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The John Batchelor Show

#OzWatch: Rainout wins Ashes 2023. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#OzWatch: Rainout wins Ashes 2023. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://inews.co.uk/sport/cricket/england-tortoise-usman-khawaja-bazball-2511417

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0:19.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:22.0

I'm John Bachelor, to New South Wales, to Jeremy Zakis, to report on ashes.

0:29.0

This is the tournament played every 18 months, alternating between Australia and Great Britain.

0:36.0

Been played for more than 100 years.

0:39.0

The contest is about whose bested cricket?

0:42.0

Ashes refers to, in the first instance, the English team was expecting to trump all over the Australians after all.

0:50.0

They could barely hold a bat. Well, Australia won.

0:53.0

So, the English team, doing us the favor, burned the wickets.

0:58.0

And the ashes were collected, hence the name Ashes.

1:03.0

The last time it was a complete ashes series, it was in Australia.

1:08.0

And that's when I started learning cricket, thanks to Jeremy's guidance.

1:13.0

This Australia's test, 5-day test, is in England and they're coming to the fifth test.

1:20.0

So, Jeremy's now going to help me understand something that happened last week,

1:25.0

right after we got off talking to each other, a rain out.

1:29.0

Jeremy, a very good day to you, a rain out in cricket.

1:33.0

You hadn't prepared me for this.

1:36.0

When there's a rain out in cricket, what is the rule, especially in a tournament?

1:40.0

Good evening to you.

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