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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Fine

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Speaker 1: from newstalksb Cricket.

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Speaker 2: The White Ferns have lost a rain hit second rose

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Speaker 2: By one Day Cricket International against Australia at the Basin

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Speaker 2: Reserve under the DLS method, chasing two hundred and ninety

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Speaker 2: two for victory in Wellington yesterday, New Zealand one twenty

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Speaker 2: two for five in the thirty first over when the

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Speaker 2: rain set in. The star though for New Zealand was

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Speaker 2: seen bowl of Molly Penfold her best ever One Day

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Speaker 2: International figures of four for forty two. Penfold jobs at

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Speaker 2: shot taken. Kurt takes the catch, big wicket, Ulessa Helly

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Speaker 2: couldn't resist. She had a swing. It never really got

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Speaker 2: to her and get your that is the pace and

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Speaker 2: bounced that.

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Speaker 3: Molly Penfold offers excellent comeback delivery boundary.

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Speaker 2: The ball before and then were ripping off.

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Speaker 3: The link takes the gloves of Elise Perry and it

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Speaker 3: is a long walk back for yeah.

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Speaker 2: Molly Penfold has four Talia mccrago's four for forty two

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Speaker 2: for Molly Penfold. Who joins us now you've given it

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Speaker 2: the overnight test, I guess Molly in general terms, before

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Speaker 2: we talk about your bowling specifically, how do you reflect

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Speaker 2: on the eighty odd overs that played out yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, first, it was nice, nice to actually

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Speaker 3: get a game and or start and saying that, so,

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Speaker 3: it was nice to get on the field with the girls.

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Speaker 3: Always nice to you know, take the field with the

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Speaker 3: great bunch of girls there, so you know, have a

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Speaker 3: huge amount of talent. And yeah, we knew we were

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Speaker 3: coming up, you know, against the world's best, so we

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Speaker 3: knew we had to put out a good performance. Unfortunately

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Speaker 3: we couldn't get across the line. But yeah, let's just

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Speaker 3: cricket sometimes. And we've done our review this morning, so

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Speaker 3: we know what we need to do. And in saying that,

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Speaker 3: we know the skills there and the knowledge is there,

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Speaker 3: it's just about how we execute on the day.

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Speaker 2: What were the main things that today's review threw.

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Speaker 3: Up from a bowling point of view, We were more

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Speaker 3: talking about how we can just execute for longer really,

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Speaker 3: you know, in the in the one day format. You know,

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Speaker 3: we've had a lot of T twenty crickets for going

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Speaker 3: into the one day stuff. It's just about doing those

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Speaker 3: good things for longer and for me, personally, it's just

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Speaker 3: having a clear plan and just simplicity around you know,

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Speaker 3: what I want to do when I want to execute,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, for me, it's just trying to execute.

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Speaker 1: On the day.

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Speaker 2: Well, you executed yesterday pretty well four for forty two

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Speaker 2: in general terms, How happy were you with the way

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Speaker 2: you bowled yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was was very happy with how I went yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Probably didn't start the best, but managed to bring it

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Speaker 3: back in the middle phase of the game there. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was It was nice to get a few wickets

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Speaker 3: under the belt, that's for sure. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: always pushing to make the playing eleven for the one

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Speaker 3: day side as well, because consistency in the in the

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Speaker 3: game time is you know, key for bowlers, you know,

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Speaker 3: just trying to find the rhythm and stuff, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: pushing pushing hard for that. So it was mass to

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Speaker 3: get on the field and take a few wickets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well you got three of the top four as well,

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Speaker 2: and some pretty good players Alyssa Healy, Elise Perry, Beth Mooney.

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Speaker 2: You'd be pretty happy with Scalps like that, wouldn't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, definitely. You know, they're they're the best in

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Speaker 3: So to get the wickets of them was yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 2: But the real what if you worked on most with

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Speaker 2: your bowling over the last I don't know, eighteen months

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Speaker 2: or so, I worked a lot.

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Speaker 3: With being around a lot of technique stuff, you know,

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Speaker 3: nail those more than anything. Yeah, with my rest position

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Speaker 3: it's just for me, it's just keeping it real simple

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Speaker 3: So you know, Ben's really been very helpful with that

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Speaker 3: over the past, you know, twelve to eighteen months.

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Speaker 2: Just back to yesterday in the dismissal of Elisee Perry,

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Speaker 2: it felt as though looked as though you've got a

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Speaker 2: the stumps. Was that a particularly satisfying piece of bowling

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely something honest probably I wanted it to go.

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Speaker 3: You know, I was painting a bouncer, so it probably

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Speaker 3: didn't get up as much as I end of life.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's just crickets sometimes, and sometimes those kind

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Speaker 3: of bulls get you wickets. So no, I was happy

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Speaker 2: Of course, you mentioned before about pushing for a regular

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Speaker 2: place in the side. I guess your opportunities with the

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Speaker 2: White Ferns have been a bit limited since your debuted

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one. Lot of competition, of course. Do

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Speaker 2: you feel like you're in a place now where you

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Speaker 2: can stake acclaim for regular regular game time in both

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Speaker 2: TEA twenty and fifty over stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Locke, I've always you know, posh to make that

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Speaker 3: playing eleven, and you know I get a lot of

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Speaker 3: reassurance and confidence from from being in that sense. And

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Speaker 3: you know, when people go down with injuries and stuff,

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Speaker 3: it does you know, it's a bit bittersweet because it's

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Speaker 3: unfortunate for them, but at the same time it's a

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Speaker 3: great opportunity for myself to come in and you know,

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Speaker 3: prove a point almost in a way, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I just try and play my best cricket and kind

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Speaker 3: of try and cement my place in the team. So yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 3: and I'm still pushing for it in the T twenty

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Speaker 2: Well, you're in pretty good wicket taking form in the

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Speaker 2: in the HBJ, the Hollly Bit and Johnston Shield eleven

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Speaker 2: wickets in five games for Auckland. Did that give you

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Speaker 2: you know, getting some good wicket taking innings in the HBJ.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. It's definitely helped having you know, six games

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Speaker 3: a lot of T twenty cricket obviously leading off from

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Speaker 3: the World Cup as well, so it was nice to

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Speaker 3: have around six games of a fifty over in the

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Speaker 3: domestic setup leading in here. And yeah, like you said,

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Speaker 3: it does it does, you know, boost my confidence a

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Speaker 3: just as a fast bowler, it's making sure that you

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Speaker 2: And the standout on the school board batting wise yesterday

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Speaker 2: was Annabelle Sutherland. Of course, an unbeaten century one five

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Speaker 2: off eighty one balls. Was was she basically the difference

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, she's she's a world class player. You know,

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Speaker 3: she can take the game away from you in in

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Speaker 3: a matter of a few overs. So she played her class

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Speaker 3: innings and credit to her for that. But from a

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Speaker 3: and known that, you know, she's dropped on sixty odd

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Speaker 3: that can be the difference sometimes. So yeah, that's probably

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Speaker 3: what we were missing in the batting side of things

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Speaker 3: from our point of view too, you know, just someone

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Speaker 3: that big partnership out in the middle. But yeah, credit

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Speaker 3: to her, she played an amazing innings.

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Speaker 2: We'll hope for that. You get a better day tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: The forecast is a lot better. You got no game

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Speaker 2: on Thursday, sort of half a game yesterday, hopefully get

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Speaker 2: a full game and tomorrow, just before you go, your

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Speaker 2: sister Josie of course on the Auckland side with you.

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Speaker 2: How much of an influence has she been on your cricket.

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Speaker 3: Oh, massive influenced. She's she's awesome to play with the

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Speaker 3: past few years, you know, she's she's a she's a

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Speaker 3: and one day make the White Fans squad too. So

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Speaker 3: I'm doing what I can to help her in that

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Speaker 3: sense as well. And yeah, we help each other in

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Speaker 3: that way. It's good that we have similar skill set too,

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Speaker 3: so we can help each other out on that too.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, now she's awesome to play with. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 3: glad I'm not playing against her or facting her bowling.

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Speaker 3: So now it's real cool to have her on the

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Speaker 3: side and looking forward to the Super Smash season.

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Speaker 1: Ahead with her.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's not too far away. First point of business though,

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Speaker 2: the third Odio against Australia tomorrow. I hope it goes

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Speaker 2: as well as yesterday as far as your bowling is concerned. Molly,

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Speaker 2: thanks for taking the time for a chat this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, No, thanks for joining us. Molly

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Speaker 2: appreciate it very much. Molly Penfold there out of the

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Speaker 2: white ferns her best ever international bowling figures yesterday, four

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