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Who's betting? Who's bowling?

How long till stops? Is the ball reversing? Is the wicked breaking up?

Is the bowl the tempering with his ball? Hello, welcome to the analyst at The Ashes with me, Simon Hughes.

Simon Mann will be joining us shortly.

I'm in the depths of Western Australia at the moment in a place called Denmark,

and there's a reason for playing that song.

It's by a local musician, Adam Weston.

And I'm actually on his radio show a little bit later,

because he's also, as you can tell by the song, an absolute cricket fanatic. So we'll hear a bit more of that song later. As I say,

I'm in Western Australia. I'm heading over to Brisbane shortly and Simon Mann is on his way there.

He's been in Canberra watching the England Lions playing the Prime Minister's 11. So before we hear

from Adam Weston and his co-host on the local sports show, let's hear from Simon Mann in Canberra.

We discussed how the England Lions had got on and some feelings about England's preparations for

this second test in Brisbane. So here's Simon

Man and me and later you'll hear some Aussie views of the series so far.

Simon, you've been with the Lions the last few days.

Who performed well in that game?

I mean, one or two, obviously, in contention for the Brisbane test.

For instance, Josh Tongue, how did he go?

I thought he actually bowled pretty well.

He didn't have a great deal of luck.

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