https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/oct/13/cricket-world-cup-2023-australia-campaign-south-africa-loss
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🗓️ 15 October 2023
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends Vista Debating Society. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm John Bachelor of my Cricket Coach, Jeremy Zachis and New South Wales. |
| 0:06.3 | When last we left Cricket, this is the World Championship being played in India. |
| 0:11.1 | Oh well, around the world actually, they're flying everywhere. |
| 0:13.9 | Australia had not played yet, England had not played yet. |
| 0:16.5 | Now there are results. Jeremy, what's happened? |
| 0:20.2 | Well, John, I might be a cricket coach, but I think I've got to be a cricket coach |
| 0:23.5 | to the Australian team now because what's happened is it turns out Australia |
| 0:27.7 | is the worst team in the World Cup cricket league as we speak right now. |
| 0:31.2 | But only did they lose to India, they're losing to South Africa as well. |
| 0:35.3 | And South Africa is not the worst team in the world, but it was |
| 0:39.2 | pretty much around the bottom of the ladder when we first started talking last week. |
| 0:42.8 | But it turns out we're actually even worse than them. |
| 0:45.4 | And honestly, John, I mean, South Africa played well. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm not going to take the winner away from them. |
| 0:50.3 | But the fact that they beat us by 137 runs and the fact that they beat us |
| 0:55.6 | because we made so many errors when we were batting and building. |
| 0:59.1 | Honestly, we, it's almost like our team just hasn't turned up. |
| 1:02.3 | And I mean, the biggest errors we seem to be making as an Australian side |
| 1:05.4 | is that our team's just not concentrating. |
| 1:07.8 | So they're missing catches that as they're trying to bat as well, |
| 1:11.3 | they're trying to be too flippant and trying to basically, |
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