The Test: A New Era for Australia's Team (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - The Test: A New Era for Australia's Team - full transcript
Australia head to India for a five-match one-day series, but captain Aaron Finch is in a form slump and must prove to his coach and teammates he has what it takes.
[CROWD HUBBUB, CAR HORNS BEEP]
Maxwell! Maxwell! Maxwell!
JUSTIN LANGER: It's so difficult to win in India
because the conditions are so foreign to us.
[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]
HARSHA BHOGLE: The roar that comes
when you play and miss
always reminds you that you're in trouble.
[CHEERING, SHOUTING]
COMMENTATOR: New batsman in, Turner.
His second one-day international.
GIDEON HAIGH: In India, it's just a place
where bizarre things happen.
[SHOUTS]
Our theme at the start is
to make Australians proud of us again.
Now all we gotta do is start playing
good cricket on the field as well.
We haven't played our best cricket
over the last... what, how long...
Finchy? Maxie? Two years?
- Two years at least, yeah.
- Couple of years, I reckon.
Our numbers would back that up.
So, we can go, "Oh, yeah, we've gotta talk
about the negative shit."
Well, it's actually true. I think we've won
three of our last 23 one-day games for Australia.
So, OK, and that puts you under pressure?
Great. Use it.
We'll lap it up and get on with what's
important of getting the job done.
OK?
GIDEON HAIGH: One-day cricket offers you both
teams batting and bowling on the same day,
and a result.
It is a game that accents the spectator.
TONY GREIG: Lillee again.
Oh, he's bowled him!
Well, that was the old three-card trick
by Dennis Lillee.
That's hit. Ooh, it's
high! It's miles in the air!
Hughes is coming around. And so...
- Oh, it's a wonderful catch!
- [CROWD ROARS]
What a catch! Oh!
Unbelievable, Steven Waugh!
BILL LAWRY: It's down the ground!
It's four! It's victory for Australia!
It's Michael Bevan's evening
at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
I grew up in the backyard wanting to be
Mark Waugh and Dean Jones and these guys
and just playing cricket for Australia.
It was always just a dream.
So captaining never really... come into it.
LANGER: One of the things we did this year
was we got all the players to vote
on who they thought should be
the one-day captain of Australia.
It's never been done before.
And unanimously, Aaron Finch was voted,
in white-ball cricket, as the captain.
You know, we often talk about the
relationship with the captain and the coach.
I had an instant sort of relation
with Tim Paine in the Test side.
We just sort of had that rapport.
We had history together.
Whereas Finchy and I took
a bit longer to... to jell, really.
We didn't know each other and we had to learn
to trust each other and respect each other.
It's a huge honour, it's a huge privilege
to captain Australia
and it's something that... I certainly
haven't taken anything like that for granted.
It's... it's...
I can't really get my head around leading
Australia to a World Cup, to be honest.
MARCUS STOINIS: He's got sort of the front
that I think every cricketer needs to have
when you get on the field -
that unwavering, sort
of, belief in yourself.
He's got a really, sort of, soft side
to him, friendship side, loyal side.
He's really had the opportunity to show
those parts of his character, I think,
now that he's been a leader.
FINCH: We all remember our debuts.
Nothing better.
When someone comes into the side,
the excitement, the energy that they bring,
there's nothing better.
So let's make it a special one for Dorf.
SHANE WARNE: Welcome to
the beautiful Sydney Cricket Ground.
The sun's shining. The pitch looks good.
ADAM GILCHRIST: Australia only tasted
victory twice in 2018 in this format.
Little bit of pressure
on the Aussies' openers here.
ANNOUNCER: Opening the batting for Australia
is the captain, Aaron Finch, and Alex Carey.
Well, the captain is kind of the embodiment
and the personification of the side.
And in a team that's struggling
like Australia was,
there's nowhere to hide.
COMMENTATOR: Bowled him! Off stump!
Perfect execution from Kumar.
And India draw first blood.
Now, that's a big wicket, Aaron Finch.
HAIGH: Finch, when he
does do what he's good at,
there's almost no-one
in the world to touch him.
So, last ball, Australia,
to close out a rare victory.
Ooh, that's hit high!
[CROWD CHEERS]
That's a good catch from Glenn Maxwell.
Well done to Australia.
They win by 34 runs.
LANGER: What happens - you play Test cricket,
get out a few times, everyone's an expert.
You know, "You gotta do this, you gotta
do that," and then everyone's in his ear.
COMMENTATOR: It's a horrible position
to be in, isn't it? The hard...
It seems the more you miss out
on those big totals,
the harder you train, the more
balls you hit, the more you analyse it,
and it seems to get worse and worse.
He was starting to get nervous about,
"What if I get dropped again?
"I've been dropped as captain before."
Then your mind starts spiralling
into the worst things that could happen.
COMMENTATOR: Oh! Bowled him!
Through the gate again.
It's a similar story for Aaron Finch.
So, there's a glaring issue there
for the Australian captain. He goes.
The pressure is building from outside.
The pressure is definitely building for him
internally, no doubt.
Six off fucking 19!
At least fucking get out first ball
and stop wasting everyone's fucking time!
Fuck's sake!
COMMENTATOR: Bang! He's gone hard!
He's got enough of this! It's a six!
[CROWD CHEERS]
And the Indians fight their way
back into the series.
Yeah, the series is tied one-all
as we go to Melbourne.
FINCH: There's things that you're seeing
within the... in the game
that... that you... you feel like
you have to address,
but then you're conscious
because you're like,
"Well, I'm not doing my job myself,
so how can I...
"..how am I in a position to be able
to tell other people how to do their job...
"..if I'm not doing my own right?"
LANGER: Any observations from yesterday?
I've got to get some runs, no doubt.
And then that'll change
the whole dynamic again.
'Cause then we can... Then Usi's push-back.
Then Shaun's push-back. Pete, Stoin, Maxie.
That your jobs become a bit easier
and a bit clearer
and you can play a little bit more freely.
If you could give Finchy one bit of advice,
what would it be?
Elephant in the room. What would you say?
What would you say to him? Maxie?
MAXWELL: He'll be fine.
He was our best batter last year
for over 12 months in all formats.
- All cricket.
- Yeah.
I agree. What do you reckon, Scary?
Don't know what's going on in your head, but...
let it go. Just let go. Fuckin' whack 'em.
FINCH: I'll tell you what it i...
All it's been is...
I've been worried to get out.
I've been searching for a score that much
that you probably forget
to watch the ball that bit harder
and you forget get your process.
You're constantly thinking -
well, I'm constantly thinking -
"Fuck, I need some runs to, one, get the
pressure off the squad at the top of the order.
"One, to get the pressure off me."
LANGER: The reason we're saying this is
you're the captain of Australia for a reason.
The best ODI player in the world,
for one-day, for a reason.
That's what you're doing it for.
Be Finchy, mate. You don't have to be...
You don't have to be the captain. You don't
have to be anything else. Just be Finchy.
REPORTER: How, sort of, frustrated, I guess,
are you with your own form at the moment?
- Yeah, a little bit frustrated.
- Do you need to tinker with things?
Bat a bit longer. That'd be...
that'd be the number one thing.
I think when you're... when you're
searching for runs, you can be...
...you can be searching
for the right recipe,
and I think it's always...
it's always a fine balance.
There was times I'd wake up
in the middle of the night
thinking about getting out,
thinking, "I'm facing Buma again tomorrow.
"He's getting me out for fun."
Wake up in a cold sweat going,
"Bhuvneshwar, he's got me out a lot
with the ball moving back in."
COMMENTATOR: Aaron Finch. He's fighting for
his cricketing life out there at the moment.
- Edge! Falls short, I think.
- Ohh! Goodness me.
Everything gets clouded
and you doubt everything that you do
when you're searching for...
searching for a way to get back to form.
Ooh! A thick edge.
It'll get four for Finch.
Flirting with danger.
I was doubting everything that I was doing.
That's close in front. Given!
[CROWD CHEERS]
Well, that upset the rhythm of Aaron Finch.
The lbw. He's been
caught on the crease again.
At the start, it was, "I'm in a bit
of a lean patch. It'll come good,"
and then after a while, when it doesn't,
I genuinely thought that
I could be left out of the World Cup
as the captain of the side.
Just one run to win here
for a clean sweep of the summer for India.
[CROWD ROARS]
India win by seven wickets to add the one-day
championship to the Test championship.
It's a tour to remember.
USMAN KHAWAJA: He's a good batsman,
just going through a tough trot,
which we've all been through,
JL's been through as many as anyone.
We were just hoping, as the captain,
that he starts scoring runs,
'cause it's big for himself
to have that confidence.
- Hey, guys. Thanks.
- See ya.
- See you, lads.
- Bye.
FINCH: The last six weeks has been
really difficult personally, in terms of...
...in terms of my own personal form.
I probably didn't take...
...take on how... how
much it takes out of you
playing Test cricket
and then backing it up for an ODI series.
It was just an emotional roller-coaster.
Come here!
[WOMAN CHUCKLES]
Come on. Come on.
[CRICKET PLAYS ON TV]
WOMAN: You were in the rooms for a bit.
Yeah, I was just talking
to JL for... for ages.
WOMAN: Yeah.
- It was good. Good chat.
- Oh, good.
- Just not getting any fucking runs.
- Mmm.
[SIGHS]
[INDIAN MUSIC]
[SIREN WAILS]
MAN: Thanks, everyone. Welcome to India.
It's always a challenge here.
If you see anything suspicious,
come and let us know.
In and around the hotel, or at the ground, or
in the bus when we're travelling to and fro,
there's covert and uniformed police
all around the place.
So, as you know, the Indian fans
want to come into the hotel,
they'll... they'll actually book a room
and have 10 people in there.
So, just be aware of that.
If you see someone that's not
part of the group, let us know,
'cause we've got
exclusive use of the floor.
[CROWD HUBBUB]
Yeah. Go.
STOINIS: Oh, I love playing in India.
I love the culture - its unmatched energy.
It heightens all your senses.
I told them that whatever option,
we are going ahead. We are not turning.
Let's do it.
Can you get the door?
[DRIVER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
If you can harness all that excitement,
that energy,
there's no way you can rock up there
and not be motivated to play.
LANGER: People always ask me,
"Do you love India?"
It's like, yeah, I love India...
...for the first few weeks.
And then it gets a bit claustrophobic,
to be honest,
because Indians love cricket so much...
...that the only sanctuary you have
is in your change room or in your bedroom.
[CROWD CHEERS]
[CHEERING, WHOOPING]
NATHAN COULTER-NILE: As fans,
they just want to see good cricket.
In India, if you doing well, they love you -
If you're not, they don't want to know you.
Whoo! Maxwell! Maxwell! Maxwell!
MAXWELL: It's not the
easiest thing to deal with,
because as much as you want to
give everyone some of your time...
...there's 10 people waiting for a photo,
and then once you get a photo,
there's another 10 people that arrive.
So you're always going
to disappoint someone.
LANGER: And even in your hotel bedroom,
it's not uncommon
for someone to knock on the door
and almost fake room service -
"Oh, do you mind if I have a selfie?
Selfie? Photo?"
It is, like, literally relentless.
[BIRDS CHIRP]
Everywhere you go in India,
you're near a cricket match.
All you need is a bat and a ball.
There's very few things
that not just unite India,
but unite cultures, unite societies,
across income categories,
across cultures, across geographies too.
So, very, very important.
If India's playing cricket,
then very few other things matter.
Actually, just wait for five minutes.
The bomb squad is just checking first.
[SIREN WAILS]
LANGER: It's so difficult to win in India
because the conditions are so foreign to us.
We get to India and it's spinning and
the balls don't bounce much. It's like...
Yeah, India's tough.
[CHUCKLES]
KHAWAJA: And it's weird,
we haven't been in India for a long time,
but we were so close
in the one-day series in Australia.
I still thought we had more in us,
and I thought, if we
can start just clicking -
especially the batting, 'cause I thought the
bowling was outstanding during that series -
that we had a chance in India.
STOINIS: India is the most talented team
in the world. Hands down.
The players not playing
are way more talented than me.
BHOGLE: It's not easy to tour any country
when you're out of form,
but even more so in India.
And when you come to India,
you play all of India.
[CROWD CHEERS]
[COMMENTATES]
BHOGLE: Here we go. The crowd excited.
There's so many people around.
The crowds are much closer to you.
It can get intimidating
not to be scoring runs,
because the roar that comes
when you play and miss
always reminds you that you're in trouble.
[CROWD ROARS]
[CROWD ROARS]
The Australian captain gone for a duck,
and it's 0/1.
HAIGH: As an opening-batsman captain,
Finch bears particular responsibility
as a kind of a tone-setter for the innings.
The early loss of a captain who opens the
batting knocks the stuffing out of a side.
MAN: Catch!
COMMENTATOR: Well, he gets a wicket.
Marcus Stoinis is gone for 37.
Good hit. What a wonderful catch.
Absolutely outstanding.
Usman Khawaja, exactly 50.
Oh, he's gone. Beautifully done.
Absolutely magnificent bowling.
Peter Handscomb gone for 19.
That's been the story of today - batsmen
getting in but not getting a big score.
[CROWD ROARS]
India win by six wickets.
MAN: When you've got to your 20,
just hold it down that one side.
The leg that's on the
bottom, straighten it out.
Four or five breaths.
LANGER: In January, Belinda Clark sent me
this really nice article.
You know, we're always exchanging things,
always learning.
And it was about 'the year of' -
everyone sets new year's resolutions,
but no-one keeps them.
And I wrote, "This is gonna be
the year of letting go."
So I committed to it
and I sort of let go of stuff
that I shouldn't be so stressed about.
I do think he's... he's mellowed out
a fair bit, even in the last year.
MAN: Bring your shoulderblades back...
KHAWAJA: I think that's what's good about
India. There's not a lot of external noise.
Because they're a predominately
Hindi-speaking nation,
so a lot of the stuff just...
we don't know about it.
PETER HANDSCOMB: Yeah, I think
relaxed is a good word for it.
During that Indian series, he really
put the onus back on the players
and said, "Righto, you know, you guys
run... basically run it. Run training."
And the boys really took to that.
LANGER: The question now is
what we're doing next.
So, what do you want to do today?
What do you want to do?
You want to stay back here?
Do you want to have a session off?
Do you want to get down, just hit
some balls? What do you want to do?
And what was most interesting -
when we said, "OK, it's your responsibility,"
they actually trained harder.
[CHUCKLES] They seemed to work harder,
because they weren't being told what to do.
HANDSCOMB: Yeah, I mean, what I do
the day before a game
is different to what Usman Khawaja does.
So, it's just about,
you know, coming up as a player,
you need to find what's best for you,
and hopefully by the time
you make it to the international level,
you've figured that out, 'cause you're
obviously doing something right to get there.
LANGER: We used to have Bobby Simpson
and Errol Alcott. That's all we had.
We had to go to work
in between playing Shield games.
So, if you want to become good,
you gotta work it out.
Call it what you like,
but it's more helping us to develop more
self-resilient and self-reliant players,
'cause in the middle, that's what you are.
Some of that stuff today, Stoin,
was awesome, mate. That was gold.
Some of your stuff was gold.
Absolutely brilliant.
You're hitting the ball, there's no
fielder. It's just a perfect cricket shot...
There's a real positive
energy among the boys,
and from the coaches, there was...
there was a lot of positive talk.
Because India is such a place
where you don't have the opportunity
to get out too often,
everyone's together the whole time
and it's brilliant.
That's what I think builds cultures.
- I'm gonna watch Mighty Ducks 2.
- LANGER: That's shithouse.
PAT CUMMINS: I remember when
I first started touring, I was 17 or 18
and I thought, "How good's this?" you know?
"We're going to South Africa for a month,
six weeks, and, oh, we're going to India."
I think it's different for everyone, but I
see how hard it can be for the families.
MARSH: Austin, are you gonna show me
your new toy?
CUMMINS: The best thing that can happen
is have a good group of people around you.
Hey, Austin!
The team we had over in India this time
was just so close.
We're all pretty good mates.
Everyone got on well.
LANGER: They eat breakfast together.
They eat lunch together. They eat dinner together.
They watch footy together or they watch movies
together, or... And they're just together.
DIMASI: Attention, please! Oh, here we go.
Great training session tonight, boys.
- MAN: Thanks, Franco.
- Very impressed.
Um... today, we celebrate
Sri's 43rd birthday.
- Hip-hip!
- ALL: Hooray!
- Hip-hip!
- Hooray! [ALL LAUGH]
MAN: Ohh, no!
[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE]
LANGER: And I've said forever,
it's the camaraderie within the group
which is like the glue,
particularly when under pressure.
I see teams that don't get along at all,
but they win games.
Camaraderie is great,
but at the end of the day, we've still
got to play some really good cricket.
It's a skill-based game
and you win games on skill.
HAIGH: India has specialised in producing
very, very great batsmen.
At the moment, they have one great batsman
in that ODI side, and that's Kohli.
[CROWD CHANTS]
LANGER: When he's in India...
[CHUCKLES]
...he has literally got
1.5 billion people behind him.
CUMMINS: It's a weird thing
that you don't get in cricket too much -
bowling to him knowing
you've got a billion people who...
...it'll make their week
or they could end up crying if he gets out.
COMMENTATOR: Ohh! That is a beauty!
Oh, that is a gorgeous shot!
The crowd are absolutely going wild here.
Another beautiful shot
from the Indian captain.
It's a poor delivery, and
treated appropriately.
That's a tremendous shot!
You're bowling to a class player.
Here's another one.
What a shot!
Stop what you're doing
- Virat Kohli's on 99.
Kohli slashes! Slashes for four, for 100!
Century number 40.
So, India finishing on 250.
Target for Australia - 251.
So, here we go. The final
over of the match. 11 to get.
- [CROWD ROARS]
- A big appeal for leg before! Given!
India have managed
to somehow win this game.
STOINIS: Everything had been
so tough for so long,
everyone had sort of thought
we were gonna be shit, really,
that... it brought everyone together.
In Australia during the summer,
we'd lose and we were low,
but I remember it not being
anywhere near as bad as it has been.
HANDSCOMB: When we lost the second ODI,
we were actually in a really, really strong
position to win that and failed to do so,
but I think that gave the squad
a lot of confidence,
saying that, you know,
"We're doing something right."
OK, we need to dig deep now.
We're that close.
We've been saying we're that close, OK?
Just gotta find something a
little bit deeper to get over the line.
Everyone's got an area
we can get better at.
Don't miss the opportunity
to watch how Kohli plays, OK?
To watch how the best player, probably,
of your era goes about his business.
COULTER-NILE: I remember the build-up
to the third game and nothing changed.
Which I can say is very rare
in, you know, that sort of situation -
when you go to India,
World Cup coming up,
and there was no... no hoo-ha, no, uh...
no panic stations, no red button hits.
Are you going to do some bowling now?
I don't want to shock
you, but Winx won again.
- Did it?
- Yeah.
RADIO PRESENTER: Yeah, on a Wednesday, we catch up
with the former Australian cricket captain
Ian Chappell, who's on the line.
- Morning, Chappelli.
- IAN CHAPPELL: G'day, Mike.
Australia, this morning, involved
in another ODI against India,
but the home side is up 2-0 in the series.
There's a few people suggesting that
time's coming to an end for Aaron Finch.
CHAPPELL: Yeah, it's a major concern,
and it could get to the point where
you're gonna have to drop your captain
if he doesn't get some runs.
LANGER: I know there's pressure
on every one of us every time we play.
Tough conditions, India.
Players... You know, the World Cup squad,
and their...
You know, players might be thinking about
their spots in the team and wondering...
First point - best way to play
any game for Australia
is to put all your attention on winning
the game for Australia, rather than...
If you bring it to yourself,
it makes it bloody hard, right?
If you put your attention into winning the game,
then you'll do better and we'll do it better,
and then the selection looks after itself.
So, I get...
LANGER: All of a sudden, there's
starting to be a bit of noise developing
on, "What happens if
Finchy doesn't come good?"
FINCH: There was a conversation had
between myself, JL and Trevor Hohns.
"I'm the missing link here, so...
"..do you drop me and...
see how we go from here?
"And if I'm not in the best side
going forward, that's fine."
And that was a really tough
conversation to have,
especially as a... as
the captain of the side.
I had to let my guard down at some point
to be vulnerable enough
to open up and to admit
how bad you are going.
And it was it was actually at that time
where I thought, "You know what?
"No, no. Come on, Justin.
You've got to take some ownership of this."
Because we can't afford
not to have Finchy as the captain.
No-one ever comes to my bedroom, right?
It's my private space.
Finchy came to my room
and we sat at the table in my room
and, "Right, let's go to work."
I rolled the sleeves back up
and we spent time together.
And I got back on the tools
and I started coaching Finchy again,
and it was just... oh, I
loved every minute of it.
FINCH: I'd always had great support
from JL, all the coaches, all the players.
I even got messages from
legends of the game - Haydos, Gilly.
- Calm down a little bit.
- Yeah.
Yeah, sometimes when the wicket's so slow,
you try and force it a bit much and...
It's that last tenth of a second, like...
...that sort of slight response,
rather than just...
- Yep.
- ..slowing it down.
ADAM ZAMPA: Today I've got
the Colombia, Buenos Aires honey.
I'm gonna use 17 grams of coffee.
This is the scale that I bring with me.
The story is I got a tattoo
and the tattoo artist, he told me about
these cafes that I should go and try out,
and he said, "You've just got to try
filter coffee."
Yeah, now I've fallen in love with it.
Like, I just... love making coffee.
My favourite part. The smell.
So, when I pack my suitcase,
coffee stuff - so, kettle, beans, grinder -
they go in the middle,
and then if I can fit any clothes around it,
then I'll fit some clothes in.
So, I'll put the coffee in first.
Oh!
[LAUGHS]
Stoiny.
How good's this?
Start the timer.
The first 30 seconds is called the bloom.
It's important that the water
doesn't touch the paper.
This is our routine.
The barista.
This is my ceramic little mug
that I bring with me everywhere as well.
JL, he calls me 'the Love Café',
'cause I told him that the most important
ingredient is love, which is true.
With Stoin, he knows when to
knock on my door, coffee's ready.
You know, we'll talk about
the game that morning.
STOINIS: We've seen each other
perform well, perform poorly.
We'll go through the game and then
we'll switch off... [CLICKS FINGERS]
...and then it's music,
talking about the coffee.
That's the Love Café.
- Did I tell you what I did last night?
- Yeah.
They are two of the rarest human beings I've
ever met in my life. They are rare, mate.
I dunno. It's hard to explain.
We just... we love each other.
FINCH: Oh, it's tough
to describe. They're...
They're just...
They're just so close. They're a little bit
too close at times, aren't they?
Every photo, they're holding hands
and... just doing weird shit.
KHAWAJA: It's very different than what the
Australian team used to be like 10 years ago.
Cricket used to be a very rigid game. "You've
got to do this. You've got to do that."
There's a big push about being yourself
and be comfortable in being yourself.
And when I used to be myself,
even, like, five, six...
...I used to get hammered
'cause I was being different.
STOINIS: You have to be yourself
in this environment,
because if you're pretending to be
something that you're not, it's too tiring.
MAN: Who's the other one for?
My boy.
He made it himself.
He just wanted me to carry it.
- LANGER: Can I just have a sip?
- Yeah.
Try that one. That's my one. It's better.
It's sweet. Like honey.
The biggest test I've learnt as a coach
is everybody is different
and you've got to treat everyone different.
But in the end of the day, they're here
in the Australian cricket team.
They're not in the Australian fashion team, or
they're not in the Australian good bloke team,
or they're not in the
Australian best mates team.
They're in the Australian cricket team.
And that's what we always have to remember,
is that you're in the Australian cricket
team, so you have to be a match-winner.
LANGER: 2-0 down.
This is where the grind kicks in.
This is where we - and individually -
have to really step up, OK?
So, these days are the days we see who's
ready to dig deep and make a difference. OK?
ANNOUNCER: We are in Ranchi
for the third ODI of this Paytm Series.
Tails is the call from Aaron Finch.
Heads it is.
FINCH: Everyone was unbelievably supportive.
It's really touching when...
...when everyone's got your best interest
and everyone wants to see you do well.
STOINIS: Sometimes when you get into
that dip in form, there's no way out
unless you get brought with your mates
and your mates give you energy
and your mates support you.
"Mate, I've seen you dominate this. I
can't wait to watch you dominate it again.
"This is your day."
COMMENTATOR: Jasprit
Bumrah will take the ball.
Right arm fast. I like that.
Oh, again into the
pads! This could be close!
FINCH: I knew that if I just hung in there,
if I just hung in long enough and long enough,
that it would change.
Now is the time when I've just got to
put it between my teeth.
There's a build-up of pressure.
There's gonna be a big shot.
If I get away with it, great. If I don't...
...this could be curtains
on my World Cup dream.
And I remember talking
to Usi between the over
and he just said, "Just hang in there. Just...
It'll come. It'll come. Don't search for it."
Oh, it's a good shot!
[CHUCKLES] That'll be a boundary.
That's a powerful hit.
Gee, that was a terrific shot
from Aaron Finch. He looks sharp.
You could hear it off
his bat, and you went...
There were signs which I hadn't seen
for six months before.
I knew he was back.
Both of these two players
are looking quite nice today.
The fact that Usi was playing so well...
Good shot. Terrific
shot. Bit of innovation.
...probably took a bit of pressure off Finchy and
allowed him just to get himself into the game.
Terrific shot, this.
Beautiful shot! Nice flow of the bat
and sails into the crowd.
He had little Yadav bowl these
little, sort of, round-arm off spinners,
and he took him on.
This is big. Finch looks good.
That is courage right there.
Effortless. Effortless.
It changed everything, 'cause we thought,
"Yeah, no, we're not gonna stand for this."
And four as well.
What a magnificent way to bring up the
half-century for the Australian captain.
His side acknowledging the fact that
he's been under a little bit of pressure
and he's feeling good.
FINCH: And from then on,
it was sort of just flipped back into
partnership batting
and forgetting about the outcome.
In the gap for four.
Gee, that'd make him feel good, Finch.
Superb timing again.
This is good stuff from Australia.
Oh, what a shot.
Absolutely smashed down the ground.
He's gone with the turn
and he finds the meat of the bat.
That's a terrific strike.
Oh, he's found the gap again.
He's gonna move into the 90s, Aaron Finch.
What an innings this is turning out to be.
I felt as though... that I was ready
to overhaul my whole game.
Just everything that I'd tried hadn't really
been working technically or anything like that.
It turns out I didn't change anything.
I just changed my mindset a bit.
So, Aaron Finch gone for 93 off 99 balls.
LANGER: For us, it's a
big piece of the jigsaw.
If our captain's playing well,
that's a big part of our success.
Elegant from Glenn Maxwell.
He is looking deadly dangerous.
Nicely struck. That's gone
like a bullet to the boundary.
Superb shot, that, from Stoinis.
Yes! Century number one for Usman Khawaja
in one-ay internationals.
Well, this will test India.
To win the game today,
India have to score 314 runs.
And he's in early again, Virat Kohli.
What a shot! What a shot!
Superbly executed there from Virat Kohli.
Oh, shot.
HARSHA BHOGLE: When he goes out to bat
chasing, he just knows what that target is.
He finishes games. He doesn't
like to leave them for somebody else.
50 for Virat Kohli.
LANGER: He's gonna do it again!
He is gonna do it again. He's gonna...
We're gonna lose
another one 'cause of Kohli.
I've never seen batting like it.
It breaks your heart.
Oh, that's been absolutely crashed.
What a shot!
They're gonna steal an unwinnable game.
We're gonna lose another one.
That is incredible!
He's done it. Take a bow.
41st one-day international hundred.
Yeah, what an innings it has
been once again from Virat Kohli
as they win this game, they win the series.
Zampa being brought into the attack.
MAXWELL: We knew that we were so close
to turning everything around.
All it took was just someone to stand up.
I've never seen myself as the most skilful
leg spinner going around.
Performing under pressure is something
that has to be my strength.
Adam Zampa. He's a
real dark horse, isn't he?
PLAYER: Go again, Adam.
Very good bowling from Zampa.
ZAMPA: He's just the hardest
that I've ever had to bowl to.
You know, if you make a mistake,
he makes you pay.
Slogged straight up.
It's gone very high in the air.
But it sails over him. It
sails over Shaun Marsh.
Has he found the gap? He has.
And again, smashing that over
through the cow corner region.
Sitting back a little
shorter this time by Zampa.
"Alright. OK.
"Um... what do I do here now?"
[LAUGHS]
Don't need to reduce...
And he's knocked him over!
What a comeback by Adam Zampa!
Pin-drop silence
as Virat Kohli has been knocked over.
ZAMPA: I didn't bowl leg spin
until I was about 14 or 15.
I always wanted to be a batsman, actually.
[LAUGHS]
When he takes a wicket that he wants, oh,
you can see the little guy get passionate,
and I love it, it's so good.
There it is. Australia win this game.
So, with both ball and bat tonight,
it was a comprehensive win.
[CHEERING]
The series is still alive.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
FINCH: Thank you.
LANGER: Finchy, mate, I know it's been
a long, hard summer for you,
and not only have you made some runs, but you've
been brilliant amongst the group as the captain.
Well done, and we all thank you for it.
And that's what really good leadership is.
I sense they are faltering
and we're getting stronger.
I honestly think we've got
a huge opportunity now.
It's whether we're able to take it or not.
CAREY: Hey, mate. Could we
just order five... Four. Four Coronas?
You don't have Corona?
Have you got Heineken?
What other ones do you have?
They have Light. Kingfisher Light.
FINCH: That's probably what Maxie
should drink, to be fair.
CAREY: Yep, four of those, thanks.
- Thank you. Four. Four, thank you.
- MAXWELL: Rightio!
Unbelievable!
He hasn't said this many words all tour.
- CAREY: He got some runs today. [LAUGHS]
- He got some runs.
All of a sudden, he's on. Righto.
CAREY: Who dealt that? Maxie, did you?
Maxie, did you do that?
FINCH: Have some of them
just to recharge your batteries.
Oh, fuck, that's good.
- [OTHERS LAUGH]
- Chocolate biscuit.
Mmm.
Got there, boys.
- Fuck, we're good at this.
- That's a win. That's a win.
- We are a great combo, mate.
- CAREY: Eight clubs. 240.
[CROWD ROARS]
COMMENTATOR: Welcome to Mohali.
This is the fourth one-day international
in this Paytm One-Day Series.
[BAT HITS BALL]
Oh, it's a wonderful shot.
Clears the boundary for six.
India 358/9. You'd have to bat really well
on any surface to get these.
LANGER: I knew it was a good wicket,
but to be honest, that's a big chase.
[CHUCKLES]
HAIGH: The very idea of a team
scoring 358 in an ODI,
that's just ridiculous -
it's almost not cricket.
BHOGLE: If you'd told me at that point,
"Australia are gonna chase 358 down,"
I'd have looked at the scorecard
and I said, "Him? Him? No, they can't."
Australia need a
partnership. They need a...
Not just a partnership, they need
a big partnership to challenge India.
I still thought in the back of my head,
"Oh, yeah, we can chase this."
Khawaja advances, and...
I think he's hit the boundary. He has.
Nice shot from Khawaja.
Well done, Usi!
HANDSCOMB: Usi and I, you know,
we were trying to stay as relaxed as possible.
It's often the team that panics first
is the team that loses.
On the up, and a beautiful shot.
He swept away beautifully.
And he's put that ball in the gap for four.
It's wonderfully done.
So, they're starting to up that tempo
a little bit now, Australia.
It's 134/2.
We were just focusing on
taking it as deep as possible,
knowing that the firepower we had to
come after us as well was pretty special.
It's such a fickle game, cricket,
but if you have that self-belief,
it can really propel you forward.
[CHEERING]
Excellent use of the feet there
from Peter Handscomb.
That's the 150-run partnership.
146 deliveries.
Very well played. What a shot.
100 for Peter Handscomb.
Glenn Maxwell. New man at the crease.
Can't waste too much time.
He's got to get going straightaway.
I think at points in
that Australian innings,
you know, probably, people looked around
that Australian dressing-room and said,
"You know, we're actually doing this.
"There's almost no
reason for us not to do this."
What a way to get off the mark!
It's a sizzler from the
bat of Glenn Maxwell.
Which is where he's gone.
There is no fielder there.
Well, it wouldn't have mattered,
because it's cleared the boundary.
It's a good over, this. 13 off it.
- [PANT SCREAMS]
- Now, how close is that?
The finger's gone up!
Maxwell's gone for 23.
It's 229/4.
MAXWELL: The thing that I suppose
I was most frustrated about -
I sort of had that slight thought
in my head that when I got out,
I've left the rest of the order
with too much to do here.
New batsman in, Turner.
His second one-day international.
With this great elation of playing
for Australia was also this naivety.
I didn't have bad memories of facing
any of their bowlers before.
You know, at this stage,
I've played one one-day game for Australia
and, you know, I don't know that much
about one-day cricket
and what international cricket's all about
and I'm trying to learn on the job.
He needs to have a quick look here, but
he just needs to find the boundary as well.
I'm thinking, "What can I do to win this game
for Australia and keep us alive in this series?"
And there's a part of me
that's, you know, trying to act cool,
like I know what I'm doing
in an international game of cricket,
where, really, I've got no bloody idea
what's going on.
Oh, it's a good shot.
It's a fine shot from Turner.
And he finds a gap again.
So, Ashton Turner's up and running here.
In India, you can score fast,
and... in India...
...it's just a place where
bizarre things happen.
BHOGLE: And he goes straight.
He is looking better with every ball,
Ashton Turner.
It was the kind of innings where you said,
"Oh, but this can't go on for too long."
Oh! It's another!
Then you say, "Oh, OK.
Maybe a little longer."
TURNER: Once I'd hit the ball out of
the middle of the bat a couple of times,
it had gone from this unachievable task
to, "This is possible."
COMMENTATOR: Another one.
That's got to be four,
and that's got to be his 50 as well.
And I was just living in this bubble
that was watching the ball really closely
and trying to hit every
ball out of the ground.
Oh! That's an unbelievable
strike, honestly.
The crowd a little quieter. They're not sure
what's gonna happen in this game. It's tight.
MAXWELL: We probably hadn't seen India
that sort of rattled.
They hadn't sort of shown
those sorts of cracks.
We actually started to find a way
to get under their skin.
Oh, this could be out.
Oh, it's dropped again!
This one went straight to mid-off.
Oh! Can't believe that.
I just cannot believe it.
That's pressure. That is pressure.
I just felt like everything that they
bowled, I knew they were gonna bowl there.
It's a great sense of having no fear.
What's more, it's gone all the way.
This is just incredible from Ashton Turner.
27 needed off 25 deliveries.
So, pretty much a run a ball now.
I knew he could do it, but I didn't know
he could do it on the big stage like that.
By the end of the innings it was, you know,
"I want to be on strike now
"and I want to be facing
every ball that I can."
This is my role in the team. I'm batting six
and my job is to finish games for Australia.
Oh, shot!
And Ashton Turner goes big again.
This is a complete Cinderella story, this.
It was quite simply the defining innings
of that little five-game series.
[LAUGHS]
LANGER: It's game over, and I just...
That's a great moment when you're coach -
when you know you're gonna win.
The new blood's come in
and won what was an almost unwinnable game.
That's a magic moment
in Australian cricket.
Oh, they've got it!
Ashton Turner has made it.
What an incredible win this is by
Australia. A win by four wickets.
As this series comes to a leveller,
what we're seeing tonight from an Australian
perspective is very, very special.
MAXWELL: That joy that it brought
the whole team and that belief,
that was a big thing going forward, to know
that we could chase down a score like that.
You fuckin' beauty!
Fuckin' legend! Whoo!
I've never felt a change room in
Australian cricket like I felt that night.
- DIMASI: Hip-hip!
- ALL: Hooray!
- Hip-hip!
- Hooray!
- Fuckin'...! Hip-hip!
- Hooray!
It was just this experience that, um...
...I... I never could have imagined.
That was an extraordinarily exciting...
time, that.
Everyone who keeps writing us off,
that is an unbelievable moment, that.
Unbelievable.
Where we've come from to where we're wanting to
go, that makes everyone proud, and I'm pumped.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Headmaster.
Thanks for your help today.
- Sorry?
- Thanks for your help today.
Oh.
[CHUCKLES]
HAIGH: No-one had given Australia a hope
in hell of achieving anything on this tour.
But all of a sudden, you know,
we looked around and we were 2-all.
Once you've got a little bit of momentum
behind you,
you can carry that from
one game to the other.
[CROWD CHEERS]
FINCH: All the pressure's on them, boys.
All the pressure is on them.
Be ruthless, boys. Come on.
Chance to win a one-day series this year.
These opportunities don't
come up every day, OK?
Come on, boys! Come on!
COMMENTATOR: Right, out come the Aussies,
defending 272.
Virat Kohli comes in early.
This is just the situation he likes -
chasing a big total.
STOINIS: You definitely have days where
you doubt yourself or you don't feel great,
but I keep looking back
and I'm like, "Hold on.
"How many more times
do I need to have done this well,
"or how many more times do I need
to reflect on where I've come from
"to start really believing
that you can do it?"
Virat Kohli's been absolutely stunning
with his performances.
[CROWD CHEERS]
Virat Kohli, the best batsman in the world,
up to the occasion.
Stoinis has to adjust here.
The talent will only get you so far,
and then you get into the heat of battle
and it's whoever makes the best decisions.
Wafted outside the off stump!
Massive wicket, this.
Stoinis gets his man.
And once you get that momentum,
I don't know how it works,
I don't know what bloody law it is,
it just gets moving,
and you just use that momentum
and everyone feeds off each other.
Well, the bat's off the rails.
The stumps are shattered.
Oh, it's up in the air!
Back bending. Should be taking it.
And so Australia have the breakthrough.
Yeah! You beauty!
And what a way to finish. Marcus Stoinis.
A good performance all round
from pretty much every player.
It's been a good series.
It's been a tough series.
They've hung in there from 2-0 down.
I've long said that there is no Australian
team that stays under for too long,
because it is inherent in their culture
to just come up and rebel and fight.
[ALL CHEER]
More than anything else,
I think it gave Australia belief.
"When Smith and Warner come back,
we'll be a stronger side,
"but even without them, we can win,"
and I think that was important.
[CHEERING]
CUMMINS: ODI series win in India.
This shit doesn't happen.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
The first time Australia had ever gone
0-2 down and won a five-match series,
and our first series win in India
in over a decade.
[ALL CHEER]
Skipper - first series win as
skipper in 100 ODIs. Well done, mate.
[ALL CHEER]
- And Zorbie, 50 wickets!
- [CHEERING]
There's one more that... we weren't sure
if he was hanging around for UAE,
but I've just got confirmation.
He's promised.
JL's smile is hanging around for UAE!
[ALL CHEER LOUDLY]
LANGER: I said when I became coach,
if in four years' time we get to a point
in Australian cricket
where we can beat India in India,
I know I've done my job.
And we actually did it after one year.
You don't win series like this without everyone
making a contribution, so thank you so much.
It's a great bunch of people
and I've loved every minute of this tour.
So, well done. Thanks, everyone.
Let's travel safe.
[APPLAUSE]
NARRATOR: Next on The Test...
To me, mateship is when you cross
that line, you're playing for each other.
The World Cup is obviously
the pinnacle of one-day cricket.
"Phwoar! He's coming back into our team?
Right, we'll take him."
[CROWD JEERS]
Cheat! Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!
If you're scared about getting out, fuck that.
You've got to be thinking about getting runs.
- Yeah!
- COMMENTATOR: That means the world to him.
- Oh, he's bowled him!
- Yeah!
Maxwell! Maxwell! Maxwell!
JUSTIN LANGER: It's so difficult to win in India
because the conditions are so foreign to us.
[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]
HARSHA BHOGLE: The roar that comes
when you play and miss
always reminds you that you're in trouble.
[CHEERING, SHOUTING]
COMMENTATOR: New batsman in, Turner.
His second one-day international.
GIDEON HAIGH: In India, it's just a place
where bizarre things happen.
[SHOUTS]
Our theme at the start is
to make Australians proud of us again.
Now all we gotta do is start playing
good cricket on the field as well.
We haven't played our best cricket
over the last... what, how long...
Finchy? Maxie? Two years?
- Two years at least, yeah.
- Couple of years, I reckon.
Our numbers would back that up.
So, we can go, "Oh, yeah, we've gotta talk
about the negative shit."
Well, it's actually true. I think we've won
three of our last 23 one-day games for Australia.
So, OK, and that puts you under pressure?
Great. Use it.
We'll lap it up and get on with what's
important of getting the job done.
OK?
GIDEON HAIGH: One-day cricket offers you both
teams batting and bowling on the same day,
and a result.
It is a game that accents the spectator.
TONY GREIG: Lillee again.
Oh, he's bowled him!
Well, that was the old three-card trick
by Dennis Lillee.
That's hit. Ooh, it's
high! It's miles in the air!
Hughes is coming around. And so...
- Oh, it's a wonderful catch!
- [CROWD ROARS]
What a catch! Oh!
Unbelievable, Steven Waugh!
BILL LAWRY: It's down the ground!
It's four! It's victory for Australia!
It's Michael Bevan's evening
at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
I grew up in the backyard wanting to be
Mark Waugh and Dean Jones and these guys
and just playing cricket for Australia.
It was always just a dream.
So captaining never really... come into it.
LANGER: One of the things we did this year
was we got all the players to vote
on who they thought should be
the one-day captain of Australia.
It's never been done before.
And unanimously, Aaron Finch was voted,
in white-ball cricket, as the captain.
You know, we often talk about the
relationship with the captain and the coach.
I had an instant sort of relation
with Tim Paine in the Test side.
We just sort of had that rapport.
We had history together.
Whereas Finchy and I took
a bit longer to... to jell, really.
We didn't know each other and we had to learn
to trust each other and respect each other.
It's a huge honour, it's a huge privilege
to captain Australia
and it's something that... I certainly
haven't taken anything like that for granted.
It's... it's...
I can't really get my head around leading
Australia to a World Cup, to be honest.
MARCUS STOINIS: He's got sort of the front
that I think every cricketer needs to have
when you get on the field -
that unwavering, sort
of, belief in yourself.
He's got a really, sort of, soft side
to him, friendship side, loyal side.
He's really had the opportunity to show
those parts of his character, I think,
now that he's been a leader.
FINCH: We all remember our debuts.
Nothing better.
When someone comes into the side,
the excitement, the energy that they bring,
there's nothing better.
So let's make it a special one for Dorf.
SHANE WARNE: Welcome to
the beautiful Sydney Cricket Ground.
The sun's shining. The pitch looks good.
ADAM GILCHRIST: Australia only tasted
victory twice in 2018 in this format.
Little bit of pressure
on the Aussies' openers here.
ANNOUNCER: Opening the batting for Australia
is the captain, Aaron Finch, and Alex Carey.
Well, the captain is kind of the embodiment
and the personification of the side.
And in a team that's struggling
like Australia was,
there's nowhere to hide.
COMMENTATOR: Bowled him! Off stump!
Perfect execution from Kumar.
And India draw first blood.
Now, that's a big wicket, Aaron Finch.
HAIGH: Finch, when he
does do what he's good at,
there's almost no-one
in the world to touch him.
So, last ball, Australia,
to close out a rare victory.
Ooh, that's hit high!
[CROWD CHEERS]
That's a good catch from Glenn Maxwell.
Well done to Australia.
They win by 34 runs.
LANGER: What happens - you play Test cricket,
get out a few times, everyone's an expert.
You know, "You gotta do this, you gotta
do that," and then everyone's in his ear.
COMMENTATOR: It's a horrible position
to be in, isn't it? The hard...
It seems the more you miss out
on those big totals,
the harder you train, the more
balls you hit, the more you analyse it,
and it seems to get worse and worse.
He was starting to get nervous about,
"What if I get dropped again?
"I've been dropped as captain before."
Then your mind starts spiralling
into the worst things that could happen.
COMMENTATOR: Oh! Bowled him!
Through the gate again.
It's a similar story for Aaron Finch.
So, there's a glaring issue there
for the Australian captain. He goes.
The pressure is building from outside.
The pressure is definitely building for him
internally, no doubt.
Six off fucking 19!
At least fucking get out first ball
and stop wasting everyone's fucking time!
Fuck's sake!
COMMENTATOR: Bang! He's gone hard!
He's got enough of this! It's a six!
[CROWD CHEERS]
And the Indians fight their way
back into the series.
Yeah, the series is tied one-all
as we go to Melbourne.
FINCH: There's things that you're seeing
within the... in the game
that... that you... you feel like
you have to address,
but then you're conscious
because you're like,
"Well, I'm not doing my job myself,
so how can I...
"..how am I in a position to be able
to tell other people how to do their job...
"..if I'm not doing my own right?"
LANGER: Any observations from yesterday?
I've got to get some runs, no doubt.
And then that'll change
the whole dynamic again.
'Cause then we can... Then Usi's push-back.
Then Shaun's push-back. Pete, Stoin, Maxie.
That your jobs become a bit easier
and a bit clearer
and you can play a little bit more freely.
If you could give Finchy one bit of advice,
what would it be?
Elephant in the room. What would you say?
What would you say to him? Maxie?
MAXWELL: He'll be fine.
He was our best batter last year
for over 12 months in all formats.
- All cricket.
- Yeah.
I agree. What do you reckon, Scary?
Don't know what's going on in your head, but...
let it go. Just let go. Fuckin' whack 'em.
FINCH: I'll tell you what it i...
All it's been is...
I've been worried to get out.
I've been searching for a score that much
that you probably forget
to watch the ball that bit harder
and you forget get your process.
You're constantly thinking -
well, I'm constantly thinking -
"Fuck, I need some runs to, one, get the
pressure off the squad at the top of the order.
"One, to get the pressure off me."
LANGER: The reason we're saying this is
you're the captain of Australia for a reason.
The best ODI player in the world,
for one-day, for a reason.
That's what you're doing it for.
Be Finchy, mate. You don't have to be...
You don't have to be the captain. You don't
have to be anything else. Just be Finchy.
REPORTER: How, sort of, frustrated, I guess,
are you with your own form at the moment?
- Yeah, a little bit frustrated.
- Do you need to tinker with things?
Bat a bit longer. That'd be...
that'd be the number one thing.
I think when you're... when you're
searching for runs, you can be...
...you can be searching
for the right recipe,
and I think it's always...
it's always a fine balance.
There was times I'd wake up
in the middle of the night
thinking about getting out,
thinking, "I'm facing Buma again tomorrow.
"He's getting me out for fun."
Wake up in a cold sweat going,
"Bhuvneshwar, he's got me out a lot
with the ball moving back in."
COMMENTATOR: Aaron Finch. He's fighting for
his cricketing life out there at the moment.
- Edge! Falls short, I think.
- Ohh! Goodness me.
Everything gets clouded
and you doubt everything that you do
when you're searching for...
searching for a way to get back to form.
Ooh! A thick edge.
It'll get four for Finch.
Flirting with danger.
I was doubting everything that I was doing.
That's close in front. Given!
[CROWD CHEERS]
Well, that upset the rhythm of Aaron Finch.
The lbw. He's been
caught on the crease again.
At the start, it was, "I'm in a bit
of a lean patch. It'll come good,"
and then after a while, when it doesn't,
I genuinely thought that
I could be left out of the World Cup
as the captain of the side.
Just one run to win here
for a clean sweep of the summer for India.
[CROWD ROARS]
India win by seven wickets to add the one-day
championship to the Test championship.
It's a tour to remember.
USMAN KHAWAJA: He's a good batsman,
just going through a tough trot,
which we've all been through,
JL's been through as many as anyone.
We were just hoping, as the captain,
that he starts scoring runs,
'cause it's big for himself
to have that confidence.
- Hey, guys. Thanks.
- See ya.
- See you, lads.
- Bye.
FINCH: The last six weeks has been
really difficult personally, in terms of...
...in terms of my own personal form.
I probably didn't take...
...take on how... how
much it takes out of you
playing Test cricket
and then backing it up for an ODI series.
It was just an emotional roller-coaster.
Come here!
[WOMAN CHUCKLES]
Come on. Come on.
[CRICKET PLAYS ON TV]
WOMAN: You were in the rooms for a bit.
Yeah, I was just talking
to JL for... for ages.
WOMAN: Yeah.
- It was good. Good chat.
- Oh, good.
- Just not getting any fucking runs.
- Mmm.
[SIGHS]
[INDIAN MUSIC]
[SIREN WAILS]
MAN: Thanks, everyone. Welcome to India.
It's always a challenge here.
If you see anything suspicious,
come and let us know.
In and around the hotel, or at the ground, or
in the bus when we're travelling to and fro,
there's covert and uniformed police
all around the place.
So, as you know, the Indian fans
want to come into the hotel,
they'll... they'll actually book a room
and have 10 people in there.
So, just be aware of that.
If you see someone that's not
part of the group, let us know,
'cause we've got
exclusive use of the floor.
[CROWD HUBBUB]
Yeah. Go.
STOINIS: Oh, I love playing in India.
I love the culture - its unmatched energy.
It heightens all your senses.
I told them that whatever option,
we are going ahead. We are not turning.
Let's do it.
Can you get the door?
[DRIVER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
If you can harness all that excitement,
that energy,
there's no way you can rock up there
and not be motivated to play.
LANGER: People always ask me,
"Do you love India?"
It's like, yeah, I love India...
...for the first few weeks.
And then it gets a bit claustrophobic,
to be honest,
because Indians love cricket so much...
...that the only sanctuary you have
is in your change room or in your bedroom.
[CROWD CHEERS]
[CHEERING, WHOOPING]
NATHAN COULTER-NILE: As fans,
they just want to see good cricket.
In India, if you doing well, they love you -
If you're not, they don't want to know you.
Whoo! Maxwell! Maxwell! Maxwell!
MAXWELL: It's not the
easiest thing to deal with,
because as much as you want to
give everyone some of your time...
...there's 10 people waiting for a photo,
and then once you get a photo,
there's another 10 people that arrive.
So you're always going
to disappoint someone.
LANGER: And even in your hotel bedroom,
it's not uncommon
for someone to knock on the door
and almost fake room service -
"Oh, do you mind if I have a selfie?
Selfie? Photo?"
It is, like, literally relentless.
[BIRDS CHIRP]
Everywhere you go in India,
you're near a cricket match.
All you need is a bat and a ball.
There's very few things
that not just unite India,
but unite cultures, unite societies,
across income categories,
across cultures, across geographies too.
So, very, very important.
If India's playing cricket,
then very few other things matter.
Actually, just wait for five minutes.
The bomb squad is just checking first.
[SIREN WAILS]
LANGER: It's so difficult to win in India
because the conditions are so foreign to us.
We get to India and it's spinning and
the balls don't bounce much. It's like...
Yeah, India's tough.
[CHUCKLES]
KHAWAJA: And it's weird,
we haven't been in India for a long time,
but we were so close
in the one-day series in Australia.
I still thought we had more in us,
and I thought, if we
can start just clicking -
especially the batting, 'cause I thought the
bowling was outstanding during that series -
that we had a chance in India.
STOINIS: India is the most talented team
in the world. Hands down.
The players not playing
are way more talented than me.
BHOGLE: It's not easy to tour any country
when you're out of form,
but even more so in India.
And when you come to India,
you play all of India.
[CROWD CHEERS]
[COMMENTATES]
BHOGLE: Here we go. The crowd excited.
There's so many people around.
The crowds are much closer to you.
It can get intimidating
not to be scoring runs,
because the roar that comes
when you play and miss
always reminds you that you're in trouble.
[CROWD ROARS]
[CROWD ROARS]
The Australian captain gone for a duck,
and it's 0/1.
HAIGH: As an opening-batsman captain,
Finch bears particular responsibility
as a kind of a tone-setter for the innings.
The early loss of a captain who opens the
batting knocks the stuffing out of a side.
MAN: Catch!
COMMENTATOR: Well, he gets a wicket.
Marcus Stoinis is gone for 37.
Good hit. What a wonderful catch.
Absolutely outstanding.
Usman Khawaja, exactly 50.
Oh, he's gone. Beautifully done.
Absolutely magnificent bowling.
Peter Handscomb gone for 19.
That's been the story of today - batsmen
getting in but not getting a big score.
[CROWD ROARS]
India win by six wickets.
MAN: When you've got to your 20,
just hold it down that one side.
The leg that's on the
bottom, straighten it out.
Four or five breaths.
LANGER: In January, Belinda Clark sent me
this really nice article.
You know, we're always exchanging things,
always learning.
And it was about 'the year of' -
everyone sets new year's resolutions,
but no-one keeps them.
And I wrote, "This is gonna be
the year of letting go."
So I committed to it
and I sort of let go of stuff
that I shouldn't be so stressed about.
I do think he's... he's mellowed out
a fair bit, even in the last year.
MAN: Bring your shoulderblades back...
KHAWAJA: I think that's what's good about
India. There's not a lot of external noise.
Because they're a predominately
Hindi-speaking nation,
so a lot of the stuff just...
we don't know about it.
PETER HANDSCOMB: Yeah, I think
relaxed is a good word for it.
During that Indian series, he really
put the onus back on the players
and said, "Righto, you know, you guys
run... basically run it. Run training."
And the boys really took to that.
LANGER: The question now is
what we're doing next.
So, what do you want to do today?
What do you want to do?
You want to stay back here?
Do you want to have a session off?
Do you want to get down, just hit
some balls? What do you want to do?
And what was most interesting -
when we said, "OK, it's your responsibility,"
they actually trained harder.
[CHUCKLES] They seemed to work harder,
because they weren't being told what to do.
HANDSCOMB: Yeah, I mean, what I do
the day before a game
is different to what Usman Khawaja does.
So, it's just about,
you know, coming up as a player,
you need to find what's best for you,
and hopefully by the time
you make it to the international level,
you've figured that out, 'cause you're
obviously doing something right to get there.
LANGER: We used to have Bobby Simpson
and Errol Alcott. That's all we had.
We had to go to work
in between playing Shield games.
So, if you want to become good,
you gotta work it out.
Call it what you like,
but it's more helping us to develop more
self-resilient and self-reliant players,
'cause in the middle, that's what you are.
Some of that stuff today, Stoin,
was awesome, mate. That was gold.
Some of your stuff was gold.
Absolutely brilliant.
You're hitting the ball, there's no
fielder. It's just a perfect cricket shot...
There's a real positive
energy among the boys,
and from the coaches, there was...
there was a lot of positive talk.
Because India is such a place
where you don't have the opportunity
to get out too often,
everyone's together the whole time
and it's brilliant.
That's what I think builds cultures.
- I'm gonna watch Mighty Ducks 2.
- LANGER: That's shithouse.
PAT CUMMINS: I remember when
I first started touring, I was 17 or 18
and I thought, "How good's this?" you know?
"We're going to South Africa for a month,
six weeks, and, oh, we're going to India."
I think it's different for everyone, but I
see how hard it can be for the families.
MARSH: Austin, are you gonna show me
your new toy?
CUMMINS: The best thing that can happen
is have a good group of people around you.
Hey, Austin!
The team we had over in India this time
was just so close.
We're all pretty good mates.
Everyone got on well.
LANGER: They eat breakfast together.
They eat lunch together. They eat dinner together.
They watch footy together or they watch movies
together, or... And they're just together.
DIMASI: Attention, please! Oh, here we go.
Great training session tonight, boys.
- MAN: Thanks, Franco.
- Very impressed.
Um... today, we celebrate
Sri's 43rd birthday.
- Hip-hip!
- ALL: Hooray!
- Hip-hip!
- Hooray! [ALL LAUGH]
MAN: Ohh, no!
[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE]
LANGER: And I've said forever,
it's the camaraderie within the group
which is like the glue,
particularly when under pressure.
I see teams that don't get along at all,
but they win games.
Camaraderie is great,
but at the end of the day, we've still
got to play some really good cricket.
It's a skill-based game
and you win games on skill.
HAIGH: India has specialised in producing
very, very great batsmen.
At the moment, they have one great batsman
in that ODI side, and that's Kohli.
[CROWD CHANTS]
LANGER: When he's in India...
[CHUCKLES]
...he has literally got
1.5 billion people behind him.
CUMMINS: It's a weird thing
that you don't get in cricket too much -
bowling to him knowing
you've got a billion people who...
...it'll make their week
or they could end up crying if he gets out.
COMMENTATOR: Ohh! That is a beauty!
Oh, that is a gorgeous shot!
The crowd are absolutely going wild here.
Another beautiful shot
from the Indian captain.
It's a poor delivery, and
treated appropriately.
That's a tremendous shot!
You're bowling to a class player.
Here's another one.
What a shot!
Stop what you're doing
- Virat Kohli's on 99.
Kohli slashes! Slashes for four, for 100!
Century number 40.
So, India finishing on 250.
Target for Australia - 251.
So, here we go. The final
over of the match. 11 to get.
- [CROWD ROARS]
- A big appeal for leg before! Given!
India have managed
to somehow win this game.
STOINIS: Everything had been
so tough for so long,
everyone had sort of thought
we were gonna be shit, really,
that... it brought everyone together.
In Australia during the summer,
we'd lose and we were low,
but I remember it not being
anywhere near as bad as it has been.
HANDSCOMB: When we lost the second ODI,
we were actually in a really, really strong
position to win that and failed to do so,
but I think that gave the squad
a lot of confidence,
saying that, you know,
"We're doing something right."
OK, we need to dig deep now.
We're that close.
We've been saying we're that close, OK?
Just gotta find something a
little bit deeper to get over the line.
Everyone's got an area
we can get better at.
Don't miss the opportunity
to watch how Kohli plays, OK?
To watch how the best player, probably,
of your era goes about his business.
COULTER-NILE: I remember the build-up
to the third game and nothing changed.
Which I can say is very rare
in, you know, that sort of situation -
when you go to India,
World Cup coming up,
and there was no... no hoo-ha, no, uh...
no panic stations, no red button hits.
Are you going to do some bowling now?
I don't want to shock
you, but Winx won again.
- Did it?
- Yeah.
RADIO PRESENTER: Yeah, on a Wednesday, we catch up
with the former Australian cricket captain
Ian Chappell, who's on the line.
- Morning, Chappelli.
- IAN CHAPPELL: G'day, Mike.
Australia, this morning, involved
in another ODI against India,
but the home side is up 2-0 in the series.
There's a few people suggesting that
time's coming to an end for Aaron Finch.
CHAPPELL: Yeah, it's a major concern,
and it could get to the point where
you're gonna have to drop your captain
if he doesn't get some runs.
LANGER: I know there's pressure
on every one of us every time we play.
Tough conditions, India.
Players... You know, the World Cup squad,
and their...
You know, players might be thinking about
their spots in the team and wondering...
First point - best way to play
any game for Australia
is to put all your attention on winning
the game for Australia, rather than...
If you bring it to yourself,
it makes it bloody hard, right?
If you put your attention into winning the game,
then you'll do better and we'll do it better,
and then the selection looks after itself.
So, I get...
LANGER: All of a sudden, there's
starting to be a bit of noise developing
on, "What happens if
Finchy doesn't come good?"
FINCH: There was a conversation had
between myself, JL and Trevor Hohns.
"I'm the missing link here, so...
"..do you drop me and...
see how we go from here?
"And if I'm not in the best side
going forward, that's fine."
And that was a really tough
conversation to have,
especially as a... as
the captain of the side.
I had to let my guard down at some point
to be vulnerable enough
to open up and to admit
how bad you are going.
And it was it was actually at that time
where I thought, "You know what?
"No, no. Come on, Justin.
You've got to take some ownership of this."
Because we can't afford
not to have Finchy as the captain.
No-one ever comes to my bedroom, right?
It's my private space.
Finchy came to my room
and we sat at the table in my room
and, "Right, let's go to work."
I rolled the sleeves back up
and we spent time together.
And I got back on the tools
and I started coaching Finchy again,
and it was just... oh, I
loved every minute of it.
FINCH: I'd always had great support
from JL, all the coaches, all the players.
I even got messages from
legends of the game - Haydos, Gilly.
- Calm down a little bit.
- Yeah.
Yeah, sometimes when the wicket's so slow,
you try and force it a bit much and...
It's that last tenth of a second, like...
...that sort of slight response,
rather than just...
- Yep.
- ..slowing it down.
ADAM ZAMPA: Today I've got
the Colombia, Buenos Aires honey.
I'm gonna use 17 grams of coffee.
This is the scale that I bring with me.
The story is I got a tattoo
and the tattoo artist, he told me about
these cafes that I should go and try out,
and he said, "You've just got to try
filter coffee."
Yeah, now I've fallen in love with it.
Like, I just... love making coffee.
My favourite part. The smell.
So, when I pack my suitcase,
coffee stuff - so, kettle, beans, grinder -
they go in the middle,
and then if I can fit any clothes around it,
then I'll fit some clothes in.
So, I'll put the coffee in first.
Oh!
[LAUGHS]
Stoiny.
How good's this?
Start the timer.
The first 30 seconds is called the bloom.
It's important that the water
doesn't touch the paper.
This is our routine.
The barista.
This is my ceramic little mug
that I bring with me everywhere as well.
JL, he calls me 'the Love Café',
'cause I told him that the most important
ingredient is love, which is true.
With Stoin, he knows when to
knock on my door, coffee's ready.
You know, we'll talk about
the game that morning.
STOINIS: We've seen each other
perform well, perform poorly.
We'll go through the game and then
we'll switch off... [CLICKS FINGERS]
...and then it's music,
talking about the coffee.
That's the Love Café.
- Did I tell you what I did last night?
- Yeah.
They are two of the rarest human beings I've
ever met in my life. They are rare, mate.
I dunno. It's hard to explain.
We just... we love each other.
FINCH: Oh, it's tough
to describe. They're...
They're just...
They're just so close. They're a little bit
too close at times, aren't they?
Every photo, they're holding hands
and... just doing weird shit.
KHAWAJA: It's very different than what the
Australian team used to be like 10 years ago.
Cricket used to be a very rigid game. "You've
got to do this. You've got to do that."
There's a big push about being yourself
and be comfortable in being yourself.
And when I used to be myself,
even, like, five, six...
...I used to get hammered
'cause I was being different.
STOINIS: You have to be yourself
in this environment,
because if you're pretending to be
something that you're not, it's too tiring.
MAN: Who's the other one for?
My boy.
He made it himself.
He just wanted me to carry it.
- LANGER: Can I just have a sip?
- Yeah.
Try that one. That's my one. It's better.
It's sweet. Like honey.
The biggest test I've learnt as a coach
is everybody is different
and you've got to treat everyone different.
But in the end of the day, they're here
in the Australian cricket team.
They're not in the Australian fashion team, or
they're not in the Australian good bloke team,
or they're not in the
Australian best mates team.
They're in the Australian cricket team.
And that's what we always have to remember,
is that you're in the Australian cricket
team, so you have to be a match-winner.
LANGER: 2-0 down.
This is where the grind kicks in.
This is where we - and individually -
have to really step up, OK?
So, these days are the days we see who's
ready to dig deep and make a difference. OK?
ANNOUNCER: We are in Ranchi
for the third ODI of this Paytm Series.
Tails is the call from Aaron Finch.
Heads it is.
FINCH: Everyone was unbelievably supportive.
It's really touching when...
...when everyone's got your best interest
and everyone wants to see you do well.
STOINIS: Sometimes when you get into
that dip in form, there's no way out
unless you get brought with your mates
and your mates give you energy
and your mates support you.
"Mate, I've seen you dominate this. I
can't wait to watch you dominate it again.
"This is your day."
COMMENTATOR: Jasprit
Bumrah will take the ball.
Right arm fast. I like that.
Oh, again into the
pads! This could be close!
FINCH: I knew that if I just hung in there,
if I just hung in long enough and long enough,
that it would change.
Now is the time when I've just got to
put it between my teeth.
There's a build-up of pressure.
There's gonna be a big shot.
If I get away with it, great. If I don't...
...this could be curtains
on my World Cup dream.
And I remember talking
to Usi between the over
and he just said, "Just hang in there. Just...
It'll come. It'll come. Don't search for it."
Oh, it's a good shot!
[CHUCKLES] That'll be a boundary.
That's a powerful hit.
Gee, that was a terrific shot
from Aaron Finch. He looks sharp.
You could hear it off
his bat, and you went...
There were signs which I hadn't seen
for six months before.
I knew he was back.
Both of these two players
are looking quite nice today.
The fact that Usi was playing so well...
Good shot. Terrific
shot. Bit of innovation.
...probably took a bit of pressure off Finchy and
allowed him just to get himself into the game.
Terrific shot, this.
Beautiful shot! Nice flow of the bat
and sails into the crowd.
He had little Yadav bowl these
little, sort of, round-arm off spinners,
and he took him on.
This is big. Finch looks good.
That is courage right there.
Effortless. Effortless.
It changed everything, 'cause we thought,
"Yeah, no, we're not gonna stand for this."
And four as well.
What a magnificent way to bring up the
half-century for the Australian captain.
His side acknowledging the fact that
he's been under a little bit of pressure
and he's feeling good.
FINCH: And from then on,
it was sort of just flipped back into
partnership batting
and forgetting about the outcome.
In the gap for four.
Gee, that'd make him feel good, Finch.
Superb timing again.
This is good stuff from Australia.
Oh, what a shot.
Absolutely smashed down the ground.
He's gone with the turn
and he finds the meat of the bat.
That's a terrific strike.
Oh, he's found the gap again.
He's gonna move into the 90s, Aaron Finch.
What an innings this is turning out to be.
I felt as though... that I was ready
to overhaul my whole game.
Just everything that I'd tried hadn't really
been working technically or anything like that.
It turns out I didn't change anything.
I just changed my mindset a bit.
So, Aaron Finch gone for 93 off 99 balls.
LANGER: For us, it's a
big piece of the jigsaw.
If our captain's playing well,
that's a big part of our success.
Elegant from Glenn Maxwell.
He is looking deadly dangerous.
Nicely struck. That's gone
like a bullet to the boundary.
Superb shot, that, from Stoinis.
Yes! Century number one for Usman Khawaja
in one-ay internationals.
Well, this will test India.
To win the game today,
India have to score 314 runs.
And he's in early again, Virat Kohli.
What a shot! What a shot!
Superbly executed there from Virat Kohli.
Oh, shot.
HARSHA BHOGLE: When he goes out to bat
chasing, he just knows what that target is.
He finishes games. He doesn't
like to leave them for somebody else.
50 for Virat Kohli.
LANGER: He's gonna do it again!
He is gonna do it again. He's gonna...
We're gonna lose
another one 'cause of Kohli.
I've never seen batting like it.
It breaks your heart.
Oh, that's been absolutely crashed.
What a shot!
They're gonna steal an unwinnable game.
We're gonna lose another one.
That is incredible!
He's done it. Take a bow.
41st one-day international hundred.
Yeah, what an innings it has
been once again from Virat Kohli
as they win this game, they win the series.
Zampa being brought into the attack.
MAXWELL: We knew that we were so close
to turning everything around.
All it took was just someone to stand up.
I've never seen myself as the most skilful
leg spinner going around.
Performing under pressure is something
that has to be my strength.
Adam Zampa. He's a
real dark horse, isn't he?
PLAYER: Go again, Adam.
Very good bowling from Zampa.
ZAMPA: He's just the hardest
that I've ever had to bowl to.
You know, if you make a mistake,
he makes you pay.
Slogged straight up.
It's gone very high in the air.
But it sails over him. It
sails over Shaun Marsh.
Has he found the gap? He has.
And again, smashing that over
through the cow corner region.
Sitting back a little
shorter this time by Zampa.
"Alright. OK.
"Um... what do I do here now?"
[LAUGHS]
Don't need to reduce...
And he's knocked him over!
What a comeback by Adam Zampa!
Pin-drop silence
as Virat Kohli has been knocked over.
ZAMPA: I didn't bowl leg spin
until I was about 14 or 15.
I always wanted to be a batsman, actually.
[LAUGHS]
When he takes a wicket that he wants, oh,
you can see the little guy get passionate,
and I love it, it's so good.
There it is. Australia win this game.
So, with both ball and bat tonight,
it was a comprehensive win.
[CHEERING]
The series is still alive.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
FINCH: Thank you.
LANGER: Finchy, mate, I know it's been
a long, hard summer for you,
and not only have you made some runs, but you've
been brilliant amongst the group as the captain.
Well done, and we all thank you for it.
And that's what really good leadership is.
I sense they are faltering
and we're getting stronger.
I honestly think we've got
a huge opportunity now.
It's whether we're able to take it or not.
CAREY: Hey, mate. Could we
just order five... Four. Four Coronas?
You don't have Corona?
Have you got Heineken?
What other ones do you have?
They have Light. Kingfisher Light.
FINCH: That's probably what Maxie
should drink, to be fair.
CAREY: Yep, four of those, thanks.
- Thank you. Four. Four, thank you.
- MAXWELL: Rightio!
Unbelievable!
He hasn't said this many words all tour.
- CAREY: He got some runs today. [LAUGHS]
- He got some runs.
All of a sudden, he's on. Righto.
CAREY: Who dealt that? Maxie, did you?
Maxie, did you do that?
FINCH: Have some of them
just to recharge your batteries.
Oh, fuck, that's good.
- [OTHERS LAUGH]
- Chocolate biscuit.
Mmm.
Got there, boys.
- Fuck, we're good at this.
- That's a win. That's a win.
- We are a great combo, mate.
- CAREY: Eight clubs. 240.
[CROWD ROARS]
COMMENTATOR: Welcome to Mohali.
This is the fourth one-day international
in this Paytm One-Day Series.
[BAT HITS BALL]
Oh, it's a wonderful shot.
Clears the boundary for six.
India 358/9. You'd have to bat really well
on any surface to get these.
LANGER: I knew it was a good wicket,
but to be honest, that's a big chase.
[CHUCKLES]
HAIGH: The very idea of a team
scoring 358 in an ODI,
that's just ridiculous -
it's almost not cricket.
BHOGLE: If you'd told me at that point,
"Australia are gonna chase 358 down,"
I'd have looked at the scorecard
and I said, "Him? Him? No, they can't."
Australia need a
partnership. They need a...
Not just a partnership, they need
a big partnership to challenge India.
I still thought in the back of my head,
"Oh, yeah, we can chase this."
Khawaja advances, and...
I think he's hit the boundary. He has.
Nice shot from Khawaja.
Well done, Usi!
HANDSCOMB: Usi and I, you know,
we were trying to stay as relaxed as possible.
It's often the team that panics first
is the team that loses.
On the up, and a beautiful shot.
He swept away beautifully.
And he's put that ball in the gap for four.
It's wonderfully done.
So, they're starting to up that tempo
a little bit now, Australia.
It's 134/2.
We were just focusing on
taking it as deep as possible,
knowing that the firepower we had to
come after us as well was pretty special.
It's such a fickle game, cricket,
but if you have that self-belief,
it can really propel you forward.
[CHEERING]
Excellent use of the feet there
from Peter Handscomb.
That's the 150-run partnership.
146 deliveries.
Very well played. What a shot.
100 for Peter Handscomb.
Glenn Maxwell. New man at the crease.
Can't waste too much time.
He's got to get going straightaway.
I think at points in
that Australian innings,
you know, probably, people looked around
that Australian dressing-room and said,
"You know, we're actually doing this.
"There's almost no
reason for us not to do this."
What a way to get off the mark!
It's a sizzler from the
bat of Glenn Maxwell.
Which is where he's gone.
There is no fielder there.
Well, it wouldn't have mattered,
because it's cleared the boundary.
It's a good over, this. 13 off it.
- [PANT SCREAMS]
- Now, how close is that?
The finger's gone up!
Maxwell's gone for 23.
It's 229/4.
MAXWELL: The thing that I suppose
I was most frustrated about -
I sort of had that slight thought
in my head that when I got out,
I've left the rest of the order
with too much to do here.
New batsman in, Turner.
His second one-day international.
With this great elation of playing
for Australia was also this naivety.
I didn't have bad memories of facing
any of their bowlers before.
You know, at this stage,
I've played one one-day game for Australia
and, you know, I don't know that much
about one-day cricket
and what international cricket's all about
and I'm trying to learn on the job.
He needs to have a quick look here, but
he just needs to find the boundary as well.
I'm thinking, "What can I do to win this game
for Australia and keep us alive in this series?"
And there's a part of me
that's, you know, trying to act cool,
like I know what I'm doing
in an international game of cricket,
where, really, I've got no bloody idea
what's going on.
Oh, it's a good shot.
It's a fine shot from Turner.
And he finds a gap again.
So, Ashton Turner's up and running here.
In India, you can score fast,
and... in India...
...it's just a place where
bizarre things happen.
BHOGLE: And he goes straight.
He is looking better with every ball,
Ashton Turner.
It was the kind of innings where you said,
"Oh, but this can't go on for too long."
Oh! It's another!
Then you say, "Oh, OK.
Maybe a little longer."
TURNER: Once I'd hit the ball out of
the middle of the bat a couple of times,
it had gone from this unachievable task
to, "This is possible."
COMMENTATOR: Another one.
That's got to be four,
and that's got to be his 50 as well.
And I was just living in this bubble
that was watching the ball really closely
and trying to hit every
ball out of the ground.
Oh! That's an unbelievable
strike, honestly.
The crowd a little quieter. They're not sure
what's gonna happen in this game. It's tight.
MAXWELL: We probably hadn't seen India
that sort of rattled.
They hadn't sort of shown
those sorts of cracks.
We actually started to find a way
to get under their skin.
Oh, this could be out.
Oh, it's dropped again!
This one went straight to mid-off.
Oh! Can't believe that.
I just cannot believe it.
That's pressure. That is pressure.
I just felt like everything that they
bowled, I knew they were gonna bowl there.
It's a great sense of having no fear.
What's more, it's gone all the way.
This is just incredible from Ashton Turner.
27 needed off 25 deliveries.
So, pretty much a run a ball now.
I knew he could do it, but I didn't know
he could do it on the big stage like that.
By the end of the innings it was, you know,
"I want to be on strike now
"and I want to be facing
every ball that I can."
This is my role in the team. I'm batting six
and my job is to finish games for Australia.
Oh, shot!
And Ashton Turner goes big again.
This is a complete Cinderella story, this.
It was quite simply the defining innings
of that little five-game series.
[LAUGHS]
LANGER: It's game over, and I just...
That's a great moment when you're coach -
when you know you're gonna win.
The new blood's come in
and won what was an almost unwinnable game.
That's a magic moment
in Australian cricket.
Oh, they've got it!
Ashton Turner has made it.
What an incredible win this is by
Australia. A win by four wickets.
As this series comes to a leveller,
what we're seeing tonight from an Australian
perspective is very, very special.
MAXWELL: That joy that it brought
the whole team and that belief,
that was a big thing going forward, to know
that we could chase down a score like that.
You fuckin' beauty!
Fuckin' legend! Whoo!
I've never felt a change room in
Australian cricket like I felt that night.
- DIMASI: Hip-hip!
- ALL: Hooray!
- Hip-hip!
- Hooray!
- Fuckin'...! Hip-hip!
- Hooray!
It was just this experience that, um...
...I... I never could have imagined.
That was an extraordinarily exciting...
time, that.
Everyone who keeps writing us off,
that is an unbelievable moment, that.
Unbelievable.
Where we've come from to where we're wanting to
go, that makes everyone proud, and I'm pumped.
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Headmaster.
Thanks for your help today.
- Sorry?
- Thanks for your help today.
Oh.
[CHUCKLES]
HAIGH: No-one had given Australia a hope
in hell of achieving anything on this tour.
But all of a sudden, you know,
we looked around and we were 2-all.
Once you've got a little bit of momentum
behind you,
you can carry that from
one game to the other.
[CROWD CHEERS]
FINCH: All the pressure's on them, boys.
All the pressure is on them.
Be ruthless, boys. Come on.
Chance to win a one-day series this year.
These opportunities don't
come up every day, OK?
Come on, boys! Come on!
COMMENTATOR: Right, out come the Aussies,
defending 272.
Virat Kohli comes in early.
This is just the situation he likes -
chasing a big total.
STOINIS: You definitely have days where
you doubt yourself or you don't feel great,
but I keep looking back
and I'm like, "Hold on.
"How many more times
do I need to have done this well,
"or how many more times do I need
to reflect on where I've come from
"to start really believing
that you can do it?"
Virat Kohli's been absolutely stunning
with his performances.
[CROWD CHEERS]
Virat Kohli, the best batsman in the world,
up to the occasion.
Stoinis has to adjust here.
The talent will only get you so far,
and then you get into the heat of battle
and it's whoever makes the best decisions.
Wafted outside the off stump!
Massive wicket, this.
Stoinis gets his man.
And once you get that momentum,
I don't know how it works,
I don't know what bloody law it is,
it just gets moving,
and you just use that momentum
and everyone feeds off each other.
Well, the bat's off the rails.
The stumps are shattered.
Oh, it's up in the air!
Back bending. Should be taking it.
And so Australia have the breakthrough.
Yeah! You beauty!
And what a way to finish. Marcus Stoinis.
A good performance all round
from pretty much every player.
It's been a good series.
It's been a tough series.
They've hung in there from 2-0 down.
I've long said that there is no Australian
team that stays under for too long,
because it is inherent in their culture
to just come up and rebel and fight.
[ALL CHEER]
More than anything else,
I think it gave Australia belief.
"When Smith and Warner come back,
we'll be a stronger side,
"but even without them, we can win,"
and I think that was important.
[CHEERING]
CUMMINS: ODI series win in India.
This shit doesn't happen.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
The first time Australia had ever gone
0-2 down and won a five-match series,
and our first series win in India
in over a decade.
[ALL CHEER]
Skipper - first series win as
skipper in 100 ODIs. Well done, mate.
[ALL CHEER]
- And Zorbie, 50 wickets!
- [CHEERING]
There's one more that... we weren't sure
if he was hanging around for UAE,
but I've just got confirmation.
He's promised.
JL's smile is hanging around for UAE!
[ALL CHEER LOUDLY]
LANGER: I said when I became coach,
if in four years' time we get to a point
in Australian cricket
where we can beat India in India,
I know I've done my job.
And we actually did it after one year.
You don't win series like this without everyone
making a contribution, so thank you so much.
It's a great bunch of people
and I've loved every minute of this tour.
So, well done. Thanks, everyone.
Let's travel safe.
[APPLAUSE]
NARRATOR: Next on The Test...
To me, mateship is when you cross
that line, you're playing for each other.
The World Cup is obviously
the pinnacle of one-day cricket.
"Phwoar! He's coming back into our team?
Right, we'll take him."
[CROWD JEERS]
Cheat! Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!
If you're scared about getting out, fuck that.
You've got to be thinking about getting runs.
- Yeah!
- COMMENTATOR: That means the world to him.
- Oh, he's bowled him!
- Yeah!