Sophie Molineux

Um, and sometimes, like, especially on our wickets where it's a bit bouncier and stuff, like, you can actually hang back and play off the back foot a bit.

So just adjusting to that, 'cause, like, spinners, like, in our team, so Ash Gardner, Sophie Molineux, Georgia Wareham, Elissa King, like, they're all quite quick spinners and, like, quite flat through the air.

So it's really different.

Um, so trying to adjust to that is, like, always a bit of a challenge.

So-

Sophie Molineux.

Sophie Molineux, that's what I was thinking of.

So Molineux and Gardner, if they didn't have them, Alana King would be playing every game.

Thing is, right now, Australia have that luxury of enough spin ac- uh, spin stuff from their all-rounder, so they don't.

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Sophie Molineux, Elise Perry, Travis Head, um, standing behind Todd Greenberg, visual staging style, Barack Obama community, you know, support behind him.

Um, but they're also part of the ACA, who don't have an agreement with Cricket Australia in relation to privatization.

Uh, so, uh, this obviously comes down to bunts, how much they get-

They knew, they knew their plans.

I mean, they pulled back games from nowhere with ball in hand, and I think in order to do that, you've got to be together, and especially together under a new captain in, in Sophie Molineux.

I always thought their batting, certainly when Jemimah Rodrigues, uh, pulled out, wasn't strong enough.

100%.

But again, is it just pure greed here? Because part of what Cricket Australia's been saying about this privatization stuff is that it's gonna put more money in the pockets of the players, and yet they're saying that the actual sale of this, these franchises, that money won't go to the players, or they can't go through the MOU and the 27.5%.

So which one is it? Uh, is the money going to the players, or is the money not going to the players? And we saw the sight there at the press conference yesterday of our wonderful Todd Greenberg and Mike Baird just out the front there, but with our two Australian captains, Pat Cummins and Sophie Molineux, along with Ellyse Perry and Travis Head, standing behind them dutifully looking as though they thought this was a great idea.

Do they think it's a great idea? Pat Cummins seems to think that yes, he thinks it is, but he was very vague on that.

Uh, and of course, the Australian Cricketers' Association, which of course he's a part of, even though he's not on the board, uh, they obviously think differently from that.

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Travis Head, Elyse Perry, and Sophie Molineux

Yeah, that was the up yours-

Uh, they had been-

Yeah, I wouldn't mind asking him about it a bit later on, and Head, and Elyse Perry-

Hmm

... and Sophie Molineux.

Um, I think they, they did speak to the ACA, and I think that their, uh, answers to my questions are like, "What the hell are you doing here?"

Well, the, the strong word this morning, Gerard, is that Cricket Australia was gonna wheel out, um, some of the game's biggest names to help make this announcement.

Now, I haven't been able to confirm what these names are, but my mind initially went to Travis Head or Sophie Molineux or Pat Cummins, uh, maybe Ellyse Perry, to in a way try to divide the playing group.

Because the best players do want privatization.

They are st- They will make more money with privatization.