This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel in New South Wales. Learning cricket

from Jeremy Zagas. He is in New South Wales. I'm in southern New England. And I've never played cricket.

I've watched it now in replays on YouTube. And I've learned some of the language. But there's a new

version of cricket that everybody's learning in Australia.

It's called T20.

It's a faster match.

It doesn't take five days over hundreds of miles, lots of talk in between.

I believe it's played in one day, like a baseball game.

But Australia, which just demonstrated it has a very good team. It beat India two summers

ago for the World Championship. It just won its third or fourth, third ashes in a row.

However, when it comes to T20, all right, what's the explanation, Jeremy?

Well, John, really, all I can say is that we just performed poorly in the T20.

We played terribly.

So bringing up the speed, what happened?

We were playing T20, and last week we reported that if we didn't win the next two games in a row,

there was no way we were going to stay in the tournament. We were basically going to be out of the whole competition in the first stage. Well, John, the worst happened catastrophically. We played terribly in the next game. So we're playing against Zimbabwe. They won by 23 runs. And then the worst happened. The next game was rained out, which means basically the Australian

team on scoring, on points, was completely out of the tournament.

And really, it's a good chance now for some soul searching and having a look at what

happened.

And the reality is, we just had too many young players on this team.

This team was just far too experimental to possibly be a performing team.

In hindsight, it's easy to say that, you know, putting a lot of young players who have

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