This is CBS, I on the World, I'm John Bachelor.

Tomorrow, the match between India and Australia

for the World Cup Championship of Cricket played at a stadium named for Norengramodi and Nachmatabad, India,

100,000 fans in the stadium.

Hundreds of millions of people watching worldwide, especially the 25 million people of Australia.

So I go to Scott Mam and CBS News and Brisbane, Queensland.

This is an exciting moment.

Australia has come back from doubts about its team and that says that Australia can come back

to Scott.

So I want to begin with what worries both your world and my world, which is the economy.

The winner or loser on Sunday will not change the outlook for both of us. We have to weather this inflation. How is

it now for your confidence, for your inflation, for your jobs number? Are people gloomy coming

to Christmas? good evening to you

good day John and may I say the cricket clash this weekend it's going to be a very

welcome distraction because we love playing India. It's always been a friendly rivalry. Whether we

win or lose it doesn't matter but it's always been a friendly rivalry with India. It's a

great game so if there are any non cricket lovers or don't

know much about what cricket is all about if you can manage to watch it I

would recommend it but yes it is a distraction because come Monday

we're expecting more figures to come through doom and gloom figures as we head

into our Christmas period.

We're already getting reports that, well, the pre-Christmas sales are just not happening, quite

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