#OzWatch: Captaincy makes batters better and bowlers worse. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 21 July 2024
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2024/07/18/ben-stokes-runs-wickets-all-rounder-england-v-west-indies/
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/batters-get-bounce-from-being-named-captain-but-bowlers-suffer-33wm2792m
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel |
| 0:27.4 | with us. P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor. To Jeremy |
| 0:37.2 | Zachus, my coach, my guide on cricket. I've never played the game. |
| 0:41.0 | Didn't actually consider the game something I understood until |
| 0:46.4 | Jeremy guided me and I'm well into my 70s. |
| 0:49.8 | So I read everything I can because it's a special language with special players. |
| 0:56.8 | They tend to be senior players and I'm puzzled about that but I figured well it's a |
| 1:01.9 | gentleman's game it's been played between Australia |
| 1:05.2 | and England since the night early 19th, middle of the 19th century and they used to play it all in whites. |
| 1:14.0 | That no longer is true. They have uniforms now. |
| 1:17.0 | They look somewhere between a baseball player and a bicycller, somebody in a French bicycle race. |
| 1:26.0 | However, I'm learning the English tell me a statistic out of England and I want Jeremy's help on this because this is |
| 1:35.9 | written up by the science editor of the telegraph. Badders get bounced from being |
| 1:41.0 | named Captain but Bowlers suffer. |
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