Sydney Thunder wasn't loud enough for the Hobart Hurricanes who blew them away in the BBL final, we caught up with Mel Jones to chat about the summer of cricket. And C-Bass is back in the building and she has a special announcement!
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Get on board today and thanks to KO Sports we're catching up with Mel Jones and Mel we're coming off the back of an historic win for the Hobart Hurricanes last night in the BBL.
Yeah.
I think everyone's come except for of course Pitneys under stuff the third time title and Mitch Owen. I saw him play a couple of times live throughout the season. This kid he can, yeah, he can seriously whack a ball.
Oh the good news is local, wasn't it? Yeah, eleven six is.
He's a local as well, and through the tournament he's belt a thirty six sixes through the So I'm just thinking his contract. He'll get a guernsey in the IPL at some stuff.
Whether you're whatever, your goal is to cricket, Yeah, that's it. My goal will be the IPL. Whatever I have to do to get there, and then I want them to want me, yeah, of course. And then you want a bidding one billion dollars for six weeks, come on?
What to go? There?
Like her the ASM, it was really refreshing to see a new team win it. Of course they haven't won it ever before. The hope about Hurricane I mean.
If the scorch just can't win it, of course, Yeah, do you know what I mean? We prefer that they want and I've done that yet and.
I do and I do believe when you've got the best team in the competition, who have been They've been the best team all season around. They lost the first game of the season, they lost the glass game of the season. They only did it that last game because they rested a few guys and they've gone on to take the title.
So they absolutely deserve it.
They certainly do. And look Nathan Ellis as a bowling captain too, I think we'd give a shout out to all those bawlers that are leading teams around around cricket in Australia. He's done a superb job. They actually owned their home ground in Ninja Stadium. They didn't lose a game there, They traveled well and just like in all tournaments style play, you had a peak at the right time, and they've done that.
Yeah.
I don't know too much about cricket, but or when it's played over the Christmas break, right, so cricket's happening like you know, throughout the stuff.
Yeah, concert.
Yeah, yeah, so do they do cricket players? Can they go and have a blowout on Christmas.
Days off?
But the cricketers, as we know with the Boxing day tests and stuff like that, they they know that that's what they do and when it comes to the BBL, they're traveling every couple of days. But you know some of the cricketers aren't the best athletes you've ever seen.
Yeah, if you're don't have a guts, it's going to be in cricket.
Cricketers here and may agree with you.
Ye, hey, Mal, what does the rest of the summer look for you? I know there's a short form of the game still keeps carrying on all around the world. Women's crickets still going on at the moment. So what does it look like for you personally?
Well, first of all, I'm going to give a shout out to the train and the nineteen girls away the semi finals to the World Cup and you've got a couple of perse girls. Chloree Ainsworth is in the purse squorters team. He's killing it there fantastic as well, and just about to head to Melbourne for the first Test match women's Test match we've had there in over seventy years. It's going to be daynight test match of pink Ball, which is the first time that GE's ever hosted one of those. We're taking on England and the Ashes the final game. And I know we all love beating England, but see you what, there is nothing better than sending them home with them not having won one game.
It's been there. We've destroyed them the whole way through. So good.
Yeah, the yearsy girls have looked, I think we all sort of expect them to win and win well, but the way in which they've done it throughout the white Ball series so far, they've just elevated things to a whole new level. Best Mooney, a lot of King girls. That's outstanding and certainly led.
The way you travel so much all around. We just heard you know you're heading off somewhere else. So many hotels you're booking into. Are you one of those people that walk in and sanitize the remote control? And then and then what's what's your process? Because you would you would have it locked in.
I've never thought about that. You're going to get you look yeah, like I'll finish this Ashes series and then head to Pakistan and then India over the months of the Champions Trophy and the Women's Premier League. And you said that you almost get to know which city you go and you go, oh, yeah, that's a good hotel, and then I and then some you go, no, get me through.
This is quickly every every hotel I stayed at, every hotel all around the world, I'll go and I'll have my stay there, and then the last day or pop up to see what the gym looks like it is the jim or the pool pop up and have a look.
Do you go that's there?
Do you go to the gym or the pool mill?
Look a little pool girl India. Sometimes you get stinking yeah and jim, look. I walk up there and look at it.
And then it's nice to know it's fair.
It's good to check sometimes, isn't it. Sometimes you walk into a sad dream is just a breadmill.
You always have great intentions when you first turned up after that pack you're active wear, but it just don't I.
Did it once. I did it once and it was in bloody I think it was in Hong Kong or Singapore, and I and I took work out. Closing did the workout was when Danny Green was training me, and then I just did it to take a video to show Danny though I did exercise over ten minutes.
Like every bit this influencer on tat Yeah, Amil.
Just before I let you go, I just wanted to ask you about what you think the Perth Scorches would need to do next year.
It looks like there needs to be a bit of we re wiring for that team.
I look to be up and winning all the time for extended periods of time is a tough, tough ask, and sometimes you just say it might have been just one of those seasons. So full confidence in the hierarchy and Bothy and all that stuff, just to just to have a look at the season and go we might not actually have to change too much. Don't need wholesale changes to get things absolutely back on track. But if I know that playing group well enough, they'll already be thinking about it and trying to devise a way to get back into that that grand final.
Well, Mel, great to speak to you this morning, thanks to KO Sports. Of course, enjoy the rest of your travels and the rest of the crew seasons.
Have a great ahead, guys.
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Sea Bass Live Golf. Does that appeal to you, by the way, it does more than normal golf.
It's Adam Sandler, Yes, yeah, it is Adam.
Yeah, yeah, not so bad.
Adelaide really hit the high marks a few years ago when they grabbed gather around and live golf all in the same thing. You went from one week to the next and it was just absolutely my hand. Plus they got the tour down Under which has been running there for a long time. Couple of real iconic events.
Yeah, it's not bad. And do you know what the best thing is the uniforms, what they're allowed to wear, like shorts. The girls get a little bit yeahazy, Like that's what I'm about. The party vibe, because golf can be a little bit boring.
Talking about the party vibe, it's a party vibe on your finger.
I finally got my own toyet Moyett. So you got engaged in Canada? No here, yeah, just here? So what's that about?
Just here?
I don't know what's that about. If you journeyed to Canada, you would do time.
You would have been getting yourself proposal ready.
Every day, your manicure are ready to go, not at all. But anytime you bent down to Taire's shoe, I was kind of a bit like, yes, I do, yeah, but no, so he's had the ring for months. So he had it while we're in Canada, but didn't want to do it over there because it was about my family time, which is lovely. When we came back, I think it was a Saturday, so he took it over just in case the moment. No, he didn't take it over, he got it beforehand. Ran at home, but no, it was Saturday. I've been at work. We're going to go We'll flying to Sitney the next day go spend Christmas with his family. And he said, do you want to go out for dinner? I booked Cooogie Common for us and I was wanting to go there for dinner. Yes, I was like yeah. Then I got home, it was probably about seven o'clock and he said, are you gonna have a showering? Get changed? And I was like, what's wrong? Comes I've seen washed my hair before work, so I just had a black dress on.
So fine.
I got changed and then dinner. Nothing exciting happened at dinner.
Nothing at dinner, nothing. I was wondering the people still get the kitchen to put the ring in the food, because you wouldn't they wouldn't do it now because the choking has it. I wouldn't imagine you ran a ring in there.
There was no eating of the ring. And so I came home and the roller shutters we've got roller shutters were down in the back area and I said, oh, what's going on here? He said, it's been really hot today, so just been keeping the heat out. So fair enough?
Do you believe everything he says?
I'm sworthy and so he said. I said, I'm just going to go to the toilet, like, got change, got in my TRACKI decks because I wanted to be comfortable. And I came back and he goes, what are you doing? No, go put go put your dress back on, And in my head then I'm like something, Oh, he goes.
I wouldn't have a woman, and I'm with tracksitant.
Exactly, and I was like, I'll go feed the animals. He goes, I've already done that, and then warning bells started to go because he never feeds that. Yeah, So then he said, oh, no, go get changed. I went back and put on the dress you know you got you just never know. Like he loves fancy beer stuff, so he could have just gotten something a new beer thing that he wanted to.
I want to.
Yeah, anyway, so put on a blindfold, the roller door come up and he's done. All the fairy lights in our back here. He's gone that day, he's gone and just deck a pretty much. Yeah, and Chino had a little little puckxedo collar thing and he had a little pouch on his collar.
Two minutes before that shared I was in his tructed pants. Put your tuxedo back on.
Yeah, so lovely. So it was the fact that I think he went and asked my dad during the day. Yeah. Yeah, Mike Bassett was like, take her about time. Yeah, but no, so he gone to a lot of efforts. It was beautiful. That's really nice. Yeah, have you thought about how long it will be until you actually get married? We want to get married this year, but yeah, the logistics of that are just too far beyond my reach.
And are we going to be dropping some coin in this wedding. We're going to try to get through as cheap as possible.
I think it's going to be on the budget. Just quietly with budgeting. How you know, there's there's things that we want to and.
We know the role was very impressive, so maybe there the World War comes up and then you walk through.
Oh my god, amazing. Now I'm all for the like surprise wedding. You know when you go it was just like the engagement party and then they're like, haha, this wedding or their wedding. I think that's awesome. But I mean, if you guys, you know Sean, have you got any chips?
Oh?
Oh wow? Do you see what just happened there? Wow, that's what you guys? I wait, no, just sure that.
Was possibly the most insulting thing that's happened in twenty twenty five.
Well, we know that Nathan hasn't been on a day for eleven years.
I haven't been in a pool for twenty two The last time I've been in them for I think it's at least twenty two years. No, twenty years since I've been completely wet and submerged in a body of water.
What about when you got rebaptized that time?
Oh? No, every year the flames.
See, that's why I got you. Did you watch the BBL last night? I didn't. I had footy training and so Maths watching mass Did you watch Masks? Why happened my mats? You don't watch Maths? I didn't watch the Best Weddings on masks doing research now No so no, I didn't started at work before I left, but I saw that the Canes won and I was very excited for them because if it wasn't going to be the Scorches, they were my next favorite team.
Mitchell and an absolutely ballistics match eleven six. As we mentioned that earlier on with mel Jones. But the other thing you're mentioning your footy training. Were you out with you because you.
Talked about they did a cut before Christmas and you're like, I don't even know I'm going to make the cat.
You made the cart made you don't go with the tallest Australia.
I know right, I made the cart shockingly. It's been really good fun. I'm learning to kick. Last night actually we've got a guy who used to play for Perthames, Mitch Hindo, and I soccered ball off the ground really close to him in frustration and it just hit him straight in the chest.
Heard him.
I hope it did. I was very frustrated. No, it's been really good fun. We've got some great girls in our team. They've been teaching me a lot and there's some similarities to netball. But I don't know what position I'm going to play. Yeah, still are you what else do you record?
I tell you, if your coach or they didn't put you in ruck, they didn't put you in ruck, they would be there'll be stories around the world about this girl plays in the steven. The football thing is, you're.
Not ru You can have played, mate. You can catch a ball, you can know the ball. You can't kick, so it doesn't matter. It's I won't be kicking on the run. I'll catch it and take a step mark.
What is it?
Do you know?
I don't know if you know official heights? But how short is that? How much taller are you than the next tallest girl in the in the entire con See.
I'm not sure. I see I've never played. How tall? I am six four?
Yeah?
So the tallest ever is Aaron Hare from To Long and Play. Yeah, So there you go. Have you practiced the ruck?
No?
And so that's the thing. I've still been injured. I've been coming back from my calf and the other day I did get to do some rock stuff for the first time, you know I did. I caught the ball and chest passed it to someone. Yeah, did they say here if you need so?
The official person in the AFL will wet. I'm learning about it.
Get to ground, all right, a bit of work to do out of the ruck and just handle it. How do you feel about Beardie Simmons crossing back? Gosh, what do we think about that? Yeah? Good? I caught up with her before she left. She still wants to play, and I get it. She's a little bit younger than me, but she's in her mid thirties and she is like, why I'm still fit? Why wouldn't I just keep going? And I can totally understand that. So an opportunity came up with Swifts. She knew the coach from the Swiss from years of living in New South Wales, that's where she's from. She just sent her a sneaky DM and said hey, I'm available. Yeah, and so she flew out here if you need Yeah, here if you need it. Flew out the next day tried with them, and she said, as soon as I got that netball in my hand, it just felt like normal. Wow. So I'm really excited that her first game is going to be against the West Coast. I think the West Coast fo we're going to have a horrible year. Yeah, well no Janiel Fowler pregnant genial Powler.
But you know what, then the the Ungineels can step up and hopefully hopefully signed a pretty good replacement.
Why can Wenda. She's a bit of a gun for the Malawi queens and has won premierships before.
So hair looks amazing. By the way, I'm going to post a video. I'm for all the girls watching.
What did we do to get that?
This is how women wake up on the TV Sean And this is because when a man gets a woman in real life, it looks next one it's all knotted and they go, that's not what the TV says.
It's straight from TikTok. Yeah, this is the heatless curl roller. So you look like an idiot. And my next saw because I slept. Ye, beauty is pain. So no, you just like paying hair around it and then you sleep in this thing overnight electrical.
Just your head in my head.
Basically I think small pool noodle.
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