No doubt that, that there'll be some seeds of doubt within those 36, 37-year-olds' minds now that-

that-Yeah, I've had that layoff, you know, of, of coming back from an injury, whatever it might be, and I think that's just the, the human reaction.

So that will sow a seed of doubt, but, uh, time will tell whether, whether they're gone.

They, they have put a lot of trust in these guys, and they've played some very, very good cricket against some, some good cricket teams, um, i- i- in their careers.

So, um, yeah, i- i- it's one game.

Yeah, but, uh, the, the...

in five days time we'll, we'll tell us, we'll tell us, you know, another story, I guess.

Uh, we've been, we've been bowling and, uh, training, uh, so, so hard for, you know, especially fast bowlers, they're very much, uh, uh, intent with their bowling and in the practice with the new ball and, you know, try to be on spot every time when they're, you know, doing their jobs, so you know, that's affecting the game as well, and we're very happy now.

I'm sure part of the plan wasn't still to be bowling almost half an hour after lunch.

No.

And again, it wasn't down to the, the, the lack of trying from the bowlers.

You know, maybe the fielding, uh, was certainly played a role in, in Australia not being able to wrap it up.

The, the, the drop catches, the drop catches yesterday on top of that, you know, you...

I think it was five in the end in total throughout the innings.

But what we saw today was, was an, uh, was a rattled Australian team, which is certainly not what we predicted, uh, coming into this test match.

No, that's right.

Well, Bangladesh showed there's still plenty of, plenty of, uh, plenty of room for old-fashioned Test cricket in 2026.

I absolutely loved it.

You know, rotating strike.

The tactics, uh, particularly of Mushfiqur.

Like, I just loved him manipulating the field against Lyon.

This is stuff we don't see, you know, at, at, at the moment in the, in the current format of, of Test cricket.

We, we see a spinner come on, and they try and get batted out of the attack, not manipulated out of the attack.

But, um, I'm giving it a big tick.

Yeah.

They just didn't look...

We were waiting for a, a counter punch or a, you know, a drop at the feet and run a single to relieve the pressure.

It just, it just didn't come.

So I don't know if that was just sort of trying to ease his way into it and then sort of release, but, and then before you know it, he was out.

And then Green, you know, he probably wasn't around long enough, 13 balls.

You know, he hit a six off his nose, which was a great shot, and you just thought of maybe, maybe this is the day, you know, that's what he needed.

And what did you make of that assessment from, uh, from Ed Cowan?

W- where do you think we're going with spin bowling in this country?

Well, yeah.

And like, like you mentioned, I've been doing a bit of the Shield streaming, um, down here in Hobart and it ...

Like, to be honest, you, you hardly see any spin bowling.

Um, you, you rarely see it.

You see, uh, international spinners playing in the game but they rarely bowl.

You know, Matt Kundiman has, has barely bowled for Tasmania this year.

Are there any other maybe younger spinners who have caught your eye, um, across this season?

And that was all she wrote.

Yeah, well, I think everyone's been talking about and leading into that match and since has been focusing on the batting and whether Steve Smith should have played or whether Cameron Green should be there on Maxwell's form.

A lot of the talking points have been around the batting.

I think we've undersold the fact that our bowling lineup is not what it used to be and not what we expected it to be six weeks ago coming into this World Cup.

We lost Stark.

We knew that a while ago.

They tried to find someone to replace him.

a lot to

What is it about tournament play that, you know, no matter how good the build-up can be, what is it that leads to these points and things can go off course?

Well, so I played in two tournaments.

One was in Sri Lanka, 2012, a T20 tournament, one of the early T20 World Cup models where we dominated all the way through.

We beat every team in front of us, South Africa, Pakistan, England.

The West Indies and didn't look like losing.

We had one foot in the final and then we faced the West Indies in the semi-final and Gale and Pollard just go completely nuts and hit us for 220.

I say us.

So what are the differences in particular between the Sri Lankan games and the Indian games? Well, I don't have a

They've got to get a settled combination, don't they?

They do.

They do.

And I think from the outset they were maybe just thinking of one spot.

And, you know, if that was going to be Marnus or Constance or Wetherald, there were a few others maybe a little further back.

You know, there's probably only one spot up for grabs, but the way that Marnus Labuschagne's come out, he's demanded, not just demanded a spot at the top, I think he gets to pick his preferred spot.

I think he scored four hundreds in five knocks for Queensland.

But how much is Cummins missed in a leadership role and in terms of, you know, the glue, I suppose, for the bowling line-up?