WEBVTT - On The Front Foot Episode 223: Planned tech levy sparks frustrations 0:00:09.093 --> 0:00:11.973 You're listening to a podcast from News Talk Sat B. 0:00:12.373 --> 0:00:15.173 Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on 0:00:15.333 --> 0:00:19.533 iHeart Radio. 0:00:21.293 --> 0:00:22.933 Take another pat, now we'll get in. 0:00:23.333 --> 0:00:26.333 It's a trick, it is out, The test is over. 0:00:28.573 --> 0:00:29.333 Couldn't smoke. 0:00:30.093 --> 0:00:32.933 It was a beauty this out and here he goes 0:00:33.013 --> 0:00:33.653 this delivery? 0:00:33.773 --> 0:00:35.453 Has any use it to bowl. 0:00:37.693 --> 0:00:41.093 On the front foot with Brian Waddell and Jeremy Cody, 0:00:41.413 --> 0:00:45.293 powered by News Talks Dead B at iHeart Radio. 0:00:48.413 --> 0:00:52.293 Hello and goodness me, what a week we've had in cricket. 0:00:52.293 --> 0:00:55.253 There's plenty going on and I wonder which has been 0:00:55.413 --> 0:01:00.573 the most entertaining or the most controversial. England go to 0:01:00.573 --> 0:01:04.133 one in the challenging series with India. Boy didn't get 0:01:04.173 --> 0:01:07.573 a little testy in that game over eight tissue is 0:01:08.013 --> 0:01:12.733 rear e'zagly ahead again twenty six challenge once more, but 0:01:12.813 --> 0:01:15.933 we still hold the unwanted record out of the West 0:01:15.933 --> 0:01:19.053 Indies avoid acquiring it was at the pink ball that 0:01:19.253 --> 0:01:21.973 kept the scores low and the bowlers on job wasn't 0:01:22.053 --> 0:01:26.173 just playing bad batting by both sides. Game one of 0:01:26.253 --> 0:01:30.533 the African Try series and there's a mutiny on the 0:01:30.573 --> 0:01:34.173 cards for our domestic cricketers fees being bumped by an 0:01:34.293 --> 0:01:38.373 unwanted technology levy hardly what the game needs in the 0:01:38.413 --> 0:01:41.613 country at the moment, but it seems likely to create conflict. 0:01:42.533 --> 0:01:44.973 Just before we're joined by Jeremy Cooney as ever, and 0:01:45.133 --> 0:01:48.973 Peter Holland along here to join us. This week, there's 0:01:49.013 --> 0:01:52.013 been a lot of cricketing action, but it's been capped 0:01:52.053 --> 0:01:55.693 off by the performance of the Black Caps in Zimbabwe 0:01:55.893 --> 0:01:58.853 under their new coach Rob Walter, winning their first game 0:01:59.133 --> 0:02:01.973 of T twenty cricket against South Africa, the team that 0:02:02.093 --> 0:02:06.933 Rob Walter has previously coached, and it wasn't their normal 0:02:06.973 --> 0:02:11.213 frontline players Tim Robbin and Bevan Jacobs. The replacement players 0:02:11.533 --> 0:02:14.053 put on a partnership of one hundred and three to 0:02:14.133 --> 0:02:17.013 give them a very respectable total. There was no Bracewell, 0:02:17.053 --> 0:02:22.333 no Phillips, no Ravender, no Chapman, and o'rourkan Milne were 0:02:22.373 --> 0:02:25.053 left out of the New Zealand side. So next week 0:02:25.093 --> 0:02:29.253 we'll be able to cover that series and get some 0:02:29.293 --> 0:02:35.613 reaction to the New Zealand team's performance in Zimbabwe. But well, 0:02:35.733 --> 0:02:38.733 what's been the highlights of the week? Has it been 0:02:39.533 --> 0:02:44.533 England's win over India in the match at Lord's or 0:02:44.653 --> 0:02:48.053 Jeremy Coney. Was it the twenty seven that the West 0:02:48.053 --> 0:02:51.733 Indies scored nearly taking a record office. 0:02:52.133 --> 0:02:58.373 Well, high words and moose again, Yeah, twenty seven and 0:02:58.413 --> 0:03:02.373 it was actually the difference Wards was a missfield by 0:03:02.493 --> 0:03:04.493 Constance in the gully. 0:03:06.413 --> 0:03:10.293 He needs to be strung up whoever it was. 0:03:11.293 --> 0:03:15.773 To drop catches, Jerry, if you don't before. 0:03:15.573 --> 0:03:17.693 The really really I didn't know that. 0:03:17.693 --> 0:03:21.973 That's yeah, well twenty six, Yeah, that's that's that's a 0:03:22.053 --> 0:03:26.693 record we could do without. Really, we could talk about that. 0:03:26.813 --> 0:03:28.413 I guess when we get there, I'll tell you what. 0:03:28.493 --> 0:03:32.893 The Western These bowlers aren't the worst lads. No, if 0:03:32.893 --> 0:03:36.453 you look at this, yeah, I mean no, that's well 0:03:36.453 --> 0:03:36.733 they're not. 0:03:36.733 --> 0:03:38.413 They're supposed to bed are they the bowlers? 0:03:38.453 --> 0:03:42.733 But I mean the Seals, Seals and Shama Joseph and 0:03:42.733 --> 0:03:45.773 Alzari Joseph and Justin Grieves that or they're they're not 0:03:45.853 --> 0:03:49.133 a bad, bad lot of seamers. So I'm looking forward 0:03:49.173 --> 0:03:55.173 to seeing them when they come over. Yes, Sabina Park again, Oh. 0:03:55.133 --> 0:03:56.853 Dear one, are your favorite grounds? 0:03:56.933 --> 0:03:57.253 Jerry? 0:03:57.773 --> 0:03:59.653 Yeah, look. 0:04:00.933 --> 0:04:03.933 Not one hundred, I don't think as it's a bit 0:04:03.973 --> 0:04:07.613 of a guess from either side and the three tests? 0:04:07.773 --> 0:04:08.333 Is that right? 0:04:09.173 --> 0:04:11.773 Seventy five was the yeah score by Brandon King. 0:04:12.693 --> 0:04:16.853 So the pictures, the pictures could have been fairly tough. 0:04:16.933 --> 0:04:19.893 I only watched bits of it here and there, and 0:04:19.933 --> 0:04:25.893 the parts I thought were seeming quite a lot, so look, yeah, 0:04:26.053 --> 0:04:30.053 but twenty seven I couldn't believe that. Really in fourteen 0:04:30.613 --> 0:04:33.333 fourteen and a half overs amazing? 0:04:33.573 --> 0:04:34.853 Most were you backing the Aussies? 0:04:35.693 --> 0:04:40.853 Oh, I couldn't be going there. I'm sorry. I'm listening 0:04:41.893 --> 0:04:44.373 to it on the radio and they were eleven for 0:04:45.533 --> 0:04:51.613 living for six and I'm going, we're in with a chance. 0:04:51.693 --> 0:04:55.893 He I mean, please please, because it's it's the dreaded, 0:04:57.053 --> 0:05:01.573 it's the dreaded well, I don't know what you call it, 0:05:01.613 --> 0:05:04.653 but we're carrying it. New Zealand's carrying it and we're 0:05:04.653 --> 0:05:07.853 not that bad as a cricketing nation. When we used 0:05:07.853 --> 0:05:11.413 to talk the lowest ten score and I'm going, oh, please, 0:05:11.453 --> 0:05:13.933 can we can? We can we get through that? And 0:05:13.973 --> 0:05:16.373 then and then I'm and then I'm and so I 0:05:16.413 --> 0:05:18.293 had to go on and then because it was on 0:05:18.413 --> 0:05:21.653 live TV here had to go and watch it. And 0:05:21.653 --> 0:05:22.573 it was like torture. 0:05:25.053 --> 0:05:27.653 You realize of course they're squit. They're sweating blood on 0:05:27.693 --> 0:05:30.653 the Caribbean. Now they want everybody, they want everybody's head, 0:05:31.293 --> 0:05:33.253 and no one's prepared to give their head. 0:05:33.973 --> 0:05:36.973 Of course, not of course not, but but but can 0:05:37.013 --> 0:05:38.613 I just come back to the point around around at 0:05:38.613 --> 0:05:41.333 the West Indian Cricket, I'll tell you what that And 0:05:41.493 --> 0:05:46.373 Jerry's right, my lord, there are some very very good 0:05:46.933 --> 0:05:51.893 quick bowlers there. I love that. Pity the banning out 0:05:51.973 --> 0:05:56.533 so good. That said, though I didn't see too much 0:05:56.573 --> 0:06:01.453 from the Australian banning lineups. I did see and much 0:06:01.493 --> 0:06:05.373 of my line and from a lot of people. Cameron 0:06:05.453 --> 0:06:09.813 Green at three gas sing it out and getting quite 0:06:09.853 --> 0:06:14.133 important runs at two and at three you know, forty 0:06:14.173 --> 0:06:16.413 and a thirty odd which when you when you when 0:06:16.453 --> 0:06:18.693 you back it all up, a kind of really important 0:06:18.773 --> 0:06:22.573 runs top of the order. But it looked horrendous to 0:06:22.613 --> 0:06:26.573 play there at a dark ball, and I'm not sure 0:06:27.173 --> 0:06:33.253 the lights were particularly effective. It looked horrible and scary, 0:06:33.813 --> 0:06:35.733 you know, when you've got these quick bottles coming in 0:06:35.773 --> 0:06:38.693 and I saw carrying it. It whacked in the noggin 0:06:39.093 --> 0:06:42.893 and I thought, my lord, he didn't see it. And 0:06:42.933 --> 0:06:43.813 he's a good player. 0:06:44.293 --> 0:06:47.533 Jerry, you got a Denton you left forum, haven't you 0:06:47.613 --> 0:06:48.733 from Savannah Park? 0:06:49.973 --> 0:06:50.173 Yeah? 0:06:50.213 --> 0:06:55.413 I do on left arm, yeah, Joel Garner, that was 0:06:55.493 --> 0:06:57.893 my mistake. It was a day game, so I couldn't 0:06:57.933 --> 0:07:02.653 complain about that. It was a red ball, so that 0:07:03.333 --> 0:07:04.173 was a bit different. 0:07:05.373 --> 0:07:06.413 Yeah. 0:07:06.453 --> 0:07:10.613 So yeah, I just couldn't couldn't pick up the bat 0:07:11.213 --> 0:07:14.133 and have any strength, And so I had to leave 0:07:14.213 --> 0:07:17.253 the game at that point and went to the first hospital. 0:07:17.293 --> 0:07:23.413 It was closed, and so I was sitting in the 0:07:23.453 --> 0:07:25.253 back of the car with a sort of a pad, 0:07:25.853 --> 0:07:28.493 you know, just around my arm and that sort of thing. 0:07:28.533 --> 0:07:31.493 And that we went to the second hospital and that 0:07:31.573 --> 0:07:34.613 one was open, which was good. Orthopedics was working that day, 0:07:35.173 --> 0:07:40.893 and so I remember driving past the car park and 0:07:40.933 --> 0:07:47.373 there was a little sign on the outside guard dogs operating, 0:07:48.573 --> 0:07:51.973 and I thought to myself, hell's bells. I was sure 0:07:51.973 --> 0:07:56.053 as hell, hope they'd been trained. And in we went. 0:07:57.373 --> 0:07:59.133 In we went, and this little kid came up to 0:07:59.173 --> 0:08:01.333 me walking through the car park. 0:08:01.613 --> 0:08:07.373 And he said, Kune you sign and. 0:08:07.333 --> 0:08:10.133 He had his little he added a little autograph book 0:08:10.173 --> 0:08:12.333 with him and I said, yeah, certainly, son popped on 0:08:12.413 --> 0:08:13.333 the broken arm here. 0:08:14.013 --> 0:08:15.653 And so. 0:08:17.093 --> 0:08:19.373 I was looking through and flicking through it and there 0:08:19.493 --> 0:08:21.613 was you know, there was gatting. 0:08:22.093 --> 0:08:25.493 Oh yeah, you know it did. Yeah, Oh yes, sir. 0:08:25.853 --> 0:08:29.893 And then you know Umran Khan over the page Alan border, 0:08:30.333 --> 0:08:32.253 that sort of thing. I said, oh, you like your 0:08:32.253 --> 0:08:35.973 cricket son. He said, yes, Sir. I said, you obviously 0:08:36.013 --> 0:08:39.613 get down to Sabina Parker. But no, shir, they all 0:08:39.653 --> 0:08:43.053 come here sometime. 0:08:44.933 --> 0:08:45.653 Oh, there we are. 0:08:46.053 --> 0:08:49.573 My name, my name joined the other one. So I 0:08:49.613 --> 0:08:51.573 went in the Yeah. So that was the end of 0:08:51.573 --> 0:08:54.053 my tour. And you remember that really nice interview I 0:08:54.133 --> 0:08:56.733 gave you wads that lasted about an hour and a 0:08:56.813 --> 0:08:57.493 half later. 0:08:57.733 --> 0:09:00.893 Yeah, and only asked one question. What I remember is 0:09:00.893 --> 0:09:03.733 you killed you killed the pain with a bath full 0:09:03.773 --> 0:09:08.293 of booze and asked me to join you every hour. 0:09:08.413 --> 0:09:10.533 Are in the middle of the night. Never forget it, 0:09:10.733 --> 0:09:13.973 Never forget it. You won't forget either. Jerry talking about 0:09:14.013 --> 0:09:17.333 Constance dropping a catch. India might have won that Test 0:09:17.333 --> 0:09:20.013 match if they hadn't led twenty five buys through in 0:09:20.093 --> 0:09:22.333 the England second and things. They were a wonder game 0:09:22.413 --> 0:09:24.933 quite comfortably. They wouldn't have been chasing that many, would they? 0:09:25.733 --> 0:09:30.653 No, that's true. Thirty thirty runs wads in both innings 0:09:30.693 --> 0:09:34.373 sixty extras. But you're right about the buys. Some of 0:09:34.413 --> 0:09:37.573 them were pretty tough, weren't they. Remember punt was off 0:09:37.573 --> 0:09:41.893 the field most of the game that that rule came 0:09:41.933 --> 0:09:45.373 in a few years ago. Now that you know that 0:09:45.453 --> 0:09:46.773 you can replace your keeper. 0:09:49.133 --> 0:09:52.733 Yeah, but the ball swings at Lord's, doesn't it? 0:09:52.773 --> 0:09:55.813 After it pitchres and goes past the stumps, and it 0:09:55.853 --> 0:09:58.653 can be quite tricky. But you would have thought if 0:09:58.693 --> 0:10:01.973 they could have saved a few there. And I wonder 0:10:01.973 --> 0:10:03.973 whether the umpires do just to bring. 0:10:05.253 --> 0:10:07.893 For a lot of people who have never stood behind 0:10:07.933 --> 0:10:11.413 the stuff mumps, A lot of people our listeners will 0:10:11.453 --> 0:10:16.853 be those. Can you explain that? Because it is really 0:10:16.893 --> 0:10:22.733 disconcerting because the ball literally wobbles, doesn't it. 0:10:22.733 --> 0:10:25.013 It does two things. It can do two things. 0:10:25.133 --> 0:10:27.613 Moose the first thing it can do and the obvious 0:10:27.653 --> 0:10:30.293 one that was happening at. 0:10:29.613 --> 0:10:31.453 Lord's as it pictures. 0:10:32.573 --> 0:10:36.173 Quite often it'll straighten the seam up as it lands 0:10:36.173 --> 0:10:41.653 on the ground, and as it passes the stumps, it's 0:10:41.693 --> 0:10:44.653 actually still moving towards the keeper, of course, and it 0:10:44.733 --> 0:10:50.773 starts to swing and it swings usually away from the keeper. 0:10:52.613 --> 0:10:56.453 And so the keepers were outside of stump but swinging 0:10:56.493 --> 0:10:59.373 away to the leg side and they just can't get 0:10:59.373 --> 0:11:04.373 there and so often you will get a resulting four buys. 0:11:04.453 --> 0:11:06.573 The other thing it can do, and it did it 0:11:06.613 --> 0:11:10.493 at Christich actually did it quite a lot Lancaster Park 0:11:10.933 --> 0:11:13.413 when it was called that it would come and it 0:11:13.453 --> 0:11:16.373 would go up and down as well. After it came 0:11:16.533 --> 0:11:20.133 through past the batsman, it would actually dip and then 0:11:20.213 --> 0:11:23.053 go up and down. And I remember Wally Lees broke 0:11:23.093 --> 0:11:27.493 a finger and he hated that. That was worse, he said, 0:11:27.533 --> 0:11:31.733 than having the ball swing away from him, it going 0:11:31.813 --> 0:11:33.533 up and down because you think you've lined it up 0:11:33.533 --> 0:11:36.413 to catch it and suddenly it's in a different position 0:11:36.893 --> 0:11:38.013 but still coming. 0:11:37.773 --> 0:11:38.413 Straight at you. 0:11:38.573 --> 0:11:40.813 So those are the two things that can happen at 0:11:40.893 --> 0:11:45.573 pace and at pace, you're right, so quite tricky to 0:11:45.613 --> 0:11:49.853 stop those. But you know a few just got under 0:11:49.893 --> 0:11:52.493 the glove and things like that, and that would have 0:11:52.613 --> 0:11:53.493 certainly helped. 0:11:54.013 --> 0:11:56.733 There's that wadds And. 0:11:56.693 --> 0:11:58.973 If I could just quickly just mention and it may 0:11:59.253 --> 0:12:00.733 lead us on to another topic. 0:12:00.813 --> 0:12:03.213 But look, there are rules fellas. 0:12:03.653 --> 0:12:08.653 There are rules in place for five penalty runs. There 0:12:08.653 --> 0:12:12.733 are rules that the umpires can create if the stock 0:12:12.813 --> 0:12:17.253 pokers finished, you can give you can warn the fielding 0:12:17.373 --> 0:12:21.733 side for not being quick enough and award five penalty. 0:12:21.413 --> 0:12:22.493 Runs to the opposition. 0:12:23.493 --> 0:12:27.893 There are rules as well where if you warn for 0:12:28.293 --> 0:12:32.693 wasting time, there are rules about you can then warn 0:12:32.733 --> 0:12:35.533 them and then result with five penalty runs. Now a 0:12:35.573 --> 0:12:39.693 few of those, and there were plenty of opportunities. I 0:12:39.733 --> 0:12:44.013 can tell you in that last game you could easily 0:12:44.013 --> 0:12:48.053 get up to twenty twenty five runs. So there's another 0:12:48.253 --> 0:12:50.853 area I reckon could have been used. 0:12:51.253 --> 0:12:54.733 They seem not to care the overrates come up. It 0:12:54.893 --> 0:12:57.733 was commented on on a number of occasions. Day one 0:12:57.893 --> 0:13:02.613 eighty three overs, Day two seventy two, Day three seventy seven, 0:13:03.053 --> 0:13:05.813 Day four seventy nine, they all went to extra time. 0:13:05.933 --> 0:13:08.333 Yes there was an inning change in there, but they 0:13:08.333 --> 0:13:12.653 they don't care about the spectator, the person who pays. 0:13:12.933 --> 0:13:16.093 And I read where somebody had paid three hundred pounds 0:13:16.653 --> 0:13:18.893 to have a day's cricket. That's a lot of money 0:13:19.133 --> 0:13:21.333 for two people to go to a day's cricket and 0:13:21.413 --> 0:13:23.333 say they get seventy two overs. They're not getting their 0:13:23.333 --> 0:13:26.813 money's worth, and the administrators don't care, or they don't 0:13:26.853 --> 0:13:27.613 seem to moose. 0:13:28.573 --> 0:13:32.253 I'm hearing you, and I want to agree with a 0:13:32.293 --> 0:13:36.573 lot of what you're saying there. That said, I reckon. 0:13:36.613 --> 0:13:39.853 The people on day five were on the edge of 0:13:39.893 --> 0:13:42.773 their seats with every. 0:13:42.493 --> 0:13:43.613 Ball being bold. 0:13:45.453 --> 0:13:48.773 They everyone loves all the niggle that happened through this 0:13:49.933 --> 0:13:57.533 Test match. They love the teapot from various people teapots plural, 0:13:58.773 --> 0:14:02.533 the winging and the complaining and the legle and a 0:14:02.533 --> 0:14:05.893 certain extent. And we're talking about over eight. But what 0:14:05.933 --> 0:14:09.573 we were looking at was an absolute content there, an 0:14:09.653 --> 0:14:12.813 absolute contest. And it was not only a contest in 0:14:12.973 --> 0:14:15.013 terms of the cricket. 0:14:15.413 --> 0:14:16.013 It was. 0:14:18.453 --> 0:14:22.013 The classic things that my god, we would see that plane. 0:14:22.133 --> 0:14:24.733 I don't know two day cracket and god knows where 0:14:24.733 --> 0:14:30.613 in New Zealand where someone's delaying to not bold, to overs. 0:14:31.013 --> 0:14:34.613 This has happened from time memorial. So part of me says, 0:14:34.893 --> 0:14:37.813 I agree with you about over eight. But we were 0:14:37.853 --> 0:14:43.013 all locked into this. We loved it, and that last 0:14:43.093 --> 0:14:48.253 day it was mesmerizing stuff. And Jerry to have been 0:14:48.293 --> 0:14:54.813 commentating that and watching every ball and if you're at 0:14:54.853 --> 0:14:56.573 the ground, it must have been fantastic. 0:14:56.653 --> 0:14:59.293 Jerry, Yeah, good day, a good day. 0:15:00.293 --> 0:15:04.373 Also the fifth day, of course, they dropped those prices 0:15:04.413 --> 0:15:08.133 to about five quid for a child and about twe 0:15:08.413 --> 0:15:10.773 he quit, I think for an adult. So it was 0:15:10.853 --> 0:15:13.613 like those things in Wimbledon when you get rain and 0:15:13.653 --> 0:15:16.013 suddenly they have to play on the Sunday. 0:15:16.013 --> 0:15:18.613 You know, and then and all the people, you. 0:15:18.613 --> 0:15:20.933 Know, they dropped the prices and suddenly it's the it's 0:15:20.973 --> 0:15:21.973 the day of the people. 0:15:22.573 --> 0:15:23.173 They come in. 0:15:23.253 --> 0:15:27.373 It's and and it was there was cheering and it 0:15:27.453 --> 0:15:29.973 was a different kind of atmosphere at Lord's in that 0:15:30.053 --> 0:15:31.493 last day because of that. 0:15:31.813 --> 0:15:33.773 Must have been fantastic. Yep. 0:15:33.933 --> 0:15:34.413 It was. 0:15:35.773 --> 0:15:40.533 As far as as far as the the overs and 0:15:40.613 --> 0:15:44.453 things like that are concerned, for me, I just think 0:15:44.493 --> 0:15:49.213 the players well, that the umpires have lost control on 0:15:49.253 --> 0:15:50.173 the field. 0:15:50.653 --> 0:15:52.373 They've lost control. 0:15:53.653 --> 0:15:58.093 Whether it's a drink breaks or scheduled drink breaks, if 0:15:58.133 --> 0:16:03.613 there's an injury, to change the ball, all those kinds 0:16:03.613 --> 0:16:08.613 of things. We've tried fines, we've tried suspensions to caps 0:16:08.693 --> 0:16:09.453 and things. 0:16:09.893 --> 0:16:11.613 We've tried to stop clock. 0:16:12.933 --> 0:16:16.213 But the fact of it is people in colored vests 0:16:16.413 --> 0:16:20.293 run onto the field at a moment's notice and they 0:16:20.453 --> 0:16:24.733 you know, they are circling the boundary the umpires allow 0:16:24.853 --> 0:16:29.413 them on. Now there's no reason for that. They wander 0:16:29.453 --> 0:16:32.893 over and they stand beside the players having a drink 0:16:33.693 --> 0:16:37.293 ten minutes after they've just come back from lunch, and 0:16:37.333 --> 0:16:38.493 they allow them. 0:16:38.613 --> 0:16:39.053 To do it. 0:16:39.133 --> 0:16:42.533 The players take no notice, they ignore them. So off 0:16:42.573 --> 0:16:46.213 comes the helmet, on goes the towel. I'll have some 0:16:46.333 --> 0:16:47.173 batting gloves. 0:16:47.293 --> 0:16:47.573 Bring that. 0:16:47.693 --> 0:16:52.133 Someone else brings that on and there's nothing going on. 0:16:52.173 --> 0:16:55.773 They're taking no notice from the umpire. There's no warning 0:16:55.813 --> 0:17:00.173 given they're wasting time. They don't need those things, to 0:17:00.213 --> 0:17:03.653 be honest, after ten minutes, you can't tell me that 0:17:03.733 --> 0:17:07.213 they need a drink. After ten minutes, when the Tour 0:17:07.293 --> 0:17:10.693 de France riders and ride up a bloody hill, you 0:17:10.733 --> 0:17:16.173 know that that's it's that's just not needed. And so 0:17:16.373 --> 0:17:20.813 that's as far as scheduled drink breaks. Yes, but especially 0:17:20.813 --> 0:17:25.733 when it's warm, give them another minute, but not consistently 0:17:25.893 --> 0:17:30.573 on and off all the time. Yes, sugmun Gil went 0:17:30.693 --> 0:17:33.493 down on his went down and lay on the ground 0:17:33.813 --> 0:17:34.293 and got a. 0:17:34.413 --> 0:17:38.173 Rub about five minutes. Yeah, got a rub. 0:17:38.173 --> 0:17:40.333 Do you know why he's having the rub? K l 0:17:40.413 --> 0:17:43.893 Ra Hall had would not have opened because he had 0:17:43.933 --> 0:17:46.733 been off the field unless he had got up to 0:17:46.773 --> 0:17:50.173 that time. And this is ridiculous these things. If you 0:17:50.253 --> 0:17:54.333 have an injury, you leave the field and bring someone on, 0:17:55.013 --> 0:17:57.693 you leave the field. And the last one is you 0:17:57.733 --> 0:18:02.413 know the obviously. I mean, I just think these things 0:18:02.533 --> 0:18:09.293 have got to stop. So umpires have lost control yep. 0:18:09.813 --> 0:18:12.813 And the interesting thing is England lost two points from 0:18:12.813 --> 0:18:15.893 the Test Match Championship Indian none. They were both as 0:18:15.933 --> 0:18:18.813 bad as each other and both should have been penalized 0:18:18.813 --> 0:18:21.133 from the Test Match Championship points situation. 0:18:21.973 --> 0:18:22.933 What does that say? 0:18:25.093 --> 0:18:28.373 That could open up a whole can of worms. 0:18:27.413 --> 0:18:30.573 Yeah, another three programs. 0:18:33.013 --> 0:18:35.213 I just leave it at that. And here's the reason 0:18:35.253 --> 0:18:39.453 why is because we know where the control of the 0:18:39.253 --> 0:18:43.453 of the game is and we're seeing a player. But 0:18:44.133 --> 0:18:46.733 I just I just think, yeah, are we going to 0:18:46.773 --> 0:18:50.133 solve this? Other powers have begin to solve us? No, 0:18:50.253 --> 0:18:54.853 they not. What I am seeing though, is compelling, absolutely 0:18:54.973 --> 0:19:00.733 compelling cricket which is going to five days and we're 0:19:00.773 --> 0:19:03.413 all drawn into it now. That can only be a 0:19:03.413 --> 0:19:03.813 good thing. 0:19:06.653 --> 0:19:09.693 I'd like to just say something about I mean, just 0:19:09.813 --> 0:19:13.933 very quickly, guys, in the decades between the forties and fifties, 0:19:13.973 --> 0:19:16.853 there were eighteen and a half to nineteen overs in 0:19:16.933 --> 0:19:22.733 our being bold. Currently there are thirteen to fourteen. The 0:19:22.853 --> 0:19:26.173 runs per hour that was scored in nineteen forty nineteen 0:19:26.253 --> 0:19:29.773 fifty are now currently the same as we are scoring 0:19:29.853 --> 0:19:34.293 off the less overs exactly the same. So what we've 0:19:34.333 --> 0:19:38.693 had is we are getting five overs less than the 0:19:38.773 --> 0:19:43.133 nineteen forties and fifties and the same number of runs. 0:19:43.173 --> 0:19:47.293 We've replaced five overs of dots from the forties and 0:19:47.293 --> 0:19:51.693 fifties that were bold with dawdling with dawdling. 0:19:52.533 --> 0:19:52.773 Now. 0:19:52.853 --> 0:19:56.813 Some moose's argument is the same as I've heard as well, 0:19:56.853 --> 0:20:00.733 which is a reasonable one. There's more entertainment now. We're 0:20:00.773 --> 0:20:04.293 getting more entertainment than we would have gotten earlier on. 0:20:04.293 --> 0:20:05.213 People wanting it. 0:20:06.013 --> 0:20:08.773 Yeah, that's true. 0:20:08.893 --> 0:20:12.173 But I imagine if you'd got those extra five overs, 0:20:12.173 --> 0:20:16.533 how much more entertainment we would have. And if you're paying, 0:20:16.933 --> 0:20:19.613 as you did in the Compton stand one hundred and 0:20:19.613 --> 0:20:22.853 seventy five pounds for a six for that last game, 0:20:23.853 --> 0:20:25.613 you may feel a bit different about that. 0:20:26.173 --> 0:20:29.213 I don't know. I can't comment because I wasn't. 0:20:29.453 --> 0:20:34.453 I agree with you. I agree with you around this 0:20:34.573 --> 0:20:36.733 whole point. There is no reason for all this to 0:20:36.733 --> 0:20:43.213 be happening, but it is a much more entertaining or 0:20:43.333 --> 0:20:49.813 enjoyable experience. That said, though there is no reason for 0:20:49.973 --> 0:20:53.293 the lays. I think it's self indulgence by a lot 0:20:53.333 --> 0:20:56.373 of the creck it is. There's a bit of Prima 0:20:56.493 --> 0:21:00.573 Donna stuff goes on, which I find quite annoying. But 0:21:00.693 --> 0:21:04.613 I think the spectacle compared to your Barrington's of the days, 0:21:04.613 --> 0:21:08.893 who would block it for two days to get god 0:21:08.973 --> 0:21:11.933 knows what you know eighty I think that the game 0:21:12.053 --> 0:21:16.973 is in some ways improved. We've got better fielders and 0:21:17.533 --> 0:21:20.893 more spectacular things happening. I do not excuse the fact. 0:21:21.013 --> 0:21:24.573 I just struggle with the fact that I don't think 0:21:25.293 --> 0:21:28.053 things are going to change because of who's running the show, 0:21:28.253 --> 0:21:29.453 and that is my point. 0:21:30.053 --> 0:21:32.333 Yeah, well you've got a fair point there, and it's 0:21:32.333 --> 0:21:36.853 something that won't die just because we've brought up the issue. 0:21:36.973 --> 0:21:41.013 It's a big issue around the world, and well we 0:21:41.173 --> 0:21:44.413 just have to agree, wait and see whether the administrators 0:21:44.453 --> 0:21:44.853 would do. 0:21:45.213 --> 0:21:49.093 Brian Waddell, Jeremy Coney on the front foot. 0:21:48.973 --> 0:21:51.853 Cub cricketers across the country airing their concerns at a 0:21:51.933 --> 0:21:56.373 new charge, the NZCA plans to levy that's to help 0:21:56.453 --> 0:22:00.213 fund digital enhancements and it's going to be seven dollars 0:22:00.253 --> 0:22:04.693 fifty introduced for all registered players. It's the first time 0:22:04.813 --> 0:22:07.613 New Zealand Cricket has introduced a direct levy at community 0:22:07.693 --> 0:22:10.853 level and it'll be charged once per player per season. 0:22:11.253 --> 0:22:13.093 The new charts that are on top of everything else 0:22:13.173 --> 0:22:17.093 cricketers need to pay for playing the sport has attracted 0:22:17.093 --> 0:22:21.613 some widespread criticism to gage the feeling in the regions. 0:22:21.693 --> 0:22:26.453 We're joined by the chair of Buller Cricket, Kevin Scanlon. Kevin, 0:22:26.493 --> 0:22:30.933 thanks for your time. What's your reaction to the proposed levey. 0:22:31.973 --> 0:22:36.773 Well, certainly initially frustration. The most common complaint we hear 0:22:36.853 --> 0:22:41.013 during a cricket season is play HQ. People found it 0:22:41.093 --> 0:22:44.213 very easy to use Cricket HQ, but many have never 0:22:44.333 --> 0:22:49.493 actually come to grips with play HQ, despite association buying 0:22:49.533 --> 0:22:55.173 iPads and training. Last season we actually went back the 0:22:55.173 --> 0:22:57.493 school books for club cricket and loaded games when they 0:22:57.493 --> 0:23:00.893 were finished because it was the safest way. It's so 0:23:01.093 --> 0:23:04.493 hard when you have casual players who struggle, you struggle 0:23:04.533 --> 0:23:08.013 to get to register and certainly not interested in learning 0:23:08.013 --> 0:23:10.933 how to use it. So there is a continual problem 0:23:11.013 --> 0:23:14.973 during games of skill levels and problems with tech technology 0:23:15.253 --> 0:23:19.253 and the result frustration. Some of those players just want 0:23:19.253 --> 0:23:21.773 to have a game with their mates in reality. Then 0:23:21.853 --> 0:23:24.053 on the other side of that, there is players who 0:23:24.093 --> 0:23:29.533 are serious cricketers, are interested in their stats. Somehow, between 0:23:29.573 --> 0:23:31.733 all that we need to have we need all of 0:23:31.773 --> 0:23:34.253 them to have a game of cricket. It just becomes 0:23:34.373 --> 0:23:38.493 very time consuming and another pressure point on our limited resources. 0:23:39.453 --> 0:23:42.733 And I expect this work globe will increase as a 0:23:42.773 --> 0:23:43.813 result of the changes. 0:23:44.333 --> 0:23:47.053