Alex Malcolm

Yeah.

Yeah, Alex Malcolm, who writes for Crick Info, put it best recently in, I think it was on a podcast, saying, score 280, cartel goes to work.

And that's kind of what it is, is just get to 280 and the bowlers will do it.

And that kind of feels like how Australia will approach not only this tour of South Africa, but then potentially against New Zealand as well, as they will think, hey, if we can get to... 300 against a really good New Zealand attack, then our bowlers will, in their own conditions, be able to do a bit of a job.

What do you think it is that Australia do well that New Zealand cricket in the past haven't done

well? Well...

You say that, and I mentioned it before, Alex Malcolm, who writes for Crickinfo, did an enormous deep dive, it's about six and a half thousand words, deep dive for Crickinfo last month.

If you're into this sort of thing, if you're frothed and you're a nerd like I am, I'd hugely encourage you to to go and find it or honestly just message me on social media and I'll send you a link about where this next group of Australian bowlers are coming from because they're having the challenge that New Zealand has just gone through with, we've had this generational group, where's everyone else? Because their next group of coming through, even someone like Lance Morris who...

Mm.

So I mean, you know, as, as, um, um, Alex Malcolm's written this morning, this is essentially a, a- another reconnaissance mission for Australian cricket in the one-day team, isn't it?

Mm.

You seem to have a bit of a theory that they use it to, to have a, a little bit o- of a look at players for test-

What's that? Kevin Pietersen to join white ball setup? Ugh.

All I ask is that tonight Alex Malcolm cradles my head and whispers things like governance and leadership to me as I drift off into the deep recesses of my mind-

[laughs]

... a place where Indian bobby money does not yet exist.

Well, yeah, we all do that.

Uh, he said, "He's confident that he can make a positive contribution to the tour." Um, the thing that interested me was when Alex Malcolm, the excellent Alex Malcolm from Quick Info-

Sure.

Yep

So we were wrong all along.

Shout out to Alex Malcolm who's been saying this the entire time.

Uh, and then we piggybacked off the back, but you just saw him bat at the tempo that he wants and not...

And it seems to me that's what he's saying there.