 Australia and South Africa played each other in the semis of the World Cup. Australia ends up winning this game, but there was a moment that I found interesting with Spin Bowler, Shamsie, and Marnus Labouchain that I wanted to share with you for those that are interested in kind of like, you know, somewhat learning about cricket or even cricket fans that wanna see things slow mowed and replayed and broken down a little bit. You got a left arm Spin Bowler, off spin maybe, I don't know. And he's gonna attack Marnus who just doesn't feel good about it. Now that ball is a wide, which means it doesn't count as one of the six. He's gotta throw in the over. He has to now throw a seventh and it's an automatic run for Australia because it went behind him and he didn't hit it or touch it, it's a wide. But it's a nice ball and they like it. So you can see his face here is like, mm, okay. I think I like that line. He likes how much the ball's turning, but there's a risk to throwing it because if Marnus doesn't touch it, it's a run and that hurts because they have a low total. They're projecting, protecting. So he moved that one in a little bit. This one similar turn and it comes in and Marnus is able to protect against it. And then that one, he moves all the way out. So it's going, landing more offside and coming in and kind of traps Marnus up. And they're like, ooh, maybe we like that. Throw it again. Labrishan says, I'm gonna reverse sweep that doesn't really hit it. It doesn't really work, but he ends up getting a couple runs out of it. And then they think they got him. They think they trapped him. He runs into him. I was like, nah, nah, nah, no, no. They review it though. He's fired up. Shams, he's kind of wild. This is also why I wanted to make the break. And he's got a lot of faces. Now Marnus is like, oh, fuck. Maybe they got me now. If it hits his leg and it would have hit the wickets, he's out. It definitely did not hit the bat and hit his leg, but would it have hit the wickets? To me, I thought, yes. And I think Marnus saw the replay and he's thinking, yeah, shit, might be done here. Now it lands outside. So see it says pitching outside off. And then it hits his leg and they're gonna say umpire's call. So it's too close for the replay tech to get right. But it would have hit the wickets. But because they need three reds and the umpire's call was not out, Marnus is safe. Whew, takes a deep breath. Things, all right. Maybe I got away with one there. And then he says, please, please, please, please, please. Come on. No. Screams. He's upset. So the over continues. Same to you guys. The umpire's like, all right, I guess I didn't know mine was gonna hold that much weight. South Africa fans are, and they're not excited about that. What are you guys talking about? Look at this guy. This guy's beat up a lot of guys, maybe. Or he's the nicest guy in the world. Or this guy, military. This guy's not military. South Africa's doing something wrong. I mean, look at that guy. He looks like cartoon bad guy. Anyway, back to it now. As you can see in the over, we have the wide dot ball dot ball. Then the reverse sweep, that went for two. Then dot ball. And he's still up against Marnus. It's still the cat and mouse. And he tries to get him on the other side there and doesn't get him. And what happened there was, it just wasn't caught. So he does hit this with his bat. And so now that means if the keeper catches it, he's out. It hits keeper's gloves and falls. And Shamsie's like, hmm, kinda want that one. So they bring in a leg slip. Now you see the defenseman right there to help out the keeper. And they're gonna try for that same line. And this time, Marnus doesn't even touch it. So it's a wide. And we gotta keep going. And that's the game we're playing here. And that time he blocks it just in time and they end up running for one run. So now we're later in the game. That was the 16th over. This is the 20th over. But they haven't faced each other since. So they bring Shamsie back into the match and he's doing the same thing. This time he's trying to trap him. So he's just trying to fuck with his footwork and get him to like back up into the stumps basically, which he almost is doing. He just, just, just got the bat. And looking at him, he's like, yep, yep, okay. Yeah, it's moving on me. Watch this. This looks like it's gonna, he traps his legs. Looks like he's gonna, oh, and then the bat just gets there right in time. Two dot balls in a row. And this time, same thing. The bat gets there and he goes, he's looking across the wicket at Steve Smith, his partner right now. And he's like, man, that one didn't, that one just went up. That's the hand motion he's doing. He's kind of like down and up. Didn't move as much as the other ones. Yep. Smith probably said, yep, one straight up. And then he said, yep, I agree. So now three dot balls in a row and that one, a little more loft to it. A little more loft. So he's, see, that's got a little higher. At this angle, it's above his knee. So he's able to step forward and smack it. Also three dots in a row. You're seeing him now, you feel a little better. He gets the boundary, he gets four. So just a little higher pitched, boom, or over pitched, they would say. And now he's happy. So I'm gonna take that one too. That one was a little slower, maybe a little less movement. He's feeling good about himself. He gets that. Now we're in the 22nd over and they meet again and he tried to gently just touch that one that way. He did not hit it with the bat. So it's a wide and we're just still playing this great game. Boom. Just trying to guide it past the keeper, gets it past him. He probably has four depending on how the defense is played. The very next ball, he tries to reverse sweep again and this time they get him. Umps says yes. This time, yes. Marnus says, uh, really? He hasn't felt comfortable this entire time versus Shamsley. They go to review it and he's thinking, oh, come on. So premeditated shot. He's not reacting to the ball there. He's just trying to give a different look. So Shamsley finds a different line or tries something different. Steve Smith's like, yeah, dude, I think you're out. He's like, yeah, I think I'm out. Ah, shit. Oh, and then here it is. It lands outside off, but just barely. It hits in line with the stumps and would it have hit the wickets? Umpire's call. So once again, the review is like, nah, we don't know. We'll just go with what the dude said. And the dude says, okay, okay, I said this. Ah, and his wife is half rolling her eyes to start. Like, okay, dude, chill out about it. But also very proud. She loves him and she's proud of him. This fan, now happy, Marnus, now upset. And this is the first one he tried to reverse and got two runs off, but you know, wasn't really well struck. It was outside. This one is the one that got him. So it's in line and he just misses it. They both had the same amount of turn. It was just where they landed beforehand. Here's a fun replay I did where I synced it up. And you can see the second one landed a little farther away from the batter and turned more. Umpire's call came down on both of them because the reviews were like, I don't know. Anyway, watch this. Maxwell comes in. Shams, he's got his wicket now. And he thinks he has another one, but no one else thinks he does. So he's got to stop. Umpire's like, ah, shut up, dude. And then he's done. And then he bowls to Maxwell again the next time. This is a couple overs later and gets a single. Maxwell tries to go huge and he gets him, bangs his chest, botches a high five with his teammate, runs around like a lunatic. Like there's bees on him. None of his teammates really chase him. They're like, ah, he's just by himself and it's awkward. It's cool, but it's awkward. Finally, you know, he comes and he's like, hey man. And she's like, whoa, he's really happy, but nice ball. Look, he just tries to tee off on this and it just turned more than he thought. So that was the little cat and mouse between Shamsi and Marnus Laboucher. They were going, I mean, Shamsi was in control the whole time. Marnus was trying to, he was trying to gain control back by doing those reverse sweeps and they weren't really working for him, but otherwise he was just getting the wides, which aren't like fun or getting trapped. So that ends the video.