Hello and welcome to the Ask Antirite Anything podcast, the program where we try to answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible, and the life of faith.

I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne and Australia and I'm joined of course by.

NT Wright, Tom Wright from Oxford in England.

Now Tom, you know that the English cricket team will be touring Australia at the end of this year.

So I don't know how well you are at coping with disappointment, but do you think you'll be able to live with the disappointment of Australia once again completely destroying your team in the ashes test cricket contest?

We'll have to see.

I mean, at the moment we've been in transition with the English national cricket team,

and we've got some excellent players, but we've also, some of our great stars from the last

few years who've now retired, people like Jimmy Anderson, the great fast bowler.

And so the new guys are coming on, and it'll be interesting to see.

Likewise, I think that Australia did have a bit of an upset recently with their big match

against South Africa.

And one of our commentators said, well, it looks like those famous Australian bowlers

are a bit over the hill.

So maybe there is hope for us after all.

So we shall see.

We shall see.

Well, I hope the English cricket team transitions from bad to worse.

But the reason I say that I've but a bit of patriotic fervor

today is because we have two questions from Australians. So I feel like the Australian listeners

have been letting the team down. I think we've had more questions from South America than from

New South Wales. So I'm glad to see a few Aussies have finally risen to the occasion, and they've got

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