Michael Hussey

And scary, and there was an element of, like, fear around Donald, which I have not felt even about- Yeah.

That '98 spell to Atherton and Hussey and both- नहीं, even that Durban- Same.

Even then, even before that, Durban.

That Sydney spell, Sy- नहीं, नहीं, Cape Town and- No, no, Durban in, uh, '97 against India.

Ek hi ba- ek hi bat...

Correct.

Mike Hussey.

And which...

It's like, hey, you guys suck and you're celebrating.

Yeah, it's a half volley outside, I don't know, Mike Hussey's off stump, isn't it? It's just right in my eating zone.

You like

cricket now, do you? What do you mean? Well, we'll talk about Cam Green if you want.

Like is Fleming will come in.

They wanted Mike Hussey.

That probably would've meant him going.

Then they didn't get Hussey, got KP doing the white ball stuff as a mentor.

I mean, who, who else would've been honorary mention? 'Cause th-

Mike Hussey? Is he all-time great?

No, no.

No, no, Mike Hussey doesn't count in this.

Surely.

Mike might be too good.

Uh, so you've had mentors.

So you had Mike Hussey when you won the T20 World Cup in Australia, batting mentor.

You had Kieron Pollard in the West Indies, and IPL, have you had sort of mentor? What-- Is it that aura that, uh, is it very much up to the player to go to the coach or the mentor and go, "What you thinking?" Or, or I imagine in that mentor role, it'd be quite hard to just come in and stamp authority on it, 'cause ultimately your head coach is the leader.

I think, I think, uh, whether the word mentor, coach, assistant, I don't think it really matters too much.

I, I've thought that was a really good line that he used.

And I think mentors are a bit like that.

Uh, I think they realize, you know, Mike Hussey just came in for the World Cup there to be- You know, a bit of a specialist about Australia, but great experience of T20 with Chennai, um, and playing all around the world.

Uh, and has just kind of delivered little bits of insight at different times, whether it was about the conditions, uh, whether it was about an opposition player, whether it was something he'd seen for a batter that may work, um, even as captain sort of different grounds what things work.

So hopefully it can go to another level.

Yep, and just sticking with signings, it has been reported in the News Corp papers that Australia, Cricket Australia is gonna sign Mike Hussey to be a batting consultant for Australia's setup.

This is to keep him from going and working for-

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