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The 12-month bans on Steve Smith and
David Warner for ball tampering have ended,

but there are still
questions about how they

will be received by the
current Australian squad.

The former captain and his deputy
will not only be without leadership roles,

they will also have
to earn their spot in an

informed team that has
embraced a new culture.

First, welcome back
Smithy and Davey.

It's great to have you back.

Cape Town.

What do we do?

It's a dark time.

It's a dark time for everyone.

Everyone in this room, it
should be a really dark time.

OK, what do we do about it?

Well, we learn from it.

We learn from it.

And we're going to make
Australian cricket awesome

again and keep moving
forward and getting better, OK?

In the last 12 months, there's a lot of
reflecting to do with cricket and football.

What happened in the past and about
getting better as a team person as well.

I think from looking
outside in, you can tell

the whole team itself
as a we has grown a lot.

How we've been accepted the
last 24 hours, basically, you know.

I don't really feel like
I left, to be honest.

You know, there was no
unease or anything like that.

It was back to like,
you know, it's like I went

out of the team yesterday
and came back today.

I don't know.

From a personal point of view, it's been
a pretty hard 12 months, to be honest.

And I've had times throughout
the year where I didn't even

really want to come back
and play, to be perfectly honest.

And it probably wasn't until
I got my brace off my arm

a few weeks ago where I
said, shit, I'm ready to go.

Like, I want to play again.

Going to England for a World
Cup, I know what to expect.

It's going to be
incredibly hostile.

And I think for us over in the UK, you
know, just maybe like reading our body

language, if we're feeling a bit down
with sort of external things, just throwing

your arm round us and making
sure we're in a good head space.

Keep your butt there.

Just spin your head
round for me now.

They are a cut above
the average cricketer.

But if you spend a year
out of doing anything,

you may potentially
lose some of your edge.

So there was a question
about how badly that

hiatus had interfered
with their skill set.

You bring two world-class
players back into the

side, it gives guys around
you a lot of confidence.

And it brings a little bit more
fear factor to the opposition.

The crowds will
be all over them.

Because the first games
they play are the biggest

international one-day
games on the calendar.

In England, where the crowds
can be very, very hostile.

What we're going to do is we're going
to put the cricket kid away for a few days.

And we go on a
journey of understanding.

We're going to learn a little
bit about what another mob of

young Australians did when
they went on their tour of duty.

What an experience, Gallipoli.

It was unbelievable.

Where we're actually sitting
now is where the landing occurred.

So, first light on the 25th.

The men look up and this is
exactly what they're faced with.

Getting up here.

So many people talk about
the Australian culture and

their identity being found
in that Gallipoli campaign.

You know, we're
just newly federated.

So, it kind of felt like
a link to us players.

We're a newish side going off overseas,
trying to still find our identity.

And I didn't have to look
too much further than all

the great traits a lot of
those diggers had over there.

We know that wealth and the
size of a country doesn't matter.

But what really matters is
the character of its citizens.

The character of the
people that represent it.

That's what matters.

The vision for us isn't
just to win games of cricket.

For me, the most
exciting thing is

developing great
cricketers and great people.

And great people
means great leaders.

So, the more we can give these guys
the opportunity to be mentored by great

people, the more positive
that is for Australian cricket.

In combat,
soldiers live and die.

By the creed of mateship.

I think mateship, it's the
reason why I play cricket.

It's about going above and
beyond to care for a mate if

he's had a hard day, if he's
struggling on or off the field.

And I think it's a big area where
we can probably get better at.

I think there's a difference
between mates and friends.

And I think we're really fortunate
in this group to have a lot of friends,

but not everyone's going to
get on like Samson Stoyne.

But I think for me,
mateship is when you cross

that line, you're
playing for each other.

We're going to have our
challenges over in England, no doubt.

Just knowing that whatever happens,
we're all going to have each other's backs.

And it's the bad days that
we've got to stay together

and stick together and do
whatever we can for each other.

And if we do that,
it's going to give us

every chance to be
there on the 12th of July.

And that's what
we want so badly.

We know how to
play one-day cricket.

We're really proud of it.

This is where you actually pit yourself
against every team in one tournament.

Such great history.

We've won four of the last five.

The World Cup is obviously
the pinnacle of one-day cricket.

And as a player, to represent Australia
in the biggest stage is unbelievable.

I think everyone from my era,
Ricky Ponting is one of their heroes.

Two-time.

World Cup-winning captain.

Three-time player.

And someone who rose to the occasion
every time the game was on the line.

He's one of the
best of the best.

That's what Ricky Ponting is.

And in that comes not
just skill, but character.

He's tough.

Everything that we
talk about in the elite

people of Australian
cricket, he ticks every box.

When I was working at
West Australia, I always

had a saying up on
my wall in my office.

I never went to Harvard, but I
employ a lot of people who did.

And guys like Ricky, they are
Harvard graduates of the greatest ilk.

Hey, mate.

See you next year, son.

Get on the docker.

He's been on my back for 12 or 18 months
to get back involved in Australian cricket.

And look, I love it.

We are very, very close.

And look, to be totally honest, if it
wasn't him coaching that World Cup

squad, I mightn't have gone
back and been around the team.

The game's in my blood
and coaching's in my blood.

And trying to make people better
is what I get a lot of joy out of.

Try and improve people.

That's what
coaching's all about.

So I'm not going to let a minute go by or
a training session go by where if I think

something's not quite right, then I'm not
going to put in the time myself to fix it.

The thing that you have to
do with your timing is getting

that right with your feet
moving at the same time.

The best thing about
him is he's so humble.

When he's around the team, he's
just like another... He's like another lad.

That actually
bounced a bit, don't it?

The energy he brings to the
room, the passion, he's inspiring.

When he goes to training,
he's just throwing balls

and he looks like he's
having the most fun ever.

If you stand like that, and then if
your back knee goes that way at all,

where does that make
everything else go?

That makes me go mid-wicket.

So your hands and your butt
automatically go further out there.

So it's OK for you to stand that
way, but have that knee flexed...

I think if someone knows the topic really,
really well, they can simplify it easily,

and he does that.

Just breaks it down to one or two
little things, gives you real clarity,

and suddenly you go, oh, easy,
you know, I'm batting like Ponny now.

He's just got a brain
just built for cricket.

If Pana says it, it's
right, it has to be right.

It's Pana.

Like, that's just
the Pana effect.

It doesn't matter what
sport we're talking about.

If you're talking about a dropped
punter in AFL and you've got Alex Carey,

who's played AFL, teaching
us for Pana, I'm going with Pana.

There we go.

Righto, everyone here?

Probably a good
opportunity just quickly to go

through all the players
to see where Finchie...

I know they're training
tomorrow, but everyone

happy where Finchie's
at at the moment?

He's in pretty good
space, isn't he?

Very good.

How is he?

Travelling OK?

Excellent.

Yeah, he's in good shape, training
well, really happy with where he's at.

Carey, how's he going?

His batting's good.

He's got his mind set around what he's
got to do at seven, so he's pretty good.

Yeah, he's improving.

He's getting better
at that back end, too.

Davey, a couple
of things on Davey.

He's still a bit rusty
with his batting, I reckon.

Some better signs yesterday,
but just looks a bit rusty.

He just needs to spend a bit of time,
get some throws, get his feet moving a bit.

Smithy looks really
good, doesn't he?

Jesus.

I had the first net session
and I was throwing balls

to Steve Smith and I
got this smile on my face.

Mate, I know he's good, but I was
just watching it with my own eyes.

I thought, he's coming
back into our team.

We'll take him.

All right, I jump.

That's when I started thinking,
we might go all right here.

Can you give us an
idea of what it's like to

have Steve and Dave
back in the squad properly?

It's really nice
having them back.

They've had 12 months to have
a good think about a mistake.

They and the team-mates, and I'm
sure they'll be better people for that.

Those two guys, are they the type of
characters who will be fired up more than

anything by any kind of
adverse crowd reaction,

or heckling, or booing,
or whatever it is?

The boys are very well prepared.

They've paid a heavy price.

We're expecting always to
come here and to face the fire.

And we're ready for it.

Thank you.

Thanks, Justin.

Cheers.

I'm not one to
really get nervous.

I never really have
throughout my whole career,

regardless of game
situations or scenarios.

I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity
to be back playing for Australia,

that's for sure.

But I really just think of it
as another game of cricket.

Australia versus
Afghanistan, first match.

Australia, of course,
are ex-world champions.

They know how to
win the world titles.

This will be the first time that Steve
Smith and David Warner have played in

front of an English crowd since they
served their bands for ball tampering.

I hated it.

I hated it.

I think it's ignorant.

I think it's disrespectful.

But it made me
really angry to start off.

There's not one person who was booing
and hasn't made a mistake in their life.

It's so good to have David
Warner back in this team.

And obviously being out of the team
for such a long period of time, he'll be

looking to start this
World Cup with a bang.

Oh, trouble here
for David Warner.

He's hit a lot of balls to the
fieldsman today, David Warner.

You have this expectation of high
scores when you go to England.

And then you go
out there and you bat.

And I was struggling to
hit the ball in the middle.

It's just a bit of a battle at
the moment for David Warner.

It was a hard sort of thing because I
was battling my demons, just going,

well, I usually, I can hit boundaries
fluently, I can take the guys over top,

but I don't know if it's
something in my mind

or something that's
telling me I can't do that.

At different times, probably both of
us had to hold each other back from not

jumping over the fence
and getting in amongst the

crowd and shutting a few
of them up, to be honest.

And given.

Kawhi just got to go.

Smith to the crease.

Smith and Warner batting
together again for Australia.

For me, it actually makes me think I
must be some kind of a threat, perhaps,

if they're booing me
and want me to fail.

So I kind of take a bit
of joy in the fact that

they're doing it and
use it to motivate me.

When I'm out in the middle and batting and
I get in that zone, it's kind of like my

happy place where I feel like untouchable
in a way, if that kind of makes sense.

It's a run-making machine
in any format, Steve Smith.

Both boys did really well.

They handed
themselves brilliantly.

Davey to get 89, not out.

Just sealed the win.

He was struggling at the start.

It felt like... I know he
felt like he couldn't hit it.

Well done to Australia.

It is a good start
to their campaign.

And they win by seven wickets.

With all the distractions, I'll say
this to you and Smudge particularly,

it's more a reflection
of them, not you.

The way he's hanging
in there today and got us

over the line, took us
deep, won the game for us.

It was a brilliant effort.

I mean, it wasn't
unexpected, the reaction, but...

It's funny, actually.

It turned to a bit
like, you know what?

They can do what they want.

They don't know Steve or Dave.

They don't know us.

I don't really care.

They're two very different people,
but when you get them on the field,

like most of us, extremely competitive,
they just go about it differently.

Chut, hallelujah.

There's so much perception
of what Davey Warner's like.

It's like having Floyd
Mayweather in your team.

It's classic.

The way he plays.

He's got energy.

Loves playing cricket.

He's a gun player.

And he's a little smart-arse.

Actually, I'll play this one.

I don't.

You can't.

Mate, what do you mean?

I can.

I can.

You're gonna get
more anyway, Sint.

No.

I like how you help
your teammates out.

Mate, I am the most
generous person.

Oh, you gave me one bat.

Thanks.

Davey's Davey.

Nothing fazes him.

He knows everything.

You could be talking
about the price of cars.

If you're looking to purchase
a car, you'll know everything.

So, he's good, really.

I like Davey, just the
way he goes about it.

He's resilient and he
wants to be the best.

But then you look at Steve.

Steve Smith's weird, mate.

All he wants to do is bat.

He bats in the shower.

He bats in the corridor.

He bats in the lunchroom.

He bats... He just wants to bat.

It's just relentless, but
it's unbelievable to watch.

And it's no secret why he's the
best, because he lives and breathes it.

Nice, mate.

I've been in a pub with
him and suddenly he just

starts shadow batting
in the middle of the pub.

And I'm like, mate, come on, just
let's let go of cricket for two minutes.

As someone like him, how do
you argue with his preparation?

He's one of the
all-time great players.

What I do know over
time is that everyone

prepares differently and
you've got to trust that.

For me, the less
I do, the better.

Like, that's my biggest thing.

Almost feeling like you're
underdone when you're under the ball.

100%.

I was supposed to be the same.

That's the biggest thing
I learnt in the last 12

months was just, like,
giving yourself that time.

It's almost like you
know you've done the

work over the years,
so you're not losing it.

Yeah.

So for myself to get myself
ready, my preparation,

you don't want it to
come across to look lazy.

I know it's not lazy and other people
have trained the same way as well.

That's why I said to JL the other
day, he asked me, what was up?

I said, nothing's up.

I said, it's just the fact
that I don't like going into...

So I'll have a net session against our
quicks, but then leading into the game,

I don't need to face them.

Like, doing stuff like
this and this is good.

I won't normally hit this much
before a proper game, but I'll just...

...work on 20 minutes of solid
hitting the ball out the middle.

Yeah.

And then making
sure that I'm just fresh.

Yeah.

Thanks mate.

...percent.

Hinch has got to go.

Another one gone.

The West Indies brute pace bowling
unsettled Australia and if you lose one of

those pool games early, your
World Cup campaign can drain away.

Steve Smith now starting
to stamp his authority.

Mentally tough teams win
the ones they should win.

The way the boys fought
back in that game was brilliant.

Nathan Coulson, I got 90.

It sounds so obvious but unless you're
winning games and end up in the top four,

mate, you're not
winning the finals.

So every single
game is important.

The highlight of my whole
day was the National Anthem.

I'm actually not joking
because we're seeing it.

Everyone is against us.

Everyone.

Doesn't matter who we play, we've played
West Indies and you guys stay together,

you sing the National Anthem like
that, you celebrate like that, you stick

together and I'm telling you, everyone
in Australia is feeling it as well.

So the National Anthem set the scene
because you're going to have to stick

together and good
teams stick together when

the pressure comes on
and you did that today.

This is a huge game and in terms of
quality of cricketers, this is probably

the biggest game of the
World Cup and I think whichever

team wins it will send a
strong message to everyone.

They're a great team.

The upside is we know
we can beat them because

we beat them in India
a few months back.

So that's the
heartening side of it.

Let's go boys.

Have a good day.

Away we go.

Oh, it's put down.

It's a beautiful shot.

They've just got incredible batsmen
that just play the game so beautifully.

It's like the Parlin
Globetrotters.

Just over the keeper.

And he'll put that in
the gap but it doesn't

matter where the gap
was because it sailed over.

That's a terrific shot.

That flies over point.

Virat Kohli gets going.

Yeah, the Australians now,
they have to worry about this a bit.

Maybe not a bit,
maybe a little bit more.

In India, they bring up 350.

Australia will need
353 for victory.

It's going to be a hell of
a run chase for Australia.

Nothing changes, OK?

We're riding this.

It's a fast outfield.

Beautiful wicket.

We're riding the hunt.

All right, let's be up
and ready for the hunt.

We can easily score 90
plus in the last 10 overs here.

Easy.

And Warner and Finch are
going to have to start well.

Someone's got to go deep.

That sounded good off the bat.

They'd be looking for two.

Oh, we just about get it.

Just about get it.

And Finch is starting to walk.

The communication,
the hesitation.

The Australian captain.

He will be fuming.

Aaron Finch was
looking really good.

36 of 35.

And he's charging off
without a look at his colleague.

Now back with Warner.

How much has that affected him?

I feel like I've got no rhythm.

I feel like I've got no timing.

The only thing I can think of
is I've got a fear of getting out.

And that's not how I play.

I play with a free mind, a clear
mind and back myself all the time.

It just felt like I had this sort of, I
don't know, something was over me.

And Warner finds the
man, a deep mid wicket.

David Warner.

He's got to go.

You know, it's never
easy chasing 350.

We fell a bit short.

We had a crack at it.

Ball.

Ed, you're gone.

He's picked him out.

He has.

He has.

It's a win to India.

By 36 runs.

The five boys obviously
resolved to go our way.

They're obviously
a very good team.

But they got the better
of us for a lot of it.

There's areas we
can tighten up in.

I think from the batting point of view, I
was quite rattled after I ran out Finchie.

I felt like I had a
fear of getting out.

I didn't feel like I
could take that risk.

If you're scared about
getting out, fuck that.

You've got to be thinking
about getting runs.

Not be worried about
making a mistake.

I've been there.

You start thinking about making
mistakes as a player, you're fucked.

At the end of the day, all of
you have got nothing to fear.

You've got nothing to lose.

Right now.

We haven't got the World Cup.

All you've got is things
to gain and things to win.

You need to think that way.

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.

Keep backing yourself and
backing your skills and imposing

yourself on the game when
that opportunity presents itself.

Like a few of us did today.

There's some good stuff there.

They're a good side, yes.

And no better than us.

And we'll show that in a couple of days'
time, I reckon, against our next opponents.

It just really hit me after
he spoke about that.

Because when you're in a team environment
and you're giving feedback in front of a

group, it can be quite
confronting sometimes.

And that really,
you know, hit me.

And I was just like, OK,
yeah, I'll take that on board.

Massive game coming up.

It is Australia
against Pakistan.

And all eyes have been on David Warner for
any number of reasons in this World Cup.

It's pretty incredible
watching Dave at times.

He makes batting look
so easy sometimes and

he makes it look
really difficult at others.

So Warner, why
isn't there a flow?

Why isn't there a strike
rate at the moment?

I knew I had it in me.

It's just how it was going to happen
because I was so slow and a bit tentative.

And they're the times where I sort of
just gathered my own thoughts and started

singing to myself and
just relaxing a little bit.

I've always got a nursery rhyme or
something in my head that I'm just,

you know, thinking
about or whatnot.

Just takes me to like
a bit of a happy place.

Nicely played.

That's what you really
want to see from Warner.

If he's in good nick,
that's the way he plays.

And I just chanced my arm a bit.

I played a few shots, got a
good couple of cover drives away.

Worn out nice and aggressive.

I was just like,
OK, I'm in here.

And it sort of just ignited this
spark and fight into me again.

Has it gone long enough?

It has.

He'll pick up a
six off a free hit.

Because he can be so
destructive in such a short

space of time, he can
turn it on in and over.

And then once he gets
away, you can't stop him.

Well played.

That's a nice shot.

Another beautiful shot.

Oh, beautiful.

David Warner is ecstatic.

101 not out.

That means the world to him.

You know, to get that hundred and sort
of announce himself back into international

cricket and make a real statement
himself on the World Cup was incredible.

To see him go out and
perform as well as he did with

all that pressure, the boos,
the jeers from the crowd.

It was us against
the rest of the world.

And he made sure
he was the man for it.

Australia win by 41 runs.

Had some unbelievable individual
performances, which has been great.

David, welcome back
with your hundred, mate.

Australia starting to ride their
confidence into this fixture.

Backs away.

Boom, Aaron Finch.

Warner.

Beautiful.

Warner's in really
good form by this stage.

In fact, it's all been done
at the top of the order.

Warner and Finch are guiding Australia
to big scores and a sense of confidence.

And Australia have done it.

Kawaja.

Beautiful shot.

Great shot.

What a shot that is.

David Warner gets a century.

Yeah, another
brilliant performance.

Second hundred
in this World Cup.

A victory to
Australia by 48 runs.

Brothers in arms.

And in all of that, Australia
now go to the top of the table.

We knew the top four batters
had to score hundreds for us.

They all did.

But what I did know,
for us to win the

tournament, we couldn't
have any passengers.

I think if we turn all our attention to
England now, we should focus on that.

But there might just be a few
things that we can, to beat England.

Well, I reckon we've
got to go after them and

try and get them out
in their first ten balls.

Don't let them come out and
dictate and play the way they want to.

We will fucking set viewers and we're
going to go after each one of them.

All of you have probably got some ideas
about how we can be a little unorthodox.

I know our two key bowlers
are Stark and Cummins

and that's certainly worth
putting up against them.

But if we happen to
go with another left-arm

pace bowler, that's
worth considering as well.

We knew every bit of data for the last
five years tells us they're going to win.

They struggle, much they
better struggle against left-armers.

It could then open
with a Berendil.

Left-arm matches up well and
Starky and Cummins might have

to realise the reason we're
doing this is what you said.

We've got to get them
out, we've got to beat them.

Not just let the game flow.

I personally think you can
start with both left-armers.

That's our best
match-up is left-armers.

I reckon we have to
be a bit more daring.

Nothing to be scared of.

Nothing to lose.

Nothing to go after.

The really great part about the one-day
preparation phase is you can be so

specific in what you want to practise
and it's all about that execution.

You go come-o,
come-o is our best set-up.

Let's watch where this lands.

There you go, straight on.

Bowler coach set up a
couple of cones on the

batting crease and we'd
have a little tally system.

So we might get 12 balls each.

And then you had a cone in
the middle on the front crease.

That was 1A.

That was five points
if you hit the cone.

It's basically just
trying to put a little bit

more pressure on yourself
of nailing those Yorkers.

Come on, Jase.

If you can do this, keep us up.

For me, as a left-arm swing
bowler, that's just about the best.

It's the perfect ball that I try
and bowl just about all the time.

No, blue bagger.

It doesn't work all the time,
but that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to swing the ball
back and hit the stumps.

For me, the mindset, especially in
tournament play, is that you know you're

going to get a chance at
some point and you know you're

going to need to be at your
best when you get that chance.

And it's tough not playing
because that's what you want to do.

You're there to play cricket and
you always want to be in the team.

So for me, it was always about making sure
every training session had a purpose for

the reason that I know that
I'm going to be called on at some

stage and I'm going to be
ready to go when I get that call.

Perfect.

That's a wicker for
you, as we know.

One of the best in the world.

Starkey and I could be
opening the bowling together and

it doesn't happen very
often, two left-armers doing it.

And for me, thinking about
that, I was like, how good is this?

What an opportunity to bowl
at the other end with mid-start.

Oh, Dorth, that's a
great way to finish, son.

11.

Great way to finish, Dorth.

It's an 11, buddy.

It probably wins the game.

It's an 11 by arse.

What do you mean, mate?

I fit all three.

Nice, Dorth, mate.

Is that your last one?

Yeah.

When you get the World
Cup draw, you know, the first

game you're looking for, OK,
where do we play England?

All right, we're playing
them at Lourdes.

There's a reason why they've been
number one in the world for a few years.

The way they play their game, it's
a very fearless and aggressive style.

They back that one or two of
their batters are going to come off.

And if that's the case, then they're
going to score 300 plus on most occasions.

What reception do you expect
Steve Smith and David Warner to get?

I'm not expecting anything.

I think fans and supporters up and down
the country will have different reactions,

as they will around the world.

So, yeah, let's just see.

Do you see it as your role in any way to
give any kind of indication or instruction

to the crowd about how they
should behave with the Australians?

No, no.

The cameras are out.

It's such a big occasion
here at Lourdes.

England against Australia.

We'll answer some
questions today.

I think this game and Australia will
answer the questions, whether the revival

that we've seen in the
last 12 months is for real.

Smart batting.

They've had to absorb
a lot of pressure,

Australia, in the first
10 overs in particular.

But now they're starting to
apply pressure themselves.

Another four to Aaron Finch.

Smashed.

So impressive what we're seeing
from the openers once again.

So Finch sets Australia
up against England.

But they don't get everything
that they might have got.

Don't think there's
enough on this.

Archer.

Frustration for Smith.

And these wickets are
tumbling now after a bright start.

Australia can't find the
acceleration they need.

Australia continuing to lose
wickets when they can't afford to.

Australia finish
on 285 for seven.

285 against England.

You're going to have to
bowl and field very well.

And particularly
take early wickets.

Finch's first decision was
who to give the new ball to.

He's given it to Berendorf.

To walk out on lords to
play cricket for Australia.

Staring back, looking
at the old pavilion there.

Scary stuff.

What?

Chase Murray's going
to open the button?

Not Pat Cummins?

My heart's pumping because you know,
if it comes off, no one will say anything.

But if it doesn't,
they're going to bag you.

They're going to slam you.

Oh, he's bowled it.

Brilliant.

It was near on the perfect
ball that I wanted to bowl.

The swing there.

It's gone through
Vince's defences.

What a start for Australia.

To be able to execute something
that you've worked so hard

at for such a long period of
time and to have it come off.

There's not many
better feelings.

Fantastic start for Australia and Berendorf
and now the key man route at the crease.

This is the one we need.

Jase got us off to a great start with
that wicket in the first over and I think

that's sort of set the tone
for the bowling innings for us.

Here goes Stark.

He's played that
differently then.

See that?

Bowling second and seeing how
they bowled on the lords wicket,

they were quite a bit shorter
than we thought they might bowl.

And what we wanted to bowl.

So it was great for us to see
that and go, let's try and bowl

a little bit fuller on a wicket
that was offering a little bit.

Oh, close.

Close surely.

Yes.

Finger goes up.

Beauty from Stark.

I'm going to see the next
player go, is he going to refer it?

Is he going to refer it?

Is he going to refer it?

He's not referring it.

Yes.

He's out.

Beauty.

Absolutely plumb.

And Australia are
prizing the wickets.

They've got two.

They've got two.

They've got them very quickly.

They've got such a long batting
lineup, England, so we knew

two wickets or three wickets
wasn't going to win us a game.

They bat right through.

And now Ben Stokes
joins Jonny Bear Stoke and

England in desperate
need of a partnership.

That's a beautiful
shot from Ben Stokes.

My gosh.

Explosive stuff from Ben Stokes.

Stokes is flashing
through extra cover.

Nothing Lyon
could do about that.

Ben Stokes is probably one of
the best all-rounders in the game.

And obviously he was
controlling their innings,

even though they were
behind the eight ball.

At the moment,
it's with England.

Stokes in particular, who's moved to
88, seems to be enjoying pace on the ball.

He's going to get some more now
because Mitchell Stark is going to come on.

Ben Stokes is that complete
package cricketer, if you like,

and he nearly got him home
three days ago against Sri Lanka.

So he was the
wicket that we wanted.

Standing in swinging Yorker.

The perfect Yorker.

And that was pretty much
the end of England's hopes.

It was nail in the coffin.

Game done at that point.

What a performance
from Australia.

The five times world champions
are the first side through to the semis.

A complete performance
from a complete team.

It's one thing to talk
about all these things.

You've got to execute
it as well, right?

Well done, everyone.

So you've got to have your players
thinking the right way, and more

importantly, making sure they've got
the skill to execute it under pressure.

And that day, most things
worked out quite nicely.

Well done up there now.

Cheers, thanks mate.

Boys,

before we just wrap
it up, couple of things.

Well done.

We're all really proud of you.

Great job.

Great job.

The only thing I want to say
though is that this isn't the semi-final.

Enjoy it, but this
isn't the semi-final yet.

There's still... we've got
plenty to do before that.

It was a team that all of a sudden
looked very, very comfortable with itself.

Game over.

They win by 86 runs.

Six months before, no one had given
them the faintest hope of getting that far.

But they got to a point in
the tournament where they

thought, well, who says
we can't go all the way?

The feeling around the
group was awesome.

You could feel the really genuine care
and love for each other and, you know,

how hard they were training and how hard
they were pushing themselves to training.

And that was sort of transferring
over into performances on the field.

And that was the way I knew
teams to be that I played in.

I think it's important to train at a
really high intensity because if you

don't, you can't just
switch that on and off.

I think you have to be
exposed to that consistently.

Knowing that I had to face
up to Mitchell Stark and Pat

Cummins, I literally am petrified
when I walk into those nets.

It's just, how am I
going to go today?

It's a shocking feeling
walking into the nets with fear.

Practicing batting against our fast
bowlers, you know, they're coming in

bowling 150 Ks in the nets, which
feels like 160 in a confined space.

So if you're doing that and you're
doing that well, then I feel as though that

gives you so much confidence
when you go out to the middle.

All I remember was Starkey
bowling a bouncer and hitting Maxwell.

Looked pretty bad.

He walked out, looked
like he was in pain.

And...

Soss walked in and
Soss obviously hadn't

played, you know, the
last four or five games.

He was basically a spare batter.

And I remember Punna
saying, you never know Soss,

if Maxie's no good here,
this might be your chance.

I bowled a pretty bad ball and that
was meant to be my last ball of the spell.

And I just thought, nah, I
better finish on a good one.

So I'll bowl one more.

Soss is probably the bravest
man you'll ever meet in cricket.

He never shows pain.

For him to walk straight out and nothing,
no expression on his face or anything like

that, it was pretty obvious
that something wasn't right.

You're hard dropped because you just
know if he's admitting that he's in pain,

he's seriously gone.

I just remember this sort of sharp
pain and I couldn't move my wrist.

And sort of the emotions
sort of started kicking in.

I knew deep down
that I'd broken my arm.

I sort of knew that maybe that
was the end of my World Cup.

He's one of my best mates.

I just didn't know what to say.

Honestly, he broke my heart.

I don't know how to put into words that
emotion that I was feeling at the time.

I just wanted to hug him.

He's not a big hugger, but I just
wanted to... I am a big hugger.

I just wanted to hold him and just
be like, mate, I feel so sorry for you.

I just wanted to cry
for him, you know.

The realisation of me having
an injury and that ending

my World Cup was, you
know, it was really hard to take.

I'm 36.

You know, the World Cup,
you know, might have been

the last time I played in
an Australian cricket team.

And, you know, for it
to end with a broken arm

was definitely, you
know, really disappointing.

You know, what do
you do in a World Cup?

You've just got to
move on pretty quickly.

Very rare, I think, a tournament
goes perfectly for you.

But you've just got to find a way to
adapt and adjust and go and win games.

This final group match against South
Africa for Australia was very simple.

If they won, they would
go top of the table.

If they lost, then it would be a case of
them facing England in the semi-final.

We needed to win that game back.

Sadly.

South Africa, brilliant stuff.

Australia haven't
been quite at their best.

Here's Tahir.

Good!

Should be out is out.

Finch hits it straight to cover.

But a brilliant start for
South Africa once again.

Elizabeth Mkhawaja is in at
three and he's in early today.

He's a fine player and he is
a cement type player for me.

He's what you put
your foundation on.

Davey hit one down the leg side.

It came out of
absolutely nowhere.

You just feel it.

That's what you
feel a lot of times.

You just feel a
sort of ping off.

I felt that ping.

I think Usman Khawaja is genuinely
struggling and is battling here.

He's going to
get the physio out.

As soon as it happened,
I knew, like, oh shit.

Like, I just knew,
like, I'm cooked here.

Usman Khawaja is in a bad way.

And what does that spell for
the rest of the tournament also?

Then Davey was just like, you've
got to go because you can't run.

I'm like, yeah,
sorry, I've got to go.

I honestly can't remember
being that disappointed,

coming off the cricket
field ever in my life.

Walking off the field like
that and not being out just

feels like you've let your
team down straight away.

Knowing that that was my World
Cup over, it just hit me so hard.

It was the first time I've ever in my
life shed tears in a dressing room, ever.

You know, you dream of playing World
Cups, you dream of playing World Cup semis,

World Cup finals, and it
was taken away right there.

Yeah, it was shattering
for Usman to do his hammy.

To have Sean, who would have come
in as his replacement, injured as well,

yeah, it wasn't the best week
for us up there in Manchester.

Brilliant bit of cricket
from South Africa.

Australia will be disappointed.

They could have ended up
top of the Pops, they don't.

So they'll be playing in the
second semi-final against England.

If I look at it in the most simple terms,
we lost out one of our premier batters.

In the run chase.

And we specifically picked
Usman Khawaja, the test

number three, to get us
through those tough moments.

And we didn't get through it.

And we lost his replacement,
Sean Marsh, the day before.

Yeah, it just felt like everything sort
of just went from being really good,

just like the complete 180.

Now we're...
everything's really bad.

We said about before this game
not to play on emotion, to play on skill.

Well, when we turn up on Thursday,
probably unlike we did today, think about

those two sitting right there
who's helped us get to this position.

Mate, they've been two of our
best players for the last 12 months.

They've helped us get to this
position to be in the World Cup.

So let's play on a bit of emotion,
because we talked about we went to

Gallipoli, we talked
about mateship's one of

our values, we talked
about the brotherhood.

Well, let's dig deep in
our preparation this week.

If we do it for nothing else, it's
for these two blokes right here.

Because they're not going to play, and you
know that they'll both cut their leg off.

They deserve to play.

The oldest of
rivalries in the game.

It's England against Australia.

It is the World Cup semi-final.

Everything that's gone
before today is irrelevant.

Today, you need to come
out and play your best cricket.

On our day, we know
if we turn up and we

execute the right way,
that we can beat anyone.

This is a huge occasion.

It should be an
absolute cracker.

We're going to go for it.

Geoffrey Archer.

He's got the skills, Archer.

Can he deliver?

That's the ball
you're looking for.

That's the one
they're looking for.

Give it.

Give it.

First ball.

Finchie gets out first ball.

The captain gets out first ball.

So Plan A for Finch.

Plan B.

Tight line to Warner.

Try and nick him off.

Two slips waiting.

Edged and taken.

What a start from England.

What a start from Wolves.

We were behind the
eight ball from the start.

Oh, what a beauty.

Trouble for Australia.

Hanscom's got to go for four.

Fourteen for three.

This is not happening.

This is not what I'd seen
happening with this group.

The pressure's on here
for the Australian batsmen.

Kerry comes in at number
five, a promotion for him.

He is a man in nick, but he is going to
face some unbelievable new ball bowling.

A good test for Kerry here.

A test not just of ability and
technique, but also of courage and heart.

You're obviously quite excited or
nervous and anxious and sitting there,

and then once that wicket falls,
you're like, OK, go through those words,

that worked for me, and
then you're into the battle.

What a bumper.

Absolutely beautifully bowled, and
unfortunately, a little cut on the chin.

The grill went back.

The buckle busted and it fell off
and caught it, so that was good.

It's probably saved my wicket.

Alex Carey getting
some treatment.

I think just when you're out in that
contest, that battle, that it's just a

little flesh wound, and
your main focus is batting.

You're making runs and
not losing your wicket.

Alex Carey, he's
out there to do battle.

It's a brave effort,
this from Carey.

He must be uncomfortable
under that strapping.

The face has begun to swell up.

You can see that.

We talk about character, don't we, in
the game all the time, and to see him

hit like that early on, I don't care who
it is, it's going to shake you up and it's

going to rattle you to a certain degree,
but you wouldn't have known with him.

He just got back on with it and knew
what job he had to do for his team,

and he went about doing it
the best way that he could.

Oh, it's in the air,
through the gap and away.

What poise, what positivity,
what execution by this

wonderful new wicket-keeper
batsman for Australia.

If I'm judging cricketers, I like to judge
them when they're under pressure and how

they perform and what
their body language is like.

Beautiful stroke.

He came in and he was calm, he was
composed, and he was just playing the game.

If this partnership progresses into
that 40th over, it could be a very,

very competitive total
that Australia can build.

It was funny because I kept
saying, someone will pull us out.

Someone will pull us
out for the last six months.

Someone will do it.

Someone will pull us out.

Someone will pull
us out of trouble.

There's a man out there,
straight to him, surely, yes!

Straight to him.

Partnership broken.

Australia didn't have the
batting prowess in form

to be able to rescue
the innings at that stage.

So when Carey departs,
there's a dull sense of dread.

The wrong one, close.

He hasn't picked the wrong one.

In the end, Smith.

Watch that ball.

Straight between
Steve Smith's legs.

Can you believe it?

Yes, Steve Smith, unfortunately,
he's going to have to go.

What a performance from
this England bowling attack.

2-24, all-out Australia.

Game plan's exactly the same.

Nothing changes.

Nothing changes.

Good night.

Good night.

You know what we're doing.

Nothing changes.

They won't give
it up, Australia.

They are champions.

You want to be a match-winner.

You want to... To World Cup
semi-final, you want to be remembered.

I remember walking
out there just pumped.

Just...

Just going... Can't wait.

This is a chance where we
can do something really special.

So we knew we had to
be taking early wickets.

I think that was
our best chance.

We couldn't just let it...

Peter out to the back end of the innings
because they play quite aggressive.

We had to take wickets.

Sharped.

Really good shot, that.

It's a tough game and the best
can even get belted at times.

If Mitch is the best bowler in
the world, he's getting smacked.

What am I going to do?

That is a statement of
intent if ever there was one.

Cummins into the attack.

Oh, what a shot.

When we didn't take a wicket early, the
game kind of slipped away pretty quickly.

Cratched.

Brilliant.

And these two are
on fire at Edgbaston.

It ended up being
just one of those days.

Because I didn't see
it coming that way.

That's up here in
the commentary box.

It's an exhibition of batting.

It has been for a while.

Hits away over mid-arm.

How fitting it is that
Captain Morgan is the man

that leads his team to
Lords for a World Cup final.

Australia, they've been
completely outplayed by England.

It's been clinical.

It's been ruthless.

As a kid, that's
all you dreamt of.

Playing in a World Cup final.

That was a dream.

And got taken away.

You either win it and you're the Kings
or you lose it and, yeah, you feel empty.

You leave feeling empty.

That opportunity that that
group had has been missed.

An opportunity to leave their own
history on World Cup cricket as a team.

That's what it's all about.

The 2019 Australian World Cup cricket team
had an opportunity to do something that

some of them might not get
an opportunity to do again.

You can silver-line it
as much as you want.

You're there to
win the World Cup.

We'd got this far as a
great group of people.

We had amazing preparation.

We had great support staff.

The players were playing well.

And you know it's over.

Well, it's an unusual summer
because we've got the World Cup

and the Ashes in the same
summer, which is just incredible.

England had their moment
here on the 14th of July.

For Australia, if there's anything that
can potentially rival a World Cup win,

it's winning in Ashes.

Next, on The Test.

Steve Smith is back!

Not every day is by
a test of laws, mate.

Oh, no!

I don't think I've ever seen someone
get hit so hard on the cricket ground.

What's the story, lads?

We were really worried.

It's 150 kilometres an hour.

You're hit by a car at 150 kilometres
an hour, you're not getting up.

This is our best batter.

He's just been knocked out.

Like, what's going to happen?

Let's do it.

We need him, you know!