16 runs in 15 minutes since lunch they're going to be probing away trying to get this ball off the straight. Talk Curran's been told the old slow ball with these 2 resisted was reigned him self in 100 and that 118 balls on the screen for his 321660 Smith is 16 not 78 runs behind Bancroft ball by works of the inside edge and pad for 27. Was caught by passed off Anderson for a level 51165428 was 70 for 2 at lunches No 864250 minutes into the afternoon session at the m.c.g. In the green stuff right there they put the the Brian matting on and there are folding white Central cover as well in support of the far away don't seem to be perturbed by the rain come along but just as staying in their seats might just be there's a big crowd actually quite a long time to get out of the gravity of the rain is east off since they went off yes but it's a piece of keeps floating in the now it's heavy for a few seconds and then lied to us and so I'm stick my head out the window that's trouble. Thanks for not pushing me off would have understood had you felt the need to do so but I will reiterate that Jim brought cricket match cricket I did put it to bed just. About 4 months late but it still hurts you know we're a long. Beard It's a shame that the rains arrived in the bowling well they've really really have quite an deals he's down which is why exactly what they want to do when the bowler David Warner interesting earlier that if you heard. Over the effects Mike the balmy always greeting to isn't quite sure what the food the blue lights and. More that the moment Graeme it's 86 for 2 in. At the m.c.g. . But Khieu Samphan Yes the crowd not best pleased with their collages excellent catch it dismissed Stuart Broad yesterday appart. Replays inconclusive I think it would be fair to say as to whether he held on to the ball after diving in that map but anyway will revisit that in a few moments time raining here on the 4th day of the 4th Test match at the m.c.g. With Australia 86 for 2 slow going for water and for Smith some excellent pitched up bowling buying at the line excellent right now Australia struggling to keep the scoreboard ticking over good pressure hope they will get a resumption after the latest 5 Live news it's 2 minutes past 3. From your league football and you want to help us this is b.b.c. 5 Live I'm having a grand The b.b.c. 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So the covers are on hair at the well. But cricket ground of the spectators and headed to the back of the lower to stand for a little bit of shelter and all around this this cavernous arena there is quite a large concourse area at the back of the stats shelter for spectators here subs not something that used to at this time of year at the height of the Australian summer time but weather is famously unpredictable in Melbourne and at the moment rain is preventing play which is a shame because this is a very very pivotal session a feel in the Test match a straight 862 where the 2 best batsmen at the crease water and Smith butting and probing good line and length that's really resting restricting the run flow right now I just feel if England can eke out a couple of wickets here and there firmly in the control of a Test match maybe go on to record victory today but as that rain falls the likelihood of that I guess diminishes anyway will return you to the Test Match Special tape here on 5 Live and hopefully we'll have some action against soon in the meantime it's Graeme Swann and Simon Barrett conversation they've been a strange old summer here in Australia we've had a few many more cool days than the me expected was cool in Brisbane cold at times that late rain in Perth but this is the sort of weather we can expect at the m.c.g. Because. It was cliche goes 4 seasons in a day it's been. Crowded House so some of. The I mean the weather's been pretty good since we've been here deluge on the 1st evening but it's been sunny and hot but gradually the weather's deteriorated join this test match the forecast for tomorrow is not too bad good. But we might get a bit more rain today suggestion that will be called a lot of rain towards the end of the day $56.00 o'clock might be and then we might have a nearly finished it's soft noon showers are seen. The radon shower is a coming in from the west and clearly we're getting one of the moment and the big one Tom Poland is covering the page 86 or 2 what it does maybe cause in the Baltic a chance to to rest up in Australia's batsmen have to start again whenever the umpires decide place it from either the light side of beaming down it's not a cold day not by any means the rain is folding here at the m.c.g. Does it take you back 22010114 you talking it in the week as you bet the day before the game yes and you had Christmas Day was. One of those days where you have to spend if I'm late all the team and you actually just want to focus on the cricket because that the series was level one always right in the balance on like this one I was 3 nil has lost on it's 3 it was well 201-0118 was it was one hole you want to Adelaide heroic draw that Brisbane the 517 for one Test match great victory at Adelaide and then which will jumps and striking back in Perth match you in a good position at one stage in the game to 5070 odd for their wicket it looked like same old same old and not going to the right is the rain because the full little heavy in there and that bring yet more covers with a straight in $86.00 were to see you come here on Boxing Day yes socks and a morning and you look at the pitch and you think you're in the field do you think this is a 100 a light pitch you know when we turned up there was a definite bit of juice in the wicket it looked like a very good Australian wicket a white but it was either Karlsson has been a bit of rain is a bit of a missile in the air are desperately wanted to buy us so I always wanted to about as there was a ball last. That under Strauss I remember in the huddle. If I win the toss we'll be having a ball chess and he did win the toss and we polled they got off to a bit of a river when you 1st walk out with them c.j. Said the change you underneath in the car and you walk out in the pitch black and up a long ramp was about 50 metres long cramping it thaws one time you over the noise the envelop she was incredible it comes in waves is it the full story ground and each story to the way that the wall of noise hits you different time from a different angle it's all encompassing brilliant We went out in Australia after a fairly good start had a few falls and things but Jane Watson was dropped twice a very shot chances by I think Paul Collingwood and then Christian that going to pounce on his gloves and ballooned up. And was caught in the gully and then all of that we just rolled through Phil Hughes was playing that game he was called by Kevin Pietersen good shop catch and then it was Mike Hussey get out because we can never get Michael shows the absolute pain of our attack and Jimmy Nixon off I think your. First. Dive didn't quite carry thorough is that the house chance you need to but then g.b. Nicked him off a lot of us and we looked up and they just kept Nick in the ball Ricky Ponting in front of his face and the next I was the still the best catch up to in cricket I think. And Test cricket and then team president was looking muffin Japan's Munich off Christian it was just brilliant $98.00 all out just off to lunch I think it was a gold mine. And then we sort of change reams of it novus the bowlers pitched it what it did that for us it might do for the head but at the end of play we were $160.00 from the turn 57th and they were. And I'll never forget because all the 70 when you turn 87000 people start the day it was absent act. By the end it was just a small pockets a ball mill we suppose left David Lloyd. At the common Sheehan all kids fancy gestae here at the m.c.g. 75000 ounces of gold was empty seats. Just. Laugh it cried which I knew even this the thought of it and then Jimmy and Broady you had lain perfectly still no lucky positions to make a towel a pillow if you had out of the rolled up towel and put your. Cricket killed on the floor new lawn it watching the telly so wrote me look this is lucky we were moved here. And we stayed there are nearly all the next day Jonathan Trott got a big 100 I think in my pride and they've got a 100 feet as well as bring in Andrew so when he does try to put on. Before the last the 1st week in the 1st day or so they played a few shots got few runs just 15 for the 1st look at. The 37 for one of one stage Monty had allowed for 44 to end the son of over 26 to trim the 2 for 25 to prison. I think I even bought on my boat over on his 2 of us one night and none for one. My favorite day of Test cricket are both 2 overs and fielded for about 30. Places it was just remarkable that every ball they just didn't play miss every Will that when Didn't he just hit the edge and I think my progress I catch is that it was 6 catches lot of catches with. Prior also my 85 with the better right 161 and. I saw Chelsea through the difficult one forty's when I was going to prosecutes in the 1st set and talk to you you leave him to be used to it and you take Xavier Doherty with the bowler was and I'll take Mitchell Johnson in this and you know you worry about me make him a team player do you think that was the 1st I mean I think this is the most. Stats it was the most one sided. His best ever day is history Statistically 98 plays a 157 and I work it and you are and you would win the Ashes over taking the ashes then because the. Amount of time and just the way that we batted at Brisbane as well they just didn't do a lot they could bowl I was to cook or under Strauss and I knew that can bowl atrocity. That we can get loads we're going to win this game and then well that's a can't catches. And so be it and so it was. But it was a massive day because we just played Perth the week before and were all full truly off we want to Adelaide really well Adelaide going to Perth and Mitchell Johnson had got his swing right and he bowled fast he swung it and I think we may have responded in as they were absolutely hammered and then came here to Melbourne everything went well. And the press was all over their team the other really hammering them. And we just knew then that and the day to just an absolutely gorgeous day for us we sent a change for the bolus that you socks on. To play stupid cricket games and change what you do and did a few crosswords you did not press to help us. Just larking around and look up at the t.v. Every night everyone running out to clap the milestones every now and again but Jonathan Trott on the trip I mean to cook old applaud it's go c b I think from the right to. The Jonathan Trott was as equally as impressive for me in that series I loved having tried about 3. Loved about time never changes tempo very sort of narrow minded just runs round runs wonderful try to have as and 3 intuitive Why do you want from here we went in the dressing room they are because the press conference room is right next to them so we get inside. The media people as well when we go down and do the post day interviews and pre-match interview when you actually watch it could go down the ramp into the dressing room just. In front of that cabin a strange rooms because they're the a.f.l.-cio. Show and they're about 35 a solid Those are rules in games like last brawling. But that she just nets in the Big enough and the roof is hard to fit they can have a huge net so they can practice kicking the ball so these are truly can the changing of the changes I mean from the diamond to. 20 metres by 40 meets is each gesture if your had an equal amount of space at the top when you have to shout between each other but there is a viewing area and as we say there's at the main race that the Australian team go down. To our right. Above that stand you might see some small G.'s and that's a viewing area but even that's 50 yard walk from the Change where. I can sit at the back of the 1st set and it's no full view of the ground it's midwicket see comedy get a feel for the game or if it's a I remember to just watch on t.v. That I wouldn't even and then every now and again I'd wander around with a sign dentals signed up sound down we didn't we would love the sound on it while the game was going on because well because the nonsense that some of the t.v. Commentators is just speaking I know they do talk on t.v. And Titus do. The getting better the new breed a different. So would have but it was illustrating come true as well. As John and not him because rather here and as you've experienced the Australian called it fairly Australian centric. We want to hide. Myopic if you want to say it's bias lies Yes So on the flood side that wasn't really going to be healthy so we had that off but perhaps we should have put it on because they would get a Fifa live action from the media would be good for the So why did they go they go somewhere else that they. Just look for much juice and the good news is they've taken the big white Central cover all the rain to stop is a bit brighter here at the m.c.g. Vs just switched on the good of us 3 in the morning is woken up rain has stopped play and rain it's really just a light shower. Giving them a break and straight is not I pass in the break as well they have to work hard after lunch or 32 more tonight Smith's 6th. Straight 86 a 2 now 78 runs behind me going all out today for their overnight school with and snipes the 1st ball they called short legged Bancroft type a 27 ball by whites and kharaj are called Best of both hands and for them to Graeme Swann about as members of the 201-2011 England won here a crushing victory by an innings with Butterworth just going Andrew to remind us of the final scolding the other huge school in the 1st things that was 98 played from memory must be 5 to 60500 for 8 years to get 513 in a straight to 58 seconds into winning one innings of 157 runs or us a thump it isn't and the game finished on the 4th day yes the 4th day. And that was it you retain the Ashes in the ashes and we did that spring to dance in front of the Barmy Army. And we had. I think and I went to celebrate in the bargain only when they go overseas as you don't know they sort of before and they find a pub or a local story and they make it their headquarters for the week which is great news obviously for Jeff a lucky Po gets chosen because thirsty that well there's loads of them and they had a pub and I don't know where it was fairly near the city but it was brilliant this place. Is an old 0 zero's football player in this pub and he let the Barmy Army take over and Jimmy not pulled parts most of what on the ball. No old attainment if you take a. Look. Different places that don't get it's not like opera but you work out how you think. How does a team celebrate when you initially when you when you gauge the changes do you do you media interviews things I want you once you've done that once the once all that is out of the way. You sit down quietly reflect on what you've achieved or you start celebrating with a drink and then all that goes on it's the things are going to have a drink in a change even then there's normally someone who's done well in the game sort of had scored a 100 all or taken 5. And they'll be toasted to someone else would do it called a toast for them it's a few words for Carmen the 2nd after momentum in about 5 wickets did that's an old 5 so there would have been a test but whoever's man of the match I can imagine it may have been John control or Jimmy Johnson again to seek territory but whoever is man of the match would then some will be toast and it's normally someone who is either friendly with them and you know this was trumped up so it probably been Ian Bell would have through his war. So say you know come to take you've done so well we're all proud of you. And you will have a drink and that goes on for one year laughter from the callers and he seemed to sing the theme song he would like to tell us the words to that no not strict private thing being interested me I think that's how it should be glad it should be because it offend many people. What's the chewed on what's on you know if I can get away the song it's a part it's not a song about anything or anybody who played cricket against it's just to happen to be a song on the stereo when we were in the semifinal of the t 20 World Cup in 2010 so the team changed over the years no it just it became the team song Run thing is it is still being sung for a while as an. Adult I honestly don't know alive to ask my sister could I ask Ok c.b. Remembers he enjoyed singing the song but we all did ever want to get in and be put on the i Pod and we'd all sing along to rock Asli the loft and toast each other and then. You either stayed normally instead of the next 3 or 4 hours and you drink and then you bundle you dirty wash Utah you're not in the bottom of your trousers trousers you bundle you dirty washing from the week into it like it over your shoulder leave it to packed away by the Batman and then you're off to the hotel and only go and have a drink in the ball roll in your room or we went to the. Juice and almost missed it . There's right there's an older team celebration moving on into the thing not really the only ordered ones no real after series win at home maybe the ashes they'll put on a bit of an old a party for the families it's a. Couple of times back at the hotel at The Oval she's nice Tower Bridge. For us is my 1st that's for some of us will pop for us before 2009 when as I left the ground still in my whites actually. With Graham Onions. He came on he was 12th man in that much. Of cinema spikes and the cap on the joint angles I was you took the very last wicket. And we were snap to get into a taxi with it. It wasn't as intoxicated you some others found that much I did those pictures and. Tax and front page of a few of the red tops and. All in the good lights of England win the Ashes. We had a sprint I did get to have fun with it was my costume working alongside of them t.v. You know actually at the start of that city that summer. Is a good night my for my time in Northampton phoned me up to my I had a dream last night are not joking that I hate you for 4 through the covers to win the Ashes for a strike. Nonces my I'm going to get you caught short like to win the Ashes for England and I did. For those strange things that just came true I was to cook as he caught the ball I'm immediately stuffed in his pocket and I sort of do it in a foot good old cookie you know me save the ball as a memento for the bowlers toss my 1st Ashes when I took the wicket good luck I went to my off duty to have that moment it was absolutely not that we were at the mint one day thanks very much so I had to actually stole it from him from his bag when he was a kid and donated it to the m.c.c. And said it's in the museum under my name in case ever is actually worth a mint one day and the copyright you own it we both well actually stores a. I badge label restart at $230.00 by the way which is about 8 minutes time that's the news here at the m.c.g. With a straight $86.00 for 2 actually Badger didn't budge him for 4 months to bring this ball back and eventually caves in Iraq and found his mom said when you come to Lourdes Mara can you bring that bowl off noble and we can donate it to the museums one is forcing waste. And the ball that she brought trying to pass off as the ball cooks it not to be trusted but I still say it was one from the bottom of the bike shed you know the dog about this for 5 hours and I said no that sounds simply won't pass I was to you but of almost a year but the real one came back eventually How do you know it was the real one shot number of all of it I remember at the end I remember the state it was in how much of the writing was still on. You just not Ok. In the old museum. Can you donated by Graham spoken. To take the winning wick in the Ashes your best moment it was for me. Because then you know afterwards. The whole ground $25000.00 when you know it's a poser on their faith and they're all cheer. And they're all cheering and you walk around they put $150.00 foot St George's cross out on the outfield Allmusic like Rule Britannia Land Of Hope And Glory Jerusalem bringing out very patriotic is incredible I mean even the 4 or 5 South Africans in our team would love it they have a great arm as well. And we do love the. One thing that always so I wanted to get my hands on the real ashes. The real one that's a boyhood dream of mine to actually touch that I was trophy so when you're on the podium and I managed to wriggle myself next to Strauss seen as he lifted the scar looked up in reverence at this amazing trophy and it had a sticker on the bottom that said Lord show. I just I was completely. Well they would they would let the likes of you touch the real thing so I think I should think you know a couple of the referee bites and take me to put it in their pocket and try to keep it to myself you Coke a thought because to me you gave the bolt on the Ashes in 2000 and you could said Well I'll give you the whole I'll give you the ball but you just let me touch the. You know what happened I'll reach in and just attach it to. Yeah I don't think they ever actually get out here Maginnis like a book out of the far as the Vatican City you have to be had basically sailed probably yeah so its name just priceless isn't it yeah it's not like the crane jewels they have they probably think of some polish is that I think that the chief feature has got a special name the Polish polish is our job republish is the cricket board but they said he would let the the Modoc whether the crane jewels I think doesn't such occasions and she didn't you should have it on for her is wet in I'm sure she'll get the brooch out of this is beyond this is beyond my knowledge and I guess right you've got to get a gram of you thanks very much for sharing those them my place of previous Ashes series England victories Well here at the m.c.g. England are in with a chance of victory. But still a long way to go it's 86 but to Australia 78 runs behind all the has 32 Smith has 16 and the players have been all full rein for how long and with that I make about 25 minutes is that right that's right yes I'll be off an hour oftentimes not at all for not to close the play and we should lose and you know it's so we can go on until 6 tonight but in the weather behaves itself that's not necessarily going to be the case because we're told it is likely to be rain towards the end of the day's Bible study right now rain that's setting and setting and the down there by the by and you wrote just a few leasing up exercise I can see this wakes. Only a few deliveries that pull Collingwood out at the umpires are on their way he's going to resume with the floodlights. Still all here at the m.c.g. It is like to go the rains showers blow by with barely any rate a tall person or a real that we had a perv I'm on the last day but good news is by is about to resume 86 for 2 here is the school play not far away because of that will take an early news here on 5 Live and then pick up the action again here live in Melbourne it 3 27 in the morning has covered the ground. Premier League football and you want to help us this is b.b.c. 5 Live this could be the coldest nights of the year with forecasters saying temperatures might fall below minus 13 in parts of northern Scotland weather warnings are in place for much of the county for snow and ice at least 12 people have been killed in a fart in apartment building in the Bronx in New York with 15 others seriously hurt Meanwhile a blaze at an office and restaurant complex in Mumbai has left at least 15 dead and several others injured 2 men have been charged with terrified and says after an investigation involving Darbyshire in South Yorkshire Police 22 year old faras Salah from Sheffield and the semi star from Chesterfield he's 31 a few before magistrates later by video link police in London say a woman whose body was found in Finsbury Park died from a standpoint of the stomach and a head injury that saw 22 year old Julianna to toss may have been killed on Christmas Eve. Thank you very much Dave 5 Live We're live at the m.c.g. Here in Melbourne it's the 4th day of the 4th Test match and after a little bit of rain here it's time to resume in the middle of what is an intriguing battle between the England pace bowlers and the best 2 Australian batsmen can England get a breakthrough which could send them towards a famous victory here at the m.c.g. About to restart Let's head back to the Test match pressure commentary team which now is Geoffrey Boycott alongside Alison Mitchell and they're not going to get rooms quickly that's going to play on their mind was the one of his men getting round freely any time you want only Smith the other one likes to score quickly so that's a change of tempo change of temperament a change of thinking and England after just keep you know just keep keep trying and that might just sneak a couple of week it's you get 5 down by tonight 6 to 5 sitting pretty hard Jeffrey good morning everybody early in the u.k. As Karen is bowling 1st ball after the break and Smith is defending coming forward and and gaining fashion of his but he brings that back down straight into the offside so no run say 78 behind the strike the are 86 fitting and he's giving the figures in the Geoffrey with. The Australians on until I'm picking their combined England and Australia Ashes team forever ever right and is usually the Australians but most of us not just of the surprises Karen sets off now Smith the waits outside the off stuff comes for defending the offside beauties they are real beauties and I'll I know my history of the cricket I read. I said any team England Australia and you have to. Say all to Him out to Australia got 9 runs in a test run moon want to just look at his record and even if you were. 14 years of age a boy or girl doing facts and figures it's still good in under an upward Dulcie devolved people saw him on his record it's fantastic and gave Karen Smith again outside off stump and into the off side it's a hard to fit together the most of them don't even know is yes them all how many are I think of you know sort of Oh I think of Martha. Just going to people who saw it and then you know sort of hundreds and I'm going to have anybody out there in the below to listen to to to this could be she radio is huge big people really understand to get her but so if we just Hobbs I mean is record always better than hope that even Here is Karen and now it's a smith steps across and then he comes forward that down the middle of the pitch that straight path again I run say another maiden score means 18 and under I think is better than hope is even with reckon Hobbs is the best all round player on all. Sort of average over 60 in Test cricket was full of a full 1000 runs thing into going to an election is that knights. Now on 66 in ashes averaging Yeah 60 old I'm forget what he got to get into the don't mind I'm talking about 66 there so his play of his arrows at home and he can't compare is we have to say he was a hand out of his time I talked to people on Bilbo's and played with him Bryan sellers who played in Yorkshire Maurice Leyland coach me you know when I was 15 at the auction next morning to play for England many times came to Australia and in fact Bill O'Reilly Bradman rated the best bowler ever faced because he played stakes are huge. He talked to me when I 1st came she got money slaving still alive I said yes he's a coach. You see real grump was Bill was for the the bus money he should. Give anything away like Bolen it and Maurice left and modish teased him all the city said to me all day on the circuit court will toss me one no one but late into their even more know me smarty and just laughed his she did not get into. It one and only you were literally left a change of bowling it. Was just before the rain came he was yes his continuing from the great 7 stand and his 1st day for since that delay of the round about hof. With a start in just a couple of minutes ago I say Warner's taking his time head getting ready one slip in place at 3rd man cover extra cover made off made on and Midway Cato's waxes in now it's a war no one outside the off stump and I suppose he's looking for that dragon again perhaps if they can tempt about some into shot outside off but I've been very disciplined going back to the old players who we didn't see and most people I didn't just go along to ask the players who played with them the time they know best who was you know bowling out and playing with them they've got a better idea than anybody else. Some things you can't learn from stocks alone can know your current over the work it out playing at that one on off stump angling out towards cover picked up in Iran I mean the best astray. When I said Bonds was bowling claim Hill was in it because standard in the city I'm Hill when we go there and e's written and talked about Bonds was the best bowlers you know tells the swimmer in and could see off the pitch. Just listen to the best players our soul here is in again I also want to get full but deliver looking for that Yorker and want to drag it out a little off balance as he went he had to bring that back down so quickly he did dig it out by brought it made on and they ran. Yeah there's name night night you cheap footage of you know cricket is a very that's where you rely on verbal histories during your oral histories to remember a lot of the intricacies and the detail of these cricketers and the written word from the time as well they are denied the right and bottom and people played against them and talk and write it down works with floodlights on at the m.c.g. It's a Warner outside off of a defensive straight from want to coming forward reaching for the touch but playing solidly out to the offside mean when you asked people about pace fast bowlers I asked Richard Burr No by before me was the fastest bowler didn't have to think front toes. Well you go where's hall and all these you know Michael hold him and see them. And those. Simple Yeah. Works turns comes in with a towel flapping at the back of his trousers any case you want to fall outside off stump or his driving but well filled in the covers and it's another dot pull in and keep the squeeze on straining. At a run since the resumption of play I'm sure of a ball of must of felt faster when he didn't have any protective headgear on either . Well less people got hit though I also told people that. Tells me they watch the ball and they were careful about when the hook to pull over the selective matter of survival some cases outside the off stump and wanted to play that they got the face of the bat so it into the ground out extra coverup. Now the drop all of that together $21.00 runs they say take them a 100 bulls to get that $86.00 for 2 swatch a night they'll be 40 on memory $58.00 most of us if we get all the overs in you know with the bottle and the rain and so forth they're not going to be money ahead so from England's point of view just keep sneaking a few week it's not going anywhere quickly other and there's a long day tomorrow to go as well as wonder Andrew if David Warner does get up to a 50 hit what is his slowest test much 50 that he's managed 133 balls is. The knees and Dominique and he's already faced at the moment of time in $22.00 so if it gets it will be slowest. Smith is on 16 he works as current as and now he goes back. To extra cover and I run well I wonder Steve Smith we've seen him at the crease for a long period. Not bts doubts tend to block Block one how. David Warner can discipline is out how long he can maintain it for England keep the squeeze on. The defensive in his this series is always bringing controllers in the back to school or in. This month be different for him and guys current over the wicket now Smith outside off looked as if he might have intended to drive and just let it go 3. Colonies easy like Chris Ryall this series never does bring in England players as well as those see to be an old time moment for them but they've always been tight moments where they have been ahead though. If you think it through they've all it's actually been at this time the behind the very different the but when I'm gone if we get out we might lose this we're still a long way behind yet a long way to go to save a match that only current sets off runs away from us in our bowls and fill in straight into Smyth comes forward defense again and Iran. Tom Carne keeps bounding in with. Of use of youth and vigor just seen him send down a couple of his variations of balls out the back of the hand you've got confidence to do it like that 1st and you know young kids 1st and it's a Boxing Day Test huge crowd I like the fact that he had the confidence to even try to eat now and drop it reasonably well because running in high cloud up above the stadium now just a little bit short circuit goes back to Smith looks a bit annoyed with himself that tried to punch it away it didn't time it may be a bit surprised though that in the off side if you have seen any fast fast bowlers in county cricket genuine Some would pace the movement of his erotic it's not. Just people looking at George Garton Sussex youngster Jamie Overton Somerset's he's been one of the line rather Jamie is a bit quicker than his brother yet Little Mike in line to lend I don't I mean I say many of the young fast bowlers have already had stress fractures even the county game Smith that time again is like you waited for it that was a slow one from current into the offsides pushing at it outside the off stump. Tom Kearns actually spent a lot of time in mostly playing 1st sorry spent a lot of time with Jade Dernbach and I had a good chat with Tom the start of this county season and he referred to Jade as something of a mentor to him that wasn't at the back of the hand and we seen a lot of those back the one balls is very much at Jade Dernbach specialized in one day cricket with the white ball. Missing and deliberate Tom Curran the live in here at the red ball as Smith defends another one full of from current to end and never made and it's a real on the trot from England the score means 86 for to destroy your ass still 78 behind with Smith on 16 and Warner on 32 just to remind you what happened at the start of the day England began with a 1st innings lead 164 hours to cook with not how I overnighted on $244.00 and James Anderson was there with him they went back out there to Australia back out into the field hoping to try to add to their late and keep straight list out there for how long they were to manage but 1st ball of the day James Anderson was dismissed say England weren't able to add to their score it meant this trailer was straight back out to bat and camera Bancroft played on to Chris worked out for $27.00 both the Canon off the inside edge into thought i Pad think clattered into the top and middle stump as Mancow object is a little product side off ball is a nice line from James Anderson but out for 11 the catch behind taken by joining their stay here is works around the wickets Warner defending again into the off side in a run no script ensued for the According to New York City I was on. Earlier and I was so you. Got the week yet but he took him off to your route and people understood immediately it was unwilling longer wanted to go to week you know give you more and I always say well yes that's about right Bert. You should always go with a good reaction from the captain and sometimes it's just a feel it's an interesting there's nothing written down in any sort of book. To get now to. Cater and if it works at all it's good captains in there and I will come play doing some good ones until morning ones but the good ones just get a feeling the game and he took off we brought back his best bowler but a guy I don't think has a very good technique in going him out that's all that much is in it yeah that's what it's about wrecked it's about feeling it can't just read in a book Michael Holmes good works runs up past the Empire but also want to get full ball again searching for that you'll collect in another double fielded by Anderson on the on side and I run very well this morning works. Rewarded with that 1st wicket he's also not a grumpy character as he criss wakes he has taken the Vikings all stick of to levy and any variation makes it about set up a little issue with the big man Anderson come back in well there's not a lot you can do when they got to sit. You know people tell you about Richie Benaud didn't matter what you said to Richie thank you very much you always listen just know I have to work it out so Warner just I'm going to cross him through to the keeper No I didn't even understand what she did say thank you very much well but kept her over Ritchie's gone. He's not even listening thank you he's not even bothered it is made up his mind Richie off is gone tomorrow is ball is going to go away is a very good goalie feeling and you have to say hello and Davidson apparently was a bit of a hyper wonderful Boulder County enough and just one more and he walked off there's no discussion just want to go talk to the back of the shed now the good one from whites full and want to go to but down there didn't know what happened so and he spun around the ball had dropped dead into the turf and on his off side he was uncertain then Warner and he going to hold on it was a very good think one more thing to my get him out just kept it. On Mothers with children but Mome no books treat she just what I've spoken yes that isn't very quietly that was nasty it was never but it was just decided to run a tight ship again out wanted defending this one. Angling the ball into the offside that very good I have a friend Chris wakes. Warner playing and certainly in a fight in a very good off stump your cap and score mains 862212344 maiden since the resumption. That guy after the break will be you know I think it's very good captain tough do whatever way they do it have to be in charge and the players have to know that hang on he's making a decision and you can think what you want I've got only one money it's not a discussion it's not all 11 I should have a bald now he's the captain the size and if he's good at his job. Well his will follow following they just follow and that's the whole thing is why I say the point to go I actually said at the time. If he feels he's got to go with these feel current again see Smith There is one small blocking down to broad and on he picks up and I run what's one of the big tasks facing jail rates isn't it to build his own style of captaincy still stay relatively new to any Having taken the reins and yet are able to get on with the season we are going time Ali I know people say that and I don't want to be there's a big Young Talent supporters allow you much time out of you've got to quickly get a hold of the reins and make it yours do you think he's done that rates as Carney is and again could out towards points on a rolling stop Iran months will. See him doing it more and more so in innovative feels and yeah now whether he's got the players sometimes to Bucky do we now play is until this test much of it being. Being really very good of the times if we really want to be all nice and you know I can't make nice things out of tricky I can only tell everybody will see and I think the results of shown very good which doesn't help pick up the smith flexes his knees and whites as Campbell as I've look at him a little with outside of a very good one handed leaping stop at backward point step taken a single but it could easily been 42 strikes a family has dotted line. That could point he's getting a healthy chair but also a cheer because a running scored. And that's a straining support says a clapping full $87.00 foot say that's the 1st run in the 15 minutes since play restarted and. The 5th day versus the resumption as well but well fielded Milan Smith to 17 do you think 3 to a page so. Worrying about his batting has been very consistent with the bat he's scoring the 58 I think he's had scored 1516 of his last 18 that's when you just really. Sit here and everybody is really yeah it's the conversion right for Jerry wanted to make a big scores around the wickets the left hand off the hip or not but over the top of midweek it thanks for. So it's been a very dry period for Strayer and suddenly runs coming in 2 seconds of deliveries and a long awaited boundary only the 2nd since lunch this time off Warner's bat is in the air over the top they say think they're working together from 97 the devils in them 87 of the Australians 13 from 100 to do everything in reverse. 91 for 2 they go to for 90 and one search for you for them is the devils school because the Watergate style of play called The Wrong Way down here is that it's not . Like you can set softball is now on 36 spells again around the wicket more defense getting it high to the offside of I gave. You the clever this. Isn't a 14 and a half. Quite some weight was of Steve's misspells at that time but about the Mexican waves Jeffrey I think they they they alternate left and right and clockwise and clockwise and it's hard work because you're way too small when they get the ball to you so you know they know. The ropes going might be slow but the ground is still there intently paying attention to this battle as the 2 best Australian batsmen out there and Warner again defending one from current around the wicket on off stump and England continue to bowl tightly runs off that over yes but on the whole they're doing well and 91 for 2 still 73 behind Australia under one was lost Burnley was in the 13th and don't live in 32 so. A long time ago how many bowls now as he faced his 36 runs under 31. Was going to test his mindset and his mentality out there and innings of such contrast to how he started it on day one of this Test match at a time when Steve Smith won the toss that was a change up for a start and Australia having their choice of what to do hesitation at all to bat 1st on Boxing Day they just went off like an absolute train Cameron Bancroft was struggling at the other end but one or $103.00 of a $151.00 balls over the wicket now works driving and he's beaten short extra cover a half stop there which means you only get one Jimmy Anderson in that position. So 72 behind at 92 for 2 Smith and 18 a long way to go in for as a day enough to go. On time for them to bat. But equally. Hard for England surprise out of like it's hard to prise out these 2 stick at it and they are sticking at it it comes works in again out so Warner outside off stump he shakes the plane lets it go through to the gloves as best a back to his mark is going to the laundry out there getting to dark a shade of grey clouds moved over the m.c.g. Still dry though critically as one thing might last the talk of a 5 nil white Well yeah well Darren Lehmann I've gone very quickly actually admitted that last night didn't hey yeah after the close of play it was a him 5 nose gone how that hasn't Darren. Can only see a draw or an England when very much the case outside around the way can I want to put in the air just over the top of Jimmy Anderson leaping goalkeeper style at midwicket there running to your turn to make it 3 big chased across in the deep as a throw comes back in so strong the sun is handy as he's gathered that. He has in juice day falls short for more he's grinning down there but it came for the ball popped off the face he turned it to the on side and. Leaping Anderson. Over the top of the crossbar. Chances will come just keep. The not used to butting long periods defensively long periods Mike you know 180 is very different from long periods save in the game. Different mental attitude. Works in certain Smith bowling full Smith driving behind square running along the ground down towards the edge of the sliding stop Smith comes back for the 2nd there's a ripple of applause it's just become a little more frequent as these 2 are starting to write take the strike a little more. Difficult work out there. Pitch just doesn't really change hasn't 3 days of the much so far. I've been asking a few people round of explorers a lot of the preached this these droppings in Melbourne will be. Great for a good works in out Smith blocking coming forward in his head over the ball whites only saying that it could be a few that before he picks up yet David say care who is with the England camp and now with a straight camp and he's coached Victoria here as well so he's so familiar with the pitch at here and for the state side reverse swing is the is the way to go the old ball. Trying to get it to work not that I don't think those grateful to hear you want to turn the route it's going to. And defeat the seams with you need spin but these don't want to break up. And Nathan Lyon said to me no matter how many matches played at the m.c.g. Reckons he's turned 3 delivery he's not happy about it so yes it's not his favorite ground around Australia but a change in the field now for Steve Smith that brought in a question points here now and knowing is just a little bit further forward it could square a full driven 2 Anderson a short extra cover. Was the last ball of the over then from Wake's a didn't use a full shot from water in the eye over this little nip and tuck battle continues a stranger 67 behind then a 97 for 2 with water on 39 and Smith there on 20 the flood lights are on at the m.c.g. . And the crowd or the latest numbers I think are still 2020 odd 1000 in even though it's very sparsely populated particularly in the upper reaches haven any you consider the previous few days we were 68083. Still is still a crowd that would sell out an English test grabs and you know I don't want to pay for the tickets for a lot more than anybody in the world huge amount Yeah exactly sure what the a lot of people here are where where in the member section not with these dark green seats the m.c.c. Members but different category of tickets depending how high up in the in the stand . Tops back row top deck very high up we paid a little bit less money for it I want a free ticket to the current is running in bowling to warm up around the wickets the left hand again a mourner is up on his toes to that one just slightly back of the length and sends it back down into the pitch reasonably comfortably and current that picks up in his folly 3. Yeah it's not quite as. Comparing this to the Adelaide Oval you both have got quite steep very upper reaches of the bull ring in Johannesburg is another one which is the Colosseum like isn't it I think that you always feel as if you're falling over the action from very high almost looking so lately down as though Jo'burg no side no over midwicket yes to a. Particular from where the media center is in our commentary boxes even feel as if you're looking down onto a toy soldiers at Dives you've got all the bones of the ball which angle over the wicket now to Warner and he's defending again on off stump the way that Karen is switching his angle from around to over he's trying something different and he's then just testing the batsman makes men think. A little differently about how to approach each angle of delivery. Just to move the sights 3 quarters of the just above the sides to Trent Bridge. Still to be in the ground and everything. Current running into Warner defending into the offside picked up by Richie comes skipping enthusiastically at mid-off and gives the ball a furious rub on the back of his trousers and a nicely will search how to do them not. Just some of them will go in terms of a robbery to shoot to robberies that would be you with a 0 multi who he had any other factors rabbits and 2 robbery. Ones a blue a lovely. But it was a bigger robbery to send some of these gone and your book says We did ask you the name of your rabbit once and I'm telling you I don't know how to work it always tried to pull that kind of thing into the body of the ricocheting into the ground towards gully back of the hand at a slower changes mind you look at the block disease mainly Yeah and then he saw all this slower and gave. Rise to these be careful because he does go for that whole we have seen him get out to that sort of short job hold the fall that got James Anderson that wrote about this flood learning from Jade Dernbach slow ball roll back in the hand was the learn an offspring as well wasn't to learn the split finger like the baseball players to put it between the split of the finger and say mom comes over the pace but it comes out slower without you your wrist when you turn your wrist so like split turn yours off go to you can see that there's a bottom and I guess again full on off stump to want to depend defends it's a bit of rain in the air Jeffrey just to mention sprinkling is coming down again it's going out there at the moment of pause not looking too concerned but is a light drizzle and it's for steadily to breath for good I get on with it in Yorkshire Well there's a bit of a wind in my play 3 it really seems a bit large already actually since then the micro offer to me comes and goes order faces up to around the wickets on the length of it is nice and high defends it down to mid often Jerry sick and. Well Karen is trying all sorts of different tricks out that Warner is on 39 Smith on 20 and Australia 67 behind stray at 97 foot see if I had a rabbit is on when I was young Jeffrey Yeah yeah not telling his name either. At Smith is coming your way and I go along with will find out if you had a rabbit to. Give you a light year or 2. And you know it's me it's going down the alley you really were talking about robberies and yeah. Well after our it we had a rabbit the 1st time you were everybody is a rabbit when they're young to go there under frisky. And sell after year of one. Works in Smith pushes 2 extra cover and gets a run. 98 for 2 listeners would have been frustrated at having to wait another ball before finding out the neighbors had the substance pet rabbit never had a rabbit of very under very heavy pressure to get my daughter on the absolute joy stick you know to rub the lovely a bloody rabbit we use anyone's bunny rabbit Jeffrey we did have both ever have the wooden or us Bowl who did you least who you think was the best cellist again I'm not telling you well he's not going to have another crack at you now Jeffy girl you know I was listening to No no no opposition captain listening in the there's no more game to cricket Jeffery calm. And I'm Warner pushes open face at the back goes out to the point 2 singles. I'm not going to let them out of the Such faction under either a going that there were quite difficult. You could limit it to deadbolts he found difficult and then they. Might meet him and if you. Don't tell him or down there defending it's not that it was I'm going to help things a sure thing jeopardized I think it would help your cause if you cut your chickens before they you know you know what it's like you don't celebrate hundreds before you get there I can't I just policy don't you know going to give us the name of the poem so I'm going to leave it to Michael I'm not telling you what I want only this later I want.