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Speaker 1: Cricket seasons. Here Australia arrived in a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: for the Chapel Hadley are both sides naming the squads

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Speaker 1: and the series marks twenty years since the first ever

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Speaker 1: T twenty international between the two. Can you believe it's

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Speaker 1: twenty years? Anyway? Rob Walter's the black Caps coach and

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Speaker 1: he's with us, Rob morning, Why do you make have

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Speaker 1: you very well? Indeed? How's the job so far?

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Speaker 2: It's been friendly? He has been awesome, sort very short

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Speaker 2: in the in the trip, but it's been great so far.

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Is it everything you thought it would be thus far?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess obviously been fortunate to have been been

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Speaker 2: in the system for a said bit beforehand. You've got

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Speaker 2: to have a sense of how everything operates. But great

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Speaker 2: to have the feet in the shoes. None you'd be

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Speaker 2: part of it.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of this Chapel Hadley TA twenty thing?

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Speaker 1: Is this just the sign of the times? That is

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Speaker 1: what it is?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean obviously you got back twenty years. You know,

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Speaker 2: the first one is a bit of an exhibition really

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Speaker 2: and you look how further game has come now, So

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Speaker 2: think any any competition between Australia and New Zealand is massive.

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Speaker 2: So the Chapel Hadley I knows is important to the

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Speaker 2: guys irrespective of the format.

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Speaker 1: Now, we haven't won the Chapel Haadley since twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: so if we lose it again, do we call for

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Speaker 1: your sacking? Rob?

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Speaker 2: That's the way the world works. It could be the case,

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Speaker 2: but look hoping for a different result and you know,

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Speaker 2: suddenly get our names on that troops will be important.

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Speaker 1: How does it affect your selections? By the way, in

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Speaker 1: the T twenty thing, do you do you have a

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Speaker 1: different mindset now for the Chapel Headley than you might

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Speaker 1: have done it one stage.

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Speaker 2: No, obviously that you know this is all part of

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Speaker 2: the build up to the T twenty World Cup next

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Speaker 2: year as well, so missing a couple of players for

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Speaker 2: various reasons, but you know all of it is is

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Speaker 2: scared towards that. But in the same breath, you know,

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Speaker 2: ultra competitive series and always competitive against Australia, So we're

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Speaker 2: sort of taking one series on game at a time,

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Speaker 2: but with an eye on what's happening in the future

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Speaker 2: next year.

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Speaker 1: Do you like T twenty I still see it as

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Speaker 1: an element of crap. Shoot, you know, weird things can

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Speaker 1: happen on weird days.

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Speaker 2: Look, it certainly is unpredictable, that's for sure, and brings

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Speaker 2: teams together though, But the game is advanced massively and

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Speaker 2: you know, the stats and the work behind the scenes

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Speaker 2: to play the game while this has grown massively and

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Speaker 2: the skill sets of the players, as you've seen it

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Speaker 2: has gone huge. So you know, we had our first

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Speaker 2: three hundred score and till one teams just the other

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Speaker 2: day SafeCare against England. So the game is moving quickly

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Speaker 2: and we sort of have to move with it and

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Speaker 2: our skills of it.

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Speaker 1: Yet, well, kids come through. Do you reckon in future

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Speaker 1: years that will have played nothing but T twenty that

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Speaker 1: would be their entire existence in the sport.

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Speaker 2: It is possible. I hope it doesn't doesn't turn out

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Speaker 2: to be the case, and it's still the purist of

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Speaker 2: the game, so I still believe all three formats of

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Speaker 2: the place, so I hope that stays the same.

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Speaker 1: The Bay OVAL's beautiful, though, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: That's a nice place, wonderful, wonderful cricket grounds, great place

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Speaker 2: to play cricket, and obviously the support for the game

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Speaker 2: there is good and it will be in the school holidays.

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Speaker 2: So we're looking for a great look forward to a

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Speaker 2: great tourn Have.

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Speaker 1: We got that about right? In this country? We tend

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Speaker 1: to fab you know. You look at the christ Church Field,

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Speaker 1: you look at the Bayoval, Queenstown Centrally. You know there's

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Speaker 1: there's certain places where cricket looks good, the crowd looks good,

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Speaker 1: it's the right size, it just sort of vibes nicely.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think New Zealand has got some of the

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Speaker 2: spectacular cricket grounds and wonderful traditional cricket grounds as well.

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Speaker 2: You know, so that caches for for a smaller ground

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Speaker 2: given up population. You know, so you can get really

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Speaker 2: close to the action and really feel part of it,

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Speaker 2: which is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Good on you. You're nervous by the way you and

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Speaker 1: first all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Nah, certainly not Na. There'll be times along the way

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Speaker 2: that I will be, but no.

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Speaker 1: It's on you.

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Speaker 2: It's just a joy.

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Speaker 1: Good on you go well. Rob Walter, the black Caps

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Speaker 1: coach T twenty at the y. I'm not sold on

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