0:00

Well Peza, that is most definitely

0:02

India's day. They started about 150

0:04

runs behind England on the first

0:06

innings and

0:09

then they now need 152 to win the game. So

0:13

much talk about the last Test match of England

0:16

being in a great position at

0:18

2 for 220 chasing India's first innings

0:21

of 450 whatever and

0:23

then India just started playing

0:25

really really well. Now of

0:27

course we cannot give flowers

0:29

to India. It's actually all about

0:31

England but it felt like today

0:34

maybe the opposition just maybe played better

0:36

cricket today. Now I want to bring

0:39

that kind of tone and that kind

0:41

of energy into this show by

0:43

ripping into that team straight away. But what

0:46

do you think mate? I mean India

0:48

just played outstanding cricket today. Just good

0:51

stuff. Hot day. A hot day's Test

0:53

cricket. Like an Indian day's

0:55

play. What did we see? Stalking

0:58

and discombobulating the opposition who are in

1:01

a position of strength. Commanding

1:03

momentum. Utilising it. Harnessing

1:05

it. Mysterious pitch

1:08

stuff. It was asleep in the morning

1:10

and then the commentators are talking about

1:12

the devil arriving in the afternoon. Umpires,

1:15

DRS and truck stuff. The

1:18

Indians started to get their appeals going. Like

1:21

suddenly someone set them alight at

1:23

a party in a prank gone

1:25

wrong. You know,

1:27

Ashwin, Kool Deep, Jadaija,

1:29

wickets deluxe. Ro

1:31

hit hitting a million full tosses at the

1:34

end of the day for four and all

1:36

of a sudden India can touch and tickle

1:38

the balls of the series. They're

1:50

on the tank. Because

1:57

the power that brought you here is still in.

2:00

All you need is a little spark to

2:03

go like hell. And

2:10

at the same time Peza we also had Joel

2:12

Wilson saying, I think I saw a bit of

2:14

glove there as the ball rocketed into the glove

2:16

of Ollie Robinson on an overturned LBW appeal. So

2:20

you know what, in many ways the day has

2:22

had it all. There's something for everyone. Here's

2:25

the scores of the day. You know what, let's

2:27

start at the end of India's first innings. That

2:29

feels like it was several moons ago and that's

2:31

how I judge time via moons. Jirell

2:36

scored 90 today to get India

2:38

to 307 all that. He

2:40

was just fantastic and also good news for

2:42

India. He's just starting to get those appeals

2:45

going. You know, it's just starting to get

2:47

very, very Indian all of a sudden and

2:49

now I'm feeling some vibes. I said this

2:51

previously, I think he shapes up batting wise

2:53

like it reminds me of Coley. So

2:56

therefore he'll have a better career and more children than

2:58

Virat Coley of course. Shau

3:00

Beshir finishes with five for 119 at the

3:03

end of the first innings. An absolute day

3:05

after him. He was fantastic. Into

3:07

England's second innings and it's the innings

3:09

that are going to define the match.

3:12

Ashwin does wonders at the top there.

3:15

He gets stuck and he gets poked

3:17

the next ball. That wicket then meant

3:19

that he now overtakes Kumblay as the

3:21

leading wicket taker for Test in India.

3:24

That's that in a second. Root

3:26

trapped LBW. Beirsto chipped one

3:29

off Jirell DePattida the first ball

3:31

after T. Ben Stokes

3:34

gave rise to another steady, staring

3:36

contest with the pitch after

3:38

one kept low again from Kulldeep Yadav. Fokes

3:41

was the last chance for England to build

3:43

a total to get the chasing, the

3:46

four innings chase over 200 but he

3:48

was caught in bold. Then the next

3:50

ball, Anderson was caught behind for Ashwin's

3:52

five. That's what happened in the

3:54

third innings and then as we see in the

3:56

fourth innings, the game, Roed, Shama and Jirelles, 24

3:58

and 16. Red respectively, Joe Rood

4:01

up in the bowling, Hartley and Bishie got a

4:03

couple of overs or one over for Bishie at

4:05

the end there. That's what's happened in the day's

4:07

play. But Peza, let's talk about the first thing

4:09

here and it's Ashwin and Kooldeep. It was everything

4:13

that you want to experience and feel

4:15

as an opposition fan, I would

4:18

imagine, playing against India because it was

4:20

spin, it was tricks. I'm getting slow-mo's.

4:22

I'm seeing golden verbiage

4:27

on cricket balls that are spinning

4:29

in this crazy way that I'm

4:32

feeling hypnotised. I'm getting vertigo, it's

4:34

hypnosis, it's wrists, it's tricks, it's

4:36

release. Make of that what you

4:39

will, but it was sumptuous at

4:41

best. Yeah, man. The aesthetic was

4:43

exactly what India and non-England

4:46

fans, whomever they may be,

4:49

needed at that moment in time because

4:51

although India had fought back with the

4:53

bat manfully, whatever

4:56

the fuck that means, one

4:59

would still have England in front by

5:01

virtue of literally having more runs

5:03

than India and not having to

5:06

bat last. So really, it was

5:08

like comethy hour, cometh the spin

5:10

kings. I mean, for Ashwin Kooldeep

5:12

and Jadaisha, I wondered

5:18

whether they would have been extra

5:20

chastened by the fact that they

5:22

had in the first innings, I

5:24

think it's fair to say,

5:26

been out bowled by two

5:28

young inexperienced non-Indian spinners who

5:31

attacked the stumps, got more out

5:33

of the deck than the three experienced guys

5:35

had. So when we

5:37

got to the third innings and there is

5:39

Ashwin to take the first fucking ball of

5:41

the innings and you can see the SG

5:44

gold lettering on it. You're like, I hear

5:46

we fucking go. Now we're talking. Now the

5:48

big boys arrive and arrive they did. I

5:50

mean, Ashwin got the Tamasha going. It's two

5:52

for two for spit pretty early. He's on

5:54

a hat trick. All sorts of shit's going on. You

5:58

know, I'm looking at Ben Duckett. You

6:00

know trying to reverse sweep Ashwin

6:02

from outside Gedetra from outside the

6:04

left handers leg stump You

6:07

know in his self announced repertoire of ten sweeps

6:09

that must have been the 11th like

6:13

Respected that crawly quietly having a quite

6:16

quite an influential series. Yeah Good

6:18

60. Yeah, real good and then cool

6:20

deep mate like who really got into

6:22

his work into the afternoon like a

6:24

Ashwin Ashwin obviously finishes with five he

6:26

gets he gets the flowers and the

6:29

most wickets but called it for right and

6:31

like Corley gets into

6:34

a kind of a beast

6:36

mode from time to time We're

6:38

like that that wrist is like

6:40

violently cocked as he's coming in

6:43

and he's twirling the arms He's

6:45

leaping with purpose He's grunting like Nadal upon

6:47

release and he's thumping that front foot on

6:49

the deck like a quick He can hear

6:52

it through the stump mic and you can

6:54

you know Like you could almost hear the

6:56

ball fizzing through the air when he's letting

6:58

go of it And I do recall when

7:00

he took fire for at the SCJ a

7:02

couple of years ago how much it meant

7:05

to him that one Congratulated

7:07

him like it just just had the

7:09

the aggression of the wrist spinners release

7:12

Had a little bit of like a worn

7:15

energy to it to me this afternoon So

7:17

yeah, he I just thought he bow really well

7:19

and yet like the Indian team again You know

7:22

at their moment of need when they were just

7:24

on the canvas just on the ropes Their

7:26

old boys stood up for them just as

7:29

Rohit did in the last test at the

7:31

very last moment as well So clash on

7:33

through some weird shit happened at the end

7:35

where in England added like 25 runs in 20.5

7:40

overs for the loss of five wickets

7:42

after T Cool. I

7:45

use that. I don't know.

7:47

They just planted their strengths as basketball and Yeah,

7:50

like India 40 without loss after like

7:52

six overs. So I don't know Charlie

7:57

Give you you can just put up the other bowling card. For

8:00

the third innings the game England the second

8:02

innings were Ashwin finishes for fifty one cold

8:04

A for the twenty two In in that

8:06

moment it just felt like it was. Always

8:08

can attest that was there was a became

8:10

it events every ball kind of stuff which

8:12

is really what you want. Test Cricket survey

8:15

in India Like that's what you want, he

8:17

wants and conjecture You want blogs Fucking told

8:19

the hands up near you want bad as

8:21

staring at a deck. You want disbelief in

8:23

the eyes of confused bats men. dog. That's

8:25

that's what you really want. I want to

8:27

be able to try and read the gold

8:29

riding on. The cricket ball, the the violence,

8:31

the violence of the bull actually spin this

8:33

I why of Ashwin and called a banger

8:35

every spinner and a figure spin on but

8:37

the violence. he sort of understand from cold.

8:39

I thought I would love to sites the

8:42

meat of a one a psyches hand because

8:44

I feel like it's gonna be citing the

8:46

hands of Mcareavey if he bought a foam

8:48

finger at an American sorts of any be

8:50

second that it's it's gotta be a it's

8:52

gotta be take on your elbows. those digits

8:54

you know that had sites but Ashwin mocked

8:56

of violence but fingers spin and the and

8:58

the reason weakness of the cricket. Ball Is

9:00

this our main either as a neutral like

9:02

a lot more like A but I'm ain't

9:05

fuck. it's good to watch some A when

9:07

it happens to my time. I think it's

9:09

fucking bullshit. Personally speaking bots when it's a

9:11

good single lama are not. This is too

9:13

good to be true. Give me more rabid

9:15

you know remains. As I mentioned earlier he

9:18

when he picked up Pope first bowl lbw

9:20

we're going to get onto the second a

9:22

second spot to that meds he pass and

9:24

co by for the most to test wickets.

9:27

In India. Ah I'm sorry that some

9:29

stumps and that's incredibly proud same it

9:31

might make me by slightly. Under does

9:33

have been some family stuff in the

9:35

background of the missed part of such

9:37

as much but some I mean everything

9:39

that's already been said about the god

9:42

good or bad has already been said.

9:44

That the fuck a Nomad Water Bala

9:46

I'm sure we talk about the second

9:48

thing to diapers which is the tech

9:50

Now I'm obviously we know that bird

9:52

that the take has been making mistakes

9:54

consistently. We we know that to be

9:56

a fact according. to some people now

9:58

this this pigs mind for PES

10:00

and Michael Vaughan tweeted, interested to know why we

10:02

haven't seen many replays of the root dismissal. Surely

10:05

it's the main moment of the inning so far,

10:07

so we should be seeing it a lot more,

10:09

dot dot dot, asking for a friend dot dot

10:11

dot, hashtag India, England, just in

10:13

case people would need to context. Now he also got

10:16

in touch with BBC Sport via Live Text,

10:18

which BBC Sport then posted

10:21

this on their Instagram, and

10:23

Michael Vaughan said this, the root dismissal was

10:25

a shocker for the technology. Over half looked

10:27

to have pitched outside leg stump, but it

10:29

came up red. Now this is in relation to,

10:32

it was Ash from bowling around the wicket, Joe

10:34

Root sort of went to turn the ball square

10:36

to the leg side as a full ball. It

10:38

just pitched in line of leg stump, hit him

10:40

in leg and was also the third red. It

10:42

was originally given not out. Now I'm also gonna

10:45

get Charlie to put this image up on screen,

10:47

which is the image of the DRS ball where

10:49

the ball's pitched. And if you wanna

10:51

pause the video right now, you can zoom in and actually

10:53

see that just more than

10:55

half the ball had pitched

10:57

in line. So according to that image,

11:00

which we know has been doctored, we know

11:02

that's a lie, we

11:04

know it's Photoshop, but according to

11:06

that image, no one has made a mistake here.

11:08

But of course, once again, we know that the

11:10

BCCI is doing

11:12

some underhanded witchcraft here. But

11:15

I wanna talk about a peasant in the sense that

11:18

fuck me. If

11:21

I'm batting and like, I mean, obviously I

11:23

was never out, we know that as well,

11:25

like I was never out, and you're allowed

11:27

to be disappointed when you're out, but fucking

11:29

hell, man, like the whinging going on about

11:31

fucking umpires call and

11:34

like these miniscule moments, which go one

11:36

way sometimes, then they go the other

11:39

way. This is just what cricket has

11:41

always fucking been. And now we're trying

11:43

to get perfection. Even though we know

11:45

there is a built-in for technology is

11:47

that it is not perfect. And so

11:50

there is a margin of error. We know this.

11:53

It goes both ways, every single fucking test match,

11:55

and fucking hell, man, the whinging. But of

11:57

course, we're not talking about it. We're not talking

11:59

about it. So I don't am

12:01

I winding myself up? Am I winding

12:03

myself up Pezza? No, I

12:05

don't think so there's a verification

12:08

going on with this shit and

12:11

it's it is clear from to

12:15

me that England

12:17

have been aggrieved on several occasions

12:19

now so it's almost seems to

12:22

be a pattern of distrust around

12:24

umpire's calls that don't go their way

12:27

not every single umpire's call that goes away but

12:30

it does seem to be like a lot of body language

12:32

to that effect and there has

12:34

been words said to that effect as

12:37

well and it is pretty grim to

12:40

be continually raising it I

12:42

reckon and on this occasion I agree

12:45

with you we're

12:48

talking we're talking in the

12:50

realm of there and thereabouts you

12:52

know it was it was it was pretty

12:54

much there you know and

12:56

you just got to go with it now obviously

12:59

there's some truck stuff going on when

13:02

when the appeal goes up and the BTCI

13:04

has a line into the truck and things

13:06

and images adopted and that's a different issue

13:08

you know like yeah like fucking

13:11

hell truck stuff it's like the tennis you

13:14

know like how much of the ball is

13:16

hitting the ground a tennis ball is rubber

13:18

with felt a cricket ball is cork and

13:20

leather does it squeeze into the ground like

13:22

a tennis ball does it make a shadow

13:24

is it a matter of percentage is it

13:26

a matter of fact was it there and

13:28

thereabouts it's almost like sometimes you get luck

13:30

and sometimes you don't what does the hug

13:32

feel like what does it feel like to

13:34

have the tender touch of a woman if

13:39

you if you do know that's like please do let us know

13:41

in the comments yeah now I should

13:44

say at this point obviously we are Australians therefore we

13:46

support that team sometimes and we have guys in our

13:48

team historically and even currently that fucking carry on

13:50

and I've got to say on this channel we are

13:52

the fucking first people to call it out as

13:54

being rubbish so you know it's this doesn't feel like

13:57

a glass house a situation I just want to get

13:59

that off me but obviously he

14:01

who doth protest too much is like, whoa, okay mate,

14:03

just calm down. You're getting a little defensive there about

14:05

that. Yeah, rattled of course. Yeah. And of course, and

14:08

we're actually going on about something that no one's even

14:10

talking about. So what are you guys even doing? Free.

14:14

Yeah, all that kind of gear. Okay,

14:16

Pezza, we'll get into the third thing now,

14:18

and that is the India set sail. I

14:20

mentioned before that Rovach, Jhyswell, 24 red and

14:23

16 red respectively, going

14:26

along at a nice enough clip, and I'll be the cricket

14:28

police on that one, and I'll be the arbiter of

14:30

which clip is and isn't acceptable.

14:33

Eight overs, bold, 40 runs in the

14:36

ball. That's round about exactly five runs

14:38

an over. So

14:40

yeah, Joe Ritt buying four overs,

14:42

Hartley, three, Shobeshia, one. 152 runs

14:44

needed tomorrow. 192

14:48

is the official target for India to win the game and

14:50

the series. I get

14:52

the feeling though, man, like there is

14:54

going to be a moment. If I

14:56

was Ben Stokes and I like to think that I am sometimes,

14:59

I would be saying to them, there's going to be a moment

15:02

where we're in the game, you know, and it's just it feels

15:04

like it's going to be real hard to get to start your

15:06

innings. As despite some of these

15:08

Indian batters might be better suited to playing

15:10

the conditions than what the England guys were

15:12

today. But I get the feeling like

15:14

it's India's not going to win

15:16

the game by 10 wickets. There I said it. What

15:19

do you think? I'm going to say it's

15:21

a massive call. I

15:23

want to start like my

15:26

answer to that by going back to the start

15:28

of the day with a little moment that might

15:30

please some and not others because

15:32

I do think it has made a significant,

15:35

had had a significant impact on the amount

15:37

of runs that India is chasing. I

15:41

don't know if you caught this, but wouldn't

15:44

have been too long into the day. Jarell just

15:46

getting into his work, getting so good, Jarell, that

15:48

I kind of want to get around his first

15:50

name as well. Drove Jarell. Am I

15:52

getting that right? Feels good when you roll it off

15:54

the tongue. But

15:57

he slapped one straight to Ollie

15:59

Robinson. And the blood was

16:01

asleep and it just went through his hands and I

16:04

just want to say Obviously

16:06

that is that was

16:08

a red hot chance That

16:11

he was asleep for and

16:13

the TV director for

16:15

whoever's doing this series. I think

16:17

it's Gio Someone will correct

16:19

me Well,

16:22

they didn't miss me you're talking

16:24

about Straight shots of Robinson for

16:26

the next 15 minutes every time

16:28

Jarrell hit a boundary you're talking

16:30

about background shots of Robinson When

16:33

they're you know focusing on anybody else

16:35

you're talking about Jarrell walking off the field

16:38

Obviously bit this consulate for missing

16:40

out on his hundred but to

16:42

the global applause You

16:45

know both at the ground and around the

16:47

world and then the camera panning to Robinson

16:49

in the background as he walks off With

16:54

some of his old tweets on the bottom Given

16:59

that he He hasn't really

17:01

look he batted well in the first inning,

17:03

so he's contributed to the game no doubt

17:05

about it importantly, but the bowling

17:07

has um the

17:09

bowling even for Ollie Robinson standard

17:12

is is super under

17:14

I mean even um I'm

17:17

only paraphrasing Ali Martin, but Ali Martin quote

17:19

tweet is something from wisdom today. That was

17:23

Which was Ollie Robinson who doesn't work for wisdom? praising

17:26

Jasper it boomers Slowerball and

17:28

saying he's been learning to bowl to

17:30

bowl it himself and Ali wrote

17:33

yeah almost exclusively today Robinson

17:40

could prize the game open tomorrow

17:42

obviously but That was that was

17:44

huge and just the way that it went

17:46

through the hands It didn't look like it would

17:48

just had to it was too hot It looked

17:50

like a guy that wasn't just wasn't quite there

17:53

any as the commentators picked up high traffic zone

17:55

the next over He was straight out of there

17:57

and stokes was in there so like just and

17:59

and Rami Sathriq pointed out at that very moment,

18:01

and I'm probably getting ahead of myself here, but he

18:03

just said like, little

18:05

moments like that can make all the difference in the

18:07

result of a test match. You know, when Ravi says

18:09

that with the guttural voice. Oh. Anyway.

18:14

I think in terms of a production element, the only

18:16

thing that would have really rounded that off from an

18:18

Indian sense would be, I bring up like Barbara's arm

18:20

stats and show that he's out of form. Just any

18:22

sort of stats we sort of indicate that he's struggling

18:24

at the moment. Zimba bar,

18:26

of course. Yeah, you

18:29

know, like the thing with Ollie Robertson

18:31

is like, like

18:33

he does, he's doing it to himself

18:35

a bit, isn't he? Like, you know,

18:37

it's, he's allowed to do whatever he

18:39

wants with his hair, but he's

18:41

obviously bringing attention to himself, you know? Yeah,

18:45

I mean. But haircuts,

18:47

you know, phones. Well,

18:50

yeah, I mean, it's some commentary around that.

18:52

It's general attitude, it's vibe, you know, it's,

18:54

look, it's gonna be, as an Australian, it's

18:56

gonna be a long time living in the

18:58

memory of him buying off spin in sunglasses

19:00

in the second Ashes test match, you know?

19:02

And so I'm just

19:04

saying it's an output. It's an energy

19:06

being put out that is like, okay,

19:09

you were allowed to do whatever you want. It's

19:12

gonna draw some criticism if you're not fucking spot

19:14

on. So anyway,

19:16

look, he's probably okay, but

19:19

he makes it easy, doesn't he, sometimes? Should

19:22

we do hashtag AskBGC? Okay,

19:25

this was left in the comments

19:27

from Jarena Maraz. Definitely

19:31

got that wrong. And

19:34

he or she or they said, why

19:36

do they keep changing the definition of basketball

19:38

on us? Why does Joshua end up being

19:40

the only Indian top order batson with any

19:43

consistency in the series? Why does Sam

19:45

Perry have a thinner stubble all of

19:47

a sudden? Why is Ian Higgins wearing

19:49

an Ace Ventura shirt? When are we

19:51

seeing an Australian Ace Ventura remake starring

19:53

Ian Higgins? These are the questions going

19:55

through my mind. Hashtag AskTGC. Now the

19:57

comments section lit up with a reply.

20:00

for that one so please do get your comment

20:02

in and we'll read in your hashtag askcgc tomorrow

20:05

at the end of tomorrow's day's play,

20:07

tomorrow's day play. Now

20:10

that's it right either, fuck, wow, can't talk. So

20:14

there you go, Pez, what do you wanna pick up with

20:17

that? Why are all these things happening to that particular commenter?

20:23

Well, I don't know, for starters. They

20:26

do seem like

20:29

loosely connected at best. They seem

20:31

like just a stream of

20:33

consciousness. But

20:37

if we went one by one, why

20:39

do they keep changing the definition of

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bas-ball on us? Because it's a malleable

20:43

concept that suits the

20:47

interests of the

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powerful. You

20:52

know, that's just common political science.

20:55

Why does Josh will end up being the

20:57

only Indian top-order bat-storm with any consistency in

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the series? He's

21:06

playing quite well. Yeah, no one has

21:08

any fact story. Why

21:12

does Sam Ferry have a thinnest stubble all of

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a sudden? Now look, I don't know what the

21:16

comment said after that. Obviously that's the most important

21:18

question here. Can you help

21:20

me there? He goes like, what's the

21:23

thinnest stubbles? Because for me, I'm very

21:25

conscious, and I'm very

21:27

happy to talk about a thinning hairline,

21:29

which is what I wouldn't give for

21:32

it to be thin. It's just dead

21:34

follicles on my head, the

21:36

end of the follicle. But a

21:38

thinnest stubble, are we saying it's just been,

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please don't tell me the answer is I shaved

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it? No,

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no, no, no, no. I think once

21:49

again this is truck stuff, Pezzo. I think some stuff's

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happening in the truck at TGC. We

21:53

just got to... What's a thinnest stubble? Like my hair,

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the head's thick. I think, yeah,

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maybe you've just trimmed it. I mean, I think we

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need to go into the weeds, pardon the pun of this, but

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it's just, I mean, it's not that we did. I

22:06

think someone's been either smoking or drinking whilst consuming

22:08

this show, which by the way, we recommend whilst

22:11

consuming all of this dumb shit. But I mean,

22:13

this could just be a theme, just being lost

22:15

into your soul, perhaps, and just like looking deep

22:17

into those wonderful, those

22:20

wonderful pearls of wisdom behind the old eyes there.

22:23

And then get lost in the devil. The

22:25

big double question. Why is

22:28

Ian Higgins wearing an Ace Ventura

22:30

shirt? When are we seeing an

22:32

Australian Ace Ventura remake starring Ian

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Higgins? Yeah.

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Well, obviously offers are on the table

22:38

at the moment. I'm just sort of

22:40

sorting out a few things, but

22:43

I just always enjoy the category of why do you

22:45

look like that? I just enjoy the why do you

22:47

look like that generally. And then having the thought of

22:50

just like, well, I better punch that into the old

22:52

keyboard there, better lick the old fingertips and just go,

22:55

and that's how people live their life.

22:57

And so I enjoy that generally

22:59

speaking. Let us know in the comments why you

23:01

look like that. Are India gonna win this game

23:03

by 10 wiggets tomorrow? Have I made more mistakes

23:05

in this show or this test match than ever

23:08

before? I guess we're gonna find out. We'll see

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you guys on the internet tomorrow. Cheers.