Michael Bevan

Mm-hmm.

They only need another 50 runs after that, and they've got Steve Waugh and Michael Bevan, um, at the crease.

Can I read you out Steve Waugh and Michael Bevan's stats from that game?

Go for it.

Steve Waugh made 19 from 73 deliveries.

Mm.

Michael Bevan made 20 from 69 deliveries.

The bowling figures, the bowling figures, so I think it's f- Is it Phil Simmons? Phil Simmons comes on to bowl, Robbie, and he bowls three overs, two maidens, none for two.

The greats have such big confidence in their ability.

Michael Bevan was like that.

Yeah.

Bevan was like that.

There was a bat...

I, I've got Michael Bevan in my head.

I can't remember-

Oh

...

if it was Bevo.

But normally when you're...

Like, normally the openers go out, number three has e- all of their equipment on-

Yeah.

Who we throw in then? Um, Dhoni, um, Michael Bevan.

Yep.

We could just check this real quick on Google.

But yeah, I think it helps them.

Uh, Wasim Akram, um, and whereas your sort of more Desmond Haynes, Michael Bevan, Jeff Marsh, um, knock-it-around kind of players probably go back a little bit, right? Would be my guess.

Ellie says, "Scott Boland is 37.

He's played 19 tests and averaged 18 with the ball.

Like, I don't know.

There's some sort of like, Okay, Glenn Maxwell's a spinner, but, like, Glenn Maxwell, Michael Bevan vibes about him.

Like, that guy, if he was in a baggy green, he'd love the baggy green.

He wouldn't take it off.

Yeah.

The two greatest chasers, uh, that we had in the one-day ga- Can you hear me, Michael Bevan? I am Virat Kohli.

Um-

Well, Coney doesn't have an average 'cause he never got out in a winning run chase.

Will the chopper

...

Will Zultsman played the, the Michael Bevan role, 70 not out.

At the end with Jake Scott bashing a 50, and they got the ch- big chase done.

Steve Smith in the past, Michael Clark, those types of batters who sort of just control that innings.

Michael Bevan of a yesteryear as well, but who control that innings, score off a lot of balls, give the other batters at the other end strike, but they're able to manage different sets of conditions that they come across where at the moment, We've got a lot of boundary hitters in our batting order, and when those boundaries run dry or when there's a little bit of spin or hold, we seem to struggle a little bit.

It's a good

point you make.

But I think the linchpin in this side, you know, is not Bavuma or QDK or Rickleton or Miller, but it's Jansen because his presence gives them that balance.

So you remember James Faulkner who played for Australia? Michael Bevan at one stage.

And it's basically the role that they play in that lower middle order and what they can do with the ball, but also what they can do in the field.

They have all three areas covered.

Just call it the bloody Dean Jones Cup for Christ sakes.

And didn't Michael Bevan get the, the award that was gonna be given out as the player of the...

I don't know.

I probably should have researched this more, but, uh, that's not what I'm doing at the moment.