Henry Thornton joined Tom Morris after winning the Sheffield Shield Final - The New Ball (31.03.26)

0:00Well you've been everywhere Henry Thornton, these are the Wales, Victoria, South Australia, you're winning shield titles. How does that sit with you? Pretty well Tommy. Yeah it's been an amazing journey. This group is, I can't speak highly enough of this group. Come together we're all mostly from in a state. Just looking for an opportunity and the team that Sean Moons, the list Sean Moons has built obviously Rhinos, the coach and Somnins, the GM. We just got so much belief in our crew. Our group is just, they come together and they just get it done. Yep and I think even, we've done very just like. Yeah absolutely, Dan Berry, he's about to be amazing as he does. He's had an amazing summer. Nathan McHandry, that is so many things. And then we just knew we had the quality and the bowl was like, we've been doing it all year, nothing's changed. You know we've always spoken about you know we want we believe and we think that we have the best bowling and tuck outside the the test guys in the country and I think that was probably on showcast today. Yeah and you're part of it. What does it mean to say the last weekend as well in a shield final?

1:02Oh unreal. That's a good moment to you. Just so much emotion like I think we've worked so hard for it. You know we probably didn't have the best to start this season, just guys being away, guys being injured and then probably from October onwards we've just been building nicely. I think yeah we knew we could do it. I also think like the fix had an amazing season. They played some really good cricket but we just our mantra is we just fight. If you're going to beat us just fair enough we can pop that but you know we just fight and fight and fight and I think you know that's credit to Rhino and what he's building here. Yeah it's credit to our players like we may we just believe like and it's and I think you would have seen it with the support we had here. All the families, all the partners but even back home like we can say and everyone believes we can do it and we're a really special group. I love that and what was the minimum you think you could defend yesterday? You all look at the scoreboard. Could you defend it 130 or 140? Did you have numbers in your head? I thought we were getting balled out for 60. No I just always thought I thought if we could get 150 we could scrap. I thought 150,

2:03anything north of 150 was a bonus. I thought the white cares and Mac are like Scotty Ball and Paul a late yesterday, he bought a late old game. I love watching him ball. He's a guru. Yeah I just thought he has just handled the situation well and Mac are made. That's an innings and a half and good on if you're getting played at the final. He balled so well about it well. Yeah I thought 150 because I thought if it you know it was going up and down it was still nipping and I just thought our bowl is what we were doing. Yeah we take enough we're sorry. We make enough chances and we take them. I think my co-host of the new ball Bratz Underracing tweeted I think he called it a must improve fastball in the country. What's next for you? Did you start dreaming of higher honours? Given the hard road you've been on. This must be a nice accomplishment but you also young enough to want more. Yeah I think so. I think what's next I'm probably going to have yeah a weaker celebration. So that's probably what's next. I think we've always spoken about I'd love. I still think test and I've been on record saying it. I think test credit is the pinnacle. I want to play test credit. I think everyone in our team does. They've got some absolute rock stars

3:07in that team so it's a really high team getting to the conversations I've had with Rhino. We've probably stopped worrying about higher honours and just focused on what we're doing for South Australia for me. I'm bowling as best as probably I've ever bowed and I know that I'm probably a point of difference if I was to go up to that team but at the same time we've always had a mantra as our group and we keep winning titles we're going to get there. So we've gone back to back in the shield. I really hope that you know guys get recognised for that. I don't think nothing Gantry gets spoken about it highly enough. He is a he's a guru and I think he'd be great at the next level. I think our tack like we've you know friend of dog you didn't play expensive Johnson in play was ag I didn't play camp with Thompson in like we've got some seriously good bowlers and we've just built this machine of guys you know you've got you've got to be performing and doing your job in our team. Yeah I'd love to play test cricket. It's a dream of mine and it's I still think it's a pinnacle. I know there's a lot of chat around T20s and stuff like that but for me Red Bull has always been the pinnacle. I just guess if we keep winning titles and opportunities

4:10that's thank you. The opportunities of opportunities come up. I'd love to play test cricket and yeah I hope there's an opportunity in the net obviously we've got 20 tests in that month. So hopefully it's an opportunity that comes up but now made up yeah I just love winning titles and a lot of playing for this team. Congratulations. I enjoyed the celebrations. Thanks for that I will. Thanks for once.