith] For years,
people were always like,

473
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,800
you need something to
take your mind off outside of cricket.

474
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,680
And for a while there,
it was literally just cricket, that's it.

475
00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,880
But I think as I got a bit older,
it was nice to delve into

476
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,920
a few different things
and take my mind off the game.

477
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,240
So the testing
with the cold brew went well?

478
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,920
Uh, it was outstanding.
I thought it was, you know, really smooth.

479
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,320
They did tests on,
like, one-to-four ratio, I think,

480
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,840
one-to-three and one-to-six,
and the one-to-four was outstanding.

481
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,440
[Smith] There was no oat milks out here
in 2018 that I could see

482
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,640
and it was a trend that I thought that
was going to come to Australia.

483
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,160
There's so many oat milks out there now.

484
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,200
I've always been interested
in investing and things like that.

485
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,840
I've been involved in a few companies,
but to start one on my own,

486
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,360
it's something that's really exciting.

487
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,960
[man] I think that they can
get up to 45 days shelf life.

488
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,440
-[man 1] Absolutely.
-[man] On a chilled product.

489
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,160
-That was what they said, wasn't it? 45?
-[man 1] Forty-five days. Yeah, 45 days.

490
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,680
Which is amazing, which is far
longer than, I suppose, a standard...

491
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,040
coffee cold brew.

492
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,760
That's a major
competitive advantage for us.

493
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,320
-Huge
-It's good. Exciting.

494
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,080
[Smith] In 2018, whilst it was difficult
not being able

495
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,560
to play the sport I loved for that year,

496
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,160
I was able to learn different things
and grow as an individual,

497
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,440
which I think, you know, held me
in good state for the future as well.

498
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,160
I think we've got an order. Do we?

499
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,520
[crowd clamouring]

500
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,600
[man] It's not going well
here in Sri Lanka.

501
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,560
A brutal situation
which shows no sign of abating.

502
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:39,960
It's only getting worse here.

503
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:45,920
[commentator 1]
Sri Lanka. Nowhere near their best.

504
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,600
They've had four players
rubbed out with COVID-19 this week.

505
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,720
So a couple of test debuts.

506
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,040
Australia will almost certainly
win this test match,

507
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,720
barring something remarkable happening.

508
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,840
In terms of debutants, I think,
the pressure would have been enormous.

509
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,320
[Hills] Jayasuriya. Prabath Jayasuriya.

510
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,320
[Hazlewood] We didn't know
much about the debutants.

511
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,480
We've got an analyst on tour
all the time, Dene Hills,

512
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,800
and he'll pull out vision of
Sri Lankan domestic game.

513
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,800
Prabath Jayasuriya

514
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,280
-They just brought him in.
-[indistinct]

515
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,080
I don't know. A good question.

516
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,200
I'm about to find out
because he's not in the original squad.

517
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,760
I need to have
a look at him really quickly.

518
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,520
He's going to get a lot of skid, this guy.

519
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,760
Big side skid.

520
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,520
That's a nice ball.

521
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,080
I watched Jayasuriya bowl a bit
before I got out there

522
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,400
and yeah, I really liked the seam
that he was presenting.

523
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,000
I thought it was
going to be quite challenging.

524
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,760
-Skidder. Wide skidder.
-Faster.

525
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,280
That's sort of my mindset. Try and gather
all the information as you can

526
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,160
to be as well prepared as you can be.

527
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,800
[commentator] Big moment in the game.
Smith and Labuschagne together.

528
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,200
[Labuschagne] The media build-up.

529
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,880
Just keeps building it up like he hasn't
scored 100 in this many months.

530
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,480
This many months. And, y'know,
regardless of what players say,

531
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,120
it weighs on you.

532
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,320
[commentator 1]
Down the track straight away.

533
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,200
Chips the shot over midwicket.

534
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,800
[commentator] That's good batting
by Steven Smith.

535
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,240
From an early stage,
I could sort of tell that I was on.

536
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,360
I wasn't very talkative to anyone.

537
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,360
I was just very much
in my own little world.

538
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:36,800
I'm just so focused that, um,
nothing else kind of matters in a way.

539
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,280
[commentator 1] Good use of the feet.
Down the ground, that's another boundary.

540
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,040
[Smith] And there's really
not too much thought,

541
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,600
I suppose, that goes in
when I'm out there.

542
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,520
It's just turning your mind off
and just reacting

543
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,200
to whatever comes at you and not thinking
about anything, really.

544
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,040
It's exciting for us
as players, his teammates,

545
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,840
because understanding...

546
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,760
you've seen it before,
you go, "Yeah, okay, Smithy's on."

547
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:15,200
[Smith] It can be fatiguing because
you're just in such a mental trance

548
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,160
almost the whole time
and you're just so focused.

549
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,200
It's hard to
continually get into that zone.

550
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,520
It's different, and it's weird,
but that's what makes him

551
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,920
one of the best,
if not the best in the world.

552
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,800
[commentator]
Smith's not going to miss out.

553
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,040
He's not gonna miss out, and he doesn't.

554
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,600
You just know within yourself,
you can feel it,

555
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,560
that, you know, "Today...
I'm really switched on.

556
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,200
I'm not making mistakes."

557
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,280
[commentator 1] And he's got it.
100 for Steve Smith.

558
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,320
It's been a long wait for him.

559
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,720
Steve Smith back to his best.

560
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,560
[Smith] Always feels good scoring 100,

561
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,400
and it had sort of been
a bit of a long time coming.

562
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,360
But we underscored. We needed
a lot more runs in that first innings.

563
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,520
When you win the toss
and bat in those conditions,

564
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,760
you've got to make a big total.

565
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,640
Four, five hundred
and almost kill the game.

566
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,600
[commentator] Beautifully bowled.
There it is.

567
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:17,960
[commentator 1] Travis Head's gone.

568
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,320
He's been bowled by Jayasuriya for 12.

569
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,680
Spin does the job once more.

570
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,560
[Head shouting] Fuck!

571
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,240
[commentator 1] One more wicket here,

572
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,480
and it could all change
very, very quickly.

573
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,520
It's early days for Cameron Green
in his test career.

574
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,200
Everybody standing up
and taking note of his capabilities.

575
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,040
[appealing]

576
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,920
[commentator] That's a good shout for LBW.
And he's given him.

577
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,320
[commentator 1] That's a big wicket.
Cameron Green is out for four.

578
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:07,080
Australia now five down for 252.
The momentum now with Sri Lanka.

579
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,200
[Hazlewood] I think Greenie probably...

580
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,160
probably puts a lot too much pressure
on himself a lot of the time.

581
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,640
He's only a young player
and he's got a lot to learn yet.

582
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,320
Yeah, you kind of feel like all the work
you did in the first test,

583
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,320
you've kind of lost a bit. Um...

584
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,000
Potentially go back to square one.

585
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,040
It's a tough game.

586
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,480
That's the harsh reality
of playing one foul shot.

587
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,800
It's good that people
can let their emotions out, you know?

588
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,680
Trying to be all tough and strong
is such a load of crap.

589
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,440
[crowd clamouring]

590
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,360
[man] Police in the Sri Lankan capital,
Colombo,

591
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,560
dispersed huge crowds gathered
to demand the resignation

592
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,640
of the country's president,
Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

593
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,840
The Galle protesters have ambitions
to storm the capital.

594
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,840
They can't get there.

595
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,440
So the cricket grounds almost
accidentally becomes a centrepiece.

596
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:34,040
The protesting was literally like
ten metres. It was pretty close.

597
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,640
[crowd clamouring]

598
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,000
They are storming the gates.

599
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,640
[man] It was so loud. It was literally
just outside where they all met.

600
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,680
Surely he's got to go now?

601
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,400
The President.

602
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,520
[interviewer] The country itself
was in turmoil.

603
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,760
Did it light a fire
in the Sri Lankan team?

604
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,360
I'm sure it did.

605
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:01,640
[commentator] There you go.
It's in the air. Taken. Jayasuriya.

606
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,440
[commentator 1]
Oh! That is an excellent catch.

607
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,360
Five wickets for Jayasuriya on his debut.

608
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,680
That's on the back foot.
They're asking for it.

609
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:12,640
Oh, given.

610
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,200
Sri Lanka have fought back
really, really well

611
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,640
as Australia's innings comes to an end.

612
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:26,120
Steve Smith, though.
He's left stranded on 145.

613
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,520
[Sangakkara] They were touched by what
was going on around them.

614
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,040
And I think that kind of inspired
the performances that we saw.

615
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,400
It was something, I think,
the Australian team saw first-hand.

616
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,080
-[commentator 1] Oh, lovely shot.
-[commentator] Just like that.

617
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,000
Pulled away,
finds the gap, gets a boundary.

618
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,880
You couldn't really hear yourself
think on the field, it was that loud.

619
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,760
[crowd chanting]

620
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,160
[reporter] Former Sri Lankan cricket team
captain Kumar Sangakkara

621
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,680
shared a video, "This is for our future."

622
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,400
I think the Sri Lankan players themselves
might have been questioning,

623
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:06,800
"Should we be playing cricket?"

624
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,080
But I think the support of the people
in that sense to the players

625
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,160
showed that connection and inspired them.

626
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,000
[commentator 1] That's the 100!
Great batting!

627
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,320
Dinesh Chandimal. What an innings.

628
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,600
[reporter] Protest leaders had warned
that if Sri Lanka's prime minister

629
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,800
and president did not resign as promised,
things would escalate.

630
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:30,920
And they did.

631
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,600
It all came to a head
when thousands stormed

632
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,920
the luxury resident of their
strongman president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

633
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,280
President Rajapaksa
fled the country and resigned.

634
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,800
[commentator 1] Boy,
he's enjoying himself. Dinesh Chandimal.

635
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,480
That's 500 on the board for Sri Lanka.

636
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,200
[Haigh] Because test match
does spend such a long period,

637
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,120
it's long enough
that a government can change.

638
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,160
It's extraordinary.

639
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,840
That just doesn't happen in any
other sport. It was an epic occasion.

640
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,360
[firecrackers exploding]

641
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,080
[Labuschagne] The first few firecrackers,
we were like, "Oh, that's a gunshot."

642
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,000
We asked Kumar,
"Should we be taking cover?"

643
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,920
And he's like,
"No, it's just firecrackers."

644
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,920
They're celebrating because
they just took over the compound.

645
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,800
You got the sense
when Chandimal was batting,

646
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,360
he was building
something worthy of the occasion.

647
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,040
There was an additional motivation to him

648
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,280
rather than simply making runs
and winning a test match.

649
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,400
[commentator 1] Again.

650
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,400
Two hundred. 200 for Dinesh Chandimal.

651
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,200
What an outstanding knock.

652
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:44,680
So Sri Lanka dismissed finally
for 554. A lead of 190.

653
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:51,080
The ability of our people to withstand,
to rise, to unite,

654
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,960
to be resilient
in the face of so much hardship.

655
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,640
So it was wonderful to see
how they reacted to it so positively.

656
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,440
[Labuschagne] It was certainly
a pretty weird experience

657
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,880
to see your country in that sort of state.

658
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,480
The cricket sort of just kept going.

659
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,920
[commentator] Flips it over midwicket.

660
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,400
[Labuschagne]
You know, no matter the situation...

661
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:19,680
[commentator 2] Nicely timed.

662
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,440
[Labuschagne] That batting line-up,
you know,

663
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,320
I feel like we can win from anywhere.

664
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,320
[commentator 1] This opening partnership,
so important.

665
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,040
-[commentator] Good shot.
-[commentator 2] Nice use of the feet.

666
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,000
This stroke should
give him a lot of confidence.

667
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,680
[commentator 1] And this is where
the three spinners will come into play.

668
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,840
I still felt like
we were right in the game.

669
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,640
Um, and then before you know it, bang.

670
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,480
[commentator 1] How close is that?
How close is that? That's given.

671
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,280
[commentator] And he's got him again.

672
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,160
[commentator 2] Oh! That is huge!

673
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:47,760
[commentator] Australia is in trouble.

674
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,880
[Head] Doesn't take very long, and then
the game's out of your reach, you know?

675
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,560
What the hell just happened?

676
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,320
[commentator 1] Oh, my God! My God!

677
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,600
[commentator 1] Six four Jayasuriya,
12 in the game. Sri Lanka celebrate.

678
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,280
It's been a magnificent performance.

679
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,920
It's the first time
they've beaten Australia by an innings.

680
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,360
[Cummins] It was weird. I didn't really
know what to say or what to feel.

681
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,000
It's just a little knock on the head.
It's a little reminder. Wait a minute.

682
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,280
This is test cricket.

683
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,880
Nothing is given here.
You have to earn it.

684
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,880
[Cummins] This was the first loss
this group had had.

685
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:34,800
Some of the team aspects like being calm,
being composed, were brilliant.

686
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,160
So they're the things that
you kind of judge yourself against.

687
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,280
-Does it bother you?
-Yeah.

688
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:41,480
When you fail,

689
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:42,960
how do you get out of that?

690
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,280
So I would say, don't change.

691
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:46,160
Just because you fail,

692
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,120
doesn't mean your processes were wrong

693
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,840
It was a great series to be involved in
for more reasons than cricket.

694
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:56,520
[Sangakkara] The tour itself, I think,

695
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,400
was significant for the time
that it took place

696
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,080
and genuinely connect
with the people of Sri Lanka.

697
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,560
I think that shone through.

698
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,760
The joy that it brought the people
who watched those games, who followed it,

699
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,560
irrespective of the hardships
they were going through,

700
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,640
was also very, very important.

701
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:18,080
And I think cricket has found
a new place in Sri Lankan society.

702
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,440
[commentator 1] Didn't the Sri Lankan
people need this?

703
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,680
[Cummins] They were going through
a hell of a tough time.

704
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,600
And the joy that the Sri Lankan team

705
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,480
would have brought to 'em
was, no doubt, massive.

706
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,640
Thank you, Australia! Thank you very much.
Thank you very much!

707
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,440
[Marsh] As disappointing as it was for us,
you look back in 20 years' time,

708
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,080
it's pretty cool for them to do that
for their country in that time.

709
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,440
[indistinct chatter]

710
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,080
[Whateley] The Langer years
were about restoring Australian cricket,

711
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,800
but this is about the new face
of Australian cricket.

712
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,680
It's the start of the Pat Cummins' era.

713
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,960
That's how this decade of cricket
is going to be defined

714
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,360
and will take its place in the annals.

715
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,400
I see the Australian cricket team
on a very exciting journey

716
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,200
to becoming, hopefully, a great team.

717
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,400
Cheers, Marn. Happy birthday, mate.

718
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,200
Best part of playing cricket
is the people you do it alongside.

719
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,000
I love that everyone's really different.

720
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:23,680
People like Steve Smith,

721
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,760
who's great to our game,
been doing it forever. David Warner.

722
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,520
These new guys,
Trav Head, Carey, Marnus, Cam Green...

723
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,840
I think we can be
as good as any other era before us.

724
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,000
Da-da.

725
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,640
That's the opportunity ahead of us.

726
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,280
The group's motivated, we're hungry.
There's so much to play for.

727
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,320
[commentator] Magnificent work from
Usman Khawaja.

728
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,560
[commentator 1]
Australia have won in Pakistan.

729
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,000
[commentator 2] A hundred for Steve Smith.

730
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,520
[commentator 3] Build the man a statue!

731
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,920
That's all in front of us.
That's what we aspire to.

732
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,280
Yeah. Can't wait.

733
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,960
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