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There's nothing bigger than the Ashes.

I try and emphasise this.

You can play all around the world, but the

history of the England-Australia is special.

Lose this game, the Ashes are over.

Yeah, Hayes went into the attack.

Well, the atmosphere at the ground is fantastic.

You can hear them cheering.

Everyone's on the edge of their seats.

Time is ticking away.

The lights are on.

It's getting a little darker.

They've

got to review it, obviously.

They've got to review.

They've got to review.

Come on.

Tell me something.

Play a review for LBW.

Original decision is out.

Come on.

Please be out.

Come on.

It's got to be out, doesn't it?

Please be in here.

Here we go.

New screen.

It's got to be out.

May 3, 2018.

And Justin Langer is moments away from being announced as the new coach of the

Australian cricket team, a team in repair following a ball tampering scandal that

led to the worst cricket crisis in Australia's history.

Over the following 18 months, a film crew closely follows the Australian men's

cricket team, witnessing the highs and lows of the long road back.

We're going to build a team, right?

We're going to build a team out of you blokes.

We're going to keep learning every game we've played.

You're away from home.

Things are uncomfortable.

We've lost.

If I'm being honest, I feel shit ass right now.

We can't be flat.

And we can't be not aggressive.

What do you reckon about the team?

I don't reckon we're really 100% set on our batting line-up yet.

That's just the truth.

We're seated as an Australian team that's prepared to

roll up their sleeves, have a crack in any situation.

That's going to be the way we're going to win our fans back.

With unrestricted access, we accompany the team to the United Kingdom.

To restore Australia's reputation.

I think we all are.

Just make the next delivery the most important thing of your life.

Because at that point, nothing else matters.

The subcontinent.

We don't get fit to tick boxes.

We get fit for these moments.

Good heading.

And into a test series against powerhouse India.

Now I just want to remind everyone.

There's no room for abuse.

But there's banter.

But you stick up for your mates.

This is what playing for your country's about boys.

If we honestly, in your respect, think in your gut, he's in our best six, you're in.

We can't lose this test match.

Through the World Cup of Cricket.

For me, mateship is when you cross that line, you're playing for each other.

You are the best cricket team in the tournament.

If you keep holding back and being fearful of

things, it's just going to get harder and harder.

Let's go boys.

Have a good day.

And into cricket's greatest rivalry.

The fight against India.

For one of sport's oldest and most revered trophies.

The Ashes.

It's not every day playing testing awards mate.

Oh no.

What's the story, lads?

Let's not look for soft options or excuses.

We can do better.

Keep knowing that the process we've got in

place to beat these blokes is going to work.

This is a story of hope.

Who's going to break first?

Is it going to be us or is it going to be them?

Faith.

We've done it before.

Anything is possible.

And belief.

You guys, the way you play, it's infectious.

The long and difficult journey of trying to revive and rebuild the pride of Australia.

Australian cricket, it's sort of in my DNA.

I was born into Australian cricket.

I've been watching this as a little kid.

I've been lucky to play for Australia.

And then to see what happened in South Africa, like most Australians,

my heart nearly, it was like a physical reaction.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

So this is the umpires having a chat to Cameron Bancroft.

I think they're asking him about what he had in his pocket.

As soon as you saw it, you realised, oh my God, this is a moment.

The Australian cricket team cheated.

Australian cricket in crisis as the ball tampering scandal sends shockwaves.

Through the world of sport.

We're now to a story that is rocking the world of cricket.

The captain and vice captain of the Australian

team stepping down amid a cheating scandal.

It is exactly as it appears.

A day of cricket infamy for our country not experienced since the underarm.

I think, you know, I just can't believe it.

As an Australian, I'm disgusted by it.

There was a national sense of betrayal, which I've never really experienced before.

And it goes to the Australian cricket team is us.

How can our team be engaged in treating like this?

It, it beggars belief.

The ball tampering must be regarded as the equal of any scandal in Australian sport.

All three players who've been reported will leave South Africa tomorrow.

What did you say to your teammates when you left?

Kids!

Kids!

Kids!

A picture of Steve Smith, who a few months before

had been almost touted as the new Sir Donald Bradman.

He'd just won the Ashes.

He's a great young bloke.

And they were frog marching him out of the country like he was a criminal.

That killed, that was, mate, that killed me.

I didn't like that.

I am extremely disappointed and regret my actions.

After viewing Steve and Cameron's hurting, it's only fair that I make this decision.

It's the right time to step away.

I want to apologise to my family.

The impact of the sandpaper incident in Cape Town was incredible.

They got massive penalties from their own board.

Twelve months, you lost a captain, a vice captain, an opening batsman.

They're all suspended.

A coach resigned.

It wasn't about damage to a ball, it was about damage to a brand.

To see the great distress that caused Australians and a great distress that

caused really good people in the Australian cricket team.

And then when Darren resigned, I knew it became real.

I thought, this is an amazing project as well.

You know, one thing about human beings, I think it's about projects.

Life's about projects.

Make Australians proud of the Australian cricket team.

Morning everyone, thanks for joining us.

As you know, this morning we've announced Justin Langer as

the new head coach of the Australian men's cricket team.

Justin, congratulations.

What would you like to change about Australian cricket?

I think one of the things that's really important

is that we keep looking to earn respect.

It's not just about how we play our cricket, it's also

about being good citizens and being good Australians.

Let's not underestimate how proud we should be of Australian cricket history.

Not many countries have that luxury and we should draw on that and the lessons and

the great history we've got in Australian cricket.

Our big news, as we mentioned at the top of the program, Justin Langer has been

announced coach of the Australian men's cricket team.

It's really funny because I walked outside after the press

conference and they asked me to take a few photos in the alleyway.

And it was one of those magic moments in your life where

I was sort of, I can't believe this is happening to me.

I'm still pinching myself.

It's like when you get your baggy green cap for the first time.

That's the dream, you know, it's all happy.

And then 24 hours later you're facing the West

Indies and getting smacked all around the place.

That's the reality.

Coming home from South Africa was, it was difficult.

Given the captaincy was a huge shock and the circumstances

to get it as well were really, really difficult.

It wasn't great to see the team being sort of dragged through the mud and some of

your teammates and good mates having a really difficult time.

I made a decision to just try and do the best I can to be myself.

I shouldn't change sort of the way I am and the way I go about things.

I've been playing at university since I was 12.

Dad was a wicketkeeper.

Dad's dad, so my granddad and dad were both wicketkeepers.

So I think that's where I got that from.

Well, he was the vice-president last time I checked, my dad, John.

I actually played a game down here on Saturday and he was in behind the bar.

So he's one of those blokes, you can't get rid of him.

I think my mum just sends him here to get him out of the house.

Becoming Australian captain was never something that I even dreamed of.

Even when I was playing for Australia, I never thought about captaining Australia.

Knowing these blokes here would have brought me gear.

What's going on?

Righto, one ball will get you out like I always do.

Whilst people like to say it's the most important job outside of the Prime

Minister and whatnot, at the end of the day, I'm captaining a cricket team.

I have to sort of lead by example.

I have to change bowlers.

I have to set fields.

And I try and keep it that simple.

Oh, shot, mate.

And outside of the cricket thing, I try and be myself as much as I can.

I sent a WhatsApp message to all the boys last night because

one of the questions I asked them, was basically, are you in?

Because there's only one Australian cricket team.

There's only 11 blokes who can get picked.

They want to buy into the values and buy into the behaviours we're expecting.

That's what I'm interested in.

And after the WhatsApp, within about, I don't know, 10 minutes, I reckon I had

20 messages going, I'm in.

Thumbs up, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in.

I remember getting it, sitting in the hotel, and

I thought, well, so I'm the new captain, I'm in.

I'm certainly in because I was pumped and I

was loving the direction he wanted to take it.

We sat down at the centre of Exeter.

We went through excellence and went through all of the expectations on us.

It wasn't a lot about cricket and how we're going to play.

It was about how we behave.

And it was sort of centred around us becoming Australia's heroes again.

Day one, right?

There's no better practice than centre wicket practice.

We can spend all the time in the nets.

We're going to walk in.

The guys are going to England.

We're going to walk into the cauldron.

I'm telling you, they've played three months of cricket already.

A lot of us have played none.

A few of the boys have played IPL.

Every single opportunity we get out here,

to be ready, then we've got to be ready, OK?

They're the number one team in the world at the moment.

They've played a lot of cricket.

Oh, that's gorgeous bowling.

Lovely, mate.

Beautiful hop.

Bowling's doing.

Brilliant, mate.

His first chat to the group up in Brisbane was a very strong one.

The guys left that meeting going, right, this is going to be a good challenge.

It's going to be good fun.

It's going to be hard work.

We're going to train hard.

We'll play hard.

But there was no doubt where we stood and what the expectations were.

If anyone was going to take over a job, he's

the right man to actually come in at that stage.

I think, you know, he's a strong character.

Hey, guys.

Hey, guys.

Hey, guys.

Hey, Crash.

How you going, mate?

Hey.

Justin, how are you?

Nice to see you.

Justin, how are you, mate?

How you going?

There was a story in today's paper about...

One thing I'm learning about being an Australian

coach is everyone's got an opinion, mate.

And if we're trying to appease all the masses, it's never going to happen.

So my job is to put together a team of men, a team of cricketers, who can be

successful on and off the cricket field and get on

well, because you're on the road a lot together.

So this is another opportunity to start building

that team that's going to be successful.

I remember leaving the Brisbane camp and we're

heading over to England for the one-day series.

It wasn't the best start, actually, to my captaincy.

Because I got to the airport.

We were about to fly out.

I think it was about midnight.

And Frankie Demasi, our security manager, said, Now, can everyone just check that

you've got your passports before we get on the bus, blah, blah, blah.

I said, Yep.

I've got the passport, Frankie.

We're all good to go.

I get to the airport.

I'm about to check in.

Get my passport out to give it to the girl behind the counter at Qantas.

And I've got my 12-month-old daughter's passport.

So it wasn't the greatest start.

We flew into London and took off as a group to the Western Front, which I think

a lot of the guys weren't quite sure what to expect.

We're going to Lille in France, better known as the Western Front.

We had around a quarter of a million soldiers

over there and we lost about 46,000 of them.

It was a big deal for our country.

It changed our country.

You talk about history.

You talk about humility.

And you talk about big picture.

Mate, it was an unbelievable experience.

I think it was perfect timing when you did have a new coach and a lot of change and

we could go as a group and spend some time together and also learn a bit about our

country and what guys our age have been through and realise how fortunate we are.

Where you're stood now, you're on the highest part of the Somme.

More Australians died here than any other battlefield in history.

All those things that we know about being Australians, that Anzac spirit,

is like, it wasn't lost on us.

On the walls behind us are 1,200 names of the Australians that are missing here.

Each one's got a story.

Some we'll know and some we won't.

These men aren't missing.

These men are here.

Each one known and remembered to us.

Read the words that Mother wrote.

I'm all right, Mother.

Cheerio.

The last words she heard her boy say.

People ask, why do you do that?

I think it's to give us perspective.

We're actually representing Australia here.

It's not just about being great cricketers, it's about being a great person.

Really important.

The second night, Gavin Dovey, our manager, he says, I've got a gift for everyone.

And I'm going, what have you got a gift for everyone?

And he hands me an envelope and he hands every

player and every staff member an envelope.

And when I looked at it, I went, that's my dad's writing.

I'm looking around and all the boys have got this envelope, right?

So then I open it up and my mum died a year ago, right?

And there's this picture of my mum sitting on my lap with

my old Australian blazer on and then a letter from my dad.

Why he's proud of me for being an Australian cricketer.

And he went round the whole room, mate.

And it was an unbelievable moment.

It was an unbelievable experience.

You've got the grown men bawling their eyes out, mate.

I knew that was a special moment.

That was from Lille.

That's the start of it.

To us hopefully holding up the World Cup at Lourdes, that would be a great story.

Cool today.

It's cool today.

All right, boys, before you start with cows, I want you in there with players.

Real tight-knit group.

Just jog a little slow lap together, OK?

Start thinking this is the team we're going into the full length of the line next year.

Real close.

Nice, slow jogs together.

Sometimes it can take a little bit of time to get used to a new head coach.

They usually come in and just sit back a little bit and just see how things go.

Then they'll start to put their spin on a few things.

But one thing with JL is just how passionate he is.

To see a past player, a legend of the game hold the reins and

has the passion that he has for it, it's, yeah, pretty special.

One of the benefits I've got as a coach is I've lived in their shoes.

So I know how hard the game is.

I'll never forget how hard the game is.

I've experienced debut, whether it's for WA or A-grade cricket or Test cricket.

I've experienced the ups and downs of success and failure.

I've experienced what it's like to be away from your home.

For long periods of time, I've experienced what it's like to retire.

So that's helped me become a better coach.

Oh, he's gone for it.

This could be 100.

He's hit it for six.

What a way to go.

Justin Langer has smashed it to the boundary.

He's played 100 Test matches.

Amazing career.

Made runs for fun.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's it.

That's 300 in three consecutive Test matches.

Goes for it and he goes long.

And that's a magnificent double 100 for Justin Langer.

He just had something about him.

An aura and a presence even as a young player coming to that big occasion.

And he just had a bit of mongrel, I guess, inside him the way he played the game.

You know, fiercely determined.

He trained really hard.

Nothing was ever handed to him.

He had to work really hard for it.

JL played every Test thinking it could be his last if he

stuffed up because he was in one of those gold-plated eras.

I don't think he had much experience with a team that lost.

He was used to a team that won.

The team that he played in won all the time.

The team he played in is one of the great teams ever.

So, yeah, I find myself asking questions of,

you know, what did Glenn McGrath do here?

What did Warnie do here?

What did Ponting do here?

You know, what were your tactics here?

Because that's the perfect template of what you want to be as a team.

We know that the press over here is ruthless, OK?

So that's OK.

We know it.

We know the crowds over here can be absolutely ruthless.

That's OK.

We know that.

So it's got to be white noise to us, OK?

Make the right decisions on the field and off the field.

That's just white noise to us.

But on the field, they're looking for us to slip up as well.

It's something that we want to talk about, have a conversation about.

There's abuse and there's banter, OK?

How about this for an idea, Ponty?

Finchie, from this day forward, no more abuse.

No more abuse.

Simple.

Oh, what does that mean, Jar?

It's common sense.

There's no abuse.

OK?

Simple.

That'd be a fair team standard for us.

What do you reckon, Finchie?

Yep.

What do you reckon, Ag?

Pretty simple, innit?

But I'll tell you what I do when I see them.

I see plenty of banter.

I see plenty of fun and plenty of talk.

If I play cards with my kids, there's plenty of banter.

I've watched you guys play cards for the last two.

There's plenty of banter.

There's a bit of abuse there as well, isn't there?

There's borderline abuse.

You're friends, OK?

So if it's friends, you can sort of...

But you know what I'm saying?

We're great cricketers and good people, OK?

We can still be fierce and we can still fight, mate.

That's what we're about.

That's what Australians do.

We can still be good blokes.

All culture is behaviour, so we've got to make sure our

behaviours are really good on the field and off the field.

We've got good behaviours, then we've got a good culture and an environment for all

our young blokes to thrive and become as good a player

as they become and as good a people as they can become.

Are you here to restore Australia's reputation?

I think we all are.

What happened in South Africa has probably changed the way cricket will be played a

lot in terms of ball management, and in terms of how the teams sort of

interact and speak to each other on the field.

One thing I do know is that I've heard a lot about, oh, we need to start playing

like New Zealand, or we've got to da-da-da-da-da.

I go, what are you talking about?

No, no, we're going to keep playing like Australia.

And we've got to learn.

We've got a very, very proud history of

Australian cricket and we'll never forget that.

Let's learn from dumb mistakes.

You know, a rough little period, you'd say, but let's

learn from it and let's make sure we get better from it.

There's six changes.

For Australia, no Warner, no Smith, no Mitch Marsh, no Stark, no Zampa,

no Hazlewood, no Cummins as well.

It was a real...real excitement, real...

We are missing a couple of players and a few of

our brothers are down, but we can win this tour.

Temperature in the mid-20s, a nice gentle breeze, no chance of rain.

Two very good sides.

Got it.

The perfect start for England.

CUT!

As Finch goes.

Oh, he's bowled him.

Well, terrific from Moeen Ali, he's picked up Finch first of all and now Marsh.

No way, that's barely believable.

It's so unlike Tim Payne.

Ah, Estoinas.

Gone.

England all over Australia here.

So

this has been a good performance from England, a disappointing one for Australia.

The Australians now have to bowl out of their skin here

at the Oval against England to defend a total of 214.

Michael Neeser on debut.

Crouched away from Jonny Bairstow.

Passed fine leg for four, Morgan off the mark.

Cherry Root, beautiful cover drive.

Well they can't stop the runs coming at the moment.

He's gone at that one and he's played it nicely.

Runs required for England are below 50.

There you go, that's the way to win a game and beat Australia.

Is there any disappointment there?

Any disappointment towards the suspended players that aren't here?

Because obviously they would improve your top five and they're not here because of

things of their own doing.

No.

When you build a foundation it takes work, it takes time, it takes patience.

Because you can't give a kid who just comes in

being the finished product of Ricky Ponting.

We all want to because in this day and age they'll get paid a lot of money.

So you go oh well their expectations are really high and the pressure's really high

because you get paid well, you should be able to bat like Ricky Ponting.

When you're 22.

No, no, no, that's not how life works.

That is not how it works.

I knew as a batsman if I got balanced in my stance and I saw

the ball out of the bowler's hand, everything would be okay.

So that's process.

So as a coach I'm very much about just get the

preparation right, get the processes right.

Great players just concentrate every single ball.

Every great Australian player has been great at the process of the next ball.

That's all.

It's the easiest way to get a hundred.

It's the easiest way for us to get three.

Three hundred and twenty.

Australia make their way down the stairs.

They are ready for action.

They need to bounce back and bounce back quickly.

Five match series.

Shot.

Oh, up and over.

And again, another boundary for England.

What a shot that is.

That is pretty good.

They were playing as well as I think any cricket team ever has.

And I think what you saw there was two cricket teams at

completely different stages of their development as teams.

It's another one.

Pushed down the leg side and that's hit Tim Payne right in the face.

Yeah, I just remember crouching down to pick it up.

I thought it was sort of just going to be a pretty regulation take and it sort of

got me right in the top half of the mouth and nose.

Yeah, I've sort of always been brought up in a way that you just, you get on with it.

Tim Payne actually looks like he's okay again now.

He's a tough customer, the Australian captain.

We were getting smacked around the park a bit.

Yeah, so I don't think it would have been a great look for our captain to go off the

ground because he's copped a blow to the lip.

Beautifully played again.

Another six.

3.42 for eight.

England's highest one day international score.

Scored against Australia.

England was playing unbelievable cricket and we were playing average cricket.

It was a bit like my first baptism of fire.

Go to England, take on the best team in the

world in one day cricket and we get smashed.

You've got to keep a brave face.

I at times wear my heart on my sleeve so it can get emotional when you're losing.

Righto.

First I want to say to Payne.

You're the captain of the team.

You've got a hole hanging out of your face and you kept going for 15 overs, 20 overs.

Right?

Respect.

Well done.

And then you go and take that brilliant catch.

Your keeping was brilliant.

But fucking respect mate.

Unless you're injured.

Unless you fucking can't play.

I don't want to hear from anyone.

I want a little fucking niggle.

Think about what he did today.

Think about what we saw in France.

Right?

So your captain's showing it today.

Right?

And I'm going to see more of that in this restaurant.

In the dressing room.

OK?

Representing the Australian cricket team.

Hardcore.

Well done.

Respect.

That's the standard we're talking about.

Marcia, you're great and all.

Aggers, I thought you had a good game as well again mate.

I thought Richo as well.

How many games have you played?

Two.

So your second game.

Well done.

Good job.

Righto.

That's the good stuff.

One of the things I said three weeks ago.

One of our expectations.

We keep things simple.

Some of you guys have got so many fucking theories.

You've got fucking theories coming out of your fucking brain.

You're not good enough to have theories yet.

Concentrate on the next ball.

OK?

Concentrate on your technique.

Concentrate on the next ball.

Concentrate on competing.

Do that better.

We'll be OK.

All right?

The fielding draw today was fucking shit out of slack.

No wonder we've won three in the last 16.

I can be all nice.

I've been nice for three weeks.

But you know how we're playing at the moment.

I know we lack a bit of experience.

We're playing against a very good team.

They're a very good team.

They're playing with confidence.

All right?

So we've got to get better.

But we've got to get better.

All right?

Up to that stage, he was being a really nurturing, really coaching coach.

And then when he saw that sort of display, I think he picked his time pretty well to

show the other side that he's a really passionate sort of coach.

And I think it's important to show that at times.

Give me some honest feedback about what I said in the room last night.

I know Gilly thought I was probably... He was a bit surprised by it.

Pana was a bit surprised.

Any other feedback?

Honest feedback?

Coming where you've come from the last two to three weeks, I think it was good,

because I think you've been giving them some good support and care and you just

made sure that they weren't taking that for granted.

And in that sense, I think it was really good.

Mate, I'm all for that.

I'm all for honest feedback in the direction of blokes.

If you think you're going to hit the right chord and get a response from them,

if you think you're going to get a positive response from the guys by doing

that, then by all means, go ahead and keep doing it.

But it sounds like everyone else that's been around thought it was the right time.

So, great.

Like our training, our preparation, we're trying different things with the

spinners, we're trying to challenge them, help them under

pressure, get their basics right, drill on all these things.

Once we come to the game to get their intensity and attitude right, then they

back off and go, well, for fucking sake still, can Ricky do it?

Who's going to win it for us?

Rather than...

You've got no one just to get the group on you.

You know what I'm saying?

What I don't want this group to become is really good preparers and not great game

players, so that's where we try and work out

how we get that killer instinct on match day.

And that'll come with experience too, to be fair, but you don't just give it to them.

What I'm hearing is process-wise, we feel like we're going alright.

Am I reading that wrong?

Like we feel like process and some of the things that you actually talked about

wanting to see versus outcome, we're starting to see some shift.

Is that fair?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We can't then sit around a table and be quite sort of harsh on performance

assessments in the here and now, then.

Yeah, that's right.

That's why I want to keep it... That's where the really key is...

I can't be saying about process, process,

process and be effective whilst losing two games.

Yeah, I agree 100% with that, but there's still

emotion about losing, because we want to win, don't we?

I think this team just needs a little winner.

Come on Australia!

It's a game you've got to win.

How easy is it for you at the moment to balance

winning games with the developmental side of things?

We certainly want to win every game we're playing.

We're not using our, you know, where this team's at as an excuse.

We've been beaten by a better side and outplayed in the first two contests.

So we know where we've got to improve and as

I said before the series, we're here to win.

Jai Richardson.

Pavilion end.

It's come on nicely.

Where's that gone?

Went for six on the square leg bubble.

Ooh, what a shot.

That might be out of the ground.

Probably six more.

It just looks so easy for Bastogne.

That's eight.

That's huge.

Oh!

Left side.

That's six more.

This is remarkable here at Trenbridge.

It really is.

England are thinking of 500 at this stage.

And that is the record.

The world record.

England's largest victory margin in one day international cricket.

And Australia's heaviest defeat.

When you get belted like that for 490-something, you know, it's very hard

for an experienced cricketer to take, let alone a guy

who's in their second, third or fourth ODI in England.

Yeah, I just thought it was important that I went over as captain and supported them.

When you get beaten as badly as we did, we got smacked.

It's always tough to... tough to take.

Oh, close.

That's very close.

That's absolutely plumb.

Fuck!

Everyone's different.

Everyone shows emotions different.

At the end of the day, you're gonna fail with cricket sometimes and miss out,

and people will come in and sit down for two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes.

When you're going through it all, it always feels worse.

Being away from your family, losing, getting company in the crowd.

But that was a tough tour.

That was a really tough tour.

England win comfortably.

They go 4-0 up in the series.

You'd lose and then you'd go have a meeting discussing how you've lost and

then you'd watch tapes of how you get out and then you'd watch tapes of them hitting

you for six and then you go to training again and you're like, this just keeps

going, this is a nightmare that I can't break.

You're away from home.

Things are uncomfortable.

We've lost.

If I'm being honest, I feel shit-ass right now.

We were sort of an inexperienced team in foreign conditions and it was a testing

time because of what had happened, I guess, and we were getting watched

probably differently and more intently than we ever had.

As we were talking about, we've come here as an inexperienced team.

We've got to make sure that we make this a positive in the long run.

So it's got to hurt that we're getting belted.

We've got to learn.

We've got to be able to then move it past it, be confident, stick to these things

we're going to come up with and know that if we do it in 12 months' time,

this can be a very, very good cricket team.

I don't think it's the preparation, messaging, planning there.

It's just the skill.

The skill is just not there.

It's way off.

I think it comes down to wanting to be in that context.

But we talk a lot about it.

It's the same as our batting.

You get to 4-10 and the fielding reflects your attitude of

how much you want to make a difference in the environment.

And I question a lot of them whether they want to make a difference out there.

The first thing a fielder does now is just put his hand up straight away.

Maybe we say, we don't do that anymore.

So the guys in the ring, you don't put your

hand up and wait for someone else to get it.

You can get it yourself.

We're so lucky in Australian cricket.

We've got so many great players.

Punter and Gilley are like, mate, they're such good counsel for me.

Courage is rolling your sleeves up and finding some solutions.

And that's why I love bringing some of my old mates back in or people I've admired

so deeply in Australian cricket because

they're here to help us find some solutions.

They're not here to smash us.

Just to talk to them.

They're the best coaches in the world.

They're the best psychologists in the world.

They've been through it.

They know what we're talking about.

I think what we've got to get to with our inner ring fielding stuff is if a ball

gets hit past you or someone gets a single to you, take that as a loss.

You've lost the contest.

The ball's anywhere near you and they get a

single, it's your job to not let them get a single.

So you've lost.

So that's one nil to the batter.

You ain't going to get it if you go like that straight away.

I can guarantee it.

And there's no reason why we can't just be a little bit hungrier, be on the move when

the ball's been hit, be in that good, powerful position every ball.

Every ball.

Because you might just get a runner.

The angle that you create might just stop something.

You might get a one-handed catch that you wouldn't

get because you're not normally going that way.

Let's take all that on.

Let's just try and find ways to be better.

And do it.

Do it.

Own it.

Own your patch.

I think just to have those guys who deeply care about Australian cricket,

they're good for our young guys to learn from.

Don't get hung up on thinking that tomorrow's the day that

you can do it and make the statement and then away you go.

The ultimate base against winning a World Cup

is that you're not going to do that tomorrow.

Just make the next delivery the most important thing in your life.

Not just in your career, the most important thing in your life at that point.

Because at that point, nothing else matters.

You talk to Steve Waugh or Ricky Ponting or Matthew Hayden or Greg Chappell or Ian

Chappell, they'll all tell you the same thing.

Stick to the process.

Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, stick to the process.

You'll be okay.

And it's the hardest thing to learn.

Absolutely magnificent.

And it's England 5-0.

And it's England 5-0.

For Australia to lose 5-0 to England, that's a wound.

That's a wound felt right around the country.

And to be hit so hard by the country where we measure

ourselves most, that was a pretty brutal blow.

I know the learnings from that is that it might not have gone to plan at the time,

but these guys will be better for the experience.

They'll learn from it.

We'll keep building our depth from that.

But it hurts losing.

I mean, especially to England.

And the great thing is that the World Cup is 12 months from

that series and we've got a lot of time to build to it.

Brian and the crew, just to wrap it up.

End of the series.

We've had an amazing... for a few weeks when you think about where we started.

We went to France and Belgium.

It was incredible.

So I hope there's building blocks there.

It's been a really tough day.

It's been a tough tour.

I really appreciate everyone's efforts.

I think everyone's worked hard.

Everyone's prepared hard.

Everyone's done everything that's been asked of them.

We just couldn't get the results on the field.

The only thing I'll say, though, is don't think it's okay.

Don't think it's okay to lose 5-0 to England.

Because the truth is, it's not.

Next on The Test.

Something that I've dreamed about forever.

For the last 20 times in Australian cricket, we've had 20 batting collapses.

They might put 10 blokes around you.

This isn't going to suit my fucking style.

You've got to deal with it.

Am I actually going to make a test run here?

It doesn't matter whether you know you can do it, you've still got to do it.

What a knock under pressure.

He's absolutely loving it.

That's just the facts.

We can't sugarcoat shit.