00:00 - Good luck in the back there, guys. All good? Okay. Awesome. Thanks, everyone. Josh Hazelwood, five wickets today. We're over the Indian Seamings to chat to everyone today. Mic's on either side. Let us know if you have a question. Get the back here.
00:26 - Hi, Josh. Congratulations on the five. In terms of the match, it's a tough position at the moment. Can Australia still win this test?
00:37 - That's probably the mindset that we'll have. Obviously, we're a long way behind, as you can see on the scoreboard, but we'll just slowly spend the next two days trying to grab back a little bit of momentum. Yeah, we're obviously well behind. It's easy to say that, but that's still the mindset I think of all the time when you're playing cricket.
01:02 - Josh, just interested to hear your insights into what it was like being out there in the field. Was that about as tough as things got in terms of England, just the way they were going out at the end there, particularly with Bairstow and Anderson at the end? What was the mindset in terms of the way you were handling that approach from them?
01:21 - Yeah, I think once you get that far into the innings, I think it's pretty clear how the batsman's going to play with the number 11. It's just trying to limit his scoring and try different things to try and, I guess, keep with two balls left, one ball left, keeping the tail ender on strike for next over, things like that. I thought we did it reasonably well. Bairstow had some incredible shots there at the end, so credit to him. A bit unlucky to be stuck on 99, but those situations are pretty tough.
01:50 We're seeing it more and more I think these days with how good batsmen are in T20 and one-day cricket. We're seeing this a lot more happen almost every inning, so it'd be nice to have two tail enders out there.
02:03 - Josh, can I ask you about your mental approach for the next two days as a team? I know it feels like it's something that's easier said than done to say you want to turn up to play when obviously rain would probably be a better result for you over the next couple of days. How do you actually get your brain to switch on to wanting to play cricket the next few days and expecting to play?
02:23 - It's probably more obviously the guys who are in the next few guys. The bowlers are probably thinking we can do our job if we're out there with the batter. But obviously it's the guys in and the next couple, so they'll just focus on, I know it's a cliche, but it's the next ball, it's the next over, it's getting through a good spell from whoever it is. Rain may play a part, may not, so you can't, I guess, focus on that. But yeah, it's just taking it one ball at a time basically.
02:50 - Mitch Marsh, I know he's stiff, spent a bit of time with the field at the start of the day, but there was some vision showing where he looked like he was pretty sore yesterday after bowling. Are there any concerns, I know you're not a doctor, but are there any concerns among the team over his fitness?
03:03 - No, not that I'm aware of. He's probably bowled quite a bit in the last two games where it's probably quite a steep rise in his workload, so I'm assuming it's just general soreness from that sort of stuff. The more sort of overs, I think, by some bowlers, the better he gets. So it's good to get a nice clean run at it and hopefully better after this innings and it just keeps building. So yeah, I think he's fine.
03:28 - Josh, just picking up on the approach over the weekend, I know you said a couple of minutes ago that the mindset is to win, but given the fact of draw, seize, you retain the ashes, how pleased would you be to see the Manchester array arrive over the next couple of days?
03:42 - I'd be very pleased. Yeah, it's obviously forecast, but forecast can change all the time. It'll play, obviously, rain and light plays a big part in cricket and has done forever. So yeah, it'd be great to lose a few overs here and there and make our job a little easier of hanging in there and yeah, it's pretty obvious.
04:01 - Josh, you kind of spoke there about bowling to a guy at the end when they're batting with the tail. You've seen it a lot with, you guys have been through it a lot with Stokes, right? Do you need to rethink your tactics in terms of how you approach it? Do you need to attack maybe more on the third or fourth ball, the over, bring fielders up? Have you kind of thought about that?
04:21 - Yeah, probably. Again, it always depends on the state of the game as well, I think. You know, whether you just bowl wide and down leg and really stop him from scoring or you try and roll the dice and bounce him and try and get a wicket that way or keep bowling hard length and hopefully one goes up the chute. So, I mean, in the end of the day, you've sort of got to get everyone out, but are there times where you potentially could go just bowl away from him the whole time?
04:50 - I think there's a time to do both and it's probably just weighing that up of when to do that and obviously with the over count or the ball count to try and get number 11 on strike, we saw probably a new tactic again today of running on bounces or running through to the keeper. So, yeah, everything seems to be open these days to do and everyone keeps changing.
05:13 - Josh, it's not often that Cummins, Stark, Hazlewood are hit for 393 runs in a single innings in a Test match. What was it like to actually be on the receiving end of Baz Ball in all its glory because you've probably never been on the receiving end of anything like that in a Test match, have you?
05:31 - Probably not at that run rate. I imagine a few games against India, potentially on some flat wickets, we've gone the journey as well. So, nothing too new for us, I guess. It was probably just the run rate. It was what it was. It was a pretty special knock from Zach and a few others as well, obviously Johnny and Rudy as well. So, yeah, the state of the game was they were well ahead and they took full advantage.
05:56 We could have been definitely better in patches throughout the innings and with a bit of luck we might have been, but that's not the case. So, we'll have a look at that and learn from it again.
06:08 - Josh, you've played a lot of cricket with Pat Cummins and you've now seen him captain for the last 18 or so months from up close. Just the last two days, how difficult have they been on him and what did you read from his performance and just how he was body language-wise and overall?
06:26 - Yeah, I think obviously, again, it's a good learning experience. He hasn't been captain for a long period of time and we've probably had the better rub of the greens for the whole period he's been captain, for most of it actually. So, yeah, again, learning experience and he'll no doubt sit down with the coaches and go through a few things, but he's a very quick learner and yeah, hopefully it doesn't happen again.
06:52 But again, in those positions he's still very calm. It's very much, we'll do this plan for now and see how that goes and then we'll change plans and it's nothing flustered at any stages and yeah, from his point of view, I still think he bowled really well.
07:08 - I'll finish off on a common theme, Josh to Josh.
07:12 - Hi Josh, your wicket yesterday of Joe Root, can you talk us through that and how is the pitch playing at the minute?
07:22 - Yeah, the pitch is, I think again, we saw this afternoon that a few shot low, I think one from Brody potentially. Yeah, the wicket was just probably back of length if anything and it just didn't bounce at all. So, I think the wicket is still pretty good. We're seeing a little bit of reverse swing come into it, a little bit from us and more from them today and a little bit up and down. So, it's quite a warm wicket it feels like, it's quite dry.
07:48 Yeah, it's probably a typical, almost typical day four and five wicket coming up I think.
07:54 - Great, thanks everyone.
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