Australia Fans React to India’s Gabba Victory

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“We welcome our new overlords...” It’s been one month since India won that historic Test match in Brisbane. Here is how two Aussie podcasters dissected their team’s first loss at the Gabba-toir in over 30 years.

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00:00I was just in the rollercoaster man, like it was just India f***ing good.

00:03We will never beat these guys for three centuries.

00:06These kids came in and said we don't give a f*** about the Gabba.

00:08We are not chastened, we're not hastened, we're not afraid of the Gabba.

00:12And now Australian cricketing dominance is over and we welcome the Asian century and our overlords.

00:21How did we lose?

00:23We lost to the Gabba?

00:27Why is this happening to me?

00:30Don't we always win?

00:32What? What is this feeling? It feels familiar.

00:35La familiar.

00:37My name's Ian Higgins, I'm joined by Sam Perry.

00:40Three minutes ago, Australia lost for the first time with the Gabba since...

00:45Is it 1988?

00:4788.

00:4788, 88.

00:48The bicentenary year.

00:49Famously so.

00:51If that's how you consider the nation-state of Australia.

00:53My goodness me.

00:54Now I felt a whole wave of emotions as the country,

00:56and I will be speaking for the country on this occasion,

00:59did, um, I felt, I was just on the roller coaster, man.

01:03Like it was just India are f***ing good.

01:05That's fine.

01:05Oh, you have to say that.

01:06That's fine.

01:07India, we played India C.

01:10Let's go top line here and then we'll dig some onion layers here.

01:12Okay.

01:14You know, that's fine.

01:15They're allowed to play well, but not on our f***ing patch.

01:18Not on our f***ing tour.

01:20All right.

01:20Yeah.

01:21Australia, f***ing dog shit.

01:22It's the worst team I've ever seen.

01:23This bowling lineup is the worst I've seen in a generation.

01:26Keep going.

01:26It's the worst I've seen in a generation.

01:27What's wrong with the f***ing sticks?

01:29Anyone having a stick?

01:30Can anyone bowl but f***ing Pat Cummins?

01:32Yeah.

01:32Best bowling quartet in the world, or that we've ever produced.

01:36Yep.

01:36Can Cummins do it, please?

01:39Cummins getting hammered by a pant.

01:41Probably just saying any danger of anyone else having a bowl.

01:44Yeah. Can I have a blow?

01:45Anyone want to roll?

01:46Yeah.

01:47Four for 30 off 25.

01:49Anyone else f***ing pulling some weight?

01:51You know, before the series started,

01:54it was postulated on the great cricketer and elsewhere.

01:57Yeah.

01:58You know, geez, it could be a really good series.

02:00It could be a close series, a rare close series in Australia.

02:04And as it-

02:04I want to f***ing win!

02:06As it developed so...

02:09It was, oh, not this close.

02:11Yeah.

02:12Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

02:14What's going on?

02:14And you could just see the Australian body politic

02:17as the series went on, scratching their collective heads.

02:20Yeah.

02:20To understand why, why are we subpar?

02:24Why isn't that 100 being turned into 150?

02:26Yeah, daddy.

02:27Why can't anyone else score runs?

02:28Where's our middle order bats?

02:30Hang on, they're the best bowling quartet,

02:31but India's scoring runs, these young guys coming.

02:33And just as the series developed

02:35and then came to its absolute crescendo,

02:38its climax just now,

02:39I think we were all going,

02:40oh, India are good.

02:43This is the Asian century.

02:45The dying embers of Australian dominance are upon us.

02:49The Anglo sphere of Australian cricketing dominance is over.

02:5319th century, Pax Britannica.

02:5620th century, American dominance.

02:5821st century, India.

03:00We will never beat these guys for three centuries.

03:02That's it, we're done.

03:03Consecutively.

03:04Yeah.

03:04Takua came in and debuted at the Gabba Bowl

03:07better than any shield bowler would have ever bowled.

03:09Hmm.

03:10What about Washington Sundar?

03:11Sundar.

03:12Coming in at seven and then was like,

03:13oh, he's a bowler.

03:14And no, he f****** batted under 19s when he was 16.

03:16He's a stick batted four.

03:17Oh, and he's a better stick than eight of our sticks.

03:19He'd bat five for us.

03:21He would.

03:21Straight away, he'd slot right in.

03:23Yeah.

03:23Hey, mate, can you make your debut?

03:25Washington Sundar, please.

03:27No worries.

03:27I'll make 100 runs, 100 very important runs in the game

03:30and take four wickets.

03:31What about Takua?

03:32You want to play?

03:32Yeah, I'll make 70 odd and take seven wickets.

03:36And be the best bowler apart from Cummins on the Gabba.

03:38My favourite thing about this is, Pez,

03:39we'll never see these guys again

03:40because there's eight guys ahead of them

03:41who when they're fit, they'll play because they're better.

03:43This isn't just a loss of a series.

03:45This is the Asian century.

03:46It is.

03:47It's the commencement of the Asian century.

03:49China's coming in.

03:50No, but the symbolism of the Gabba Hoodoo being destroyed.

03:53The Gabba isn't just a record of wins and losses for Australia.

03:57There's no losses there.

03:58Gabba is turning it on as I did on day one

04:00after spending the morning at the zoo with my family

04:03and feeling safe with the hue of the light.

04:05Oh, it's November.

04:07Oh, there's that hue.

04:08I feel safe.

04:09There's the teal and arbitrary splashes of yellow, of canary.

04:14Oh, it's a full house.

04:15Is it a full house?

04:15Oh, no, it's just coloured streets.

04:16But it's Queensland.

04:17There's the Forex sponsorship.

04:19I know what that means.

04:20That means happiness in the crowd,

04:21but a bit of hostility underneath.

04:23And every time Australia got the advantage,

04:27these 19 year old IPL kids came in and said,

04:29we don't give a f**k.

04:30We don't.

04:31These kids came in and said,

04:32we don't give a f**k about the Gabba.

04:33We are not chastened.

04:35We're not hastened.

04:36We're not afraid of the Gabba.

04:38And now Australian cricketing dominance is over

04:40and we welcome the Asian century and our overlords.

04:43We will compete now for the best of the rest.

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