Opener For Australia, Kernick Not Getting Selected For Australia, James Fisher-Harris Being Hard To Replace
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AAP Sports Journalist- Scott Bailey 8/10/24
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Northbrook, Illinois. Thank you, Vanessa, 1-300-01-1170 is our open line number. Scotty Bailey from AAP Sports is on the line. Hey, Scott, good morning, mate. So obviously I'll get your thoughts on the world of footy, but you're heading out to Cricket Central. And there's some really interesting storylines as Sheffield Shield Season gets underway. I mean, obviously a few things to look out for. I think the opening spot is still by far the most important. I think we know we have a pretty fair idea of what Australia is. Eleven will look like for the first test against India next month. It's more a matter of who opens the batting, whether it's Steve Smith and Usman Kawajal or if Cameron Green provided he's fit and able to bat, which I expected will be, or even Travis Head is in that role. So first round, the Sheffield Shield starts today. We will see, I guess, where Travis Head bats to South Australia. And as soon as the next half hour hour, depending on what this rain does, there is a very light drizzle on that, I don't know, that lid came away, I would say, and there's a very light drizzle. So we'll see what happens in the next few hours. Yeah, so it is scheduled for a 10.30 start, isn't it? Yeah, 10.30 starts. They're talking half hours. Yep. And I guess, you know, whether the South Australian name their team batting order, whether Travis Head is at the top of the order, or when we wait to see what South Australia do, they bat first. So we could find out in the next hour whether Travis Head is pushing for an opening spot or we could find out tomorrow, or that we'll see what happens. Okay, this comes down to one of my records going to be, you know, the biggest talking point, well, not the biggest, but one of the big talking points again for the summer of cricket, which is management and load management and trying to work out what players can do, which players can do what really. We do know that, that Stephen Smith won't be playing for New South Wales, so his position in the tests are batting position, not position, but batting position is yet to be determined. But do you get that feel as well that it's really, you know, you almost get the feel, Scotty, that the most, the busiest people in cricket, state and national cricket at the moment are those with the spreadsheet that says, this guy can do that, this guy can't do that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, also the three quick point play for New South Wales and this match either. Usman Collard will play for Queen when today, but we saw he was rested a fair bit last summer before the first test. And that was more about, I don't know how much workload management, but more just mental management, like given, he's getting it on and in age and, you know, probably just needs a bit of time, how much cricket he can commit to and wants to commit to at his age, I guess, if you know what I mean? Like if he's going to play on, let's not have him spending nine months of the year playing cricket. We've had a break. But also the fast bowls that certainly a factor, you know, Nathan Lyon will play today. He just loves playing cricket. I don't think she'll have much of a rest. But yeah, that is exactly right. But there is the capability for the test place to play up to four shield matches before the first test, which is the most we've seen in a long time. You know, Pat Cameron hasn't played, or Mitchell's talking to those guys haven't played really back-to-back or regular shield cricket through to get nine on five or six seasons now. So whether they actually do so this summer will be interesting to see. And I think, you know, it's pretty clear that the signal early on is they won't play a lot of it. Pat Cameron's suggested previously he may not play any at all before the first test. So that is certainly something to watch over the next five or six weeks. All right, so 10.30 start for New South Wales, the South Australia, a cricket central down in Melbourne, it's Victoria and Tazzy, so same start time there. And over in Perth, it's WA, the Queensland, which will be a 1.30 start. Our time. Boy, there was some interesting news out of the kangaroos and jillaroos yesterday with the selections. Yeah, I'd say, I mean, I know where all the kangaroos caught everyone's attention. I think we all thought once they think clearly was out of the kangaroos that daily kangaroos would be the half back and quite possibly the captain. But, you know, I think Australia do have an eye towards that 2026 world carp and, you know, I think there are fair questions over whether daily kangaroos will still be playing Red Football in two years' time, so I'd no doubt that weight into Melbourne is thinking. I think people were just saying he was the best available half back. There's no question in my mind that Daley Cherry Evans is it. I know that Mitch Moses outgunned him in the, in the south of Origin of Sider, but Cherry Evans season was, I would say, this year and last year, it's been two of his best seasons in some time. He was certain to Daley M-Race, but, you know, if it was just on this year alone, I think Daley Cherry Evans had been in the side, but obviously looking a long-term view probably makes a bit of a sense to look elsewhere. The Jill of Rosebud, that, that, for mine, had some of the most bewildering peaks I've seen in a, in a national team so long time, like Olivia Kurnikou was in Australia's team in their last match. So, it's not a matter of trying to force her way in. She was in Australia's team. Yes, Greta, they lost that game to New Zealand, but since then, she has won the Dalian medal. I thought she was best on ground in the grand final, but it's picked by Australian selectors with the Karam Mountain medal, they didn't pick her for that, and then the next day, the side not to pick her for the Australian team is just, honestly, it's a bizarre selection, and it will put some pressure you would think on. Australian selectors, if they aren't successful in this series, because, you know, if we're not, if the NROW is meant to be, you know, meant to mean something and meant to be, hold the standing that the NROW tells us it does, and surely we're picking Australian teams out of it. This would be the equivalent of New Zealand not picking your own hues, or dropping your own hues for the specific championships. So that's quite something. Jamie Chapman also dropped, or she was dropped because she was part of the team last summer round. She has had some hamstring issues, but they have picked her for the TMs 13 this week, so they're saying she's fit, she's just not picked. She was New South Wales' best in origin this year, but didn't have a great NROW campaign to be fair, I think she was hampered a bit by that hamstring injury, and Kelly Davis, who was Hawker of the Year, and won a promotion for the Sydney Rooses two days ago, also dropped from the Australian side for some really interesting selections, to say the least, in that jewelry theme. Yeah, absolutely. By the way, Stacey Jones has named his Kiwi squad eight debutants in there, of course, captain by James Fish Harris, and one Jerome Hughes is in there, I'll run through that a little bit later. I wondered if we were going to get through today without talking about the bunker, given that the season has finished, but there's still plenty of focus on the bunker after grand final. It's like, they've driven the old, was it the golden white or golden blue dressing, and people see what they want to see, or what their eyes tell them, and they just won't display them. Oh, yes. Definitely use that. This is exactly, I just feel like this is that all over again, isn't it? I mean, look, having seen the high definition, the 4K stuff, I'm comfortable, the fact it wasn't a try, that it was an arm under there, but to mind what this really highlighted was the need to go back to. Generally we first started the bunker, we used to see the split screens, and we could see things simultaneously, and it was what the bunker was seeing, and I understand that this one here is more a matter of 4K versus standard definition, and what people are posting low rate stuff on the internet, but having the two videos side by side, I mean, able to look at them together, I think tells the story that it wasn't a try, and I think that I understand if the broadcasters went away from that, because it's hard to pick up on a phone, or it's, yeah, people are looking at four different boxes on a TV, and it doesn't look necessarily appealing to the eye, but I think that a lot of the criticism of the bunker is when people can't see what the bunker see, and if everyone could have seen that on Sunday night and seen the split views, maybe there's not the discourse that follows, and the problem is that like rugby league lovers, I mean, there's still plenty of rugby league lovers who are adamant that was a try, but even just to the average person from, let's say, the Melbourne fans right, who have tuned in for Melbourne, watched their two hours of rugby league for the year and turned off, but they walk away really angry and upset about that decision, and they're not seeing that, you know, the high-row stuff the next night on the talk shows, or, you know, they're not searching for it, so I think it, you know, and they walk away disillusioned with the game, I think that really highlights the need that we should be seeing what the bunker sees, and seeing the split views again, the simultaneous replays. I said that yesterday, Scotty, and I'm of exactly the same opinion, I think that one way to clarify as much more than it is at the moment is to allow us to see what the decision is being made on, what the shot of the decision is being made on, so we can see plenty of angles, that's fine, and we can make up our own minds, that's fine, but if there is a definitive, well, there is, because that's what the bunker has to do, when the bunker makes a definitive call, that definitive call should be explained visually, because it's a visual medium, there's an interesting part from the commentary box, and I can speak from experience here, you're always told, try not to tell us something that we don't see, and whatever you do, you should never call for a replay, because you don't know if it's there, so, you know, it's a difficult position when you're in that commentary box, but you could hear, they were very strong about their views in the con box, and like I said yesterday, when Andrew, John's and Co say I think that's a try, I always defer much more to the people that have been there than I ever have, however, they're not privy to all the angles as well, so I think it's short-changing a lot of people, so I totally agree with that one, now the path is they've got four, they've got four fingers full of rings, there's one more left that I make rings for a thumb, well they have to start making, I guess they could go to the other hand, that would be the other way to pursue eight or ten premiership, but that was, it was funny the other night, because the, I guess the motto that they had for this premiership was legacy, wasn't quite as creative, shall we say, as top gun or, or undisputed with UFC builds, and Everest, they've had previously, but it was a pretty simple one around the guys who are leaving, what legacy does this, do they leave, and what legacy does each individual have when they finish in the sport, and what legacy does this penor team have, but the other message that came from a lot of the players was, yes we're talking about legacy, but we aren't finishing it, we still have more, we want more, this is a big deal, we've still got more fingers to put rings on, so therefore we want another one next year, it's interesting that I walked away from those sheds the other night and walked away from that game, feeling like that was a celebration from Penriffer for four really good years, it's probably the first time I've walked away thinking that it was celebrating everything rather than just one premiership, and with James, so you have James Fisher Harris leaving, I think he'll be the hardest one to replace Jerome Loire, also sending it to Ruval, but Fisher Harris and Loire are two guys who have been the cornerstones of what Penriffer done in the last couple of years, I think someone described him as a yo described him as one of the architects of what Penriffer achieved, and I think Penriff know that it's going to be a lot more difficult next year without those two guys, Melbourneer won't lose anyone, Penriff lose those guys, they say they want five, no doubt they do want five, but it just had a little bit of a feeling, obviously this is the end about it the other nine, I say that, but I've still also refused to tip against Penriffer until I see them lose a big game, and they'll probably still be my favourites to win the comp next year, but there's no doubt it gets a bit harder, right, like as much as, you know, we always talk about walking that another one, can that another one, but I think it does get a lot harder next year, but the other thing I'd say on it, I think, I know everyone gets bored of seeing the same team win, but it's like, you know, a outrageous comparison to make, but it's like when you talk to your grandfather and they talk about watching Bradman bat, or you talk to people who watch the dragon side in the 50s and 60s, and how incredible they were, in 10 or 20 years time, whether you're a Penriff fan or not, you will be saying, geez, that Penriff team were incredible, I was lucky to witness them, they might have denied my team a couple of premiership and I don't like it, but we're lucky to witness it, so I hope people do realise how special it is, what we're saying, because what they've planned from effectively under 16, 10 years ago to what we're watching now is, is truly quite remarkable. Yeah, well said, mate, enjoy the crickets today, keep us posted, if you can, what happens out there at the, at the toss and the weather as well, appreciate your time again. We'll do it, matey, I'll message you to Coach K, enjoy. Excellent, thanks mate, Scott Bailey from AIP Sports there, it's approaching quarter