1 00:00:06,667 --> 00:00:10,547 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine 2 00:00:10,707 --> 00:00:13,067 Speaker 1: from Newstalk zby Well. 3 00:00:13,107 --> 00:00:15,267 Speaker 2: In an attempt to boost the ratings of the show, 4 00:00:15,307 --> 00:00:17,947 Speaker 2: I've gone to the Alternative Commentary Collective the head of 5 00:00:17,987 --> 00:00:21,987 Speaker 2: the ACC, Mike Lane, who has gone to India to 6 00:00:22,107 --> 00:00:26,027 Speaker 2: watch the final remarkable dedication. When did you arrive? 7 00:00:27,387 --> 00:00:31,507 Speaker 3: I actually arrived in Underbard at about twelve hours ago plenty. 8 00:00:31,787 --> 00:00:35,827 Speaker 3: I must admit, given current geopolitical issues going on elsewhere 9 00:00:35,867 --> 00:00:37,707 Speaker 3: in the world, it's been quite hard to get here 10 00:00:37,827 --> 00:00:41,267 Speaker 3: given the two biggest kind of ports to go through 11 00:00:41,267 --> 00:00:44,267 Speaker 3: as Doha and Dubai. So I had to get a 12 00:00:44,627 --> 00:00:48,787 Speaker 3: little bit creative. Went through Singapore, Singapore, then over to India. 13 00:00:48,907 --> 00:00:52,587 Speaker 3: Got there eventually, bit a little bit weary. But its 14 00:00:52,667 --> 00:00:55,027 Speaker 3: final day, mate, it's all go here. They're pretty pumped here, 15 00:00:55,067 --> 00:00:57,547 Speaker 3: I can tell you that. And one hundred and thirty 16 00:00:57,587 --> 00:01:00,147 Speaker 3: thousand people are going to be rammed into the stadium. 17 00:01:00,347 --> 00:01:01,987 Speaker 3: I actually don't know what to expect, to be honest, 18 00:01:02,867 --> 00:01:04,947 Speaker 3: that is one massive humanity. 19 00:01:05,427 --> 00:01:08,987 Speaker 2: That absolutely it's an enormous venue. And as you say, 20 00:01:09,427 --> 00:01:12,667 Speaker 2: ninety nine of them are going to be wanting India 21 00:01:12,707 --> 00:01:14,387 Speaker 2: to do you have you got it? Have you got 22 00:01:14,387 --> 00:01:17,107 Speaker 2: a ticket or at least a media pass of some sort. 23 00:01:18,667 --> 00:01:21,467 Speaker 3: Look, I've left everything very late, Pony. I must have 24 00:01:21,667 --> 00:01:23,867 Speaker 3: my visa came through an hour before I got on 25 00:01:23,907 --> 00:01:27,227 Speaker 3: the plane, so that was that was cutting it fine. 26 00:01:27,307 --> 00:01:29,507 Speaker 3: Managed to get a ticket. I did manage to get to 27 00:01:29,547 --> 00:01:32,627 Speaker 3: get no media pass though. I mean myself in the ICC, 28 00:01:32,707 --> 00:01:34,547 Speaker 3: I've got a bit of history, Pony. I don't know. 29 00:01:34,547 --> 00:01:36,747 Speaker 3: I won't go into it now, but I don't imagine 30 00:01:36,747 --> 00:01:39,747 Speaker 3: they'll be giving me an accreditation anytime soon. So I'm 31 00:01:39,747 --> 00:01:43,267 Speaker 3: just going I'm just going in with the with the punters. Jeez, 32 00:01:43,307 --> 00:01:45,107 Speaker 3: I don't I actually don't. Like I said, I don't 33 00:01:45,107 --> 00:01:47,707 Speaker 3: know what to expect. This is the biggest sports stadium 34 00:01:47,827 --> 00:01:49,387 Speaker 3: in the world, which I just read. I was like, 35 00:01:49,467 --> 00:01:51,987 Speaker 3: oh my god, So I don't know how early to 36 00:01:52,027 --> 00:01:54,827 Speaker 3: get there. Ricky Martin's playing tonight in the closing ceremony, 37 00:01:55,427 --> 00:01:57,187 Speaker 3: so that's something can look forward to forever. 38 00:01:59,267 --> 00:02:03,587 Speaker 2: Sure, little bit. Absolutely, absolutely, have you even find you 39 00:02:03,707 --> 00:02:05,427 Speaker 2: have you even find your seat at one hundred and 40 00:02:05,507 --> 00:02:07,627 Speaker 2: thirty thousand seats? Do you don't even know what gates 41 00:02:07,667 --> 00:02:09,987 Speaker 2: are going? For goodness sake, I. 42 00:02:09,987 --> 00:02:13,587 Speaker 3: Mean, all these things are stretching me out, Pinya, and 43 00:02:13,667 --> 00:02:16,307 Speaker 3: the fact that good is a dry state as well, 44 00:02:16,867 --> 00:02:18,867 Speaker 3: that is stretching me out too, because any stress I 45 00:02:18,907 --> 00:02:22,387 Speaker 3: can't relieve by just having my usual stress reliever. So 46 00:02:22,667 --> 00:02:24,867 Speaker 3: it's going to be interesting as well. Have managed to 47 00:02:24,867 --> 00:02:26,587 Speaker 3: smuggle in a BoNT of gin. I just need now 48 00:02:26,667 --> 00:02:29,547 Speaker 3: to find basically some tonic and some ice that's not 49 00:02:29,587 --> 00:02:31,147 Speaker 3: going to make me go out the eye of a 50 00:02:31,187 --> 00:02:34,027 Speaker 3: needle at some stage. So I don't know. I'll let 51 00:02:34,067 --> 00:02:35,987 Speaker 3: you know. We're going to get back piny about what happens. 52 00:02:35,987 --> 00:02:37,707 Speaker 3: But it's all new to me. 53 00:02:38,307 --> 00:02:39,787 Speaker 2: How are you feeling about our chances? 54 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:41,027 Speaker 1: Oh? 55 00:02:41,187 --> 00:02:45,067 Speaker 3: Look, I reckon, it's good. We I'm quietly confident. Look, 56 00:02:45,107 --> 00:02:46,987 Speaker 3: I've got a reputation a little bit, pliny I've done 57 00:02:47,027 --> 00:02:49,987 Speaker 3: if you know. I've been to three Cricket World Cups 58 00:02:50,027 --> 00:02:52,587 Speaker 3: and I've watched the zer and lose all three. So 59 00:02:52,667 --> 00:02:55,347 Speaker 3: I need one. I need one here. And I think 60 00:02:55,387 --> 00:02:58,107 Speaker 3: India is the team that we that we want to 61 00:02:58,107 --> 00:03:00,187 Speaker 3: play because it's you didn't really want a World Cup 62 00:03:00,267 --> 00:03:04,227 Speaker 3: until you've beaten India in the final and they don't 63 00:03:04,267 --> 00:03:07,227 Speaker 3: have our measure. A lot of teams are untilmidated by India. 64 00:03:07,747 --> 00:03:09,707 Speaker 3: We seem to be the one one team that's not. 65 00:03:09,867 --> 00:03:12,507 Speaker 3: We tip them up in a lot of competitions where 66 00:03:12,507 --> 00:03:16,267 Speaker 3: their bogey team. Pull Forward from the VAC podcast describes 67 00:03:16,267 --> 00:03:19,267 Speaker 3: it quite well, where master is masters of the underdoggery 68 00:03:20,027 --> 00:03:22,547 Speaker 3: we go, we take that underdog tag and we use 69 00:03:22,587 --> 00:03:25,907 Speaker 3: it to our best abilities. And I think if we 70 00:03:25,947 --> 00:03:28,867 Speaker 3: win the toss bolt first and then get them out 71 00:03:28,867 --> 00:03:33,507 Speaker 3: for under two hundred, game on, pony, absolutely, game on, game. 72 00:03:33,307 --> 00:03:36,147 Speaker 2: On, and if if the stuck of yours was to 73 00:03:36,187 --> 00:03:39,387 Speaker 2: be broken and the Black Caps do when the t 74 00:03:39,387 --> 00:03:42,227 Speaker 2: twenty Cricket World come sometime in the next fifteen sixteen 75 00:03:42,227 --> 00:03:45,347 Speaker 2: hours or so, surely you'll be invited along as one 76 00:03:45,347 --> 00:03:47,627 Speaker 2: of the very few Kiwi's on the ground there to 77 00:03:47,667 --> 00:03:48,947 Speaker 2: celebrate with the team. 78 00:03:49,787 --> 00:03:52,747 Speaker 3: Well yeah, well look hopefully I didn't cover myself in 79 00:03:52,747 --> 00:03:55,227 Speaker 3: glory back in twenty so fifteen in Melbourne at a 80 00:03:55,227 --> 00:03:57,107 Speaker 3: team after function. I'll talk about it to find a 81 00:03:57,187 --> 00:04:00,227 Speaker 3: Cap talk about that on a here that involves them. 82 00:04:00,307 --> 00:04:02,467 Speaker 3: It the involves some savory's been thrown around a room 83 00:04:02,467 --> 00:04:05,187 Speaker 3: and one certain member of the New Zealand board got hat. Anyway, 84 00:04:05,267 --> 00:04:07,867 Speaker 3: that's another story for another time. There is a few 85 00:04:07,947 --> 00:04:09,827 Speaker 3: key he's over here bumped into a few on the plane, 86 00:04:10,707 --> 00:04:12,747 Speaker 3: so there's a there's a small contingent. When I say 87 00:04:12,747 --> 00:04:15,627 Speaker 3: small contingent, I don't think it will break three figures, 88 00:04:16,467 --> 00:04:19,307 Speaker 3: but there's throughout the kind of kind of Southeast Asia 89 00:04:19,307 --> 00:04:22,507 Speaker 3: and Singapore, I saw loads of people trying to get 90 00:04:22,587 --> 00:04:25,907 Speaker 3: desperately get last minute visas and get over here. So 91 00:04:26,707 --> 00:04:29,427 Speaker 3: hopefully we can break that dack. And interestingly, if we 92 00:04:29,467 --> 00:04:31,267 Speaker 3: win this T twenty World Cup, we're going to have 93 00:04:31,347 --> 00:04:33,947 Speaker 3: basically our women's and men's team will be T twenty 94 00:04:33,947 --> 00:04:36,987 Speaker 3: World Cup champions and potentially neither of them will be 95 00:04:37,027 --> 00:04:40,827 Speaker 3: at the Olympics next year in La. So think about 96 00:04:40,867 --> 00:04:41,347 Speaker 3: that for a bit. 97 00:04:41,787 --> 00:04:43,307 Speaker 2: I am. I am going to think about it. But 98 00:04:43,347 --> 00:04:45,547 Speaker 2: also if I look, if I had to send any 99 00:04:45,667 --> 00:04:48,107 Speaker 2: one of our five and a half million over there 100 00:04:48,307 --> 00:04:51,227 Speaker 2: to to be to get in the faces of the 101 00:04:51,227 --> 00:04:54,267 Speaker 2: one point four billion Indians who are going to be 102 00:04:54,387 --> 00:04:57,667 Speaker 2: buying for our blood, I would choose, well, I think 103 00:04:57,707 --> 00:04:59,427 Speaker 2: I would choose you. You cently be in my top 104 00:04:59,467 --> 00:05:00,067 Speaker 2: three anyway. 105 00:05:00,827 --> 00:05:04,467 Speaker 3: Oh thanks pony, that means that means a lot. I'll 106 00:05:04,907 --> 00:05:06,987 Speaker 3: I'll let you know if I form up to my 107 00:05:06,987 --> 00:05:10,707 Speaker 3: abilities come Monday. But I'm definitely looking forward to it, 108 00:05:10,747 --> 00:05:12,427 Speaker 3: and I'm looking forward to catch up with all the 109 00:05:12,427 --> 00:05:14,867 Speaker 3: other TV's out here that have made the effort, because 110 00:05:14,867 --> 00:05:17,587 Speaker 3: it certainly is an effort. Even getting out of here 111 00:05:17,667 --> 00:05:20,827 Speaker 3: is proving quite an issue because ICC obviously sponsored by 112 00:05:20,827 --> 00:05:23,987 Speaker 3: Emirates and they all go via Dubai. Obviously that corridor 113 00:05:24,067 --> 00:05:26,347 Speaker 3: is pretty much shut off. So everyone's going back by 114 00:05:26,427 --> 00:05:29,387 Speaker 3: Singapore for getting getting home as an issue. I got here, 115 00:05:29,947 --> 00:05:31,947 Speaker 3: getting home might be in a shoe, all right. 116 00:05:31,947 --> 00:05:33,707 Speaker 2: Well, it's good to know that the weekend sport and 117 00:05:33,787 --> 00:05:37,347 Speaker 2: ACC audience is intersect because there's a text here. Who 118 00:05:37,347 --> 00:05:39,387 Speaker 2: the hell Let g Lane go to the final man? 119 00:05:39,667 --> 00:05:41,987 Speaker 2: He is the worst luck ever. It's time to break 120 00:05:41,987 --> 00:05:43,947 Speaker 2: the duck. It's time to break the duck. 121 00:05:44,987 --> 00:05:48,027 Speaker 3: Yeah, I am known as grim Lane to a few 122 00:05:48,027 --> 00:05:50,707 Speaker 3: of the ACC audience. But need I need to break it, piny, 123 00:05:50,707 --> 00:05:52,787 Speaker 3: And anyway I can do it is by watching us 124 00:05:53,067 --> 00:05:56,867 Speaker 3: barnstorm to victory in the early hours of tomorrow morning 125 00:05:56,867 --> 00:05:58,427 Speaker 3: and bringing home the teacher when he will cup. 126 00:05:58,907 --> 00:06:00,907 Speaker 2: Love it, mate, love it. Thanks so much for joining us, 127 00:06:00,947 --> 00:06:04,507 Speaker 2: Mike Mike Lane. There Alternative Commentary Collective. They're hosting a 128 00:06:04,547 --> 00:06:07,547 Speaker 2: watch along just suits for them on socials, you'll find it. 129 00:06:07,547 --> 00:06:10,227 Speaker 2: It's going to be an absolute cracker. Two thirty tomorrow morning, 130 00:06:10,227 --> 00:06:13,507 Speaker 2: black Caps for India T twenty Cricket World Cup. 131 00:06:13,987 --> 00:06:17,187 Speaker 1: For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live 132 00:06:17,267 --> 00:06:20,587 Speaker 1: to News Talk set B weekends from midday, or follow 133 00:06:20,627 --> 00:06:22,227 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio