There's nothing bigger than the Ashes. I try and emphasise this.
You can play all round the world, but the history of England-Australia is special.
Lose this game, the Ashes is over.
Now, Hazlewood into the attack.
Well, the atmosphere at the ground is fantastic.
You can hear 'em cheering. Everyone's on the edge of their seats.
Barmy Army! Barmy Army!
Time is ticking away. The lights are on. It's getting a little darker.
- - Oh, big shout, big shout!
He's gone!
They'll review it, obviously.
Oh, they're gonna review! They're gonna review.
Come on, tell me something!
Player review for lbw. Original decision is 'out'.
- Come on. - Please be out.
Come on.
It's gotta be out, doesn't it?
Please be hitting.
- Here we go. Big screen. - Come on.
It's got to be out.
May 3, 2018,
and Justin Langer is moments away from being announced
as the new coach of the Australian cricket team.
A team in repair following a ball-tampering scandal
that led to the worst cricket crisis in Australia's history.
Over the following 18 months,
a film crew closely follows the Australian men's cricket team,
witnessing the highs and lows of the long road back.
Gonna build a team, right? Gonna build a team out of you blokes.
Gonna keep learning every game we play.
You're away from home. Things are uncomfortable. We've lost.
If I'm being honest, I feel shithouse right now.
We can't be flat! And we can't be non-aggressive!
What do you reckon about the team?
I don't reckon we're really 100% set on our batting line-up yet. That's just the truth.
We're seen as an Australian team
that's prepared to roll up their sleeves, have a crack in any situation.
That's gonna be the way we're gonna win our fans back.
Fuck!
Whoo!
With unrestricted access, we accompany the team to the United Kingdom...
Are you here to restore Australia's reputation?
I think we all are.
Just make the next delivery the most important thing of your life,
because at that point, nothing else matters.
..the Subcontinent...
We don't get fit to tick boxes. We get fit for these moments.
Good, Heady!
..and into a Test series against powerhouse India.
Now, I just want to remind everyone,
there's no room for abuse, but there's banter, where you stick up for your mates.
This is what playing for your country is about, boys.
We honestly...and you're the selector thinking in your gut he's in our best six...
"You're in." We can't lose this Test match.
Through the World Cup of Cricket...
For me, mateship is, when you cross that line, you're playing for each other.
You are the best cricket team in the tournament.
If you keep holding back and being fearful of things, it's just gonna get harder and harder.
Let's go, boys! Have a good day!
..and into cricket's greatest rivalry - the fight against England
for one of sport's oldest and most revered trophies, the Ashes.
It's not every day you play a test at Lord's, matey.
Ooh, no!
What's the story, Bleeks?
Let's not look for soft options or excuses. You know, we can do better.
Keep knowing that the process we've got in place to beat these blokes is going to work.
This is a story of hope...
Who's gonna break first? Is it gonna be us or them?
..faith...
- We've done it before. Anything is possible. - ..and belief.
You guys, the way you play, it's infectious.
The long and difficult journey
of trying to revive and rebuild the pride of Australia.
Australian cricket. It's sort of in my DNA, isn't it?
Like, I was born into Australian cricket. I've been watching it since I was a little kid.
I've been lucky to play for Australia.
And then to see what happened in South Africa...
..mate, like most Australians, my heart nearly...
It was like a physical reaction. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
So, this is the umpires having a chat to Cameron Bancroft.
And I think they're asking about what he had in his pocket.
- Oh, no. - Oh, no, mate!
Mate! What are you doing, mate?!
As soon as you saw it, you realised, "Oh, my God. This is a moment.
"The Australian cricket team cheated."
Australian cricket in crisis
as the ball-tampering scandal sends shock waves through the world of sport.
Well, now to a story that is rocking the world of cricket -
the captain and vice-captain of the Australian team stepping down
amid a cheating scandal.
It is exactly as it appears -
a day of cricket infamy for our country not experienced since the underarm.
I think I... You know, I just can't believe it.
As an Australian, I'm disgusted by it.
There was a national sense of betrayal which I'd never really experienced before,
and it goes to the Australian cricket team is us.
How can our team be engaged in cheating like this?
It...it beggars belief.
The ball tampering must be regarded as the equal of any scandal in Australian sport.
All three players who have been reported will leave South Africa tomorrow.
What did you say to your teammates when you left?
The picture of Steve Smith,
who a few months before had been... almost touted as the new Sir Donald Bradman,
he'd just won the Ashes, he was a great young bloke,
and they were frogmarching him out of the country like he was a criminal.
That killed... That was... Mate, that killed me. I didn't like that.
To see the way my old man has been...
I am extremely disappointed and regret my actions.
After viewing Steve and Cameron's hurting, it's only fair that I make this decision.
It's the right time to step away.
I want to apologise to my family.
The impact of the sandpaper incident in Cape Town was incredible.
They got massive penalties from their own board - 12 months.
You lost a captain, a vice-captain, an opening batsmen - they're all suspended.
A coach resigned.
It wasn't about damage to a ball, it was about damage to a brand.
To see the great distress it caused Australians
and the great distress it caused really good people in the Australian cricket team,
and then when Darren resigned, I knew it became real,
and I thought, "This is an amazing project as well."
You know, one thing about human beings - I think it's about projects.
Life is about projects.
Make Australians proud of the Australian cricket team.
Morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us.
As you know, this morning we've announced Justin Langer
as the new head coach of the Australian men's cricket team.
Justin, first of all, congratulations.
What would you like to change about Australia's cricket culture?
I think one of the things that's really important is that we keep looking to earn respect.
It's not just about how we play our cricket,
it's also about being good citizens and being good Australians.
Let's not underestimate how proud we should be of Australian cricket history.
Not many countries have that luxury, and we should draw on that
and the lessons and the great history we've got in Australian cricket.
Our big news as we mentioned at the top of the program -
Justin Langer has been announced coach of the Australian men's cricket team.
It's really funny, 'cause I walked outside after the press conference
and they asked to take a few photos in the alleyway,
and it was one of those magic moments in your life
where I was sort of, "I can't believe this is happening to me."
I'm still pinching myself.
It's like when you get your baggy green cap for the first time.
That's the dream, you know? It's all happening.
And then 24 hours later, you're facing the West Indies and getting smacked all round the place,
but that's the reality.
Sweet! Thank you.
- You want to go on the swing? - Swing.
Coming home from South Africa was... it was difficult.
Being given the captaincy was a huge shock
and the circumstances to get it as well were really difficult.
It wasn't great to see the team being sort of... dragged through the mud
and some of your teammates and good mates having a really difficult time.
I made a decision to just try and do the best I can, to be myself.
I shouldn't change, sort of, the way I am and the way I go about things.
I've been playing at university since I was 12.
Dad was a wicket-keeper.
Dad's dad - so, my grandad and dad - were both wicket-keepers,
so I think that's where I got that from.
Well, he was the vice-president last time I checked, my dad, John.
But actually played a game down here on Saturday and he was in behind the bar.
So, he's one of those blokes, you can't get rid of him.
I think my mum just sends him here to get him out of the house.
Becoming Australian captain was never something that I even dreamed of.
Even when I was playing for Australia, I never thought about captaining Australia.
If I'd known these blokes were here, I would have brought my gear!
What's going on?
Righto, one ball. Get you out like I always do.
Whilst people like to say it's the most important job outside of the prime minister and whatnot,
at the end of the day, I'm captaining a cricket team -
I have to, sort of, lead by example.
I have to change bowlers, I have to set fields.
And I try and keep it that simple.
Ohh, shot, mate.
And outside of the cricket thing, I try and be myself as much as I can.
I sent a WhatsApp message to all the boys last night.
'Cause one of the questions I asked them was basically, "Are you in?"
Because there's only one Australian cricket team. There's only 11 blokes who can get picked.
If you want to buy into the values and buy into the behaviours we're expecting,
that's what I'm interested in.
And after the WhatsApp, within about...
..I don't know, 10 minutes,
I reckon I had 20 messages going, "I'm in. Thumbs up. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in."
I remember getting it sitting in the hotel and I thought,
"Well, so I'm the new captain. I'm in. I'm certainly in."
'Cause I was pumped and I was loving the direction he wanted to take it.
We sat down at the Centre of Excellence and went through all of the expectations on us.
It wasn't a lot about cricket and how we're gonna play it,
it was about how we behave,
and it was sort of centred around us becoming Australia's heroes again.
Righto. Day one, right?
There's no better practice than centre wicket practice.
We can spend all the time in the nets...
We're gonna walk in, the guys who are going to England,
we're gonna walk into the cauldron, I'm telling you.
They've played three months of cricket already.
A lot of us have played none. A few of the boys have played IPL.
Every single opportunity we get out here to be ready,
and we've got to be ready, OK?
They're the number one team in the world at the moment. They've played a lot of cricket.
Oh, that's gorgeous bowling.
Again. Lovely, mate.
Beautiful hop. Bowling, Stoin.
Travie, brilliant, mate! Good boy, Travie!
Yeah, his first chat to the group up in Brisbane was a very strong one.
Guys left that meeting going, "Right, this is gonna be a good challenge. It's gonna be good fun.
"It's gonna be hard work. We're gonna train hard, we'll play hard."
But there was no doubt where we stood and what the expectations were.
If anyone was gonna take over a job,
he's the right man to actually come in at that stage, I think, you know?
He's a strong character.
Hey, guys. Hey, guys. Hey, guys. Hey, Crash. How are you going, mate?
Hey.
Justin. How are you? Nice to...
Justin. How are you, mate? How are you going?
There was a story in today's paper about...
One thing I'm learning about being an Australian coach is everyone's got an opinion.
Mate, and if we try and appease all the masses, it's never gonna happen.
So my job is to put together a team of men, a team of cricketers,
who can be successful on and off the cricket field
and get on well, 'cause you're on the road a lot together.
So this is another opportunity to start building that team that's gonna be successful.
I remember leaving the Brisbane camp and we're heading over to England for the one-day series.
Wasn't the best start, actually, to my captaincy,
because I'd got to the airport, we were about to fly out, I think it was about midnight,
and Frankie Dimasi, our security manager, said,
"Now, can everyone just check that you've got your passports before we get on the bus?"
Blah, blah, blah. I said, "Yep. Got the passport, Frankie. We're all good to go.
I get to the airport, I'm about to check in...
..get my passport out to give it to the girl behind the counter at Qantas,
and I've got my... 12-month-old daughter's passport.
So, it wasn't the greatest start.
We flew into London and took off as a group to the Western Front,
which...I think a lot of the guys weren't quite sure what to expect.
We're going to Lille in France, better known as the Western Front.
We had around a quarter of a million soldiers over there and we lost about 46,000 of them.
It was a big deal for our country. It changed our country.
You talk about humility and you talk about big picture,
mate, it was an unbelievable experience.
I think it was perfect timing when you did have a new coach and a lot of change
and we could go as a group and spend some time together
and also learn a bit about our country and what guys our age had been through
and realise how fortunate we are.
Where you're stood now, you're on the highest part of the Somme.
More Australians died here than any other battlefield in history.
All those things that we know about being Australians, that Anzac spirit,
is like...it wasn't lost on us.
On the walls behind us are 1,200 names of the Australians that are missing here.
Each one's got a story.
Some, we'll know, and some, we won't.
These men aren't missing. These men are here.
Each one known and remembered to us.
Read the words the mother wrote.
Uh, "I'm alright, Mother. Cheerio."
The last words she heard her boy say.
People ask, "Why do you do that?" I think it's to give us perspective.
We're actually representing Australia here.
It's not just about being great cricketers. It's about being a great person.
Really important.
The second night, Gavin Dovey, our manager, he says, "I've got a gift for everyone,"
and I'm going, "What? You've got a gift for everyone?"
And he hands me an envelope
and he hands every player and every staff member an envelope.
And when I looked at it, I went...
.."That's my dad's writing."
I'm looking around and all the boys have got this envelope, right?
So then I open it up, and my mum died a year ago, right,
and there's this picture of my mum sitting on my lap with my old Australian blazer on,
and then a letter from my dad.
Why he's proud of me for being an Australian cricketer.
And he went round the whole room, mate. And it was an unbelievable experience.
You've got grown men bawling their eyes out, mate.
I knew that was a special moment.
But that was from Lille - that's the start of it -
to us hopefully holding up the World Cup at Lord's.
That'd be a great story.
- A bit cool today. - Oh!
A bit cool today.
Alright, boys, before you start with Kell, I want you in there as players, a real tight-knit group.
Just jog a little slow lap together, OK?
Start thinking this is the team we're building to 14 July next year.
Real close. Nice, slow jog together.
Sometimes it can take a little bit of time to get used to a new head coach.
They usually come in and just sit back a little bit and just see how things go,
then they'll start to put their spin on a few things.
But one thing with JL is just how passionate he is.
To see a past player or a legend of the game hold the reins
and has the passion that he has for it, it's, yeah, pretty special.
One of the benefits I've got as a coach is I've lived in their shoes.
So I know how hard the game is. I'll never forget how hard the game is.
I've experienced debut,
whether it's for WA or A-grade cricket or Test cricket.
I've experienced the ups and downs of success and failure.
I've experienced what it's like to be away from your home for long periods of time.
I've experienced what it's like to retire.
So that's helped me become a better coach.
Oh, he's gone for it. This could be 100!
He's hit it for six! What a way to go!
Justin Langer has smashed it to the boundary...
He's played 100 Test matches. Amazing cricketer. Made runs for fun.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
That's it. That's three 100s in three consecutive Test matches.
Goes for it, and he goes long.
And that's a magnificent double 100 for Justin Langer.
He's had something about him, an aura and a presence,
even as a young player coming at a big occasion,
and he just had a bit of mongrel, I guess, inside of him, the way he played the game.
You know, fiercely determined, he trained really hard.
Nothing was ever handed to him. He had to work really hard for it.
JL played every Test thinking it could be his last if he stuffed up,
because he was in one of those gold-plated eras.
I don't think he had much experience with a team that lost.
He was used to a team that won. The team that he played in won all the time.
The team he played in is one of the great teams ever,
so, yeah, I find myself asking questions of, what did Glenn McGrath do here?
What did Warnie do here? What did Ponting do here?
You know, what were your tactics here?
'Cause that's the perfect template of what you want to be as a team.
We know that the press over here is ruthless, OK? So, that's OK. We know it.
We know the crowds over here can be absolutely ruthless. That's OK. We know that.
So, it's gonna be white noise to us, OK?
Make the right decisions on the field and off the field.
That's just white noise to us.
But on the field, they're looking for us to slip up as well.
There's something that we want to talk about, have a conversation about.
There's abuse and there's banter. OK?
How about this for an idea? Painey, Finchy?
From this day forward, no more abuse. No more abuse.
Simple.
Oh, what does that mean, Jhye? It's common sense.
There's no abuse. OK? Simple.
Would that be a fair team standard for us?
- What do you reckon, Finchy? - Yep.
What do you reckon, Ag? Pretty simple, isn't it?
But I'll tell you what I do want to see - I want to see plenty of banter.
I see plenty of fun and plenty of talk.
If I play cards with my kids, there's plenty of banter.
I've watched you guys play cards for the last tour. There's plenty of banter.
- There's a bit of abuse as well, though.
It was borderline abuse. You're friends, OK?
So if it's friends, you can sort of… But you know what I'm saying?
We're great cricketers and good people, OK?
We can still be fierce and we can still fight, mate.
That's what we're about. That's what Australians do.
But we can still be good blokes.
All culture is is behaviour,
so we've got to make sure our behaviours are really good on the field and off the field.
If we've got good behaviours, then we've got a good culture and environment
for all our young blokes to thrive and become as good a player as they…
..and as good a people as they can become.
Are you here to restore Australia's reputation?
I think we all are.
What happened in South Africa has probably changed the way cricket will be played a lot
in terms of ball management
and in terms of how the teams sort of interact and speak to each other on the field.
One thing I do know is that I've heard a lot about,
"Oh, we need to start playing like New Zealand," or, "We've got to…da da da."
I go, "What are you talking about? No, no, we've got to keep playing like Australia.
"And we've got to learn."
We've got a very, very proud history of Australian cricket, and we never forget that.
Let's learn from a dumb mistake.
You know, a rough little period, you'd say, but let's learn from it
and let's make sure we get better from it.
There's six changes for Australia.
No Warner, no Smith, no Mitch Marsh.
No Starc, no Zampa, no Hazlewood, no Cummins as well.
There was a real…
..a real excitement, real…
"We are missing a couple of players and a few of our brothers are down,
"but we can win this tour."
Temperature in the mid-20s. A nice, gentle breeze. No chance of rain.
Two very good sides.
Got him! The perfect start for England!
Catch!
Finch goes!
Oh, he's bowled him!
Well, terrific from Moeen Ali. He's picked up Finch first of all, and now Marsh.
No way! That's barely believable.
It's so unlike like Tim Paine.
Marcus Stoinis.
- - Gone.
England all over Australia here. They're five down.
Good catch.
So, this has been a good performance from England.
A disappointing one for Australia.
The Australians now have to bowl out of their skin here at the Oval against England
to defend a total of 214.
Michael Neser on debut.
Crutched away from Jonny Bairstow.
Past fine leg for four. Morgan off the mark.
Joe Root, beautiful cover drive.
Well, they can't stop the runs coming at the moment.
Well, he's got under that one and he's played it nicely.
Runs required for England are below 50.
And there you go. That's the way to win a game and beat Australia.
Is there any disappointment towards the suspended players that aren't here?
Because obviously they would improve your top five
and they're not here because of things of their own doing.
No.
Get in, get around him!
Catch. Attention to detail! Come on!
- That's it. - Nice, Max.
Well done. That's four.
Ohh!
When you build a foundation, it takes work, it takes time, it takes patience,
because you can't get a kid who just comes in being the finished product of Ricky Ponting.
We all want it.
'Cause in this day and age, they all get paid a lot of money, so you go,
"Oh, well, the expectations are really high and the pressure is really high
"because you get paid well.
"You should be able to bat like Ricky Ponting when you're 22."
No, no, no, that's not how life works. That is not how it works.
I knew, as a batsman, if I got balanced in my stance
and I saw the ball out of the bowler's hand, everything would be OK.
So, that's process.
So, as a coach, I'm very much about
just get the preparation right, get the processes right.
The great players just concentrate every single ball.
Every great Australian player has been great at the process of the next ball. That's all.
It's the easiest way to get 100. It's the easiest way for us to get 320.
Australia make their way down the stairs. They are ready for action.
They need to bounce back, and bounce back quickly. Five-match series.
Shot.
Oh, up and over.
And again.
Another boundary for England.
What a shot that is. That is pretty good.
They were playing as well as I think any cricket team ever has,
and I think what you saw there was two cricket teams
at completely different stages of their development as teams.
That's another one.
Pushed down the leg side, and that's hit Tim Paine right in the face.
Yeah, I just remember crouching down to pick it up.
I thought it was sort of just gonna be a pretty regulation take
and it sort of got me right in the top half of the mouth and nose and…
Yeah, I've sort of always been brought up in a way that you just…you get on with it.
Tim Paine actually looks like he's OK again.
Now, he's a tough customer, the Australian captain.
We were getting smacked around the park a bit,
yeah, so I don't think it would have been a great look
for our captain to go off the ground 'cause he's copped a blow to the lip.
That's beautifully played again. Another six.
342/8. England's highest one-day international score against Australia.
England was playing unbelievable cricket and we were playing average cricket.
It was a bit like my first baptism of fire.
Go to England, we take on the best team in the world in one-day cricket and we get smashed.
Got to keep a brave face.
I, at times, wear my heart on my sleeve, so it can get emotional when you're losing.
Righto.
Um, first, I want to say to Painey,
you're the captain of the team, you've got a hole hanging out of your face,
and you kept going for...15 overs, 20 overs.
Right? Respect. Well done.
And then you go and take that brilliant catch. Your keeping was brilliant.
But fuckin' respect, mate.
Unless you're injured, unless you fuckin' can't play,
I don't want to hear from anyone, "I've got a little fuckin' niggle."
Got a fuckin' niggle? Think about what he did today.
Think about what we saw in France. Right?
So, your captain showed it today. Right?
And I've got to see more of that in this dressing-room, OK?
Represent the Australian cricket team.
Hardcore. Well done. Respect. That's the standard we're talking about.
Marshy, great knock.
Aggers, I thought you had a good game as well again, mate.
I thought Richo as well. How many games have you played?
Two. So, your second game?
Well done. Good job.
Righto, that's the good stuff.
One of the things I said three weeks ago - one of our expectations is we keep things simple.
So many of you guys have got so many fucking theories.
You've got fuckin' theories coming out of your fuckin' brain.
None of you are good enough to have theories yet.
Concentrate on the next ball. OK? Concentrate on your technique, concentrate on the next ball.
Concentrate on competing.
Do that better, we'll be OK. Alright?
The fielding today was fuckin' shithouse slack!
No wonder we've won three in the last 16!
I can be all nice. I've been nice for three weeks.
But, you know, how we're playing at the moment...
I know we lack a bit of experience and we're playing against a very good team.
They're a very good team.
They're playing with confidence. Alright?
So, yeah, we've got to get better, but…
We've got to get better.
Alright.
Up to that stage, he was being a really nurturing, really coaching coach,
and then, when he saw that sort of display,
I think he picked his time pretty well to show the other side,
that he is a really passionate sort of coach,
and I think it's important to show that at times.
Alright, give me some honest feedback about what I said in the room last night.
I know Gilly thought I was probably... he was a bit surprised by it.
Um... Punter were a bit surprised.
Any other feedback?
Honest feedback?
Coming where you've come from in the last two to three weeks, I think it was good.
Because I think you've been giving them some good support and care
and you just made sure that they weren't taking that for granted.
And...so, in that sense, I think it was really good.
Mate, I'm all for that.
I'm all for honest feedback in the direction of blokes
if you think you're gonna hit the right chord and get a response from them.
If you think you're gonna get a positive response from the guys by doing that,
then, by all means, go ahead and keep doing it.
But it sounds like everyone else that's been around thought it was the right time, so, great.
Like, our training, our preparation,
we're trying different things with the spinners, we're trying to challenge them,
help them under pressure, get their basics right, drilling all these things.
Once we come to the game, to get their intensity and attitude right,
and they back off and go, "Ooh, fuck. Can Sakes do it? Can Ricky do it?
"Who's gonna win it for us?" Rather than…
We've got no-one just to get the group bonding. You know what I'm saying?
What I don't want this group to become is really good preparers and not great game players.
So, that's where we try and work out how we get that killer instinct on match day, yeah.
And that'll come with experience too, to be fair, but you don't just give it to them.
What I'm hearing is, process-wise…
..we feel like we're going alright. Am I reading that wrong?
Like, we feel that process and…
..some of the things that you've actually talked about wanting to see, versus outcome,
we're starting to see some shift.
- Is that fair? - Yeah, I... Yep. Yep.
We can't then sit around a table
and be quite, sort of, harsh on performance assessments
in the here and now, then.
Yeah, that's right. That's why I've got to keep…
What will be really key is, I can't be saying about process, process, process
and be affected by us losing two games.
Yeah, I agree 100% with that.
But it's still emotional about losing, because we want to win, don't we?
I think this team just needs a little win, eh?
Come on, Australia!
It's a game you've got to win.
How easy is it for you at the moment to balance winning games
with the developmental side of things?
We certainly want to win every game we're playing.
We're not using the old, you know, "where this team's at" as an excuse.
We've been beaten by a better side and outplayed in the first two contests.
So we know where we've got to improve
and, as I said before the series, we're here to win.
Jhye Richardson.
Pavilion end.
That's come on nicely.
Where's that gone?
Went for six over square leg, Bumble.
Ooh! What a shot!
That might be out of the ground.
Probably six more.
It just looks so easy for Bairstow.
That's, uh, eight.
Oh!
That's huge!
Leg side. That's six more!
This is remarkable here at Trent Bridge. It really is.
England are thinking of 500 at this stage.
Leg side. And that is the record, the world record.
England's largest victory margin in one-day international cricket...
..and Australia's heaviest defeat.
When you get belted like that for 490-something,
you know, it is very hard for an experienced cricketer to take,
let alone a guy who's in their second, third or fourth ODI in England.
Yeah, I just thought it was important that I went over as captain and supported them.
When you get beaten as badly as we did - we got smacked -
it's always tough to...tough to take.
Oh, close. That's very close.
That's absolutely plumb.
Fuck!
Everyone's different. Everyone shows emotions different.
At the end of the day, you're gonna fail with cricket sometimes and miss out
and people will come in and sit down for two minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes.
When you're going through it all, it always feels worse.
Being away from your family,
losing, getting...copping it in the crowd.
But that was a tough tour. That was a really tough tour.
England win comfortably. They go 4-0 up in the series.
You'd lose and then you'd go have a meeting discussing how you've lost,
and then you'd watch tapes of how you get out,
and then you watch tapes of them hitting you for six,
and then you go to training again,
and you're like, "This just keeps going. This is a nightmare that I can't break."
You're away from home. Things are uncomfortable. We've lost.
If I'm being honest, I feel shithouse right now.
We were sort of an inexperienced team in foreign conditions
and it was a testing time...
..because of what had happened, I guess,
and we were getting watched probably differently and more intently than we ever had.
As we've spoken about, we've come here with an inexperienced team.
We've got to make sure that we make this a positive in the long run.
So, it's got to hurt if we're getting belted,
but we've got to learn and we've got to be able to then move past it, be confident.
Stick to these things we're gonna come up with,
and know that if we do it, in 12 months' time,
that this can be a very, very good cricket team.
I don't think it's our preparation. The messaging, the planning's there.
It's just the skill...the skill's just not there.
It's way off.
I think it comes down to wanting to be in that contest.
But we talk a lot about it.
It's the same as our batting, to get to 410, I think.
Fielding reflects your attitude of how much you want to make a difference in the environment.
And I question a lot of them whether they want to make a difference out there.
The first thing a fielder does now is just goes like that.
Puts his hand up straightaway.
Maybe we say that we don't do that anymore.
So, the guys in the ring, you don't put your hand up and wait for someone else to get it.
- You can get it yourself. - Yeah.
We're so lucky in Australian cricket, we've got so many great players.
Punter and Gilly are, like, mate, they're such good counsel for me.
Courage is rolling your sleeves up and finding some solutions.
And that's why I love bringing some of my old mates back in
or people I've admired so deeply in Australian cricket,
'cause they're here to help us find some solutions.
They're not here to smash us.
Just to talk to them. They're the best coaches in the world.
They're the best psychologists in the world.
They've been through it. They know what we're talking about.
I think what we've gotta get to with our inner-ring fielding stuff
is every...every single, if a ball gets hit past you,
or someone gets a single to you,
take...take that as a loss.
We've lost the contest then.
If the ball's anywhere near you and they get a single,
it's your job to not let them get a single.
Right? So you've lost. So that's 1-0 to the batsman.
You ain't gonna get it if you go like that straightaway, I can guarantee you.
And there's no reason why we can't just be a little bit hungrier.
Be on the move when the ball's being hit.
Be in an active, powerful position every ball.
Every ball. Because you might just get a runner.
The angle that you create might just stop something.
You might get a one-handed catch
that you wouldn't get 'cause you're not normally going that way.
Let's...let's take all that on board.
Let's just try and find ways to be better and do it.
Do it. Alright? Own it. Own your patch.
I think just to have those guys who deeply care about Australian cricket,
they're good for our young guys to learn from.
Don't get hung up on thinking
that tomorrow's the day that you can do it and make the statement,
and then away you go.
You know, the ultimate base camp's winning a World Cup.
That... You're not gonna do that tomorrow.
Just make the next delivery the most important thing of your life.
Not just in your cricketing life - the most important thing in your life at that point.
Because at that point, nothing else matters.
You talk to Steve Waugh or Ricky Ponting or Matthew Hayden
or Greg Chappell or Ian Chappell, they'll all tell you the same thing -
stick to the process.
Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne - stick to the process, you'll be OK.
And it's the hardest thing to learn.
Done! What a day for England!
Absolutely magnificent!
And it's England 5-0!
For Australia to lose 5-0 to England, that's a wound.
That's a wound felt right around the country.
And to be hit so hard
by the country where we measure ourselves most,
that was a pretty brutal blow.
I know the learnings from that is that it might not have gone to plan at the time,
but these guys will be better for the experience.
They'll learn from it.
We'll keep building our depth from that.
But it hurts losing, I mean... ..especially to England.
And the great thing is that the World Cup is 12 months from that...that series
and we've got a lot of time to build to it.
Righto, crew, just to wrap it up, um, end of the series.
We've had an amazing, sort of, few weeks, when you think about where we started.
We went to France and Belgium. It was incredible.
So, that's...there's building blocks there.
Uh...it's been a really tough tour.
I really appreciate everyone's efforts.
I think everyone's worked hard, everyone's prepared hard,
everyone's done everything that's been asked of them.
We just couldn't get the results on the field.
Um...the only thing I'd say, though, is...
..don't think it's OK.
Don't think it's OK to lose 5-0 to England.
'Cause the truth is it's not.
Next on The Test...
Something that I'd dreamed about forever.
For the last 20 times in Australian cricket, we've had 20 batting collapses!
They might put 10 blokes around you. "This isn't gonna suit my fuckin' style."
You've got to deal with it.
Am I actually gonna make a Test run here?
It doesn't matter whether you know you can do it, you still gotta do it.
What a knock under pressure. He's absolutely loving it.
That's just the facts. We can't sugar-coat shit.