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00:00There's going to be fantastic
00:02Entertainment around the game. So it's going to be just a really wonderful festival and just encourage everyone as we saw with the border
00:09Gavis car jump online and show your support for these two exceptional teams
00:15So it's now my great pleasure to
00:19Introduce Ash Gardner. Thank you
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00:36Little bit like
00:42Yeah, definitely I don't think we go into any to a wanting to draw
00:48Certainly the way that we started through the test match winning the first t20
00:51we were in the box seat and then just got outplayed in the white ball series and certainly going forward with
00:58Spoken a lot about what we can do better
01:02Coming up against probably our fiercest rivals and a team that we have a lot of great competition against
01:08Certainly the white ball series is going to be a big focus for us
01:12But even just looking at that test match to finish. Hopefully the ashes is in a balancing spot by that point
01:18And then we can really fight it out to win that test match and then hopefully come away with the ashes
01:28It's probably just winning those small moments that sounds really cliche
01:32But I think teams that play in the white ball format really well
01:36They do the 1% is really right and I know how to get other out of those tough positions
01:41I know with the ball looking back in England. We probably didn't execute well enough, but we've certainly done a lot of talking
01:48We've yeah, I guess got some players that are playing different roles at the moment with the ball in hands
01:53But then I think with the bat as well
01:54It's making sure that we're taking the game on and we're not kind of worrying about the consequences
01:58And I think just looking back more recently at the ODIs that we've just played
02:03I certainly think we did that different people are stood up in different times and it's super exciting to say where this team can be
02:17Yeah heaps and
02:18Certainly the top four throughout probably the first series would have loved to have yes spent heaps of time out in the middle and then
02:26We got to see what Annabelle Sutherland so good at and I guess you're pulling us out of some tricky positions
02:31And even someone like Tylee McGrath who was batting in a different position
02:35Found herself having plenty of time in the middle and scoring some really important runs as well
02:41So I think from a batting point of view
02:43I guess our top eight want to spend as much time out in the middle as possible
02:47Certainly for I guess our top order
02:49They want to get us off to a really good start and then
02:51Plays like myself through the middle can kind of just play with a bit more freedom
02:58I think it's good. She's obviously playing in the GG's match
03:02To I guess prove her fitness and just to make sure that she's where she wants to be
03:07But yeah, she obviously showed through that New Zealand series
03:12What she's capable of what we've kind of missed the top of the order sometimes when she's not there
03:16She really just takes that power play on and
03:18Certainly from her leadership
03:20Perspective as well. She's she's such a
03:23Experienced head out on the field and in those tough moments. Yeah, she's certainly someone that steps up
03:28I
03:42Mean if she wants to keep throughout our series, no
03:45Yeah, she's she's kept her whole career
03:47So I don't see it necessarily being a risk
03:49But it's more so probably just peace of mind for her peace of mind for our medical staff that she can do it
03:55We obviously have seven games throughout the Ashes series and potentially keeping in the test match is going to be
04:01Literally the biggest test for her
04:02So hopefully she gets through the GG's match fine and then has some confidence coming into the Ashes series, which is so important for us
04:13Yeah, exactly right moons is someone that's a very good feeling not that she's by any means of feeling
04:19But yeah, we obviously know that if if midge isn't right
04:22We do have someone that's pretty good to step up behind the stumps
04:39That there's probably been more chat towards the t20 stuff, which we've obviously played a lot more recently
04:44I think ODI crickets one of the one of the formats that we do play really well
04:50And it's probably just finding where people's roles are and I guess the most suitable spot for them
04:55And we had a bit of a change around in our batting order obviously seeing bells you go up to five