Shane Warne picks the best England XI from players he’s faced! | Vodcast Special

well welcome to the Sky Sports lockdown podcast I'm in Ward today I'm joined by Rob key and NASA the same as always but also we are joined by one of the all-time greats of the game and I don't say that lightly live from Melbourne where it is in the evening Shane Warne joins us how are you mate good I was just doing the right thing staying at home not socializing not doing anything like that lockdown normal no maybe even yes it's all pretty unsettling it's crazy time for everyone and everyone's affected and we just hope everyone stays health and safe and say all the workers that are doing such a great cause and the frontline in the hospitals and the doctors and the nurses that well don't in you go you guys are awesome so thank you but let's hope that all their loved ones that as I say it's how you eat up time how are your family they're all good yeah so they're obviously in that danger category so yeah making sure they're okay and food and all that sort of stuff so yeah tough time isn't it for everyone you're doing your bit though you're making some hand sanitizer now instead of gin yeah we cease production a while ago about gin company 7:08 and we're still not stopped you can still buy online woody shut down the distillery and started producing hand sanitizer my business partners Imogene they're doctors so they seen firsthand how bad it is and how suffers in the hospitals and so that we've decided cease production in the distillery and make nine sanitizers we're not it's all non-for-profit we're not making a cent and we're just supplying those two hospitals in Western Australia to help out where we can well with the practicalities of those you're helping hospitals in wo how quickly can you flip from making gin to hand sanitizer you have probably taken revert back but I think we're gonna be in lockdown mode for a while yeah are you keeping busy there what you been up to in you in your house it's a bit like sort of Disneyland in Melbourne in it for a single fella or whatever I live with my son my girls sleep with their mum and and no they come over and stay and everything as well and but at the moment they're with their mum and my sons with me so boy stuff with big fine particular downstairs we watching movies Dolf simulator practising dog he doesn't know why but then doing that yeah it's been good just been hanging it's been been quite nice actually so just hang for a while but I'm not sure I could do this for another 3 or 4 months now well you might have to buddy that's the problem the heavy one is facing no wonder you have been keeping busy we doing it's picking some teams from the ashes yes it's an Australian 11 that you play with you picked a combined ashes 11 but I would like to start if you don't mind with the England team that you play with because unfortunately and I cannot believe you did this to us you were saying in your England team please explain one earth you were thinking well that was interesting going through all the different players that you played against and and I try to think of who had the biggest impact on some of those series and obviously there's a few obvious ones but the reason I want the NASA and I'm not saying nasa's 200 Edgbaston was a fantastic innings and he had a couple of unbelievable innings as well and to set the tone of the first has much of an Ashes series to make 200 was really good and we had a good attack and as a great innings and he played a lot more so I thought he's toughness that he brought to the team and I thought just the ability to against good players then good balls to make that side over few others so unfortunately guys I know you don't like it but NASA makes it never quiet and I really don't want to do this but I've got to ask NASA what your memories are that innings the one where you nicked off third ball that's why you're in the side your donor [Laughter] then we won that one and then I pick Duke and stress them open I picked born at number three a big KP at number four NASA at five Alex Stuart at six - wicket key went off at seven I picked Ashley Giles at number eight I would have picked brain slob but I never played against Browns one so as soon as I had to choose from where such rot Giles did you ever feel so I always felt sorry for those spinners when they came up against you there Murali as well because that the two greatest spinners of all time and they used to get hammered because they couldn't do what you guys were doing I bet you would have felt sorry for there's a pretty tough time to be a spinner with you guys around wasn't it I think we were pretty lucky in the ear as we played like NASA and when he would apply it against lots of different spinners well come Blaine would start there's a lot of good ones from England you know Giles did a good job in the scenes he played but he did actually did his role pretty well but you know guys like Peter such Robert Croft who else was there Robert Peter such Giles stuff not math multiplied a couple of really good ones actually tupper's you know that was never easy for those guys I suppose but I thought I thought England spinners always did pretty well to be fair in the in the teams we fight against my thought was their quick sit probably didn't do as well and take early wickets so the spinners job is always a lot harder for the England spinners if you get quickies take early wickets it's a lot easier your spinners if the spinners have to come on when there's a big partnership and about to start and two guys around 30 or 40 and set which was most of the time a lot of the time at all but a lot of the time in that series I fighting very hard for spinner to do a good job there finish your team Shane so Giles an 8 then I had got at 9 Harmison at 10 and 11 I only played a couple of Test matches against Jimmy Anderson but I thought he's being such a great ball and one of the all-time greats that any had his skill they've not only quite a few games against my it was you couldn't not pick him because he's showed enough and what he's done you couldn't not pick him in there so Strauss born KP saying Stewart flintoff Giles got Armisen Anderson was my gong for Vaughan captain over her saying yeah I thought the way Michael Vaughn captain in 2005 was very very good thought he managed his ball as well yes he had a pretty good side to captain but I thought he did a very good job there I thought NASA started the turnaround for England I thought he brought a lot to the table thought about his toughness that he brought to the table and it was never easy because there's always a couple of other captains in the team for NASA but I thought he stamped his own authority on it pretty well so was either nasara for knee but I thought the way born he did it in 2005 got the nod for me why would you ask that question why do you think you got bloke who was captain historically lost the ashes in 11 to win the caches at that stage in 2005 for a long time why would you ask that question serious well I played under both of you and I obviously know the answer to that because Norma's an outstanding captain because parties were about you know you've got a tick a few boxes down here as a very good excellent both I said so basically what I don't know about NASA was one of my heroes growing up for his 200 Edgbaston all of that that he did and I thought this would be nice you know nowadays when they hand out the caps you have like you know a legend of the game comes to my mum and dad or anything and then after [Laughter] the day before the game [Laughter] I think Strauss I thought had a better technique and was harder to get out than just gothic buttress gothic was a little bit more dangerous and was a bit looser but I I felt every time I filed gothic I felt you get him out every ball where Strauss I thought yeah he's wicked a bit more so I so I thought and watching him from sleep against the quickies I thought he was a little bit more organized so there was no slight trust both it was I mean him and Strauss II together were fantastic but I think I just give Strauss the nod over Trez do CH to me was the best England player I played against I think KP you talked about he was probably one of the most destructive if not one of the most destructive in the world but day in day out all conditions against the bowling attacks I've picked round which is the best England batsmen but I bowled against I mean that first that's just series 93 that out in Australia 94 5 he he made three or four hundreds he was fantastic so yeah I thought he was here with once again he was just very very hard to get out so for me gucchi was the best england batsman I put on YouTube your first Test match and I can't believe people should look at this the difference of you then and then when you went and did the Gatting voyage wasn't that far apart the difference in a bowler between your first Test match and then when you started their ashes series against Gooch I mean you were like a completely different Bowl is that fair huh I'd only played two or three first class names all right I stand to be corrected it might have been full I I played I think to to Victorian I might have played to on an Australia aid sort of Zimbabwe I think so maybe four but I could be three so I really only started I went from in 1988 I'd finished playing football and I've got a let us say in your services are no longer required in football 89 I went to play lead cricket in England and I've got and I anyway I came back from there so 89 90 some in Australia I made the state squad in first grade cricket eighteen months later or 12 months later splain crest nice try yes under two years third grade first grade couple of shield gains picked Australia so I'd hardly played any club games let alone playing Australia so once I play test cricket I mean I didn't even know the team I'd introduce myself to Jeff Mars from Bruce Lee understanding maybe I'll copy next one Jeff Marsh don't get a Jeff Shane Warne yeah so I didn't know half the team onion Merv and Dino a couple of bits in Ellen water but the rest I didn't know so I was introducing myself never played no cricket I was that nervous I'm playing against Ben Sarkar Shastri Kapil Dev always Indian greats that just she matched Sachin I think was 10 or maybe 12 as we didn't so those said some pretty decent players and I had no idea what I was doing I don't know how to set a field let he know how to get a wicket I just bawled the ball rolling for a couple of hours I'll try one of them too scared to try ball of flipper so just super nervous and then I was at January 92 summer of 91 92 and then the next that next year was where it sort of started to get good for me I work my butt off evolved for three four hours a day well in the net yeah and the Nets just put a ball down and the nets and it's bold and bold involved then I went to the Academy with rod Marsh and Terry Geno and me and TJ gold for two or three hours a day just trying to understand how to get batsman out and talking about you don't just release a ball how to set of facts man up for a wicket what plans can you come up with two guys that are sweeping you or using your feet or play at the back foot front foot so learning the art of leg spin rather than just spinning your leg break as far as you can and over that year I was when I got plenty of weaknesses but one of my strengths I was quite a quick learner and I learned pretty quickly how to do that we then went to Sri Lanka in 92 got pummeled again but it was the second innings of that Test match they needed 11 to win Sri Lanka and Allen border threw me the ball after I think I had none for 100 in the first innings and nonetheless off one over from the second innings and I took three for none and we won the test and that that made me feel like I belonged but I was only like 9 10 11 like yeah that made me feel like I belong so suddenly I had this little bit of confidence that I've contributed I wasn't just a liability then the West Indies in Australia 92 93 and back I took seven 450 against the West Indies on Boxing Day and that was the day I thought you know what I'm playing against the West Indies all these guys hey Lara all those guys and that was the moment I thought if I Bowl like this iron would an upside that moment in anyone's life and anyone's 3 when you know that your best is good enough for that level and you're not trying to prove anything to anyone that you are that's when the magic happens and that's when anything can happen and that's when all of when you perform and then it's up to you about your attitude and there's a lot of other things that come into it but that when you know you're good enough that's when you can fly and that's when you can start again fake so by the time I got to England in 93 where I did pretty well against West Indies hammered the Kiwis come to England I was ready to go so I felt pretty good by the time I got there so the case of 18 months so my kids going to run out this is your life was just a little bit of confidence to have to experiment when you when you're not confident I didn't want to buy anything buy a leg break basically I was too scared whatever I follow wrong and it bounces twice or a flipper that's a full toss so once you have that confidence you a bit more prepared to experiment take a risk same with batting when you first get in you just don't want to get out you don't get out and then once you get to a stage you'd made a few runs and he got some runs on the board you made a hundred well you've made some contributions then you start to maybe slip out to the spinner you might take a risk the whacking or take on the quicks rather than just try to survive can anyone help you get into that sort of mindset that confidence you're talking about or does it have to come inherently from within Caston you have to do it you have to have to deliver no matter what anyone tells you it does not matter what anyone tells you you kidding I can tell you you're that good you don't have to prove anything to anyone I know my help but deep down at you you are the only one that can do it and if you did you do it whatever you mean if you make 50 years about 760 you feel like you're good enough and once you feel like you're good enough that's when your whole game can expand but it's down to you and you're the only one that can inspire yourself to people can say whatever they want but it's down to you and what you've got you know besides your heart and ticker the way you think your attitude and all the other things come with it until you do it on the big stage it doesn't matter what anyone says if we continue your this is your life theme coogee obviously feels that you weren't good enough to play for Australia when you kiss when you think you are your absolute best when were you even surprising yourself what period will you like shame I'm nailing this I think when I want those two parts of my career when I was injury free 92 Boxing Day 92 to 96 those four or five years there 90 to 93 and 94 throw ya those sort of five years in there and then when I finally came out of all of my injuries through sort of 98 to 2002 when i got shoulders after shoulder finger need i reck'n probably 2000 when i came back after being out for year 2003 so 2004 to 7 but I was probably second best and my best I was smarter Bowlin forced to 2004 7 but when I was at my absolute best was 92 to 96 no injury free no injuries to shoulders fingers knees or anything after that I was always battling an injury you're a struck near well and plan against you that you would never ever give up as well some players you play against you know you've got them is there every time we just before the after the start and you've found you're going where you thought I'm beat here this blokes just too good for me there's a few times I mean every single player has a day out you know and I don't think there was ever a stage where I ever thought stood at the top of my mark and feel like Tonka displayed out I always thought I was always a believer that you're only as good as your next fall you're only as good as the next game not the game you just went for you only as good as your last game I never believed that because the next ball your ball to be your best the next shot you play the next catch would be your best so no matter how much so I was getting spanked around by Shastri or City or NASA or whoever I always stood at the top of mark thinking okay I'll get him at this book and I never ever gave up and on that no good so there what about Carl who pretends telling the story about Carl Hooper when he kept running at you you couldn't quite work him out yeah sometimes when you know when Backson run down and hit you for six or four use their feet against you you get a sense of when they're coming or they go too early so you can adapt but the one day I the first time I really struggled for a period of time not just the ball or two was against Carl Hooper and I didn't know when he was coming down the the wicket so a bit like I was hesitating in my actions he coming is he coming not dropping it short and fall and I'll starting to irritate me because I couldn't work it out when we went to lunch after I know three or four hours of this happening you know and I was absolutely steaming I was like I don't know when these coming down like its effect that's annoying me so I'm having a chat with Bob Simpson and he said well he must be giving you some sort of message or must be sending giving a tell about when he's going to come down I said well I turn I can't see anything I've watched him he said what's closer I said I've watched his body I watched his feet of what she's back I've watched everything I can't I can't pick it up he goes what she's body he's gonna be nervous to run down here so watch just watch watch carefully I said I'll try so I did the old come out after lunch the ball and pretend to ball the ball and odd front put all that rubbish just watching car looper the whole time so another couple of omens go past the doing that not bowling the ball coming through Mackinac sorry and ahead he ran down and hit one and there was something but I didn't know what it was there was still there was something different about his body language and everything but I still didn't know what it was another couple oh it's that past same thing he runs down again and I picked it up what he did when he was going to bat normally and not run down he would bat like this look down bat look down bat and then play when he was going to run at me he took the back and stare at me the whole time and then he would run so over the course of maybe an hour or what it was in the game I worked it out that when he was going to run at me he just stared at me the whole time and when he wasn't he was when he was just don't play normally he looked out and looked up again so that was you know that was a really good learning curve for me then to do that sort of stuff and I posed another one he's got to tell almost you're looking for his tail yeah so I was watching him so you know it's easy just deliver a ball but if you're starting to worry about what the batsman is doing it can affect your ball and so you can't worry about what's the Batson's doing but if you can pick up on what batsman giving it tell to you about that sort of stuff the same way balls did I remember Greg Chappell Abdul Qadeer was there an Australian Australia picked I think six left-handers against him because the right-handers couldn't pick he's wrong and he's he'd show you one election by the other but Greg Chappell had no issue with it and it one said Greg what is it and he wouldn't tell him in the end he said what he does but is about the ball the wrong and that no one can pick and everyone struggles against he's got a huge smile on his face [Laughter] the ball is rolling it you can't pick so look there's all sorts of towels and they're important to pick up so just be clear when he when he picked up that tell with Hooper you know for a youngster out there if someone's running at you what did you do bollocks slower Bowl it wider what was the key whenever the key was the ball slower too many spinners out there these days think the faster I Bowl and the straighter I Bowl if a Miss I hit is the key that's actually easier for the batsman and it's harder for you because you've got no margin for error if you're a little bit short a little bit full it's a lot easier for the batsman to bash in wherever they want now with the reverse and all that sort of stuff that they do slow I'm making the batsman change the play and make the pace is the easier thing to do and you can't follow that slower one at the same line as you follow your normal stop delivery because the batsman will can line you up because he's used to where it's coming all the time so the key is when you bowl slower we must follow up wider because you know whether that's just the outside leg stump for a top edge sweep or whether it's outside off stump whichever way you can't bowl it in ease arc and where you've been bowling all your other deliveries - you got a box lower and wider change of pace make him make all the place that's the key that's can you explain to a groom what it was like to actually face Warnie in a Test match out in Australia or in England with everything that went with it what was NASA's tell as well I it was absolutely brilliant Rob I have to be honest I get asked often now you know wouldn't you like to be playing in the present era and some of the bowlers around and no way I can tell my kids my grandkids I played against Shane Warne the greatest I don't like begging him up on you I don't you have to think I'll show you more and actually I played against the greatest ever Bowl that has ever been because facts might tell you someone else but for me the greatest of the bowl that was showing mornings why you played as a young lad really so can you imagine after having watched the Gatting ball on TV hundreds of time you are then they're facing him in the middle of a test match you know blonde hair zinc honest flair you'd think he wasn't you and then you get up his end and he won't say anything you say morning Mass anything Shane's gonna be nice to me today [Laughter] get down there again and he go you do know I've got you out 14 times in testimony he was just unbelievable to play against the exact reason you played Test match cricket the whole package not just the deliveries and trying to claim but I like I say the hora you'd have played I mean beef he had an aura about Brian Lara had an aura about and Virat now as an or about Shane Warren on a crib Shane Warren in a dressing room or in the commentary box when he walks in has this aura about him when he's on screen etc so it was absolutely unbelievable thanks that's up can we just switch codes then because we talk about another stumping in a one day international in Australia when he bowled at NASA and the lead-up to that [Music] you know I wasn't 98 99 or something 97 something around 97 98 one-day series in Australia and Steve war was injured so Iowa's vice-captain so I got what is Captain and NASA was captain of England and we're playing this one day in Sydney big and even with cruising though I don't know the exact numbers I think we look this up last year I got my stats wrong my dad answer I think I've got just basically around 10 overs to go England needed about 50 or 60 to win with seven wickets in hand so I'd save myself in the graph for a couple of ohms in case we could get a wicket and then get us both on to try and take two or three wickets in a row and get us back in the game but it wasn't happening NASA was doing it easy I thought you know what the only way we're gonna win this game and so we take a wicket so I'm gonna bring McGraw myself back and I'll start sledging then I'll come on the other end so come on down and he wanted to hit me that was again last night I was watching there was mind games on the Charles and on it your mate Merv is on there and they're talking about Graham hey how you boys used to target you would have been in that series with just going at people what was that nervous one of those guys that probably the opposition respected but irritated him a lot and he was if you get to know him away from the game he's absolutely nothing like you think he he's soft is cry nice soppy movies big mustache six-foot-six and all that but he's a bloody Ripper movies such a great guy Hickey remember there was the 93 Ashes series and Hickey had been making all these runs playing County Creek and all that and suddenly was about to find his first national series and he hadn't I don't know anything playing a year or two maybe for England is that right yes I'm good against you in a warm-up game or something 200 200 yeah so he got 200 in our first one got 200 he'd made 13 sixes in that game and so before the first test match a beset us right move as soon as it comes in you've got an absolutely nailing knock his head off rip his head off sledge him to whatever you want to just give it to him so most it really okay wait so we so I remember Lords the second Test match was the one I don't think he must have got many in the first test but the second test at Lord's my goodness Merv ax ball beautifully ball fast Bob nasty and hick he got out a couple times hooking so suddenly the press started riding Brian Meeks struggling with a hook shot can't play the short ball and we're all reading so this bloke can play the short ball he can play this guy and suddenly he was out of the scene and now the next time he came up here I think he got picked back again he was blocking the ball like this he was not paying me but he was nowhere natural fluid self that Bank is the great player so just shows you the mind games at the top air if you worry about what other people are saying and don't trust yourself and try and be something you're not that won't work talking about mind games what about Daryl Cullen when did you know that you had just got to him completely the first test match we played against him he dropped four catches that slip sledge every single ozzie batsman and then when he batted he got out first ball after he'd just come from South after to make 300 highest 7th score for a Serbian cricketer so he thought the first test drop for catchers out first ball sledge w5e for we'd better just lay off this guy because he'd might be able to play a bit but after that we said now the next test was in Sydney and I be Ellen border was captain he said right when this Cullinan comes out and the wickets going to turn big right from ball one as soon as he comes out you're nailing and just give it to him as okay with pleasure so I seem up for a flipper and I dragged this leg break down a bit short and he went back and pulled it and started smiling and I said listen mate I'm gonna wipe that smile off your face you so-and-so and whatever and the next boy I fold this flipper and just hit him in the pad right in front of gone next inning is exactly the same thing just rip these off peg out and said why this plates gone and that was it so I knew then they couldn't pick a flipper so I knew I had him he got dropped you love this now so you got dropped then it's time we played him again there was a Boxing Day Test match in Australia and I wake up pick the paper up Herald Sun reading it's a double page spread on Darrell Cullinan and it says I've been playing the man not watching the ball I've had some sessions of addressing this and I've been seeing a psychologist and all this I've been having these sessions I feel like I'm ready to try and place this tryout I thought what did you say to him when he walked out to bat that after reading that article Casey no [Laughter] so what happened I got back around he was angry and I caught he got caught it slipped and Mark Taylor so no times was only a couple of meters away from the stumps so I would say what I'm sorry catch now Darrell had to walk from their change rooms at the MCG out into the middle now that walk the ground is 100 metres from one side of the ground said he's 120 meters through ninety thousand people so imagine the walk 20 metres down then onto the ground and walking out and we're all standing around the stumps because Adam backer got out 4x slip so I'm sort of standing around loitering with intent and I just waited on the crease and he came out put his head down and he put my head down I said can I go back the team's you pick to the Australian side the best 11 you play with you've gone with my team to the combine one onto that excuse me Shane Warne's bests 11 he played with you when Matthew Hayden Michael Slater Ricky Ponting at 3:00 mark war at 4:00 border at 5 and captain then stevewall Gilchrist the keeper tin may Jason Gillespie big Bruce reader you met on your debut and you make Glenn McGrath with Murph use as 12th man so let's go from the top why Hayden and Slater you can throw in Justin Langer in there you haven't got you make David Boone in there what's your thinking with a chop to Langer was very very good Matthew Elliott was another play on yes it was very very good I mean there wasn't for his knees he would have wouldn't made a lot of test runs David Boone was another fantastic player I just paid and I think was he bullied bowlers I think the way he played it was a fantastic batsman I think he was distracted again space and spin by the enemies career and I thought Michael Slater was ahead of his time I think he intimidated bowlers right from ball one he could I think Bowl was worried about him rather than there's a lot of batsmen that worry about bowls but I think a lot of bowlers worried about Michael Slater where am I going to bowl to him if I get it wrong he'll hurt me and I thought Hayden Slater was a fantastic combination left right and up so that's and I saw what he did slack's I thought he was a terrific player sweats so I thought that was that was why I went with Hayden Slater at the top oh just like Matthew Elliott I mean I thought it was a fantastic player you just mentioned it there but without the knee injuries he could have been anything was he one of the best players you've ever seen a fast bowling yeah I remember Johannes Easter's worked we used to go to the whacker the old whacker in the nineties in the early 90s and Joe aged or on a few quick parlors in Perth and he's the open the belly with a floppy hat on it he knew that both my daughter and he wanted him to ball sport and he I reckon one of the best shots I've ever seen was The Wanderers with Allan Donald steaming in bowling proper quick and Mary Elliot hitting it in front of square up on of that grass Bank Hill one of the change rooms this straight like flat just went smack I mean he was as good a player as two quickies and the short pitch bowling well I'd say short pitch bowling is I saw he was right up there another player played the short pitch bowling well you got at number three there wasn't really much debate who's going to bat three no no both rooms has each ruining your pointing the five-foot-two Tasmania with the flared pants they to Boone didn't quite make it the keg on legs that panel I meant planners world class and he will cast fire plant so yeah pretty minute number three at markquart for tamakwa nassif I'd lots of yeah boy I mean he was probably one of the best batsmen to watch I mean he was elegant he had all the shots he made it looks ridiculously easy but he'd play reverse sweet second ball when he's never practiced one here do silly stuff it had lacus lapses of concentration but that was the beauty of mark wall also he was one of the best players of spin and he was just a terrific player and a great team man - very very funny guy without trying to be funny one of my favorite figures I played with he was just a great player very very good player is it a true world whenever he was out it was never his fault even if he got bowled or something either or even if he got like a big hundred he blowing the bats or some Hawaii game or absolutely he made a honeymoon understanding 170 180 opened the batting at the MCG on big boundaries came in and said that's worth 250 of out of proper battle taking his back tomorrow I agree with everything Shane said there and a little bit pigeon-holed you know people have been not lazy but sort of gala resk i play with martha Loya six mark train matt mark practiced he might not practice the way some do but he was very very professional about his game some of the innings him and Gooch played for essex were truly remarkable in the days sites had to declare to set up a game we went through a phase at Essex but no one would declare against us not because of master husain at number five was because guten war would knock off any score that was set for us I just want to ask Shane a question actually because there's a poll going round at the moment on social media the best slipper there's been four maybe ever really smart war to win that surely when you when you say some of the catches he took I think the best all-round slits fields meant I'd say with mark oh yeah I think Mark Taylor was brilliant that first sleep you know we know he was a brilliant slipper but mark war made catches now he may catch as you dive in pull these catches and I remember one of us there was one off Alex Stewart I think it was at kiddingly in 93 or rifle yes almost burning it to the leg so yeah yeah yeah and he caught us from nearly behind him low to his right it was unbelievable catcher was told to you know been easy one of those ones not to be switched on in concentrating there's another one off me in some ml pocket Hobart it was a little bit short ball and he went back to cut it and he sort of back cut it and he took like one hand he's an unbelievable catch so yeah great i reviews the greatest full round field and not just that I saw he caught him almost behind in the NZ one didn't he yeah yeah I was unbelievable but he could run you out from the fence if you wanted to as well he had a good arm they used to what you used to watch the trajectory of the ball come down to me he wasn't watching the batsman he would follow the trajectory of your delivery yeah which was no one else has ever done it no one else that I played with or saw is ever done when he's the field it stealing it off I be at the top of my mark and I could see he watching me and he watched me right up until the ball I leave my hand you could see his head just start to turn around the batsman Casilla anticipate and I was very lucky to have so many wonderful guys around there Langer fat head Ricky Ponting yeah but was under a fat fat burnout short look booty it's short leg tubs that sleep at markquart back had took made some unbelievable catches there too and got a different technique that anyone else that I that I've seen on you know I don't know if you guys have seen it but I can't remember anyone watching the bowler Bowl right up until the ball come out of his hand and then stand there trying to anticipate and catch it was your table Asha's series looking at any slips in silly madoff at one stage and the best seat because one we're not Nick in them off and also cinema dots the most nonsense position in the history of the game ten yards away from the batsman is just smashing is everywhere I I have to be honest when I put you at silly mid off we had a Poliquin Steve Ward was struggling in that series before we got that hundred at Sydney we had that thing right we're going to give Steve War a hard time and half the team so I went very quiet I'm not saying seat warm because fair play to you you'd see war some stick from silly boy what did you say to stevewall well batted Steve you're great Steve Steve Germany cut all army was struggling the timer Melbourne when we must have had him out four times didn't appeal here we Nick T didn't appeal and then the last game to be fickle you were chained to Freddy I mean his experiment either he got his runs when the team was in trouble so when the team was in trouble it was easy for him to just say you're not getting me out I am NOT gonna get out and that was a lot I mean was a lot easy for him to get he's not outs and helpings every July so but he was still a very good player yes long when you go through all of when you go through you keep mentioning all these names from the earring you played in you and the best of them how on earth did you produce all of these players in one go the Hayden's the Lang is I mean an Australia or a good side now but I don't think there'll ever be a team as good as yours how on earth did all these players come together at one time Gilcrest you just keep naming McGraw well I think we had a very good system in a good culture where everyone wanted to play shield cricket at first fast we get to the detriment of some of the international players and I remember a few times we finish a test match on day five over and you'd fly out that night start a shield game if you lost the toss you'd be falling so a lot of the guys records might and be as Gooding shield cricket because that was one of the factor than you'd be tired or whatever else but everyone wanted to play and the reason for that is because a lot of guys then like the Lehman's the blewett's the hodge the Elliott the Stuart laws Jimmy Mars I mean if you go on and on and on about all the rest but then even guys like pickled ass poets and the bowlers Fleming rifle etc they're always playing against the best players they could I was sitting in dressing rooms sharing conversations with the best players yes you could have some talent too but if you're mixing with the best players all the time and you're coming up you know you bowl a bad boy I'm getting it punished or if you make a mistake you're going to get out there's a lot of intensity and pressure in those shield games so I thought our system and our first-class critic system produced really good cricketers so if you came in as a good pick it up and a decent blow with a bit of talent you'd soon sink or swim because you're up against some pretty good players all the time there was no respite there's no easy games and when we picked in Australia a sight I think one year in Australia which had Ricky Ponting Stuart Lord Darnley man all these dodgy selection around the final to make sure the main side won in 2003 and that Test match at the wacker were you cheated me out Martin come on just before tea just on the verge of tea and what he was betting on the stroke of tea and your tantrum as if you you you know the world had missed out on another great was so not the ground into oblivion from that tour it could have been one of eight people walking did you tweet the other day when Mark Taylor said on commentary Rob Kia's just smashed the leg spinner out of the attack the new tweet something like sorry for smashing the greatest bowl and has ever been we were playing against Australia not Sri Lanka world eleven the other day and you had Murali in it instead of showing you both in there I'm just crazy wait of the other day about your dismissal about something that no one cared anyway and said can you please reply to my tweet [Laughter] Rob key messaging bolus you got Tim may Y be going for the AA spinach in May got Gillespie Bruce read you I've got the stats in front of Bruce wouldn't have played that many times frustrated cause of injury woody and then I wanted just again that's right so I go Leslie McGraw I think they picked himself to less Phoenix best was very close to Megrahi was unbelievable dizzy McGraw fixed himself Tim made you know he was my favorite bowler to bowl with and in the mid early to mid-90s the 93 ashes to her he was unbelievable he even though his records probably not great the impact that he had on the series we played him and played him was amazing it was extraordinary how many times he took the big wicket when the team needed it so I I don't judge all of these players and I don't do my selection on numbers wickets runs all that stuff because it's not about runs and wickets it's about one you get your runs when you took your wickets how important today whether to the team so that's why I picked in May took big wickets is my favorite bowler to bowl with and he was a bloody good bowler too and the reason I didn't pick shoeing McGill is Magilla who would have played a lot more cricket if it wasn't for me so sorry Magilla but he always came in is the second spinner so he always played on surfaces that helped him where Tim may would have to buy on the gather on day one or ball Lord's on day one where it wasn't helping so he found a way so that's why I went fort in May Bruce Reid now people might talk about in modern terms that Ryan Harris about how good Ryan Harris was well Ryan Harris and Bruce Reid's record are identical really identical records same matches st. wickets same everything but Bruce Reed takes it a lower average 20 or something it was unreal and left arm so Gillespie McGraw Bruce Reid Tim May and then he got the wall brothers as well it's a pretty handy team I would have loved to have got moved in there but I just couldn't quite get in there didn't have enough sticky tape for Bruce Reid right so the combine let's go into your combined ashes 11 so I'll read it yeah good okay so guichen Hayden to open the batting with poncing at 3:00 mark war at 4:00 you got KP in there Alan boarded a cat and Gilchrist is the keeper flintoff may Gough McGraw it's a start at the top and so Gooch for Slater basically yeah I mean Gooch as I said before he was the best England batsman that I have a bold against I think it was the hardest batsman to get out and I just loved why he went about it I guess I just really like I think Duchin hey note the burnings pretty formidable you got four in there you got Gooch were falling them players Gooch Kevin Pietersen Andrew Flintoff and Darren goft remember that spell flintoff bowled at ponting was it Edgbaston yeah Langer and pointing out that one over didn't he yeah I was extraordinary very good I mean Freddie not many players have that ability to drag the team with you when things aren't going well or to inspire your team without saying stuff or just 5 of what you're doing and I thought Freddie had that capability especially no.5 I mean the way he founded and bold and that o-5 Ashes series was all the reasons why England won that even with a better side and they deserve them in that series but Freddie I thought in some big moments with the bat and the ball just delivered and I thought as I said I thought he has that ability to drag his team with him too so yeah Fred Fred definitely in the combined actions team that I played against makes it animate for me it was interesting when they Ricky did one of those Twitter polls Ricky Ponting now on Twitter did a Twitter poll of the first fast bowlers he's ever faced any put Andrew Flintoff in that category if you think of all the great fast bowlers that Ricky a face I just want to go on to 2005 sorry to get it away from this subject a bit show now proud were you that what you achieved in 2005 it's all well and good doing well when everyone's doing well in that Australian side but when the wheels were coming off I mean you'll know your stats with wickets and runs to stand up when some of your team were fading away that must have given you quite a bit of pride I always found I was lucky when when things were going really well for us I didn't really deliver my best but when we were struggling I always found I bought something out in me that allowed me to perform whether it was good bad or the ball I always felt like I really turned me on it switched you on to be in that contest right you can't get out or got to take a wicket now I'm like that that mojo like that feeling and having the ball in the hand the game's on the line you've got to be out of the limit come on let's do it this is your chance to help me team so I unfortunate because of England played so well I found myself in that position with the bat walking at six for 200 were chasing 400 or 650 or bowling after quick Sabine Hamid all over the park so as much as I didn't like it I enjoyed that situation and I was proud of myself when he said to deliver some of my best stuff but I was really disappointed that we lost so it wasn't all to waste because I gave I helped give us a chance to be in that series but I would have felt so much better to win that but I think to be fair we didn't deserve to win it England were the better side they just were a better team they had a son of the Hema right after that Lord's Test match I know the test is out the moment I don't if you've seen the test but if they'd had cameras in your Australian dressing room what would he have been like me you all together was the baggy green harmony still there and we're all in it together was there some cracks I did see a little bit the test I like to start in the ND and a bit sickening in some of it but I thought most of it was very very good and I thought just Lang has done a bloody good job at the Aussie so I thought he was tough on a field and I really loved some of the stuff he challenged there was one I saw back to wire and stuff like that a little bit too much of the very green fabric stuff that annoyed me a little Wimbledon bit too much of that you don't need to wear a baggy green cap or anything on there to enjoy mind-readers Australia syuri stuff little late mate for the players what they've done I thought they've turned around well you've got Tim Payne and just lenient go take a lot of credit for that I thought lanes very good to play my thoughts being a good spokesman role model for the incentive good job as Captain technically if you get a bit better but I think he's done pretty work done very well actually [Music] yeah but I think if the test was around then there would have been some very interesting stuff there's cameras following us around that's for sure it's been great thumb thank you so much for joining us so stay fit well I mean hopefully if this madness comes to an end we'll see you over at some point either working on the hundred or working with us is that the plans once the go is given that we can all travel and get back to some sort of normality yeah fingers crossed that the world gets back to normality and really runs healthy and safe and we can get on with living our lives and all that so my plan was that I think coming over in June to do all the test matches in June and then come back and do the hundred in July and finish off the season with you guys as well so hopefully that can still happen I'd love to be there at the London spirit and during the hundred I think that'd be great but who knows who knows what's the plans for the rest of the evening then and keep it clean it's a family show [Music] cleave you got golf simulator and keys he's got a dinner which he hangs over the fence yeah and all he keeps texting me all the time is I'm jealous I'm jealous warning are you worried in this time at all about advanced hair and I can help you anytime you like what about now so is he beyond it I can help that could be the next podcast thank you very much indeed stay safe warning cheers now Eugene thanks

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Published: Wed Apr 01 2020