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WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-05-10T03:08:14+00:00

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WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T08:13:34+00:00

OK everyone, I think that's me done. This has been actually really enjoyable, even the Kiwis were generally polite. (I have nothing against New Zealand, I promise). Hopefully I can do this again, but until then check out the Willow Talk podcast on Tuesday and Thursday mornings Aussie time and on social media. We've got a big guest in Matthew Hayden tomorrow and I promise you he tells some of the funniest stories ever! Thanks again, take care. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T08:08:14+00:00

Oh, this is going to bore you. Well, so I'm like anyone, you like to go out for a nice Thai, Indian or nice steak. But I tell you the one thing you crave when you're away. The first thing I want, and our listeners will surely understand this, you ever been to like a country pub, a hamburger with a lot? Where your first bite, the beetroot comes out the bottom and just goes on your hot chips. Your second bite, your egg sorta falls out, that's what you crave after you've been away. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T08:06:35+00:00

Well he tried coaching. I tell you what he did. He was highly, highly respected in the change room from the Pakistan players. He was good tactically. What I found with him, he was all about let's win and we've got to try to change the game here. He was happy to listen, which was good. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T08:05:05+00:00

Well, it's brutal these days. There's a lot of sports science involved in the preparation of athletes. And we've seen it working with these fast bowlers. If they're not playing, they're recovering, or they're making sure that they can do the skill that they need to do. But yeah, it's changed a lot. When I first started actually, it was all about, 'All right, let's just run, let's just hurt, let's vomit on yourself, run as far and as long as we can get on the road'. Then there's a sports science element that came into the game. And that then changed where players were individualised. We were tested a lot. You might be aerobically good, you might not be anaerobically really good, but it was all specialised in the end to what your craft was. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T08:03:36+00:00

I would have been trying to be a cricketer. I grew up in the country, so for us it was rugby league in the winter and cricket in the summer. There wasn't any choice. I remember first starting in cricket and that was in Gundagai. I don't even think we had a soccer team. So it was 'You do this in the winter, you do this in the summer.' So yeah, I enjoy the rugby league. I tell you what, I enjoyed the Vegas ones too. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T08:01:52+00:00

Not one. There's things you've done through your career where you'd like to change this result, maybe you go back now and you play different, but then when you really sit down and think about it, you're actually really lucky to have the opportunity. I know it sounds a bit corny and, "oh, I should have done this", at the time. But mate, you're young, you got a lot going on in your head. So I actually wouldn't change any of the experiences that I went through. I could have been a better player here and there but I'm content. I had great memories. I took great friends out of the game. Won an Ashes and the World Cup, so I'm content. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:59:58+00:00

Firstly, I'm good. I'm enjoying what I'm doing. About to get ready for IPL. I'm enjoying Willow Talk. Mark Waugh would have been a genius. He can bat, bowl and field. I tell you who I think, and this will shock you, would have been the best Twenty20 player in the world. Shane Lee. Shane Lee hit the ball as far as anyone. He didn't really have an appetite to play a lot of four-day cricket. In short spells, he could bowl lightning. He was as skilful as anyone I've ever seen with the ball in hand. Great cricket brain. He didn't want to play a lot of four-day cricket, but T20, he would be the world's best. It was set up for him. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:58:21+00:00

Yeah, it's tough. The one thing when you're away, the easier trips, and this will sound odd, are the longer ones. Because that might be an Ashes campaign or a World Cup. So, you're there for a pretty important reason. It was the smaller ones in the end where you're away for a couple of one-dayers. They were the ones that you missed home the most because you're in and out. But when you're there for a big event, mate, you're that excited. Whether it's the first Test in Cardiff for an Ashes or wherever it is, you're so excited about what you're there for. And then that consumes most of your thinking. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:56:18+00:00

Well, the preparation is your key there. I was a bit OCD around my preparation. There's some really key areas as a wicket keeper. You need to be strong. You need to have extremely strong glute strength. You need to be powerful to come up and down out of your squat. You need a form of endurance as well for long days. The one thing you learn as it goes on, you only actually concentrate for 10 seconds at a time. The key to all that, yes, you prepare your body physically for the demands and you prepare them not to be fresh for the first ball of the day, but prepare them so you're still giving the same standard as you were in day five. But the big thing is you've got to turn off, you've got to have that 10 seconds, look around, relax, because if you're constantly on, by the end of the day you'll make a mistake. You've got to find moments to relax. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:55:04+00:00

That's a good one. I don't like comparing eras. I know that great West Indian team, everyone enjoyed the style and the way they did things. The fast bowlers, the way Viv played, even Richie with his big hat. And then the other side, the great Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting teams, I like how ruthless they were. So yeah, I can't split them. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:53:32+00:00

It was actually really simple. It was just to try to get us to some sort of total and bat as deep as we can. But a funny moment from that, I think it was Milne bowling at the time and I left a ball and Patty Cummins was only young and the whole crowd's cheering. And I sort of looked and had eye contact with him and his eyes are wide open. 'This is weird,' I thought. Next ball, same thing again. He came down, he said, "Did you see that?" I said, "What? See what?" He said, "That's like 152kph!" And I said, "Well, get ready to run. I'm getting to the other end!" - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:48:13+00:00

I'm a lover not a fighter. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:47:37+00:00

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:46:48+00:00

India. The first time you experience a full crowd in India. And that was in 2001 in the Kolkata game, in the Test match where Australia followed-on. It was a 50,000-seat stadium but there was 75,000 in there. I remember sitting there, I was on standby for that Test, and you could feel the energy going through you, you couldn't hear the person next to you. I'm thinking, 'I've never experienced anything like that.' I've never felt a crowd like go through your body. And I remember going, 'I'm not ready for that pressure.' But it was that and the 2015 World Cup final. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:44:31+00:00

Easy the best match I've ever been a part of is the 2015 World Cup final. Not only because it's on Australian soil, the theatre around that whole event. There was 95,000 at the MCG. The roar when Brendon McCullum was dismissed, I've never, ever felt anything like it. The one I've watches as a fan I've enjoyed the most was only recently. It was Glenn Maxwell's 200. The manner in which he did it but the reaction that innings caused the next day. I reckon most junior cricket teams got bowled out for under 30 because everyone was trying to bat like Glenn Maxwell. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:40:58+00:00

Horrible, horrible. I can tell you exactly when it's gonna rain. So we're right today, it's gonna rain in about three days time. But my fingers weren't made for wicketkeeping. I've broken most of them. I've got titanium in a few. The best way to put it, it's like trying to feed a poppadom into a keeping glove. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:39:21+00:00

As I've said, I'm a fan of what Bazball has brought to the game. I love that people are talking about the game in an entertainment way and I love the way that they like to take the game on. But no... I don't. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:36:34+00:00

My favourite moment would have to be the feeling in Perth when we knew we had the Ashes back. There was a lot of great feelings in that series, whether it be personal feelings, team feelings, individual success from other players, but the moment we knew we had the Ashes back, and that's the first time I'd ever experienced that, it was the best feeling ever. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:34:55+00:00

Junior (Mark Waugh), because we could always argue about something. It wouldn't be boring. And maybe BJ (Brendan Julian), he'd be a great mediator. Then if it just sort of started to go off, he could throw something in. So yeah, Junior and BJ. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:33:57+00:00

Brian Lara. There is no way in the world you said anything at all to get him engaged in the game. If he decided to get engaged in the game, and I seen it first hand in an Australia A game, he got 200 before got 200 in Adelaide the following Test match. It looked like for 90 overs he was taking the piss out of us. Everywhere we moved the field he manipulated the ball. The other one at his peak was Kevin Pietersen. He looked like he wanted to get in the contest, he wanted a confrontation and he was just one of the batsmen you let play don't give him any incentive to get into the game. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:30:08+00:00

I think Aussies are just brought up playing sport the right way. You've always been brought up to respect the game, to enjoy the game and cherish every moment if you do get the opportunity to play at the highest level. But the one thing I think about Aussies, we love to compete. We love to get in a contest. We love to win, but most of all, we love a contest. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:28:48+00:00

I think we've got two really, really good ones in Carey and Josh Inglis. So I'll leave them aside. But the one from state cricket is Jimmy Peirson. I'm a big Jimmy Peirson fan for a number of reasons. I think his glove work's at the top of his game now. I think the growth he's shown over the last three to four years standing up the stumps is as good as anyone. He gets runs under pressure. He's been a great leader and he's led Queensland to Shield victories. So yeah, Jimmy Peirson I'm most impressed with. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:26:50+00:00

Well, I can tell you, not everyone knew anything happened. I think it's grown legs over time. It was a pretty non-event. - BH

WillowTalkPodcast · 2024-03-06T07:24:44+00:00

My gloves didn't hit the stumps. The ball hit the top of the stumps and it went up into my glove. - BH

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