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Speaker 1: Look on the cricket you can hardly begrudge Kane Williams

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Speaker 1: and can you for finally deciding you want to prioritize

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Speaker 1: making money over wearing the black shirt. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: guy has more than put in his time with the

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Speaker 1: Black Caps. He's been in the squad since twenty ten,

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Speaker 1: he's been the captain since twenty sixteen. You can't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he has got so many records, you know, he can't

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Speaker 1: fault his effort and same actually is true even for

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Speaker 1: Lockie Ferguson. He's been in the squad since twenty sixteen himself.

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Speaker 1: And we've sort of got used to this idea through rugby,

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Speaker 1: haven't we, where the players do their time playing for

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Speaker 1: the squad in black and then they head off overseas

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Speaker 1: and they make their money around the world. That is

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Speaker 1: just what these two cricket boys are doing. But it's

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Speaker 1: not to say that there isn't something bigger going on here,

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Speaker 1: because there is something big going on. It is just

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Speaker 1: another example, I would say, of what's coming for us.

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Speaker 1: And we've been talking about this on the show now

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Speaker 1: for two years. This is the footballization of cricket, where

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Speaker 1: basically you get super tournaments like the IPL and the

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Speaker 1: South African Tea twenty tournament, which become more important and

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Speaker 1: better spectacles than the international fixtures are because it's where

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Speaker 1: the money is. So they draw in the superstars and

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Speaker 1: the first real sign that it's happening is that you

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Speaker 1: have your star players prioritize those competitions over representing their country,

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Speaker 1: and we're seeing that happen. Trent Bolt has done it,

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Speaker 1: Kane Williamson is doing it, Lackie Ferguson is doing it.

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Speaker 1: And let me remind you, basically the whole team did

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Speaker 1: it just a few days ago because the IPL players

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Speaker 1: apparently wanted to rest rather than play a warm up

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Speaker 1: match before the T twenty World Cup and so as

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Speaker 1: a result, no warm up match meant that the black

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Speaker 1: Caps were knocked out after basically two matches. That there

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Speaker 1: is a straight prioritization of the IPL overplaying for the

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Speaker 1: black Caps. Now, I think the only way for us

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Speaker 1: to fix this and we don't have to take this

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Speaker 1: lying down right the way you can't fix it as

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Speaker 1: if the rugby are sorry. The cricket bosses globally set

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Speaker 1: aside very clear windows where they say this is the

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Speaker 1: part of the year where the money making tournaments can

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Speaker 1: play and this is the part of the year where

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Speaker 1: the international fixtures can play it and they don't overlap,

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Speaker 1: and you get the players that you need for both

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Speaker 1: of them. Right. That's probably the only way I would

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Speaker 1: say to keep the black Caps from becoming essentially a

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Speaker 1: B squad, which is the future for us. That is

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Speaker 1: what is going to happen. The big tournaments are going

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Speaker 1: to have all the star players and we're just going

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Speaker 1: to have the scraps pulled together for the international fixtures. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: on these two boys, as I say, you can't begrudge

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Speaker 1: these guys. They've put the time in, but don't overlook

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