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#OzWatch: Ashes trash-talking: A bolter of a Spin Bowler, maybe. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 6 October 2024

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#OzWatch: Ashes trash-talking: A bolter of a Spin Bowler, maybe. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/close-to-jimmy-anderson-is-this-australian-paceman-about-to-become-england-s-ashes-bolter-20241003-p5kfji.html

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor, little under the weather to Jeremy

0:05.0

Zachus in New South Wales, and we come now to start the trash talking of ashes. We don't do it.

0:11.7

We just observe that it starts it

0:13.4

It starts sooner every season. It's been what about 16

0:19.5

15 months since the last ashes series. It took place in England and it was a tie and therefore

0:27.0

the match went to, the test went to Australia because they won the previous Ashes series in Australia.

0:35.9

Now we're coming for the ashes.

0:37.7

A five day test in different cities beginning in December.

0:42.2

Is that correct, Jeremy that's correct that we beginning in December going

0:46.8

to January and they've started trash talking already in this particular trash talk they're looking at picking off one of your

0:54.8

stars. Who?

0:57.8

This is an individual named Daniel Warl. Now Daniel is a, I guess you could say say we treat him as a born and bred

1:04.0

Australian. He's been playing Australian cricket forever more and he's one of

1:08.0

our best spin bowlers and what he can do he can not only do spin bowling which is basically a form of doing like a change up

1:15.2

in baseball but with a cricket ball he can also do that a very very tricky technique

1:19.9

called a swing bowl and now a swing bowl is it might sound is actually when the ball is made to

1:24.7

swing very much at the last minute so that the batsman can't actually hit it and what they do is basically

1:29.6

is they bowled the ball they spin it left or right in such a way that when it bounces on the cricket pitch,

1:34.7

it dramatically changes direction very, very quickly, very close to the batter, and it's very hard to hit.

1:40.8

And if you can get it right right you can actually make the ball swing

1:43.7

behind the batter and hit the stumps which means they are out. But the problem with

1:48.1

Daniel Warrell is that and this is a problem I guess he was born with he's actually also a British citizen he's also got a

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