What are we going to see here today?

Oh, it's a gorgeous cricket ground, primarily because it sits underneath Table Mountain, and that's more than just the table itself.

It's a range of mountains.

And, you know, it's glorious and it's big and...

It's a part of nature's great, you know, national monuments.

So it's right there.

And in the evenings, the sun drops behind the mountains and the stories of the cricket are told in shadows.

I can see a dominant performance with the ball from the skipper because he is world class and he's a proud man.

I think we need to move on, don't we?

[laughs] No, we're ready to go.

A little summary of, uh, of the battles between these two great lands.

I mean, two tough, uncompromising sporting nations who go at it on the cricket field.

And you know, they, they got back after isolation, South Africa came back to the international fold and first played the Aussies in '94.

So we're talking Border and the Wars-

That's good advice.

And the impression you've made, um, initially with Channel Ten and then Fox, is enough to convince people that, A, you know the game, and B, you have the energy and, and the broadcasting talent to be worth your, your place in the commentary team.

What do you think about the proposal? How unprecedented could this be? Is this new? Or have we always seen in the en bloc market that, you know, we've got to make amendments for the older ones in particular if we're really going after urban renewal?

Well, thank you for having me.

I think that this is going to shake up one corner of the on-block sale market quite a lot, especially the older developments, those that are more than 39 years old.

And In a way, some of them is a bit of a low-lying fruits, but the on-block sale market has been quite quiet.

And I think that it is quiet or there's less sales.

It's not because of older developments, the owners do not want to go on-block sale, but they are facing other challenges.

And one of the biggest hurdle is the rising cost of the replacement homes.

And do you think that's been raised in some of these amendments that you've seen tabled in Parliament? Not so much, yeah?

like...

Yeah, so I'm a little tired as well.

I was one of the few people or quite a few people that stayed up to research the football, obviously, at like 1am or then 2am and then...

Yeah, so I got in about 6am today and a work colleague said to me today, oh Mark, do you have a bit of a cold? And I was like, yeah, yeah, I think it's the altitude.

But yeah, so I've been doing comedy a few years now and it's quite, I was really glad to be welcome, my hair's one of us is fantastic.

It's a great feeling, but you don't always get that same reception for certain hosts.

Like, or like I remember, and I love the fact that, you know, you have a no self heckling rule here.

Sorry, round of

[laughs] I would argue that in Ben Stokes' life, what a utterly bizarre month, and in the world of English cricket.

Yeah, I mean, I, I, you know, they're paying really probably for Australia, if you wind it back, to, uh, the inability to, to read the tea leaves.

And, and, and if you go to Australia, you've gotta be ready.

You, you, you can't win in Australia un- unless you're at your best, A, and in very well pr- pr- prepared.

I, I would say over-prepared, really.

The last England side to win there played three state games.

A game against Australia A was there a month before the first test, and really used the time well.

No

Yeah.

The circus has moved on.

No one's there that was, that was giving him, you know, laughs and, and memories and, and stories being told.

We had a Hampshire players breakfast in Perth, Barry Richards and Paul Terry and the Smith brothers and me and And, and we just laughed and, and suddenly we weren't there.

It is enormously sad.

There's a s- sense of relief for me because I, I hated seeing him so anxious, so troubled, so unable to make sense of the world he was now in.

A- and, um, although it's fair to say that he was much improved, I certainly don't think he was a happy person in the way that he had been in his life.

Yeah.