• 4 months ago
Australia's Josh Hazelwood on qualifying for ICC T20 Cricket World Cup super 8's after thrashing Namibia. The Aussies bowled Namibia out for just 72, chasing down the target with 9 wickets and 86 balls to spare
Sir Viv Richards Stadium, Antigua, West Indies
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00:00be qualified for the next stage and you know how i guess yeah how will you kind
00:04of react to that from uh yeah it's definitely a better start than what we're used to in world
00:09cups um the last couple have been a bit slow starting and then we sort of got the ball rolling
00:13but uh it's nice to have a cue next game i guess and sort of not stuck any ready for super eights
00:19we've still got one game left but um yeah i guess we can we can ease off a little bit over the next
00:24few days and and freshen up when the super eights is quite taxing it looks like the the schedule
00:29with with flights and um and late games and early flights so um yeah we'll freshen up for that
00:36for that reason and also um the benefit of giving some of the other guys a game like
00:41would you expect against scotland that um a couple of the other squad players who haven't played yet
00:45might might get a game um yeah obviously it's up to the coaches and the captain but and the
00:52selectors but i think quite a few of us oh i haven't been playing so i'm still keen to to get
00:58out there and still um still work on a couple of things but i mean the guys have been playing ipl so
01:02potentially one or two of those might have a rest but um you know it hasn't been a grueling schedule
01:08um you know a game every three or four days isn't too tough in in t20 cricket so
01:14um yeah i think it'd be up to almost up to the individual i think in that regard
01:21judge i know it's just one over between the first and the second but just
01:25is it different bowling the first or i know you've done it in the past but just become so used to
01:29seeing uh stark do it uh it looked like it was hooping around as well in that first over uh
01:35it wasn't great at the uh where you jumped from from that end so it was it was quite a big hole
01:39there um which i found quite tough i was i was pretty much right out the middle of it so
01:44i found that tough and tough to get used to but um in terms of on the first over
01:49it's probably a little bit easier if anything um i think the batters most of the batters sort
01:53of have a couple of starters um and if you can get a single at the right time you get the new
01:57fresh goal strike again for a fresh start so i find you know from the second over through to the
02:02sixth is pretty tough bowling um the guys have had a look they've summed up the conditions
02:08and at least one of the batters is going pretty hard usually so
02:11i think statistically the first day was the least amount of runs usually
02:17and just like in a world cup and you've been part of a few world cups now
02:21how important is is a win like that like not just in terms of winning and qualifying but
02:26almost like sending a signal to all the other teams the ruthlessness that you showed today
02:30yeah i think you know in the back of your head turning up today that's how the day should go for
02:34us and um it's one thing thinking that it's another thing actually going out and and doing it
02:39um so i was up to us obviously to set the tone as the bowling group and to have them i think
02:44three for 16 four for five for 20 odd um really sort of set that tone and then obviously we got
02:50the freedom with the bat to chase the lowest score um as quickly as possible and help that
02:55net running rate again that we don't necessarily take into the super eights um we only have one
02:59more game but yeah it's a it's a it's good to get a win like that and just finally for me just the
03:05first test in this world cup of uh different conditions like barbados to antique and from
03:10this point on you doing that constantly like was that like important to kind of get used to as well
03:17yeah i think so um in terms of probably the wind that's always there so you gotta use that to
03:24advantage as best you can as a bowling group and i think it's just about adapting and probably
03:28communication are the two things we use we work on quite a bit as a as a bowling group and getting
03:34that information around pretty quickly of how the wickets reacting what's going to work best in these
03:38conditions um yeah and make sure everyone knows that and and it gets around and um we adapt so
03:45i found we did that very well against england's um and and tonight was a pretty good wicket for
03:50the quicks to be honest um new ball wicket but it it probably got better as the ball got a little
03:56bit older to bat on and then it spun quite a bit with for zamps so um yeah decent cricket wicket
04:02josh you touched on it before but um your net run rate's gonna be through the roof now i'm
04:06not sure what the exact number but it's probably the best in the in the competition
04:10it's not going to count for anything um just how kind of frustrating is that
04:14yeah it's a little bit um strange that it doesn't really it doesn't go through the tournament um
04:20this is probably the first t20 world cup i've played that's set up this way or first world
04:24cup in general that's set up this way so it's a little bit different and um yeah i think the work
04:30that you do in the in the round games and you know if you go through undefeated and have a good net
04:34run rate um doesn't really account for much once you're in the super eight so um yeah it's a strange
04:42one but um yeah that's how it is i think adam zampa was the first australian to 100 australian
04:49man to australian uh 100 t20 wickets thank you thank you um and then he said in his tv interview
04:56that he bowled a couple of pies to get a couple of wickets um do you kind of agree with that
05:01assessment or is there a bit more to it uh i think there's only one pilot i saw um no he's been
05:07fantastic for us um i think in the england game in particular he came on and bowled outstanding
05:12and then tonight um got rewards for his hard work um he's just crucial for us through the middle
05:19if we can set the tone and grab one or two early and get him through that through the middle order
05:23and lower order it's as we saw tonight he can really make some damage and um yeah 100 t20
05:29gets his outstanding first first mile to do it for australia so um yeah congrats and what about
05:34just um like i know tonight was a bit of an anomaly but um the way trav and dave are attacking
05:39the power play um have you seen a kind of opening pair as dangerous in your time playing t20s for
05:45australia uh i don't think so i mean dave's obviously been there from the start um played
05:52a lot of cricket with him but having trav there sort of they're obviously both left-handers but
05:56they their score runs different parts of the of the field and it you know the bowler has to adapt
06:01his line to to both of them so it's it's hard work for the bowl that's for sure um we saw trav
06:06through for the ipl just light it up um i think i think one opener has to do it um the game's so
06:13short that one opener just has to take upon himself and i think with us it can be either one um
06:19travis probably more likely but i think it's the either one that can really light it up in the
06:23first six and you definitely need that in in these conditions josh you said you came to keep playing
06:30and work on a few things it looks like you're going pretty well at the minute so what do you
06:33want to work on leading it to scotland uh i think just that rhythm just keep keep bowling i mean you
06:39can do it at training but i think in a game is it's so much better um getting that experience
06:44and again different wicket again so it's just about adapting but yeah just keeping that rhythm
06:49going i find i go better the more i play usually and um ball's coming out pretty well at the minute
06:54um but we'll probably get put on a little bit more pressure against scotland and that might
06:58be some death options that we're working on and um trying to nail down so a couple things
07:05um josh just back to net run rate but um england's obviously one of the better teams in the tournament
07:12um they are going to be relying on net run rate to get through to the next stage
07:17is it in australia's interest to uh if there's anything that can be done about it in the scotland
07:22game to make it as difficult as possible for england to progress yeah i think so um in this
07:29tournament you potentially come up against england at some stage again and as you said they're
07:32probably one of the top few teams um on their day or you know we've had some real struggles against
07:38them in t20 cricket so um if we can get them out of the tournament that's in our best interest as
07:42well as probably everyone else but um yeah it's it'll be interesting to see we've never really
07:47been in this position before as a as a team i don't think so whether we have discussions or not
07:52or we just try and play it again the way we did tonight um yeah that'll be up to people not me
07:58how do you think it how do you think it would look like um not too sure really whether you get close
08:05and you just knock it around and drag it out um there's a few options there but um as you said it
08:12to take confidence from winning and winning well i think that's almost more important than
08:16potentially trying to knock someone else out um they're still got a lot to do on their behalf as
08:21well so i think that i think it'll become clearer the closer we get to that sort of stuff and josh
08:28how are you um being a new father and being over here how have you sort of kept in contact at home
08:34and uh yeah how's that experience been yeah it's been different uh first tour i've been on since
08:39becoming a father obviously so um yeah it's tougher to leave home probably but you know
08:44with the time difference here it's quite tough to keep in keep in contact as well but um
08:49yeah luckily i guess it's not a huge tour it's not a national tour where it goes for three months so
08:54be back home before we know uh yeah uh just just just on adam's ample but uh coming to him like
09:00when you talk about test cricket uh you uh mitch and pat there's always talk of nathan lyon and
09:06the importance of his role like to complete that bowling attack do you think we need to talk more
09:12about adam zampa in the same same vein like i'm sure you guys do but in terms of whiteball cricket
09:17and what he brings to the attack to aid the three of you yeah we certainly do within the team for
09:23sure um we know his importance um we've seen it time and time again in whether it be one day
09:28cricket or t20 cricket often in big tournaments and in big games as well so um we know his
09:34importance um 100 t20 gets first one there played the most t20 for australia's bowler so he's
09:40ticking a lot of boxes and continues to and i think the big thing is he continues to improve
09:45all the time he's always working on something and nailing down his lengths or whatever it is so
09:50yeah he's a he's a key part of our team thank you

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