Cricket: Jim Maxwell has been shaking his head at the Australia Cricket team

Well, Pat, obviously a disappointing result.

What's your fluent reaction to that?

Yeah, I think mainly disappointment.

We're nowhere near our best the last couple of days in particular.

Yeah, range forward match, but still couldn't hang in there for the very least a draw.

So yeah, pretty disappointing week.

But yeah, we'll dust ourselves off

and go again in a few days.

Clearly the headlines are going to be around the innings of 99 from the team, the first innings.

What's your reflection on that batting performance?

Yeah, you know, just got to find a way to get through some of those moments.

You know, it's kind of no one really built a partnership.

Obviously, some of the decisions making around the shots wasn't as good as we'd hoped.

I think we're probably better than that.

So, yeah, if we get the same situation again, you'd hope that you'd find a way through a couple of their class bowls, one or two spells, and then it gets a little bit easier after that.

The partnerships between Marco Jansen and Temba Bavuma and then also Bavuma and Simon Harmer was where the match seemingly got away from you guys.

Have you had a chance to reflect on how that happened?

I mean, first of all, I think they played really well.

There's some good players there.

So, yeah, I mean, we'll have a look back at it.

We tried to throw a fair few things at them, a few little chances just, you know, on another day they get taken or, you know, edge finds a bat or whatever it is.

But, yeah, they played well.

But, you know, still walking off, I thought it was a wicket where we could kind of bat big ourselves.

Phil Jakes pointed out that even though Scotty Boland took the five wickets, maybe that was a time in the match where he could have used the spinner, Nathan Lyon, with his guile against the South African tail and against Temba Bavuma.

Did you feel that in the moment or did you feel like the attack was right?