Skull’s most cherished Adelaide Oval memory: “If you stay munted you’ll get 5-fa!” | The Big Break

Michael Vaughan, Ian Smith and Kerry O’Keefe spin splendid yarns during The Big Break on day one at the Adelaide Oval.

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welcome back to the uh Tick Tock big break here at the Adelaide oval we’ll uh we’ll talk about Steve Smith just in a minute but let’s address the elephant in the room Mark Howard uh Smithy any news where is he well I got to confess V the last time I saw him was uh in the Sydney cricket ground where he was disappearing very quickly at the bison’s ass I haven’t seen him since there well I’ve got some news I’ve got Mitchell Marsh here and Mitchell’s reaction when Mark went up the backside there there he was that was Mitch’s reaction sko any news on Mark Howard apparently he Moonlighting is Dave Warner’s Chopper pilot what that’s the mail I get there he is he’s got a new job yeah and there he is and and the the postcript of that was PRI a landing Ground Control asked him for his height and position and he said I’m 5′ three and I’m sitting up the front oh dear I can I’ll imagine what’s going to happen in the next 20 on it now Steve Smith all the talk this week Steve Smith he’s got a new role from number four to number two at the top of the order for Australia what we made of it well when you average 58 in test Cricket you can bet where you like and Smith likes to go in early he’s admitted that um he has when he in his full pump he was a great lever of the ball and I know he says I’m going to improve my strike rate when I get back to when I when I open but I believe he’ll be leaving the ball make them come to him he could be an absolute rock at the top of the order and Smithy I mean Steve Smith I don’t know if there’s players in your generation but his Bat it’s like his little pet cocka poo isn’t it it goes everywhere with him just watch him here it’s it’s a little strange I’ve got to say I mean you know tiger is the greatest golfer in the history of all time but he at some stage he L his P go didn’t he yeah I think he had other things to De with tiger than just putting at night okay well fair enough that’s he he’s had that b microchipped where is it but where is it but there’s a great there’s a great line and the piece that was written that that little clip we saw of which is beautifully written I must say there’s a line in there that says ratatatat and that is a line I think is synonymous with Steve Smith because he’s he’s so busy at the crease you know the end result is so beautiful but it’s a ratat process it was a beautiful line and I think it some them up beautiful and car boarding school boarders who have had their bat in their hand less than Steve me you’re trying to get me you’re trying to get me the shck on what what about the three players that missed out Matthew Renshaw Harris bankof is is that them done or the still time for them to come back well I think when kaaja and Smith you know move on that uh renw will be 31 bankr will be 33 and Harris will be 33 so it’s late to start I think the next wave a Matt short and Aaron Hardy they may come and and and and swoop and get the role I hope not because they’ve been Ren Shaw uh and and bankr and Harris have been said go out there and get runs which they’ve done you’re waiting for injury really I mean that’s the honest God truth of it you’re waiting for injury it’s like being like the fifth girl waiting for Charlie’s Angels it’s just it’s just not going to happen is it you know so you’re just trying to look good the whole time you do your hair your makeup everything looks good just in case you get that opportunity and their opportunity is going to be a tweaked hamstring or an AR killes or something of that nature because what they’ve got to surpass is too damn good I knew you watch Charlie’s not that of I’ve actually got a message from how just come in and says stuff you skull to save you good stuff for Bo I roll out my platin herey I’ve given you a few quits you keep going now winning here in Australia we’ve seen IND do it a couple of times in recent times Smith you did it in the late 80s what I want you to do to to do is how can a team come here and win well I can tell you how we won in the late 80s Richard Hadley got 33 wickets in a three T Series so you’ve got to have a superstar performer who fronts up every day and puts pressure on Australia and that’s exactly what Richard Headley did you have to sniff an opening Australia weren’t at their best during that series you sniff an opening and you go for it and you do not let them off the hook it’s as simple as that easy to say hard to do you won all the clutch moments that time and India when they were beating Australia they won the clutch moments Pakistan recently lost the clutch moments when the when they present themselves the opportunities you’ve got to cash in Australia don’t give you much but when they do that’s when you really go for it uh yeah I totally agree it’s all about quality players isn’t it quality players quality bowls in particular men in Hadley in the 80s uh the Indian side coming here in a few months time England in two years time it’s all about getting 20 wickets now in the last few days there’s been a lot of debate and I’ve got two very experienced ex cricketers to discuss four- day test match cricket uh I don’t know which one of you wants to start but you know it’s seriously a a topic for debate across boards across Administration is it going to save test match I’m going to start with you School you debate four- day test match cricket are you for or against it I’m well I’m dragged Kicking and Screaming into saying I want 4 day test cre cuz I wanted to survive um am I Against The Clock here oh just keep going SC some of my time go ahead yeah no sorry 100 overs maximum first Innings game start Thursday Friday and Saturday Sunday if you buy a ticket to the first two days you get the the weekend tickets free um half an hour for lunch no afternoon te $5,000 fine if you have a midwicket conference and the captain and the captain who plays for on the last on the last day gets put in stocks and people throw tomatoes at him on the in the CBD on the following day what’s the thing you like most in life the thing you love doing most in life sitting next to you wasn’t quite the answer I was going for but this is your chance now why it’s not going to be the case it’s like anything in life forny for me if you love something you want it to last for a long time you want it to go its duration and I love test Cricket I honestly do this from the heart uh and as a test cricketer at times you always wanted to to go 4 days but as a commentator and a purist of the game I just love the art of it I love the stories that unfold throughout it I love the individual’s personalities that are unfolded the character you find out about people over the course of 5 days week after week after week that I think a lot of that will be diluted if you reduce the size of it sorry right I’ve got to decide my heart is with you Smithy I’d love Tes it to be 5 days I’d love it to have stayed what it was in the 80s and the ’90s I have to go with school though because I just feel theame the calendar there’s only 12 months all these leagues that are overtaken skull um you’re going to win the Mitchell Mar trophy if you want to give Mitchell a shake to the camera because he agreed as well there you go school wins the four day debate yeah was it the $5,000 fine for midwicket conference that turned it absolutely um we’re well you mentioned s match cricket schoolly five days this place here the Adelaide oville it it’s it’s it’s a mass with history there’s been so many great moments School you played a lot of cricket here any stories any kind of special moments uh 1976 I’ve been out of the team for two and a half years I was recalled against Pakistan I went off alcohol for a month I arrived here I netted strongly the morning before the game the day before I went to lunch and and Rod Mar said to me what are you doing this afternoon SC I said I’m going to my room and visualizing getting wickets tomorrow he said well you’re coming to the West End Brewery to visualize drinking eight hours of piss with us so I did and they carried my body ceremonially burial style through the foyer of the hotel at midnight the next morning I was in these dressing rooms downstairs and I was having an Up and Under people people say gee skull’s nervous it’s 45° we walk out we’re bowling and I’m at gly and the first over I dropped a hatch I couldn’t see it had a blood Al level of. 22 and the crowd started chanting Mallet Mallet cuz they wanted Ashley mallad in the team and I was chanting it too CU I wanted him out there anyway Jeff Thompson runs into the bat pad and braks his breaks his shoulder and somebody said who’s going to ball said what about skull so they threw me the ball and I dropped it I normally took nine Paces I got to seven and I said I’m knacked I dropped the disc I thought right there’s the black there’s the guy in the black pants when I get near him let it go so I’m wobbling in and I got wickets and and jav meand Dad came in and we’re in the Huddle somebody said they reckon this guy will get 10,000 test runs and I said he’ll get a th000 off me today and in the next over J and the ended pushed forward made a fatal mistake played for spin Middle St and in in the dressing room later Doug walers said to me are you having a beer I said no I said if you stay mted you’ll get f for in the second day M oh absolutely brilliant drink responsibly it was yeserday it was the 70s it was a mad era Absolut curtly Ambrose the legendary West Indian que he’s he’s picked his alltime West Indies 11 just take a look at this 11 that curtle Ambrose has chosen uh you two what what did you make of it well I’ve played against a lot of these guys I’m privilege to say and lost to them Richard H and at the top there obious obviously the great man alongside us the next couple of weeks BC EV in weeks was he a good player like yeah yeah I did i’ know of him he did play in the 50s 40s and 50s no one of the Great 3ws uh wank farl evid weeks and Clyde Walcott I I’ve only got one change I’ve got Joel Garner instead of Michael halling because he took his test wickets at 20 right uh and Michael halling took him at 23 the Big Bird yeah I’ve got the big bird in there with ctle Ambrose L Gibbs must have been good to get to break up that quartet then yeah Lance Gibs oh well they did play a spin he’d be token because that pace attack would get 17 of the 20 greatest of all time still s Garfield oh without question yeah absolutely no doubt yeah s Garfield I like Aran the late great Shan War okay yeah I have him as my greatest cricketer okay really just he brought so much he brought so much out there he also liked adelay didn’t he he did just out there but yes but King Gary to me I mean he averaged what 58 in test Cricket never played for himself I I won’t hear of any other cricketer other than Gary fair enough um England obviously CL the ashes in 2023 morally it was England’s ashes Graham Swan he’s had a few interesting things to say over the last few days I believe we would have won the ashes last year had Jack leech been playing those first two tests there’s no way he wouldn’t have bowled them out Edge Baston had ja been playing I can’t wait to see him back what do you make of that so he going obviously morally won the ashes and Swan is saying if Jack Lee had have been available they probably would have won 5 nil well obviously Graham’s over it you know start I mean he hasn’t he hasn’t sort of um it hasn’t spored his life since the the day it happened so there’s that that episode that everyone will recall the changing of the ball car yeah but he wouldn’t have got as good a stomping as that one would he but you know Jack leech would he have made a difference how many one not outs would he have had to get well Al you’ve got to remember Nathan lion Nathan only played one test match really there is that point as well so you could throw that back at SW but we won’t now uh Fitness and routines I know you two are very keen on going to the gym hard hand yet yeah still in there Smithy every day I see you there every morning Hand hardic p he’s got one elev look at this this is the way to prepare for a cricket match school yeah um back in my day we um a couple of us used to have you know sort of have a six-pack and when we finished drinking it we ordered another one you’re lost you’re almost lost the second shot you wonder what the hell you’re looking at what was that Smith in your backyard in the Super Smash we saw an incredible catch just the other day it was Troy Johnson just watch this is this the greatest catch that you’ve ever has it got enough Oh What A C oh it’s got to be there is it oh this is the fire unbelievable he flicks it back to Nick Kelly makes those first few tracks the ball and let’s be though it’s New Zealand domistic send the wind at the Basin it’s in the wind at the Basin right um I I think it’s one of the greatest catches I’ve ever seen in my entire life I don’t think it actually happened they just tricked it up with AI bit of AI New Zealand domestic hello out commentary anyway uh junior no surprise he’s requested that we show a few of his own catches oh oh do you think that’s any good average average about this one selfdefense let’s go What A Catch en always easy to read yeah the good news about that as you didn’t show VY was in here for lunch that so Mark W was in here for lunch we’d be here talking about it for the whole CIT because I want to bring something else up yeah what uh about commentary polls oh yeah about commentary polls yeah and I understand there’s been an interesting One released just recently a really interesting one on Facebook what are your thoughts on Michael vaugh oh as a commentator skull what are your thoughts on Michael vaugh as a commentator often when you put these things up and you didn’t know this was coming up V with we’ve sparked this on here but sometimes you’re trepidation he because you open the whole public the trolls online what do you reckon and I wasn’t even hacked I meant every word and you’ve been voted the most likely guy to present the wank faral trophy at the end of the series take me to a break please it’s in your [Laughter] wheelhouse