This is an ABC podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Short and Curly Cricket Championships coming to you

live from the Sydney imaginary cricket ground otherwise known as Molly's backyard.

It's a great day here at the Sydney Imaginary Cricket Ground.

I hope you can stay with us for the rest of the match.

I'm Carl Smith, the captain of the, let's be frank, best team team here today with me is Molly Daniels the captain of the team I'll be playing

And beating today. Go Molly

Oh, we've got an excellent crowd here. It's some of Dad's work friends and some of mum's work friends.

Can't, Molly.

Don't smash a window!

And that's about it for the crowd, Carl.

Back to you.

Thanks Molly. We're down looking at the pitch it's a freshly mown section of the backyard lawn

the oval itself roughly five meters in diameter and if you hit the ball into the kitchen window you are

immediately out now let's get this game of cricket started. What a fine

evening here at the Shorten Curly Cricket Ground, a crowd of three people scattered across the backyard,

and a few kids in position near the clothes line ready to catch someone out and here's

Molly Daniels at the crease looking unsteady as ever waving around her bat like

it's the first time she's ever held one.

Hey Carl, stop trying to put me off.

And now the athletic, remarkable, and I dare say handsome bowler,

Carl Smith starts his run-up.

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