I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zackas, New South Wales, my guide on cricket, and it's cricket time.

It's springtime in Australia.

And the Pakistan team faces off against the champion Australian team.

And Jeremy, this is alarming.

They were beaten very badly.

Why?

Was it Basbo?

Well, John, I guess you can say we're no longer the champion Australian team.

And you're correct, we were beaten badly.

And by badly, I mean, the Pakistan team basically bowled all of our players out for 163 runs.

So nine players bowled out for 163 runs.

Then what they did when they came into bat, just one of their players in one series

managed to get 164 runs and basically beat the entire Australian team with effectively just two batsmen but

one key batsman.

So what happened there, John, is we're still scratching our heads because there's a couple

of, I guess, issues here.

The first one is we should have won that in many ways because we were the champion team.

We're on home ground.

It was actually at the Adelaide Oval, so somewhere where we're

very familiar with. And our team was very, very strong. Pakistan, on the other hand, that playing away,

they've had to travel to Australia. The climate here is a little bit different right now because

it was quite a bit colder when they were playing than what it was in Pakistan and shouldn't

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