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It's going right
down to the wire.

Australia 358 for eight.

Can Australia do it?

Can they hang on?

It would be an unbelievable
effort if they could.

This is the ball.

If Tim Tain can survive this, Australia
will have made the great escape.

He's under enormous
pressure at the moment.

Come on, Tim.

Here's the call.

Two tests against
Pakistan in the UAE.

It's going to be tough.

It's going to be really tough.

People were saying we were one of
the worst Australian sides ever seen.

So that's what was driving us,
because even the best Australian teams

have been to Dubai or to
India or wherever and played

against subcontinent sides
and haven't been able to do it.

But there was some real
optimism that if we play our

best cricket, we think we
can beat this Pakistan side.

We lost two of our
most senior players.

We've got, I don't know,
110-hundreds between them.

Then we've got India coming up in the
summer and then we've got the Ashes.

So we've got to start building a team
to be ready for both India and the Ashes.

So every opportunity we get to play
is a chance for us to build our team.

It's not about our lots
of good individuals.

It is all about the team.

I'm pumped about this squad.

I look around and I
tell what we have got.

We've got 15 great blokes.

And anyone who knows
me, that won't surprise you.

Because I know really
great cricket teams.

We have that blue,
that camaraderie.

We have good people
and we'll be okay.

I know this is a really tough period at
the moment, but while we try and win every

game, the point is that
when you build a foundation,

it takes work, it takes
time, it takes patience.

All I'm asking today,
boys, we've got two hours.

In the time we kick off, high
intensity, high concentration.

Everything we do is test
match intensity, okay?

I think JL, you sort of knew that he was
always going to lead from the front and

take a lot of responsibility
himself, which is hard.

It's like, you know, as
an individual, you don't

want to have that much
pressure, but he likes that.

Every time you speak to the players,
or every time you get a chance to speak

privately, they're going to pick
holes in us, whatever happens.

No matter what the selection is,
we're going to get holes picked in us.

But it's a really clear message.

Make hundreds, be a good bloke.

Paying weakness,
be a good bloke.

He knows the direction
he wants to take.

I think as us, as players, it's about,
you know, believing in him, backing him

up, and going out there
and playing his way.

Where we are in test cricket now,
right, we've got six hours to bat.

So unless it's right in your
slot, drop it at your foot.

Or if it's a pull shot,
either smack it down to

the ground, or fucking
let it hit you on the body.

Mate, it's not in our zone.

We don't play it, because
it gives them a chance.

Okay?

Righto, let's go.

We're in half an hour, let's go.

Playing away is
always a challenge.

No cricket team does
well away these days.

I mean, it's always hot
when you play cricket,

but Dubai and Abu Dhabi
are stinking hot places.

Shirts ringing wet, it's all running down
your arm, on your hands, sunscreen in your

eyes, and you're trying to
wash that out, like rub it out.

It's like, there's
just no escape.

I mean, it was hot,
but for me personally, it

wasn't like it was, you
know, outrageously hot.

I think it's different, because
we come from Queensland.

Oh, Marty!

It's going to be hot.

We all know that.

But is there any... we don't want
to use those as an excuse, do we?

I don't think we need
to talk about it anymore.

Mate, we can play
cricket like that.

How about we do that right now?

We'll never not mention it.

If they say it in the press,
yeah, it's hot, yeah, we love it.

We love it.

Aussies, we love the heat.

Three, two, one.

I know, I've got kids around the world
training, we don't want to fill in the JPL.

He has his ideas of how he wants the
environment to be, and obviously fitness

is a huge part of his life
and his direction for the side.

There's no real difference
when the two teams, OK.

That's why we get fit.

We don't get fit
just to tick boxes.

We get fit for these moments.

For these moments,
that's what we get fit for.

We've got to... advantage
over the opposition.

And there is no doubt collectively
we're fitter than Pakistan.

He's a strong man.

He's fiercely competitive.

Everything that you
hear about JL, it's true.

He can be ruthless at
times, but it's all for a reason.

Five days out from the game, we're
going to put you under pressure in these

sessions, and that's just
how we're going to go about it.

Good, Hattie.

Yes, good sprinting.

The game's changing from back in the day
to where it is now, where you used to have

a KFC after a test win
and a couple of beers.

You need some intent
to move the bar quickly,

so sharp and snappy
on your main exercises.

Knee, pose, hip,
head, knee, butt.

Yeah!

The way he played the
game is how he coaches it.

He's very hard and aggressive,
but he did everything right.

Righto.

As we discussed, right,
if you get out, we rotate.

And I know that pisses
you off, and that's OK.

I know it shits you.

I know.

Just for 45 minutes here, let's
have a red-hot good battle, OK?

New boards, start
off in this very start.

Get them out, let them know.

MUSIC PLAYS
Rotate, please, lads.

In the nets, JL has some sessions
where if we get out, everyone has to swap,

and it's an absolute pain
in the arse, and I hate it.

But he's just trying to teach us that,
you know, when one person gets out,

it actually has a ripple
effect on the whole team.

MUSIC PLAYS Righto,
feedback on that 45 minutes?

Honest feedback?

I think more worried
about getting out than

actually trying to execute
better and execute well.

Yeah, well, what happens
when you get out in a game?

If I'm getting out two
times in the nets, right?

Right.

I know I'm getting out
two times in the nets, OK?

I'm playing fucking
test cricket here.

What are you worried about then?

I'm worried about
harping too much.

What, don't get out?

What we are saying is we're not going
to accept you getting out, because for the

last 20 times in Australian cricket,
we've had 20 batting collapses.

20 fucking batting collapses,
and we've got to get better at that.

But it's got nothing to do with how we
set up the nets session, because the

Pakistanis, they might
put 10 blokes around you.

Well, this isn't fucking fair.

Well, they might put
10 blokes on the batting.

This isn't going to
suit my fucking style.

You've got to deal with it, because you're
going to deal with it in test cricket.

So we're going to put
pressure on you, OK?

Now, if you guys want to
say, oh, no, this is a bit...

No, this isn't suiting
my fucking style.

No worries.

Suit your style where
we don't have fucking 20

batting collapses every
time we play for Australia.

I love Uzi.

He's got his own mind.

He's strong in his beliefs.

And if you treat him with respect,
you usually get your best results,

especially with the
most combative ones.

If a coach tells me to do something, I'm
the kind of guy who, you know, pushes back.

Like, you don't
tell me what to do.

And that's not saying
I'm not a team player.

I do what the team
needs me to do.

I always put the team first
and what I think the team needs.

But my motivation comes from me.

Like, you can't force someone to do
something that they don't want to do.

Attention to detail.

It's like valuing our
wicket every time.

Before he had a meeting with the
whole team, I chatted to him a few times.

I just wanted to know
what was happening.

I was really just
disappointed about not being

selected in the one-day
side going to England.

He was really honest.

Getting off the phone
with him, I felt invigorated.

I felt like I had
something to aim for.

Yeah, Suits.

That's all they're talking.

That's the standard.

We had some really honest
conversations with him.

A lot of people had talked about
it for five or six or seven years.

He needed to
lose a bit of weight.

He needed to get
more agile in the field.

Don't do it for me.

I don't do it for the system.

I don't do it to tick boxes.

Do it for you so you can
become a better cricketer.

And he took it on.

I think he lost six or
seven or eight kilos.

I put everything into it.

He said, I want you in UAE.

I've seen you play in Australia.

I was pretty honest with him.

I said, I really struggle
overseas because I feel like

you guys put, or everyone
puts added pressure on me.

I said to him this time, I'm just
going to play the way I want to.

And I need support
from you guys too.

Because I can't do this without,
I don't care what the media says.

I don't care what people say.

I need support
from my teammates.

And I need support
from the coaching staff.

I've always admired
him as a cricketer.

But to see him getting
better, I admire that greatly.

I'm enjoying having Jay around.

I enjoy what he
brings to our group.

Sets really high standards in.

In cricket and the way
we want to prepare.

But he also sets really high
standards in the way we go about

our life as people and as role
models for the Australian public.

When you first come
into the Australian team,

I think you hope that
it will just continue.

But it went pear shaped.

It's fair to say I was playing in a
exhibition game, if you like, and got hit

on the index finger and
had a pretty bad break.

I was a long way off my best
for probably four or five years.

I certainly wasn't
looking at playing for.

Australia again or or captaining
Australia at that period of time.

I was struggling to get runs
in great cricket at one stage.

Seven, nearly eight years in
between tests, I think it was.

So I think I pipped Brad
Hogg for the longest

stint out of the
Australian test side.

I just want to soak it up and and make
this time at least feel like it's lasting

for as long as it possibly can.

It's not my team.

It's Australia's team.

And again, I'm lucky that I'm the
one that gets to have some say in.

The direction
we want to take it.

But it's certainly not my team.

It's it's as much every player
and every staff's team as it is mine.

And it's as much the young
kid playing great cricket.

Thank you, mate.

No, no.

I appreciate that.

As you guys know, we've got
this foundation document, I guess.

Certainly from a very personal
point of view, this is really important.

We stand for something.

Now, I will say, honestly,
I've got a couple of West

Australians, not as many
as I'd like, but a couple.

A couple of West
Australians here, probably

a third ten of you,
but we've only got two.

But that's how we live it.

In WA, we live by it, right?

We need to stand for something.

This is not going to
be just words on paper.

This is going to be something that this
group, staff, players and organisation as

a whole, I guess, we live
by and we pride ourselves on.

So whether that's talking to your friends,
it's talking to your mates, it's talking

to the media, this is about
every time we're talking

to all these different
stakeholders in cricket.

When they ask about
the Australian cricket team.

These are the key messages.

The first slide for
me is really important.

We are Australia's team.

I spoke to Steve
Waugh last week.

He felt that the Australian
cricket team had lost its humility.

He thought we were a bit arrogant,
a bit selfish and put ourselves first.

I thought that really hit home
for me to have a legend of

Australian cricket talk about
us over the last couple of years.

To have him see
us like that was...

pretty disappointing
to be honest.

You know, we don't own
the Australian cricket team.

We're the privileged
ones to get to play for it and

get to represent our country,
our people and our fans.

So at any moment while you're representing
this badge and playing cricket for your

country, whether you're at home,
whether you're in your states,

whether we're out on the field,
whether we're out for dinner or we're

having a beer after we've
won a game, what we're doing,

we want to be making
Australians proud at all times.

Our expectations, so this for
me is our most important slide.

These are the things that we 100%
keep everyone in this room accountable for.

We respect the game.

We respect our opponent.

We love playing cricket.

We use common sense.

We keep things simple
and we play hard but fair.

I think if we do that, if we're seen as an
Australian team that's prepared to roll up

their sleeves, have a
crack in any situation, that's

going to be the way we're
going to win our fans back.

I was in the kitchen and a phone call
comes from Tony Mann at the Waikiki.

He goes, I'm just ringing
to tell you son, you've

been selected to play
cricket for Australia tomorrow.

We then get to the hotel and I still
remember, there's this big cardboard box

just laying an Australian Test
cricketer written on top of it.

You imagine that, like I've
wanted this since I was a kid.

I open the box and when
you play for Australia,

especially for a bloke,
it's like Christmas mate.

It is like Christmas because
you get so much stuff.

You know, I'm throwing
out shoes and tricks.

Track suits and shirts
and cash and sunnies.

It's like gold, mate.

You're playing for
Australia and all this.

But then, unlike today, at the
bottom of the box, baggy green cap.

So there's my baggy green cap.

It's not a baggy green
cap or the baggy green cap.

This is my baggy
green cap, right?

This is it.

I'm like, oh, this
is unbelievable.

I put it on my head and I went to bed that
night, baggy green cap on, favourite bat,

go to sleep.

Beautiful.

Now, I'll go
through the list here.

Now, you will see there's
some bloody good stories here.

So congrats to those that are
playing in this first test match.

OK, Finch, debut.

Khawaja, Marsh,
Marsh, Hedy, debut.

Marnus.

It was amazing.

You know, just when they call out
your name, all of a sudden, you're like,

oh, wow, you know,
it's actually happening.

I'm going to play, you know,
test cricket for my country.

Oh, it's meant a lot
because it's been my

number one goal when
I started playing cricket.

And I think as you get older,
you feel it slipping away slightly.

Thanks, boss.

Thank you.

You know what I did last night?

What?

He?

He?

He?

I went three days out to
try on the baggy green cap.

We can't take the
smile off your face.

Can you picture it?

It was pretty,
pretty impressive.

It's so rare that there are
multiple debutants in a test team.

It's not like the footy
codes where they blood

them young and get them
in and give them games.

Is test cricket's not
a development game.

That's positive for Slaterman.

To have in the test match,
there was Marnus, Travis, Head

and Finchley and they had
all their families out there.

We had some legends
presenting the cap to me.

That's what it's all about.

That was, yeah, I
love that moment.

Families there.

Legends of
Australian cricket there.

Young kids
realising their dream.

That's a magic moment, that.

You're now an
Australian Test Cricketer.

So well done.

Thank you.

The legend, Alan Borda, to
present my cap was pretty special.

Something that I
dreamed about forever.

As long as I can remember.

About playing Test
Cricket for Australia.

First of all, thank
you, Justin, for the

opportunity to come and
present Marnus with his cap.

So good luck.

I hope you enjoy your journey
with the Australian team.

You know, take it to when I
got my cap presented by Huss.

You know, that was an
awesome experience.

And that to share with my family and
my friends came over from England.

You kind of sit back now and you
actually think about it and you go, wow.

I'm real close with Nathan
Lyon and we were talking about

it over a beer probably a
week out from the first test.

And I sort of said to him,
like, if I debut, would you do it?

And he sort of laughed off.

He's like, bullshit,
you don't want me.

Like, I debuted at South Australia and he
was there and he was like, make sure you

pull your finger out so
we can play together.

And he'd always messaged me.

He's always like,
keep going, keep going.

I want to play Test
Cricket with you.

I want to make sure you're
there and get the opportunity.

So once I did, it was a feeling that
he was able to present my cap to me.

I always thought legends do it.

In my eyes, legends do it.

Legends have always done it.

So when Travis asked me to do it,
that was probably one of the biggest

defining moments
of my career, actually.

I get the massive honour and privilege to
present Trav with your bag of green, mate.

I was just like,
yeah, no, I'll be fine.

Then once I got the bag of
green, I was just like, oh, shit.

I've looked at you as my
little brother that I never had.

Oh, you got me.

I could hear his mum
start to just lose a little bit.

So that didn't help me.

One thing I will ask when you wear
this, always compete no matter what.

Stay humble the way you are.

But also never forget the reason
why you fell in love with the game.

Because when you get this, you become
more than just a guy who plays cricket.

You're part of the bag of green.

And it makes me extremely
proud to present you, number 454.

Yeah, he's a great mate.

But also at a time when I see now when
young guys come through and it's like,

you're trying to find your way, you
don't really know what way to go.

To have sort of seen your guys
like that in your team that grab

you under your wing and go,
this is where you got to train.

This is where you
got to try and play.

That kind of stuff.

And really look after me
was really, really good.

Like a young guy.

To sort of teach me the ropes.

And Nathan's just amazing.

And it was great to have a great
mate to present you, your bag of green.

I was like, we're going
to win the toss today.

We're going to bat.

It's a beautiful wicket.

I feel like I'll get
some runs today.

Heads is the ball.

It is tails.

Pakistan have won the toss.

So for us, what
are you going to do?

Yeah, we will bat first today.

And the toss goes up.

You lose it and you're
feuding on a flatty at Dubai.

One of my favourite
things about coaching.

First ball of the game.

A cup of coffee now.

And nothing else we can do.

Shabba shabba, Sir Kota Kishan.

Pakistan ki jaan.

That's pitched up and
put away beautifully.

Straight out of the top.

That's the first
six of the morning.

Big shot.

Big drive down the ground.

That's good batting.

100 partnership is raised.

Oh, beautiful shot.

Great use of the feet.

Quality batting.

Ominous signs for Australia
right in the heat of the day.

Tough for the bowlers
and also the fielders.

Trying to stem the flow of runs as
best they possibly can, the Australians.

Well, it goes big
down the ground.

It's a lovely shot.

300 up for Pakistan.

And that is the
400 up for Pakistan.

Australia!

Australia!

Australia!

Australia!

Straight out of the top.

Big shot.

482 Pakistan all out.

And so now it's up to Australia.

It took a lot of
overs, a lot of energy.

It was a long time in the field.

The first innings
of test cricket.

And then to put the pads on
and walk out and open the batting.

Which I hadn't done
a huge amount of.

In first class cricket.

It's like shit.

This is what it's all about.

You've been in the field
170 overs in the heat.

But now we've got 12 overs
to get through for the night.

And these are important.

They go a long way
to setting up the game.

And Finch is away.

First runs in test cricket.

Down the wicket
and over the top.

Good positive shot
there from Khawaja.

Big appeal but no...

Oh yeah!

Oh yeah!

Australia's the way.

Hoga's son in front.

Today was a real hard grind from
the first session right to the last.

But not at any stage did
they get away from us.

I want to make
special mention of this.

We had one guy on Dabu.

Aussie opener for...

He's only done it
a handful of times.

That was shit time to bat.

And the way you guys went
about that then was all class.

As you're sort of dipping
in energy levels and

stuff in the field, your
mind starts to wander.

Then it's like you bat
and you're fresh again.

It's like, Jesus.

You've actually got another
gear to go to when you bat.

I think it's just because
you're not fielding any longer.

There's the cut
shot and it's four.

50 partnership for Australia.

Goes back.

Thumbs it through the offside.

That's another excellent
shot from Aaron Finch.

At one point I was like, I
felt like I could really do this.

Take the spinner on.

Big shot over the top.

And six.

It's like, don't do it.

Just keep batting.

Keep batting.

Keep plugging away and
chipping into their lead.

And it's a boundary.

And it brings up a very
good 50, Aaron Finch.

Who knows?

If we bat amazingly well in the first
innings, we might be able to get a win.

But I probably was thinking
so much about the game.

So much about the situation.

Trying to get into a real partnership with
Uzi that I used up so much mental energy.

I was so tired.

Oh, taken.

That's a sharp catch
and he'll be disappointed.

And I hadn't really
experienced that a hell of a lot.

I think just being on way too much probably
led to my downfall in that first innings.

Oh, that's gone up in the air.

This should be taken.

A lot of batting
ball in his walking.

In the end of the dangerous
collage, he's made 85.

Travis Head on debut.

There's in, taken!

And still Travis Head
has got to walk back.

He didn't get off the mark.

You know the journey of cricket
is so, you know, rollercoaster-y.

When you dream about
playing your first test,

you're never dreaming of
getting a duck on the boot.

There's that... He has given
four quick ones now for Australia.

And Marnus Labuschagne,
he's on his way.

You know, after I got
a duck in the first test...

In English, you know,
you sit there and go,

am I actually going to
make a test run here?

Am I going to be the guy that gets a
pair on test debut and doesn't play again?

Oh, edge and taken.

Straight through him.

All-out Australia, 202.

And Australia lost all 10
wickets in this session to date.

So they'll be shaking their
heads and they've got to regroup.

Pakistan will bat again.

We've got to take this
game as deep as we can.

If we don't win the game, we
can bloody draw the game and

that'll be an absolutely
brilliant fighting effort for you.

You guys deserve it.

You deserve, at the very least, to
get a drawn game, at the very least,

because you've worked so hard,
you've been talking about it, you've had a

good spirit, you've prepared
really well and all that.

So at the very least, we've got
two days to keep fighting our arse off,

OK?

Let's not have this game defined
on a crazy two-hour period today.

Big shot.

That's gone all the way for six.

And it looks like
Pakistan declaring.

Right, then, the focus will
be on Australian batting now.

How fit are they to challenge Pakistan
and how dented are they mentally?

It was assumed Australia
would lose that Test match.

But what Australia was looking
for was a test of character.

That's because now
they're on top of each other.

There was not much
we could do back then.

He was a very good player.

Oh, cuided any early-bend
become or like you.

He was able to against, you
know, he had to handle those.

He knows.

Everyone's very much his І.

But theiate, a bit to Coach, and
Sztlinga Parabio has to answer.

Adeline Williams has been a superstar by
playing for the AREA, but never actually,

So that'll be stumps
here in Dubai.

Australia, you'd think, have still
got a lot of work to do tomorrow.

It was all really positive chat.

Sriram spoke to us.

He started talking about how
the pressure's all on Pakistan.

The expectation for
them to win the game is

so much greater than
it is for us to save it.

Trusting our players
and being able to execute.

We've had a collapse
for the last 26 games.

No-one's expecting
us to hold on for a draw.

So just changing the mindset
of, yeah, the pressure is on them.

What have we got to lose here?

I like your thinking.

Much rather be in our shoes
than theirs for this Test match.

I like silver lining.

That's good.

Sriram, good work.

And we've got
plenty to play for.

We've got so much we can gain,
like we had for the first four days.

Not just for this five days
of our life, but for the next...

month.

The month of our life,
the next six months of

life, for the next five
years of this Test team.

We've got plenty
to play for tomorrow.

We can take some
really great stuff out of it.

That's great.

How does Australia
get through the day?

Well, it's going to be tough.

I mean, it's simple as that.

You've got to be
brutally honest.

Yeah, I was pretty nervous.

I was hopeful.

Not overly hopeful, because I know
the pitch was starting to spin a lot.

JL spoke really well that morning about,
you know, this is another opportunity for

this group to show Australia and
show our fans what we're made of.

If we can draw today, we
can draw from anywhere.

Whatever happens today,
it's a great opportunity.

The last four days have
been a great opportunity.

Today's another great
opportunity for us, OK?

And let's just fight,
fight, fight, fight.

We talk about earning respect, making
people proud, each other, everyone else.

Just fight today.

Just fight.

When that little voice comes on in
your mind, oh, a bit of pressure, or I'm

feeling fucking a bit tired,
or I'm going to get to it.

No, no, no, just fuck.

Come on.

No, no, no.

Just fucking steel vault.

Keep trust in your plan.

It's a really
important day for us.

Individually and
as a team, it's just...

The team keeps
building together.

I've never had issue
batting in a long time.

I love batting.

I could bat all day.

If I could, I could bat
all day the next day.

I love it.

That's fine.

Just sliding down the leg side.

Petty and Aussie
batted unbelievably well.

That's a change of pace, but it's good
enough for Khawaja and he gets it through.

Got a strike early, Pakistan.

54, Trevor said, on debut.

That's wonderful
innings under pressure.

I didn't go in trying any harder or
worrying about results or anything.

I knew that we had a better, long period
of time and I just wanted to do what it

took for the team to
try and get that result.

He's a pretty stubborn
character at times, Aussie, and

you could just see that he
wanted I wanted it desperately.

I swept nicely from Khawaja.

Flicks it out in the deep.

It's really hard to stay in the
present and not think about

what could happen later or
what has happened in the past.

It's so hard.

That's the mental battle.

Big shot.

Khawaja taking a little bit
of risk going against the spin.

People are going,
you've got to knuckle in,

you've got to bat long,
you've got to bat time.

But I sort of figured out in my head,
doing well on spinning wickets in county

cricket and throughout the last couple
of years, that if I bat normally and keep

that same tempo, that's giving myself
the best chance to bat for a long time.

It was a big shift from what everyone
was trying to tell me at the time.

And this time I was like,
yeah, okay, I'm going to do that.

So I came out and
reverse swept one.

The reverse sweep.

Beautiful shot from Khawaja.

You know, trying to save a match,
it's not usually the way to go about

things, but that's how I was going to
do it because I had that in my head.

To stick to a game plan, the reverse
sweep against Yassir Sharpe, regardless of

what's happening around
you, it was extraordinary.

If he gets out the first time he tries a
reverse sweep, he's going to cop some

grief, but he's committed
to it and he stayed

committed to it
until, till the very end.

Goes back, works it into
the gap and there it is.

It's a hundred for
Usman Khawaja.

His first against Pakistan.

What a knock under pressure.

He is absolutely loving it.

He should be very
proud of this century.

The feeling of getting a hundred
for Australia is unbelievable.

It was a relief because I knew myself
that I could do it, but it doesn't matter

whether you know you can
do it, you've still got to do it.

And having Rach in the
stand, she's just there always.

She knows that that's how
I want to play my cricket.

She's just there to
remind me to just enjoy it.

And you know that it's
not going to last forever.

So there's no point worrying
about anything else further on.

As I said, the hardest thing
is to stay in the present.

And she helps me to do that.

Take that like you did for nine hours
against spin bowling on a turning wicket.

I was so pleased for him.

Usman Khawaja played
one of the greatest innings

I think I've ever seen
in tough conditions.

Just the concentration
and power that he showed to

bat in that heat for that
long was extraordinary.

And I thought, one, it
took a lot of courage when

you're trying to play for
a draw to play that way.

And two, showed
such a high level of skill.

The captain comes out
the crease, Tim Payne.

But it's not about runs, it's about
playing out the remaining overs.

And my focus was just
pure survival that day.

I was just trying to keep
it out as much as I could.

I didn't have too many
plans, to be honest.

Tim Payne slips over.

He's under enormous
pressure at the moment.

We talk a lot about
playing the Australian way,

which is when your
back's to the wall, you fight.

And you do everything
in your power to change

momentum or win a
game for your country.

This is how you hang in there.

And you find any
way to get through.

A situation.

That's what fighting is.

I made a conscious
effort that day not to look

up at the scoreboard
or the overs remaining.

And it was amazing
when you do that, actually,

how quickly the
time started to go by.

I wasn't fussed on scoring runs.

It was just purely about
trying to spend some time.

And I knew whilst I was
out there with Usman, I

felt reasonably confident
that we could get it done.

Was that high?

Did you get the question there?

Going upstairs.

Not out.

Such a fine line in this game.

When you're a player, you better
give 100% attention to the next ball.

But as a coach, you sort of
tend to write off every single ball.

Yeah, it was a
nervous time there.

15 overs to be bowled.

Anything can happen.

But at this stage, Australia
look hot favourites to draw this.

Oh!

Appeal and gone.

1-0.

And it's the Centurion
who's been dismissed.

Take a magnificent
piece of fielding.

Wickets falling in
heat for Australia.

Pakistan need two wickets
for a most dramatic turnaround.

Lion-O came out.

I remember he was so nervous.

And he always tries to
act like he's not, but he was.

He was packing them.

To be honest, I was just talking about
watching the in-betweeners with pain.

Tasmanian having a pizza.

50 up for Tim Payne,
the captain of Australia.

I raised the bat slightly.

He won't be thinking about it.

He'll be thinking about
getting this team over the line.

When you're captain,
there's more responsibilities.

Tim Payne is like
Albert Jacker, you know?

The way he batted at the end there,
it was just... Honestly, it was brilliant.

He's Tasmanian.

They're tough.

So it all comes
down to the last.

One over remaining.

I was sitting next to JL probably
for the last three hours, I reckon.

We weren't allowed to move.

JL was like, we've been doing
well in these sports, stay there.

Oh, that's a nice start.

Oh, Tim Payne wants
the single, does he?

Oh, he's coming back for two.

Payne has started
taking a couple of runs.

He's just got to block out the draw
and he's looking after the average.

He's taken two.

Oh, nice bowling again.

Tim Payne wants more runs.

Then he's knocked it again.

He's gone two again.

He started taking
runs in the last over.

That's when I started
to get a bit nervous.

So far, so good for Tim Payne.

Three balls remaining.

Can Australia do it?

Can they hang on?

It would be an unbelievable
effort if they could.

When you're looking
to defend every ball, you

know every ball is
going to be in here close.

So you don't want to pop one
up because they catch everything.

Even just their chat.

They're quite excitable
and they were up for it.

Can hardly watch.

Catches the outside edge.

So close.

This is the ball.

If Tim Payne can survive this,
Australia will have made the great escape.

Oh, and he's done it.

This is how you play
tough and you scrap.

And to be in a different
situation where the win

was out of the question,
it was pretty special.

To achieve what we had achieved,
which does not happen in those conditions

very much, which is to bat an
extraordinary amount of overs in the

fourth innings of a game, for where our
group had came from, what we're trying to

build, I thought was really
important and kept the series alive.

So proud of
everyone in this room.

Well done.

That's it.

Just so proud of you.

All those people who
wrote us off and wrote

some of you individually
off and wrote us off.

White noise, eh?

So we keep it at white noise.

Keep doing what we're doing.

We'll be okay.

But I'm so proud of everyone.

Well done.

Well done.

He said it, didn't he?

We're definitely
in the box seat.

Mate, we had the game won
before we even left last year.

Well done, buddy.

I think more than winning the Test
match, a fighting draw, which in some

circumstances might have been declared
as a heroic draw, drawing on a batsman who

batted selflessly, compellingly throughout
a day, and then the captain who guided

Australia to safe harbour,
as storylines, it hit the

perfect tones for the
starting point of a new era.

How are you?

Winner.

29.

29.

The mood amongst
the group was fantastic.

It's not a win, so we
didn't celebrate it, but it

was a real acknowledgement
of that's what we can do.

We got some momentum out of
the first Test and some confidence

and belief that we could win
a Test and compete in those.

We were in those
conditions against that team.

You know, Steve always used to say,
sometimes drawing a Test is as important

as winning a Test, and for us it
was a really important Test match.

And I know in the Pakistani
changing room, they thought they'd lost.

But actually, they played
better cricket for us for most

of the time, but that's the
uniqueness of Test cricket.

To draw that Test match, you know,
that should give the captain good

confidence, should give Usman
Khawaja great confidence, should

give Travis Head in his first
Test match great confidence.

You know, there's some really
positive things that come out of that.

And I want to talk
about the last game.

It was an excellent
effort, really good, really

gutsy, the sort of stuff
we're talking about.

Let's make sure that's
not our grand final, OK?

This is our grand final.

We're here to win
this series against

Pakistan, here, and
this is our opportunity.

Have a good day, boys.

We turned up day one and
Nathan Lyon bowled brilliantly.

Down the ground, chance, and
this time taken by Nathan Lyon.

Good piece of bowling.

Go on, first ball.

Another one.

It was a chance.

Well, there we go.

Pakistan have
lost three for none.

Fantastic bowling
again by Nathan Lyon.

Four wickets in six balls.

Australia on fire.

We had them five for 50 in the first
session of the Test match, and then

everything seemed to
go downhill after that.

And that's a nice shot.

Hammered away through the
offside for another boundary.

Individually, as a team,
we can't afford to have those

sessions we had today when
you've got them by the fucking nuts.

Goes over the top.

And all the way to
the 200 for Pakistan.

This has been a very,
very good recovery.

We had them five for
50, and we were up.

And then we let them go.

You can't afford it.

And Pakistan, after winning
the toss, bowled out for 282.

To be in that position and then let
that slip was bitterly disappointing.

Still hurts me now
to think about it.

And then to lose a few wickets
in a clump again was tough.

Edge taken.

Edge and taker.

That's great bowling.

Just takes one half chance.

Catch, chance, and that's gone.

And then you lose one, you
lose two, and guys rushing

around who have been sitting
there with their trackies on.

And before you know it, shit, I'm putting
the pads on because I've lost another one.

Oh, that's close, is it?

Big shout again, and given.

Oh, the line's gone.

Australia are all out for 145.

And what a day it's
been for Pakistan.

Completely dominated Australia.

I just thought today, myself and
Guy, I thought we looked timid.

We were just half
there, half back, half

forward, toping our
fucking bats at the ball.

We didn't look committed or
confident in any way, shape, or form.

And it's been a trend every
time we've been under pressure.

Every time in the last
12 months we've been

under the punt, we
haven't got the job done.

And we're having these
collapses too often.

We've got to find a way
to cope with pressure.

And it's not hitting heaps of fucking
balls and changing our techniques.

It's dealing with the pressure in
your own mind when you are out there.

And we're falling
well short of that.

Coaching, what you can do, you can prepare
them as well as possible, the players,

and you give them as
much love as you can.

Sometimes you've got to give them a
little clip just so they're ready to play.

But then as soon as they walk over the
white line, individually and as a group,

well, they're living
their lives now.

Pakistan now in touching
distance to Coppell, Australia.

Can't untaken.

There it is.

So Pakistan win by 374 runs.

Comprehensive victory.

And they'll take the series 1-0.

It's such a hard business.

And we want them to play like
Ricky Ponty, but that's the end product.

And we want them to
be the end product now.

But it's not how life works.

When opportunities come,
great teams, they fucking grab it.

And they shake it.

And they give us a hand.

We didn't do that.

We've got to get
our batting better.

We've had 25 batting collapses
in the last couple of years.

That's just the facts.

We can't sugarcoat shit.

You've got to be
really patient with that.

You've got to remember
the bigger picture.

You've got to respect
how the real world works.

And that's one of the
things we're at the moment.

I know a lot of guys
starting their journey.

I appreciate everyone's efforts.

I know everyone
worked bloody hard.

We prepared well.

We just didn't put in the
practice in the middle.

And that's what
great players do.

That's what very
good players do.

Great players, very good
players, and very good teams do.

And we didn't quite do it.

The best Australian teams
haven't gone over there and won.

And for us to be able to
put ourselves in a position

where we could have and
then let it slip, really hurt.

But yeah, then cricket and
sport, you get another opportunity.

And we knew India were
coming and all the sort of

fanfare and hype that comes
with India and Virat Kohli.

And we knew that was going to
be a really exciting series as well.

It's going to be a tough series.

I don't reckon we're 100%
set on our batting line-up yet.

We can beat them.

And we will beat them.

I was scared shitless.

Oh, gets hit!

Ah!

Virat Kohli's the best player
I've ever seen in my life.

I want to completely ignore him.

There's no room for abuse.

But there's banter.

This is what playing for
your country's about, boys.

I'm the captain.

I have to stand up and show
him that we were here for the fight.