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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZB.

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Speaker 2: I still don't know why there weren't any warm up games.

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Speaker 2: I can only assume, only assume, as Dylan said that

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Speaker 2: T twenty just doesn't matter as much to New Zealand

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Speaker 2: cricket as the other forms of the game. Otherwise they

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Speaker 2: simply would not have sent the players into battle underprepared.

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Speaker 2: There is a rationale to say a decent chunk of

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Speaker 2: the side have come from the IPL, where they've been

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Speaker 2: playing a lot of T twenty cricket, but the fact

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Speaker 2: is most of them didn't actually play a heck of

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Speaker 2: a lot in the IPL. Most of the New Zealand

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Speaker 2: players who were in the IPL weren't really first choice

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Speaker 2: for their sides, and those who did play didn't exactly

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Speaker 2: set the world on fire. It has to be said

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Speaker 2: the factors of the others, they've hardly played any T

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Speaker 2: twenty cricket at all recently. Finn Allen's last game of

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Speaker 2: T twenty cricket was in February, same with Devin Conway,

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Speaker 2: same with Gwenn Phillips. These guys haven't played T twenty

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Speaker 2: for three or four months, so to expect them to

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Speaker 2: go into unfamiliar surroundings and perform straight away and what

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Speaker 2: has turned out to be a pretty crucial match, I

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Speaker 2: mean fanciful. Yes, they're good players. I don't think there's

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Speaker 2: any selection issue here. As Dylan said, you wouldn't say

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Speaker 2: that these aren't our best T twenty players on form

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Speaker 2: and on reputation. So it's not as though you say

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Speaker 2: he shouldn't be there, he should be there instead. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you can talk about selection of the eleven for yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and I agree with Dylan. I'd have rch and Ravendra

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Speaker 2: and probably Jimmy Nisham as well, and I think they

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Speaker 2: may make those changes, so you might want to comment

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Speaker 2: on that, but by and large it's our best players

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Speaker 2: in the squad. It just seems to be a complete

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Speaker 2: oversight in terms of giving them any preparation at all.

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Speaker 2: Afghanistan out a bad side. That's the thing that you know.

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Speaker 2: We're not talking about a minnow anymore. Afghanistan are a

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Speaker 2: good white ball side and they proved that yesterday. You

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Speaker 2: can you can't go in half bait.

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