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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 ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: He was unequivocal, wasn't he right at the start that

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Speaker 2: what came Williamson is doing is simply part of what

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Speaker 2: Greg Barclay called the evolution of the game. A fact

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Speaker 2: of life, I think is what he said. Greg Barklay

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Speaker 2: wants member of associations like New Zealand Cricket to embrace

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty franchise leagues and work more closely with them.

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Speaker 2: The sports governing body, the ICC has clearly worked out

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Speaker 2: there's no point fighting against the T twenty leagues. They're here,

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Speaker 2: they're here to stay and their number is growing.

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Speaker 1: What have we got?

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Speaker 2: The IPL, the Big Bash, Caribbean Premier League, the Essay twenty.

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Speaker 2: That's the South African one Major League Cricket in the US,

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Speaker 2: which is going to be quite big yet imagine Pat

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Speaker 2: Cummins has signed up there for four years. The UAE competition.

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Speaker 2: What I heard there from Greg Barclay was that ICC

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Speaker 2: members need to adjust their thinking. They need to fit

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Speaker 2: with these competitions, not fight against them, because resistance is futile, really,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. There's too much money on offer now for

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Speaker 2: top players. If national associations try to restrict their players

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Speaker 2: from taking part and earning what they can in these

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Speaker 2: franchise competitions, they'll just leave. Playing international cricket won't be

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Speaker 2: enough to keep them all here, just as the Black

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Speaker 2: Jersey can't keep all of our best rugby players here.

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Speaker 2: Wearing the black cap is only attractive up to a point. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's an attraction, of course, it is playing for your country.

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Speaker 2: You'll listen to these players and they will say yes,

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Speaker 2: it is still very important to us and in fact

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Speaker 2: it gives them a shop window from which they can

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Speaker 2: be selected into these franchise leagues. But New Zealand Cricket

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Speaker 2: have to be creative from flexible in their contracting, which

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Speaker 2: I think they have been here with Kan Williamson to

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Speaker 2: be fair. The fact is he will miss very little

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Speaker 2: national cricket next summer, and you heard that from him

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Speaker 2: and the small clip I played at the top of

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Speaker 2: the show and in the other answers he gave during

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Speaker 2: that media conference. Playing for New Zealand is still very

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Speaker 2: important to Camee Williamson and it's just the fact that

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Speaker 2: he can't be here for the home summer when there's

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Speaker 2: no international cricket in January that he's not able to

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Speaker 2: take up a central contract. One thing though, that does

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Speaker 2: worry me before we go to the phones is our

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Speaker 2: own domestic league, the Super Smash. Now Came Williamson has

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Speaker 2: effectively chosen the South African T twenty comp over his

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Speaker 2: home countries T twenty comp. That's what he's done. He

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Speaker 2: said in January, I'm going to play in South Africa,

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Speaker 2: not in New Zealand, presumably for the money partially of course,

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Speaker 2: but also for the opportunities there and something different for

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Speaker 2: his family. I don't feel as though South African cricketers,

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Speaker 2: all players from other countries, certainly not players of the

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Speaker 2: caliber of Came Williamson, are queuing up to come and

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Speaker 2: play in our Super Smash, because anyone who's on contract

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Speaker 2: that could now in January choose South Africa, or they

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Speaker 2: could choose the Aussie Big Bash, or they could choose

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Speaker 2: our Super Smash, and it just doesn't feel as though

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Speaker 2: many are choosing us over those.

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