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Speaker 2: Champions Trophy alluded to black Caps, but there was plenty
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Speaker 2: Champions Trophy and in the warm up series. An Odi
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Speaker 2: the third highest score in our domestic game. Why does
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Speaker 2: Michael Brocefoot is going to captain the black Caps in
Speaker 2: the T twitty series against Pakistan starting this coming weekend.
Speaker 2: Hello once more to Jeremy Coney clearly happening in the
Speaker 2: cricket world all around the black Cats pretty much.
Speaker 3: Jerry hid when you're up to date at least, I
Speaker 3: don't know for me down here, but yep, I've I've
Speaker 3: got a little show to do on Friday. We're going
Speaker 3: to inflict some of the Pricton patrons again to the
Speaker 3: music of me and my cousins. So that's that's quite
Speaker 3: a sad thing to say, but never mind, we'll get
Speaker 3: through it.
Speaker 2: Goodness. So they that old down there.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, mate, they wheel them in. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 3: I know quite a lot of them personally.
Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah, Well, let's get down to pick them
Speaker 2: for that on this coming Friday. But let's gelibrate a
Speaker 2: champions trophy. And we'll hear Jerry's point of view in
Speaker 2: just a moment. I think they're always going to be
Speaker 2: outside us to win the final, but they had moments
Speaker 2: when it became a real chance that we could win
Speaker 2: the one million US dollars that was at stake for
Speaker 2: second place, let alone the two million for first place.
Speaker 2: A chance to discuss those high points in the moment. Firstly, though,
Speaker 2: a final assessment from the skipper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it's kind of a bit a sweet
Speaker 4: at the end. You know, I think we came up
Speaker 4: against the good side in the final, but yeah, I think,
Speaker 4: you know, we challenged in there at times throughout this game,
Speaker 4: which was which was pleasing. I think there was probably
Speaker 4: a couple of small moments where we let it I
Speaker 4: guess get away from us. But yeah, credit for incredibly
Speaker 4: proud of this group the way we've kind of gone
Speaker 4: about it throughout this tournament. You know, we've had a
Speaker 4: mix of kind of experienced players but a few younger
Speaker 4: players in the squad. So yes, it's it's been. It's been,
Speaker 4: I guess an easy one to captain, different guys stepping
Speaker 4: up at different times throughout the tournament, which has been outstanding.
Speaker 4: And we came up against a very good team today.
Speaker 4: You know, we're in the game for most of it,
Speaker 4: but it was kind of we probably left maybe twenty
Speaker 4: runs out there with the bat and then I think
Speaker 4: way kind of wrote Shama played kind of took it
Speaker 4: away from us a little bit. I think there's probably
Speaker 4: a little bit more turned second innings. I think, you know,
Speaker 4: it was a pretty consistent pitch all the way through.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, I guess coming off the semi
Speaker 4: final where we feel like we can if we get
Speaker 4: a total, we can squeeze teams, and we did that
Speaker 4: for I guess a majority of this game. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think outside of the power play with the bat,
Speaker 4: we kind of lost a couple pretty quickly and then
Speaker 4: it was it looked it was definitely a hard look
Speaker 4: at the start on and then yeah, I think we
Speaker 4: probably left maybe twenty five out there and then they
Speaker 4: may have been a different game. I think the intent
Speaker 4: we had with the back, especially at the start, was outstanding.
Speaker 4: It was clearly that probably the best time in the
Speaker 4: bat was that was the power plan. I think, you know,
Speaker 4: the way we went about it for the first kind
Speaker 4: of yeah, eight overs or so, it was outstanding. And
Speaker 4: then it took you know, some some brilliants from the
Speaker 4: spin bolls to kind of really pee us back and
Speaker 4: make it I guess challenging through that kind of middle phase. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we didn't. I guess after the start we were probably thinking,
Speaker 4: you know, to eighty two seventy five. But the way
Speaker 4: you know, they were able to squeeze and build pressure
Speaker 4: and then it really I mean the way Michael Brace
Speaker 4: will play to the end got us you know up
Speaker 4: to that kind of that two fifty mark, but it
Speaker 4: was you know, maybe looking a little bit less.
Speaker 2: What about the most encouraging aspects of the competition.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's never going to go perfectly, you know, these
Speaker 4: tall and I guess with the quick turnaround of games
Speaker 4: like we had, but I think what's most pleasing is,
Speaker 4: you know, different guys got opportunities and and and stepping up.
Speaker 4: Is you know, couldn't be proud of the group. You know,
Speaker 4: guys coming in and out, and it's always it's always
Speaker 4: you obviously want to play every game. But you know,
Speaker 4: I think and then obviously the way Chin came back
Speaker 4: straight away after his head knock and hit the ball
Speaker 4: running and kJ flying over and then you know, putting
Speaker 4: us straight in. And I thought he bowled extremely well
Speaker 4: in the games he played, and you know, obviously a
Speaker 4: tough one losing, losing Tesser today, but you know he
Speaker 4: tried his very best to be to be ready for
Speaker 4: this game. So yeah, I guess there's always adversity in
Speaker 4: these tournaments, and you know, you could you could take
Speaker 4: it back to a few different things, but you know,
Speaker 4: I think, you know, we didn't really complain about anything.
Speaker 4: We just kind of get old and that's that's how
Speaker 4: we we'd like to operate. And yeah, obviously pretty proud
Speaker 4: of the way we kind of fought throughout this whole
Speaker 4: tournament and and different conditions everywhere went.
Speaker 2: Really shame they weren't able to go all the way.
Speaker 2: Two million US would be good money, Jerry, but you know,
Speaker 2: at one point one two is what they get. They
Speaker 2: get about seventy thousand each. Isn't bad US dollars in
Speaker 2: terms of a work performance, bearing in mind they would
Speaker 2: have been paid their contract rates as well.
Speaker 3: For quite a handy couple of weeks. Yeah, look, I
Speaker 3: mean that aside, to be honest, that's that secondary to me.
Speaker 3: I think first of all, the point to make is
Speaker 3: New Zealand deserved to be there. They were the I
Speaker 3: think in the host country Pakistan. They won that part
Speaker 3: of the tournament, didn't they beating Pakistan and Bangladesh and
Speaker 3: then South Africa. I thought the second point would be
Speaker 3: the unavailable unavailability of Matt Henry. That was a real blow,
Speaker 3: wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not only our most consistent and accurate Seema, but
Speaker 3: he also does well against India and then putarticular against
Speaker 3: Roth Sharma. I think New Zealand probably missed him in
Speaker 3: the powerplay and at the desk, and I think probably
Speaker 3: at the moment he's our most effective death bowler. It's
Speaker 3: an area of our game that needs, I think some work.
Speaker 3: It's quite hard, isn't it really, Because as a seema wads,
Speaker 3: you practice all your days to be consistent. Don't you
Speaker 3: keep putting the ball, putting the ball, putting in the
Speaker 3: same place Brew chats like. And then you get to
Speaker 3: the end of the game and you need to have
Speaker 3: variation and you've got to go against that everything You've
Speaker 3: learned that consistency all the time in the powerplay. So
Speaker 3: we're not quite so good at that yet. Here's a
Speaker 3: question for you, Oh, did New Zealand need three seemas
Speaker 3: that do bay.
Speaker 2: No, probably not. But then they didn't have Matt Henry
Speaker 2: and they brought in Nathan Smith. He at the moment
Speaker 2: is still learning his game and so was a little
Speaker 2: bit expensive. In a couple of overs, they got away
Speaker 2: with just the two oers from him. You know, Jamison
Speaker 2: and O'Rourke did the business pretty well. And then they
Speaker 2: had the Forcemin bowlers and they were class, weren't they.
Speaker 2: I mean, Michael Bracewell probably doesn't get the plaudits he deserves.
Speaker 2: Mitchell Santra's been consistent right the way through. They had
Speaker 2: Ravendra who played his part at times, and also Phillips.
Speaker 2: And to me, you know, that's forty overs and I
Speaker 2: think they could have got forty overs, certainly thirty at
Speaker 2: least out of the whole four of them if they
Speaker 2: were going to bowl their seemas. And it's a pity
Speaker 2: that seemers like Matt Henry could have been ineffective on
Speaker 2: that pitch. He missed one innings, didn't he But he
Speaker 2: was still this top wiket taker ahead of spin bombing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I just thought maybe we needed to be
Speaker 3: a bit wee bit more flexible about that. Whether they
Speaker 3: misread the pitch slightly, I don't think they probably did
Speaker 3: obvious India and the position they were in they could
Speaker 3: select aside with four spinners, but seam wasn't productive on
Speaker 3: that pitch, was it. I mean India bowld twelve overs
Speaker 3: one for one hundred and six from their seemers and
Speaker 3: new Zea bold fourteen overs. Perhaps that's the two extra
Speaker 3: ones from Nathan Smith but that was one for one
Speaker 3: hundred and two. I guess the choice they had was
Speaker 3: between Duffy and Smith, and they went for the more
Speaker 3: batting and perhaps the better all round kind of offering
Speaker 3: that Smith gives the field as well movement catching and
Speaker 3: then his bowling and then the batting if required. I
Speaker 3: wondered whether they could play another batsman once. I wondered
Speaker 3: whether they could even throw, and maybe Chapman he is
Speaker 3: in the field all the time. Anyway, it would have
Speaker 3: been very different and flexible, and it's not like New Zealand.
Speaker 3: I've got to admit that. But might that have meant
Speaker 3: we were less timid during those middle thirty overs between
Speaker 3: the powerplay and the death overs. Would it have meant
Speaker 3: that we could have attacked a little more than we
Speaker 3: even tried. I'm not saying it was easy, but anyway,
Speaker 3: I mean the next question i'd ask you when they
Speaker 3: won the toss New Zealand, should they bowld or should
Speaker 3: they battered?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think Sat made the point that he was quite
Speaker 2: happy if they got the runs on the board that
Speaker 2: they could defend it, and I suppose in the end
Speaker 2: result his point was that they were probably twenty to
Speaker 2: thirty light that they were unable to create the pressure
Speaker 2: and that was probably the timid nature because when it
Speaker 2: got to bracefol down the order, he was able to
Speaker 2: play with freedom. But you know, it leaves you fewer overs,
Speaker 2: doesn't it, because you're worried about, well, we're going to
Speaker 2: get into a tail in the moment. I mean Smith
Speaker 2: came in and faced a couple of balls I think
Speaker 2: towards the end, but that might have made the difference.
Speaker 2: But you know, those are the things that you can
Speaker 2: look at in hindsights. They made those decisions and you know,
Speaker 2: it got down to the last over, and that I
Speaker 2: think is where you know, New Zealand probably were just
Speaker 2: a little bit light in terms of runs, but it
Speaker 2: was hard to know what was a passcoor on that deck.
Speaker 2: That just highlights for me the adequacies of playing on
Speaker 2: that ground and the failure of the ICC to do
Speaker 2: the tournament and treat it with the integrity that it deserves.
Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of complaints from a lot
Speaker 2: of people. Certainly New Zealand didn't complain, but I know
Speaker 2: David Miller had something to say. And you know, when
Speaker 2: you look at the amount of flying, you know what
Speaker 2: it's like. You have to pack your bag, unpack your bag.
Speaker 2: You're in and out of airports. You know, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of wasted time, mental pain, isn't there. You're not
Speaker 2: sitting in a hotel with your feet out, drinking line
Speaker 2: and squash or Bacardian code.
Speaker 3: No, that's true. I think the David Miller point was
Speaker 3: they traveled at also very very early, the timing of
Speaker 3: the flights, and he was talking about after the semi final,
Speaker 3: wasn't it going down yes, or just prior to the
Speaker 3: semi maybe yeah, down to Dubai and then having to
Speaker 3: get flights back from Dubai when it wasn't required when
Speaker 3: they saw the result, and having to go back to
Speaker 3: the hall where they left from. And so he was
Speaker 3: talking about just a sheer. You're right about the time
Speaker 3: in airports, You're right about the waiting, You're right about
Speaker 3: the buses and the traffic. It does take a lot
Speaker 3: of time out, there's no doubt about that. And all
Speaker 3: the teams other than India would have done a lot
Speaker 3: of that, I can tell you, especially those who made
Speaker 3: it through to the end of the tournament. But anyway, look,
Speaker 3: I think batting was the right choice. I mean in
Speaker 3: that dead rubber in Dubai where they played against India.
Speaker 3: I think New Zealand noticed the ball turned more in
Speaker 3: the second innings they were batting there, weren't they.
Speaker 1: In that?
Speaker 3: And I think they got bold Indian out for about
Speaker 3: two fifty and then they were well and comfortably short
Speaker 3: chasing against those four spinners in Dubai the first game
Speaker 3: they played there. Secondly, I think Miller and Ravender I
Speaker 3: heard them both saying and something or other after the
Speaker 3: South African semi final and Lahore that the pitch helped
Speaker 3: spin more on the second innings even there. And I
Speaker 3: think also I saw on the telly if I was
Speaker 3: still awake in the final, I think they compared the
Speaker 3: amount of turn in the first innings to the second.
Speaker 3: Two degrees in the first I've written here, and three
Speaker 3: point four in the second innings. Now that doesn't mean,
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean wickets immediately. That's just an indicator, isn't it.
Speaker 3: But you can imagine cool Deep and Chuck Ravarti turning
Speaker 3: it as well, because I don't think the pitch turned dramatically. Brian, Yes,
Speaker 3: so it was a slow pitch. And don't forget if
Speaker 3: Judaisa was bowling it between ninety and one hundred k's
Speaker 3: the imagine if that was gripping as well. I think
Speaker 3: it was the right decision.
Speaker 2: Chuckravarti is an interesting biler because he was able to
Speaker 2: get a little bit more bounce with his leg spin style.
Speaker 2: But he's got such a variety, he's pretty accurate, and
Speaker 2: he does get the ball to drift in, doesn't he.
Speaker 2: That's when he.
Speaker 5: Got Will Young with LBW was just a lovely leg
Speaker 5: spinner and he did that quite often, which makes him
Speaker 5: a difficult man to hit because you got that, you know,
Speaker 5: a couple of centimeters between the inside edge of the
Speaker 5: bat and the front pad if you're playing straight along
Speaker 5: the pitch.
Speaker 2: And he was a man to stroke for them, and
Speaker 2: I think he's in and handled him pretty well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they couldn't get him away, could they. It was
Speaker 3: really a case of defending. Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3: I think if you place your leg early on as
Speaker 3: the ball's coming down, I think you get in a
Speaker 3: wee bit of trouble, which is I think what Young found.
Speaker 3: And at the last moment, any leg spinner, if you turner,
Speaker 3: it's going to come into you just the same as
Speaker 3: Bracewell will drift it away from a right hand a
Speaker 3: leg spinner brings it into you and then turns it,
Speaker 3: turns it back. But yeah, he's a real mystery, isn't he. Chacker?
Speaker 3: I mean, we had the telly and we could see
Speaker 3: the differences of delivery. Batsman can't see that. But what
Speaker 3: you do get is a chance to see the ball
Speaker 3: as it comes towards you which way it's turning. And
Speaker 3: I don't think New Zealand batsmen have quite got into
Speaker 3: that habit, not quite enough anyway now, because they were guessing,
Speaker 3: they didn't know.
Speaker 2: And I think they were wanting to dominate him and
Speaker 2: probably picked a little bit too early to try and
Speaker 2: dominate him. I mean they took nine off his first
Speaker 2: over and those sorts of things because you know that
Speaker 2: he is a danger and I thought that, you know,
Speaker 2: Revender handled him pretty well. I mean, talking about stars
Speaker 2: at the competition, Matt Henry was the star seam bowler
Speaker 2: with the most wickets for most runs. I mean, he
Speaker 2: he is becoming a remarkable player. What is it about
Speaker 2: the way he plays that you like it? He must
Speaker 2: see the ball very very early, and he loves to
Speaker 2: go down the pitch, doesn't he?
Speaker 3: I think he does. I think that's a little bit
Speaker 3: of use. What is he twenty five, twenty four, twenty five?
Speaker 3: I think he's But he just concentrates so hard you can.
Speaker 3: They gave us a close up, didn't they? In that
Speaker 3: the eyes at some point and you could just see
Speaker 3: the way he was watching so intently. He always goes
Speaker 3: forward into a ford press. He always looks to attack
Speaker 3: first and defend second, which is ideal. I think for
Speaker 3: the white ball game. It can make him look a
Speaker 3: little I don't know, a shot a ballman, if you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. Most of the times he's getting
Speaker 3: away with it, but it can make him a bit loose.
Speaker 3: He was dropped twice, wasn't he in that innings? And
Speaker 3: so he gives chances. But yeah, I mean he also
Speaker 3: makes a lot of runs. But yeah, he was fantastic
Speaker 3: and the player of the tournament. Yeah, I mean he
Speaker 3: obviously he obviously didn't pick the cool deep delivery, did
Speaker 3: he first ball a wrongan and clever bowling therefore, and
Speaker 3: was bowled off the pad ondly the book, but it
Speaker 3: beat him, no doubt about that, and then onto the
Speaker 3: stumps Williamson pushed right out to cool Deep as well.
Speaker 3: But you see risties get bounce wads, they get a
Speaker 3: wee bit more bounce. And you mentioned Jack Ravarti and
Speaker 3: then also Cooled Deep as well, and that actually bounced
Speaker 3: a bit more on Williamson, didn't it. And if he
Speaker 3: had have played it straight, it would have been he
Speaker 3: was looking to take a single and got a not
Speaker 3: a leading edge, so much more an outside of the bat,
Speaker 3: but not an edge, I didn't think. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And then Phillips, Phillips was bowled by a Roman from
Speaker 3: Chack Ravarti, which he thought was a legie. And so
Speaker 3: there are a number of players in that young Ravendra,
Speaker 3: Williams and Phillips in that top order who were all
Speaker 3: beaten by wrist spinners and not quite picking the ball.
Speaker 3: And then you had then you had Mitchell. He just
Speaker 3: got a weave at stranded, didn't he. He obviously took
Speaker 3: it upon himself. We've lost three wickets quickly. Someone's got
Speaker 3: to see this through. We cannot afford to lose another
Speaker 3: and that was his primary, yeah, primary concern. But it
Speaker 3: did cost it cost us in terms of runs, thirty
Speaker 3: two runs in the second group of ten thirty four
Speaker 3: and the third group of ten and then thirty seven.
Speaker 3: So between overs ten and forty, New Zealand goingly got
Speaker 3: one hundred and three runs, so that came at a cost.
Speaker 3: He did try, He tried to sweep, but it was
Speaker 3: just too difficult. And what Rohitt did well, I mean,
Speaker 3: imagine having four bowlers like that wads, it would be like.
Speaker 3: It reminded me of Clive Lloyd, you know, having Marshall
Speaker 3: holding Garner and Roberts. You know, yeah, well that's right.
Speaker 3: And Clive used to change them on the hour. He
Speaker 3: used to look at the clock, turn them over and
Speaker 3: change them over. And it must be wonderful to have
Speaker 3: two legies and then two left arm spinners. And he
Speaker 3: paired the mark didn't He Aksa went with cool Deep
Speaker 3: Jadasia went with Chuck Gravati and it was fast bowling.
Speaker 3: They were ninety to one hundred on the stumps and
Speaker 3: it didn't give you much option. You'd expect to get
Speaker 3: one loose ball and two overs, wouldn't you. You didn't though,
Speaker 3: they weren't coming up there at all. So a little
Speaker 3: bit bamboos led by the leggies. And then the left
Speaker 3: arm is bowling at that speed on the stumps. Even
Speaker 3: when lath And, one of our better sweepers, had to
Speaker 3: go at Jadasia, he missed it. And that was the
Speaker 3: danger with that and as lbw so very tough and
Speaker 3: really they weren't the only ones. And once you get
Speaker 3: that one hundred and sixty hundred and seventy hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty dot balls and Mitchell got drowned in him, didn't
Speaker 3: he It was going to be a subpar total. You
Speaker 3: always felt two fifty. New Zealand needed wickets early and
Speaker 3: so then and they got a little period of pressure
Speaker 3: when they applied it, didn't they. Yes, yeah, they got
Speaker 3: Gill out. Gill was another one who'd had trouble. He
Speaker 3: got thirty one or fifty now only hit one boundary
Speaker 3: and that was a six. So it wasn't as if
Speaker 3: New Zealand were alone and that I'd love to have
Speaker 3: seen the Indian batsman playing their spinners actually, so yeah,
Speaker 3: it was It was just a question did Mitchell did
Speaker 3: he wait too long?
Speaker 2: Well, you know he's caught the devil in the deep
Speaker 2: blue sea, really, isn't he? Because he is, You make
Speaker 2: a mistake, you get out and things fall apart. I
Speaker 2: think he had to play the way he did and
Speaker 2: you know, and the end results. He made a platform
Speaker 2: for bracefall, but at that stage they'd lost the momentum
Speaker 2: that they needed and losing Williamson early because he's a
Speaker 2: player can get the momentum game. I was interested. It's
Speaker 2: good to be able to sit and watch players like
Speaker 2: Williamson over a period of time. Do you, since I
Speaker 2: don't know whether you watched a lot of them during
Speaker 2: this series, do you sense though he's trying to broaden
Speaker 2: his game and widen how he plays. He's playing reverse
Speaker 2: sweeps a little more often now, he's got that wonderful
Speaker 2: inside out stroke over extra cover that he seems to
Speaker 2: have perfected, and his stroke range in short form cricket
Speaker 2: seems to be getting a little bit wider.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed that, yep, the slog sweep he also
Speaker 3: brought in against South Africa, didn't He and went over
Speaker 3: against or the left armor from Sada, a good bowler
Speaker 3: Maharaj and he slogged him for six as well over
Speaker 3: sort of that wide long on area and used that
Speaker 3: a couple of times. So he is certainly showing us
Speaker 3: a wider range. He's obviously been able to play them,
Speaker 3: but it hasn't been prepared to in games. Now he
Speaker 3: is and he was actually the one I felt against
Speaker 3: South Africa who was putting the pedal down. He was
Speaker 3: the one who was changing and upping the anti that
Speaker 3: all the time. Then he got that little flick over
Speaker 3: the keeper and got away with it a couple of times,
Speaker 3: got him out in the end, and it was a
Speaker 3: slower one, but he was prepared to play a much
Speaker 3: wider range of stroke, no doubt about it. I think
Speaker 3: New Zealand generally was I'd say, as a generalization, rather
Speaker 3: than go for three hundred and ten in the innings,
Speaker 3: they would prefer to get to two to eighty and
Speaker 3: settle for it and then try very hard to defend
Speaker 3: it rather than going hard for three ten and getting
Speaker 3: out a little bit earlier, rather a lot more like
Speaker 3: England do. And so that seems to be their preference
Speaker 3: and their generalization.
Speaker 2: They played an organized game, didn't they. I think the
Speaker 2: important thing from my point of view was the consistency
Speaker 2: of performance. We've been critical of them in certain games
Speaker 2: and was justification that they haven't been consistent in their performance.
Speaker 2: But right throughout this series and the series in Pakistan.
Speaker 2: As a lead up, their consistency was good. They had
Speaker 2: depth and batting, their seam bowling attackers starting to develop
Speaker 2: as well. You know that the signs are good and
Speaker 2: there's plenty to be positive about. We can't look at
Speaker 2: you know, there are always slight negatives, but you know,
Speaker 2: generally it was a successful performance even though they didn't
Speaker 2: win the title.
Speaker 3: Correct, they played very well in this Champion's Trophy. And
Speaker 3: don't forget the spinners. You've probably mentioned them already, But
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people, for example, think that
Speaker 3: Brace was as a bits and pieces cricketer. Chap who
Speaker 3: holds the batter bit and bowls a bit. You know,
Speaker 3: he's much better than that accurate catcher Handy number seven,
Speaker 3: large hands, gives the ball a good rip like his
Speaker 3: old uncle John, and drifts it away and drops it
Speaker 3: and brings it back. I think he balances the side
Speaker 3: out really well. Antona, his skills slightly different. He was
Speaker 3: looking for wickets, wasn't he. He wants good flight and
Speaker 3: to get people out with you know, changes of pace
Speaker 3: and turn. Very different approach than Judasia and Actua Patel. Revendra.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I think of Ravendra, he came into
Speaker 3: the New Zealand side at what was he seventeen eighteen
Speaker 3: or whatever, twenty and bold left arm, orthodox, didn't he
Speaker 3: but he was always going to be a better batsman
Speaker 3: and that's they were just easing him in at that stage.
Speaker 3: He's a bit like Judasia in the sense he's quick
Speaker 3: through the air and New Zealand has got to keep
Speaker 3: on bowling him. It's good to have that difference, so
Speaker 3: I think yep. So I thought the New Zealanders were
Speaker 3: very effective. Their spinners could pull their opposition back a
Speaker 3: little bit, and they did for a while once Rowat
Speaker 3: Shama was stumped. They made it quite awkward and they
Speaker 3: looked a bit under pressure the Indians for about sort
Speaker 3: of no maybe five to ten overs. Unfortunately, New Zealand
Speaker 3: the half chances they got, they didn't have quite the
Speaker 3: best day in the field, but as you say, those
Speaker 3: things can happen. They batted well, they got good runs,
Speaker 3: they defended with spin in the middle and generally were
Speaker 3: very good in the field.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael Braceley was going to get a chance to
Speaker 2: bother it more because he's been named captain of the
Speaker 2: T twenty squad to play against Pakistan five of those
Speaker 2: coming up, and of course they're playing Odie Iss as well.
Speaker 2: The reason of course that Satna Chapman and I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to think of the other ones are Ferguson. There's
Speaker 2: four of anyway not not playing this series. Brace was
Speaker 2: the captain, Finnellen, Mark Chapman, Jacob Duffy, Zach Fuchs comes
Speaker 2: back in for a couple of games. Mitch Hater keeper
Speaker 2: Matt Henry will play a couple of games. Jamison Mitchell
Speaker 2: nich o'rour will play three games. He and Jamison will
Speaker 2: play three games. Tim Robinson back at the top of
Speaker 2: the order. That's going to be interesting with Finn Allen
Speaker 2: and the likes Rich and Rutchian Ravender is not there.
Speaker 2: Of course, Ben Sears good to see him back, and
Speaker 2: Ish Sodian. You know, we sort of forget about the
Speaker 2: ben Sears when we talk about paste bowlers. They've got Duffy,
Speaker 2: but you know, now that he's got over his injury, Sears,
Speaker 2: you know, the chances of seeing a really good top
Speaker 2: line paste bowling attack in action that is encouraging.
Speaker 3: No doubt about that. Yeah, don't forget we lost Ferguson,
Speaker 3: didn't we? In the in the Champions Trophy and sears.
Speaker 3: So that sounds to me. What's the first time I've
Speaker 3: kind of heard you name those with fin Allen and
Speaker 3: Robinson open. Where does Cipher fit three? Perhaps, well he's
Speaker 3: been or Mark Chapman. Mark Chapman was number three against
Speaker 3: Sri Lanka, wasn't he? Mitchell's there you mentioned, so he'd
Speaker 3: before I heard the word the name nism at some point.
Speaker 3: So he'll be, I guess, drifting around, so will Bracewall.
Speaker 2: They've got Mitch Hayes as well, and it's been a
Speaker 2: little bit further down the order and some of the
Speaker 2: sides that he's been playing for. But it's good to
Speaker 2: see him back in our Ta twitty squad and that's
Speaker 2: going to be something of while I've got the players out.
Speaker 3: So the spinners of Bracewell and Sodi is that is? That?
Speaker 3: Was that about right?
Speaker 2: That's the ones that I can see there. Zach Fuchs
Speaker 2: is a medium pace, yeah, spinners.
Speaker 3: And plenty of seamers which they're going to rotate obviously, yep.
Speaker 2: Five games to be played. Okay, then starting on a.
Speaker 1: Sunday, Brian Waddle, Jeremy Coney on the front foot.
Speaker 2: Well, the New Zealand women's team. The White Fins have
Speaker 2: had a pretty encouraging series against Sri Lanka and welcome
Speaker 2: back to the White Fins. Hope that Georgia Plummer serious injury.
Speaker 2: Following the World to Twitty, Plumber continued to development the
Speaker 2: teching opener in a side that had numerous injury issues
Speaker 2: and without Divine and Kerr at the helm, the first
Speaker 2: International Century kept off for a good series. Georgia Plumouth, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6: I think across the series we've obviously saying Maddie score
Speaker 6: one hundred and have some good partnerships in that game
Speaker 6: as well as today's game, and I think a lot
Speaker 6: of what our work on TV being for fifty over
Speaker 6: cricket has been a lot of partnerships and time in
Speaker 6: the medal. So yeah, I guess it's pretty satisfying to
Speaker 6: sort of do that and coming off not much cricket
Speaker 6: for me, I guess that's probably the most satisfying thing.
Speaker 2: They've been frustrations along the way, injury and some low
Speaker 2: scores must have been certisfying reward.
Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty incredible and obviously grateful to all the people
Speaker 6: that have helped me get to sort of this point
Speaker 6: and one of the hours with me over the last
Speaker 6: couple of years. And I guess being out there with
Speaker 6: Susi as well at the start and having that partnership
Speaker 6: at the startup and that sort of sent me in
Speaker 6: a more of a calm state out there. And yeah,
Speaker 6: I guess being able to see her record for fifties
Speaker 6: and hundred is pretty incredible sort of be out there
Speaker 6: with a legend like that and sort of doing that.
Speaker 6: And I guess being out there when the next wicket
Speaker 6: with Emma McCloud is obviously really young and new into
Speaker 6: the team and sort of had that fresh view. I
Speaker 6: think that sort of shows where our team is at
Speaker 6: at the moment, and I think that's the great balance
Speaker 6: that we've got.
Speaker 1: At the moment.
Speaker 2: Would have given you time to work on your game
Speaker 2: during the injury break, That's true.
Speaker 6: We'll focus on a lot over the past couple of
Speaker 6: months while being injured about rotating strike and heading straight.
Speaker 6: So that's probably been my biggest work on And so yeah,
Speaker 6: for that to come out there and all that effort
Speaker 6: that I've been putting in the last few months while
Speaker 6: not being able to play cricket and see it out
Speaker 6: there on the park, I guess was probably the most pleasant.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 2: So one hundred and thirty eight days without competitive cricket.
Speaker 6: Crazy to think that it's been about four or five
Speaker 6: months since our last T twenty games and a lot
Speaker 6: of the girls have been playing in a supersmashion in
Speaker 6: the domestic scene, and I think being able to see
Speaker 6: some of the scores that are being put up and
Speaker 6: sort of the aggression that we're wanting to have as
Speaker 6: a white fans team sort of be replicated in the
Speaker 6: domestic scene. I think it's going to be pretty exciting
Speaker 6: to see what our team sort of puts out on
Speaker 6: the park and when o Sri Lanka. Obviously ham Tamara
Speaker 6: at the top is one of the best T twenty
Speaker 6: players in the world, so I think it's going to
Speaker 6: be a really good matches that were going to be
Speaker 6: coming up against. And yeah, excited to see how this
Speaker 6: team goes after a couple of good ones and the
Speaker 6: fifty over stuff as well.
Speaker 2: Not a lot you can read into it at the
Speaker 2: stage against the Sri Lanka. They've got to Pakistan coming
Speaker 2: as well, but you look at their injury list, I
Speaker 2: could go through a whole list. I think there's about
Speaker 2: nine who have got injuries of their frontline players. So
Speaker 2: more than anything there else, they're giving other players an
Speaker 2: opportunity and I think some quality young players. I've watched
Speaker 2: the women's game against the Sri Lanka and I've seen
Speaker 2: a good attacking attitude about their play and seeing the
Speaker 2: skills on show of some of the new players who've
Speaker 2: worked their way through the Halliburton Johnson and Dream eleven
Speaker 2: Super Smash competition. So, you know, interesting to see how
Speaker 2: we'll go in the T twenty series against Sri Lanka
Speaker 2: because they're basically the world champions at the moment of
Speaker 2: T twenty. And then of course they've got Pakistan coming
Speaker 2: and you may well see some of those because you'll
Speaker 2: be at games somewhere around your.
Speaker 3: Hill somewhere somewhere might be picked and wads ground grounds
Speaker 3: a bit small, exactly good to see some new names.
Speaker 3: I listened to the third match at Nelson Briilling left
Speaker 3: armor from Auckland. That's yeah, that's that's nice to see.
Speaker 3: She bowls both sides of the wicket, which is excellent.
Speaker 3: She got a couple of you know, a couple of
Speaker 3: wickets in the second game. I think so that's nice
Speaker 3: to see Polly English the keeper. It looks quite attacking.
Speaker 3: She got a thirty i think in the second match
Speaker 3: and are not out in the second not many didn't
Speaker 3: get a chance. And then there's a number three. The
Speaker 3: new girl from the CD is Emma McLeod someone like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so she's a right hand bat. Hasn't made quite so
Speaker 3: many yet, but good to see those new names in there.
Speaker 3: It pushes people like is he Grace? She? Is he Gays? Sorry?
Speaker 3: Is he Gays? Is she is she going to keep
Speaker 3: now or does she have to make some changes?
Speaker 2: She's one of those injured now. She's just added to
Speaker 2: the injury list that has just been released by New
Speaker 2: Zealand Cricket that she is not able to play. Gays
Speaker 2: James is another one who's just new to the side yet,
Speaker 2: and the Jets and along and of course not having
Speaker 2: the other players that they have had, so you know
Speaker 2: it is giving them some opportunities and that's that's going
Speaker 2: to be encouraging for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, the od the eyes have finished, so it's
Speaker 3: t twenty time premature really to, as you say, claim
Speaker 3: too much about the New Zealand side. But Sri Lanka
Speaker 3: didn't they beat New Zealand last time they were here?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Well.
Speaker 3: You know that's good that New Zealander pushed ahead, keep pushing,
Speaker 3: keep the standards up athleticism and who knows they've got
Speaker 3: the Assies coming up at some stage?
Speaker 2: Haven't they got some email traffic? Jerry? But we'll have
Speaker 2: a look at those next week. You just want have
Speaker 2: a quick word about the Plunket shield which is now
Speaker 2: through five rounds. Northern Districts at the top, Wellington second,
Speaker 2: Canterbury third. Wellington got up over Otago to get him
Speaker 2: the second place, but Central Districts is a side that
Speaker 2: interests me because I just still have concerns as to
Speaker 2: why Tom Bruce doesn't feature more often in Black Caps contention.
Speaker 2: Here's a man who scored a three hundred and forty five.
Speaker 2: Only one player in New Zealand first class cricket, when
Speaker 2: you think about the great players we've had, has beaten
Speaker 2: that score, Bert Suckliffe twice. Totally players. Bruce is a
Speaker 2: right handed a bit more aggressive than BT Suckliffe might
Speaker 2: have been, but he averages in first class cricket forty eight.
Speaker 2: We would have died for players to average forty eight
Speaker 2: to get into the Test team in times gone past?
Speaker 2: How does a guy who averages forty eight not get
Speaker 2: considered for New Zealand sides anywhere?
Speaker 3: Well? Well he has, hasn't he. He's played ten twenties,
Speaker 3: he's played. I guess the first point you would say
Speaker 3: is that it's just unfortunate timing, isn't it? That it
Speaker 3: hasn't been kind to someone like Tom Bruce. I saw him.
Speaker 3: He led the what CD at the base and didn't he?
Speaker 3: They won the Super Smash there they played Canterbury and
Speaker 3: won that. He has played in the Bangladesh League for
Speaker 3: the Chatter Graham, hasn't he? And he has played in
Speaker 3: England for both short form and longer form cricket as well.
Speaker 3: So he's a middle order player. He has captain the
Speaker 3: New Zealand A side, so he's there. And but as
Speaker 3: you're saying, would you have who does he replace Wads?
Speaker 3: He's a middle order player.
Speaker 2: Well that is the same issue that they have when
Speaker 2: they leave Devon Conway out of the New Zealand side.
Speaker 2: You get in by form, don't you by performance? And
Speaker 2: therefore you make your way. Here's a man who gets
Speaker 2: the top run scorer or close to the top run scorer.
Speaker 2: In the last two or three seasons. He scores centuries regularly.
Speaker 2: I just can't believe that he doesn't even come into
Speaker 2: even into squads, you know. I mean, I've got to
Speaker 2: not the I squad going to be coming out very shortly.
Speaker 2: Will he feature in that? I very much doubt it.
Speaker 2: You know, you pick players on form and that you know,
Speaker 2: that's basically what happened. Devin Conway is out because the
Speaker 2: others were scoring and he had to be parachuted out
Speaker 2: the back, didn't.
Speaker 3: The Hey yep, and I'm sure that'll be something to
Speaker 3: do with one of the emails that where was where
Speaker 3: was Conway? And he did start well And that's quite
Speaker 3: good though for a side. If you keep pushing and
Speaker 3: pushing and you get internal you know, competition between players
Speaker 3: and you're having to push yourself all the time to play.
Speaker 3: I think that lifts everybody training has become more you know,
Speaker 3: they're much more competitive. You want to have a good
Speaker 3: showing at the nets because you're wanting to impress people
Speaker 3: and so on. So anyway, yep, he's got to beat
Speaker 3: Mitchell who's averaging you know, he's thirty four five hundred's
Speaker 3: and a few fifties, and he'd be averaging over forty
Speaker 3: in test cricket Revender. I don't think he's going to
Speaker 3: replace Revendrew's twenty five. And then you've got Blundle at
Speaker 3: six who's averaging thirty four as a keeper and got
Speaker 3: five hundreds. It's not it's not an easy place to
Speaker 3: break in.
Speaker 2: I suppose all selections are a difficult time and more
Speaker 2: players deserve to be considered. Then I just think that
Speaker 2: the Bruce one is quite an interesting one.
Speaker 3: In mind.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens when the ODI team is named. Jerry,
Speaker 2: you can go put your feed up if you so wish,
Speaker 2: get ready for the Pakistan series. Looking forward to seeing
Speaker 2: the players playing back home, and it'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see what kind of ODI side they do pick after
Speaker 2: having got onto the final the Champions Trophy. So you know,
Speaker 2: interesting stuff ahead for the next month or so.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's right. Words And of course music is Music's
Speaker 3: the next thing for me. I've got to say, it's uh,
Speaker 3: we don't play the Love Train, which I think was
Speaker 3: quite high in your top hundreds.
Speaker 2: Oh that's in my top five.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it was always up. There wasn't they the o
Speaker 3: J I'll remember forget you standing standing in your doorway
Speaker 3: with most of your families building out, gonna sail on
Speaker 3: the love train.
Speaker 2: I've annoyed quite a lot of people, actually.
Speaker 3: People of the world.
Speaker 2: All I want to know. You don't sing, do you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, not what the microphone turned on?
Speaker 2: Oh that's good. All right, I'm the way down to
Speaker 2: pick them to uh to catch a series of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll give you a back row seat. All right, Friday,
Speaker 3: I'm going to take care of summer.
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