Pick Brook, Not Root
So, who should lead England's Test team
Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 44 min · 19 segments
Cameron, Ben and Cam Steel round up all the latest news from the world of cricket. There's the start of England's T20I series against India, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's debut, an impressive knock from…
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Cameron SteelGuestAnd it's interesting 'cause you say, you know, Australia always win, but they hadn't won one of these things for, for a little while by their standards.
You know, this is the first time they'd gone into a World Cup not as world champion in either format for, for a long time.
And then, and they end up, you know, putting out this whole campaign which is, you know, maybe their most dominant ever.
And, and even with, you know, there's been a bit of sort of debate over Sophie Molineux's place in the side.
I think she's answered those questions, uh, as, as captain and, you know, whether she fits in.
But also it feels like, like you can question certain things around, you know, how they're using their resources and if they almost have too many bowlers to know what to do with.
And it kind of doesn't matter because whoever they have to put out is just gonna be better than anything you can do.
Basically, and, and England almost like scrapping to not even really be competitive.
Essentially like, you know, when they get up to 150 you're like, right, a psychological blow.
They've managed to get something to bowl at and it turns out it's, it's really nothing to bowl at.
And, and Beth Mooney just added, you know, another, uh, to a ridiculous record in T20 World Cup, uh, knockout game.
She- she- whenever there's like an important game, she is just going to get you runs in some way or another.
She's not like a, a power player, and that's not what we sort of sought, but she's just gonna like do what needs to be done in a situation to [laughs], to ensure that Australia like don't lose basically.

I'm sure there's been a game in history where Beth Mooney hasn't scored runs.

Her, she has scores of 28, 78 not out, 54, 74 not out, 44, 61 not out, and 64, giving her an average of 100.75. Five 50s from seven innings.

Cam, I mean, she's a Victoria girl, but she's played a lot for the Perth Scorchers, kind of your part of the world.
And it's interesting 'cause you say, you know, Australia always win, but they hadn't won one of these things for, for a little while by their standards.
You know, this is the first time they'd gone into a World Cup not as world champion in either format for, for a long time.
And then, and they end up, you know, putting out this whole campaign which is, you know, maybe their most dominant ever.
And, and even with, you know, there's been a bit of sort of debate over Sophie Molineux's place in the side.
I think she's answered those questions, uh, as, as captain and, you know, whether she fits in.
But also it feels like, like you can question certain things around, you know, how they're using their resources and if they almost have too many bowlers to know what to do with.
And it kind of doesn't matter because whoever they have to put out is just gonna be better than anything you can do.
Basically, and, and England almost like scrapping to not even really be competitive.
Essentially like, you know, when they get up to 150 you're like, right, a psychological blow.
They've managed to get something to bowl at and it turns out it's, it's really nothing to bowl at.
And, and Beth Mooney just added, you know, another, uh, to a ridiculous record in T20 World Cup, uh, knockout game.
She- she- whenever there's like an important game, she is just going to get you runs in some way or another.
She's not like a, a power player, and that's not what we sort of sought, but she's just gonna like do what needs to be done in a situation to [laughs], to ensure that Australia like don't lose basically.

I'm sure there's been a game in history where Beth Mooney hasn't scored runs.

Her, she has scores of 28, 78 not out, 54, 74 not out, 44, 61 not out, and 64, giving her an average of 100.75. Five 50s from seven innings.

Cam, I mean, she's a Victoria girl, but she's played a lot for the Perth Scorchers, kind of your part of the world.
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