WEBVTT - "Mana Mitch From Across The Ditch" 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.080 Life from the Export Beer Gun Studio and brought to 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.600 you by Export Ultra the bear for here. This is 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.440 the Agenda Podcast for Wednesday, the seventeenth of July. 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:13.319 The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting Nonsense and Clap Trap, 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.040 brought to you by Export Vulture. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.439 And joining me from Witness Protection as acc head g Lane. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.160 How how was wherever it is that you were. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:24.520 Yeah, that's great. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.440 Actually, you know, just just having some time out, yeap, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.880 you know, just to regather my thoughts, you know, the 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:32.880 safety of myself and my family come first. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.199 Yeah, that's right. So we're going to start the podcast 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.400 with us. It's it's sort of some of the biggest 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.440 sporting news going on at the moment. Certainly took over 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.520 the headlines yesterday. Norm Hewitt tragically passed away very suddenly 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.720 as well. Did I read he was only about fifty 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.160 five years old. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.520 Yeah, and died of like modern your own disease, which 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.880 I didn't even realize he had I did, obviously. Yeah, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:03.680 So that's pretty hopefully named it. I think CTE related. Obviously, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.000 He's a bit of a fair bit of media around 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:09.399 there this moment, Dylan Cleaver writing quite a lot about that, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.280 so yeah, time will tell, I guess, but pretty sad, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:13.679 pretty young, Jesus. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:14.280 Oh so young. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.320 Only just a couple of years ago, I was hosting 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.479 a rugby show with him on the mainstream sports media. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.400 It was like a half hour weekly show about the Hurricanes. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.480 And I mean, I don't know if he had it 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.160 then or whatever, but he was always so ready to 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.119 share a good yarn. Like you could see you could 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.880 see his eyes light up when you triggered a memory 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.120 from his playing days, and then he'd light up and 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.200 be like, oh, it reminds me of. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:40.160 This, blah blah blah. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.800 So I always really look forward to so hosting that 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.560 show with him, and I was always just trying to 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.160 constantly bait a couple of stories out from him, because 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.200 you know he wouldn't remember them just to tell you. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.840 But if you managed to just get that little spark in. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.400 His eyes and he'd light up and be like, Oh, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.200 that reminds me of this one time we're on tour, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:57.440 like here we go. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.560 They're always good like that, I think than I think 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.280 you did the same to Kyle Mills when he came 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.400 on this podcast. Yeah, you threw a couple of lines 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.640 out there. One had squaed on it. One had pictured 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.600 and he took the pilly and he ran with it. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:12.760 Yeah, I know, well, I mean, you know, at the 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.239 end of the day, I'm a fan of these guys, 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.280 so I just want to hear the same stories that 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.560 everyone else does. So if I can, if I can 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.079 somehow walk them into a story or two, then know well, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.000 so yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed doing that with Norm Hewitt 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.560 gone far too soon, Far too young. The other big 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.960 sporting news of the day, and it happened today, is 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.000 that the summer of cricket has been announced Lane. They 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.120 had a massive media event down there at TV and Z. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.840 They had who's who of New Zealand sporting media, including yours. Truly, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.440 I probably put myself on the who's that of New 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.760 Zealand sporting media. Yep, no one really knew what was 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.200 going on why we were there. I was also confusingly 0:02:54.240 --> 0:03:02.040 wearing a Black Caps jumper, so people like, yeah, does 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.240 he work for the team, what's going on? 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.280 It was a massive sort of kerfuffle. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.520 They announced all of their plans, there's all sorts of 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.440 double hitters, blah blah blah blah. But I really really 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.680 can't wrap my head around it. So I asked Tom Latham, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.760 who was down there, to try and explain it for us, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.280 and so let's let him try and explain it with 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:22.800 them with. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:23.320 Us right now. 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:23.640 Tom. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.400 I got the schedule obviously ahead of time. I was 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.040 trying to figure out the whole heading over to Pakistan thing. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:29.639 How does that work? 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.399 So you're playing England, then you bugger off to Pakistan, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:33.880 you play a couple of games over there, then you 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:34.240 come back. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:34.800 How's that work? 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:35.160 Yeah? 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.200 So I think it's England and then Shri Lanka come 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.400 here and then we go to Pakistan for that champions 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.560 trophy and then both teams come back or Pakistan come 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.920 back here later later on in the summer to finish. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.119 So it's a pretty busy, busy summer, which is which 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.800 is exciting as crickets. You want to play as much 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.040 cricket as possible. And yeah, hopefully we can get plenty 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.200 of crowds there and have plenty of support like we 0:03:59.280 --> 0:03:59.600 usually do. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.560 Now have the hard hitting questions. You're walking through a 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:03.240 real sport. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.360 You pick up a cricket bet, what's the immediate shadow 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.240 betting shot that you play when you pick up the bet? 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.400 It's probably a Ford defense, which it shouldn't be about me. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.560 But you're in you know, you're in the aisles, aren't you, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.520 So you can't actually play too many shots, can't make 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:17.360 cross better shots again. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.920 Yeah, so yeah, he goes to Ford defensive, just Tom 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:20.720 Latham when he pick. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.880 Yeah, I'm a flick off the pads. Oh really Yeah, yeah, 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.680 I'm just a flick just like flick just rough midwicket. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.159 I'm a Ford defensive as well. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.920 And I was just saying, I said the time after 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.400 that as well, I'll just call them Tom either that 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:36.239 or I'll sit. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.440 Back on one a late cut. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:38.880 Oh yeah, yeah. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.640 Because the thing is you're generally either when you're playing, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.280 when you're shadow betting, you're generally in a confined space. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.640 You don't want to be going for a slog sweep. No, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.320 that's why I go for the flick. I go for 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.480 the flick, and I flick the back leg up as well, 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.039 so it's kind of regal kind of you go there 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.240 and you flick the back leg up as well as 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:56.719 flicking along. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.320 That's that's my go to kind of rebel sport aisle shot. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.400 What do you think is the most common rebel sport 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:03.000 aisle shot. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.440 It's definitely the full defense, if not the leave. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.240 Oh yes, they're kind of back and what you know, yeh, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:12.080 Jason Horts. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.960 Jason Hort's are Ford defensive front prawn and then he 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:16.680 would just go. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.240 Waiting, you know, run there. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:20.920 He never takes the run. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:25.040 It's never taken. It takes the run. So the schedule, Yeah, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.200 it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because obviously announced the 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:32.000 English Test series very early for reasons other than they 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.960 wanted to give English fans a chance to book, which 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.880 is odd. I thought New Zealand fans would have come first, 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.239 but they'd been confirmed a few months ago. They're happening 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.440 in November December. Then there's quite a decent not a 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.560 massive gap, a ten day gap from the last and that, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.560 by the way, those tests are the only test we 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:51.280 played this summer. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:53.640 I had tests. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.840 Yeah, So christ Church Manington Hamilton against England Test match 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:05.880 cricket for New Zealand is over Wednesday, theeenth December. Yeah, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.400 and then ten days later. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:10.880 It looks like we lost your lane for a second. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.919 But while we have lost him. I talked to Gary 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.800 Stead about those Test matches and how interesting it is 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.880 and how excited he is that there's going to be 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.680 three of them. Well, we're very lucky to have coach 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.400 Gary Stead here with us. Obviously we've just had the 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.000 full schedule announced. How excited are for a three Test 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.040 series against England. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.680 Look, it's been a while since we've played three Test 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.880 series and I think to play England is always great. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.000 We had a two years ago, had an amazing one 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.520 all series win with an incredible Test match at the 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.800 basein Reserve to make that one all and so hopefully 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.159 we're well, hopefully we can win all three, but we're 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.320 in a situation that if it is tied at one all, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:49.960 we get to get a decider and. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:51.960 I'm pretty excited about that. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.120 So what I can't understand, Lane, maybe you can explain 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.839 is the black Caps in Pakistan the championship aspect of that. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:06.359 Yes, so interesting there that Graham gary Stead described the 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.640 one old drawers of victory. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.280 Yeah, with one series victory. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:15.040 No, see what happens once Sri Lanka finished their last 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.280 ODII on Saturday, the eleventh of January at Eden Park, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.960 New Zealand then kind of head off. Now there's a 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.280 couple of weeks off and that I think they get 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.800 to play but a super smash. But all of February 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.160 it's all happening in Pakistan. We have a warm up 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.680 ODI tri Series in Pakistan for a week and then 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.360 from the nineteenth to February to the ninth of March 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:42.080 there is the Champions Trophy. Now, the Champions Trophy is 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:48.520 a fifty over competition that sits in between World Cups. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.840 They haven't done it all well, have they. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.560 No, they haven't done it for a very long time. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.440 But it is the only silverware alongside the World Test 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.160 Championship that we have. Remember we won it in Zimbabwe. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.200 Chris Ken's famously won us the game over there, so 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.840 that was our first ever bit of international silver. Were 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.520 fowed up by the World Test Championship. So it does 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.880 leave quite a significant gap from the eleventh of January. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.240 This is black Caps. From eleventh of jan there's not 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.600 another black Caps game at home until the sixteenth of March. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.440 Yeah, far up a long time. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.800 They've being played in Pakistan. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:25.360 Yes, yep. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.040 The other Champions Trophy is in Pakistan, so that'd be 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.880 interesting thing as well. There'll be a lot of pressure 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.640 on the Pakistani Cricket board to make sure that goes 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:38.000 smoothly because I imagine if any issues before that, it'll 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.160 just get moved to UA again. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.800 Yeah, and so then after that, so the Champions Trophy, 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:45.880 who plays in that. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.480 By the way, is there's only like everyone? 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:47.880 Oh? 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:48.319 Everyone? 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:49.800 Yeah? Everyone. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.360 I think there's no qualifying tournament like in the T twenty. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.920 I think I believe it's probably the top eight teams 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.960 just go play the Champions Trophy. Yeah, eyes as well, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.640 so it's not as compact as the T twenty. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:05.440 Tournament. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:06.160 Yeah. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.760 So oh yeah, hasn't been around for a while. I 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:09.800 can't remember the last time. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.800 There was a Champions Trophy, but yeah, it's back in Pakistan. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.520 Good to have a warm up over there as well 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:15.920 for us. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.600 Yeah, I think the last time it was held was 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.600 somewhere around twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. Then there was the 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.800 World Cup, then there was I think it was like 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.040 a COVID effected thing. And now yes, it's only that 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.120 we're getting around to it now. The awkward part is, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.400 so we're playing Pakistan in Pakistan, we then get on 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.400 the same flight as them back to New Zealand to 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:38.400 play each other again. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.400 Yeah, yes, there's the answer to that. They'll be there'll 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:43.680 be a fight for business class. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.200 Yeah, on the way back, because once that tournament's over 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.680 on the ninth of March, there is a T twenty 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.559 and christ Church on the sixteenth of March, So but 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.640 of a seven day, one week turnaround between end of 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.920 that tournament and Pakistan heading to New Zealand for four 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.800 five T twenties and three od i's, So yeah, it's 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.200 quite a bit of a truncated summer if I'm honest. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.760 But the good news is for real cricket heads and 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.920 the BYC guys will be pleased about this. That February 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.599 window leaves a window for the Super Smash and international 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.880 players who aren't involved in the Champions Trophy to all 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.240 get stuck into Super Smash as well. So that'll be 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.520 actually quite good for the domestic competition. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.960 That Pakistan tour as well. When they come back at 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.480 the end of March, thorough all double headers, so the 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.120 White Ferns will play beforehand on the same ticket and 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.360 because they're all on TV and Z, they're going to 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.280 go White Ferns News Black Caps, which I think is 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.040 just a tremendous way to run that. I mean, it's 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.720 going to pass you off if you're into tipping point 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.360 or the chase, you're probably gonna think. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.840 It's gonna piss you off. If you're it's gonna pass 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:49.120 you off. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.319 If you're a boomer, because you love Because there's no 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.120 doubt they're going to shorten the news to half an 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.560 hour and they hate nothing more than the because the 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.839 only other time they shorten the news is when the 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.520 Black Clash is on and then they have to deal 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.000 with us commentating and it just blows their mind. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.400 So they've got actually a few of these. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.880 There's the last T twenties against either All five T 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.320 twenties are going to be double headers. They're in christ 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:17.839 Church to need In, Auckland, Toadonger and Wellington. Once again, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:23.120 Auckland misses out significantly. In a lot of these we 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:29.560 get and Auckland gets one one dayer against Sri Lanka. Yeah, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.800 and one to twenty against Pakistan. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.240 How we don't have a test venue in the biggest 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.840 city in the country. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.560 Is It's crazy? 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:41.040 Crazy? 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.800 The fact there's only going to be two days of 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:48.600 cricket in the biggest city in New Zealander is weird. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:49.880 I know that. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.040 Look, I'm not saying that we should just force it 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.000 in there because I think places like Seddon Park, Bay Oval, 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.559 Seddon Park, Hagley Oval is way better, way better grounds. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:00.480 I don't know. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.840 Someone must have goat photos because how can McClain Park 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.199 keep getting games? How can they keep getting games that 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:12.200 the ground is ship it's it's a rectangle, no one 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.280 turns up. They've got issues with They've finished the drainage issues, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.120 but they've got the light issue that comes through the 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:19.840 grandstand and finds the batsman. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:21.280 But they have. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.079 Got They've got a few gap quite a few. Look, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.800 I don't understand how they get a game, but they 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.880 do against Pakistan. They get an odi I on the 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.720 Saturday twenty ninth and March. So yeah, and no games 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:37.920 in queens Sound, no games in Queenie happened there. I'm 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.920 not sure what's happened there. I think I'm not sure 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.120 the pitch is up to standard in Queenie. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:44.280 Or no year. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.719 Well, no, I don't know why that's falling out of 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.160 favor as well, because they did play a game there 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.760 against Sri Lanka a few years ago. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.160 Last year they played a game and I forget what 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.640 was I think it was against Sri Lanka. I didn't 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.680 see the game, but I did see the crowd from 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.880 the departure lounge Queenstown Domestic Airport. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.600 Right, That's why they've changed the They will also changed 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.840 the direction of the pitch there and it looks like 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.800 a plane's literally going to land on you can see 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.120 passengers faces. When they showed it, they focused in on 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.240 the plane. You could see a person's face looking out 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.920 the window. There was legendary because obviously they're remarkables in 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.839 the background. But obviously they have their reasons u zealing cricket. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:27.160 Obviously there are different associations, you know, get to pitch 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.320 their case as well to hosting internationals that brings them 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.880 a lot of money. So yeah, but I'm stumped about 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.360 McLain parks still and the fact, I mean, look, if 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.280 a McClain park's sold out every time, sure, yeah, i'd 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.480 be okay, you have to, but no one turns up 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.160 and it's a terrible ground and you can't nickel and 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.559 dimedon park when you've got McLean Park. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.880 Yeah, one hundred percent with way less capacity. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.560 But anyway, the jewel in the crown for this summer 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.320 of cricket is definitely that English Series. Thursday the twenty 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.800 eighth of November is the first one that's at Hagle Oval. 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:03.480 They go to the Basemin Reserve. I love a Test 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.760 series in New Zealand really signals the start of summer. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.280 It's good to really sink your teeth into as well. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.840 And obviously we all remember how good that that one 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.400 all series victory. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.760 Was absolutely These black Bean game White fans sorry games 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.920 all summer as well. I think they're playing they play 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.240 Ossie and they play schri Lanka and then they play 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.520 Ossie again at the end of the summer. So yeah, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.760 they're they're in for a tough ride against those Assies 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.080 as well. They've got three Odie Eyes and then three 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.440 two twenties at the end of summer. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.000 Yeah, that'll be a challenge as well. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.200 So the Odie Eyes, it's the Rose Bowl between the 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.400 White Ferns and Australia. All three of those are going 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.520 to be played at the Basin Reserve, which I quite 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.000 like as an idea, you know, just the back to 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.880 back to back who's the better team over three games 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.640 even you know, I think they would admit that it's 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.560 gonna be a mammoth task to try and beat Australia 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.520 at a game of cricket at the moment. Yeah, but 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:58.720 always fun and always one to get up for. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:00.520 So that is a schedule out. 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.560 It'll be on all socials everywhere across the day today, 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.920 So if you haven't seen it already, go and check 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.880 our socials, chickensyling, cricket socials, try and phone a PDF 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.760 of it and print it out because it's not going 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.320 to make sense to you when you first read it. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.640 It hasn't to me, so you're going to need it 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.440 on your desk at work, I think, because. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.600 I just yeah, just no, there's going to be no 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:25.000 cricket from mid January to mid March in New Zealand. Yeah, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.240 so you know you can take a good holiday and 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.520 just watch some international cricket from overseas. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.080 Yeah, don't come crying to us when that break happens. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:33.000 As well. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.040 A little bit of a different structure of the podcast 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.960 today because at the end we're going to be talking 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.160 to Tom Birmingham from the Hallow Sport podcast. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.800 They have made an incredible pledge to support. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.600 Mitch Barnett who've missed the birth of a second child. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.040 So if you want to, you can scrub ahead to 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.520 that right now though we're going to take a quick break. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:51.960 When we come back, we're going to get to your 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:57.440 feedback on Yours Please, Yours. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.160 Please, brought to you by Leader Home of the list 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.720 on the top four. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.560 Of them to get through today, laying a couple of 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.760 them inaudible. And I really wanted to address this on 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.200 the podcast today because this is becoming increasingly a problem, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.880 and so I'd like for your listening pleasure to play 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.960 you just a sample of one of the more one 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.880 of the better quality yours pleases that we've been getting recently, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.960 but still almost inaudible. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.320 So without any further ado, call it yours please. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:41.320 Specials help qu Kieren sitting up the stairs. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:43.200 Than the radio. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:53.520 Two's right, I think I I think I could kind 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.000 of get the gist of it was. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.560 That we should have guest commentators and Karen Reid would 0:16:59.600 --> 0:16:59.840 be good. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:01.920 Yes, that's exactly what he was the same, but it's 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.159 not Yes, that is what he said, but how he 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.880 said it was he hit the voicemail function bottom right 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.000 hand corner of his iHeart Radio app and they just 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.879 chucked it in the coffee holder of his forklift and 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.399 went about his day. It was ridiculous. We get about 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.520 three or four of these a day. Just have a 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.800 look at where your environment is. Like, maybe wait till 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.480 you can get into the smoker room before you send 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.200 these ind but the port stands. You know, we've had 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.240 people on before. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:26.840 Now we have. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.840 We've actually Karen Reid actually commentated a one day with 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.960 us at Eton Park. Yeah, and we presented him with 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.960 his ACC jacket we had to get At the time. 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.520 He was very recently retired, so he was still quite large. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.919 I don't think it fits him anymore because he's trimmed 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.879 down quite a bit, but he has. He's got his 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:45.840 on an every ACC jacket. He's been a whole day 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.680 with us in the commentary box up in Eden Park. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.639 We cause a bit of a bit of a stir 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.000 actually because we were in the Botham's box, which isn't 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.119 that level five corporate riam and you know they've got 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.320 a dress code there you can't wear open toad shoes 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.760 and where he had his wife with him and she 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:07.639 had like three hundred dollars birkenstock sandals on. I remember this, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.320 and then they go, now you can't come in. We 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:11.679 were like, no, no, no, you're good, you're good, and 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.800 we just piled her into the lift and they chased 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.399 us up the stairs and then we like like a huddle, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.720 almost like the Secret Service around Donald Trump. 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.160 We were like that around Kiaran Reid's wife. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:22.679 We got her in there and we hit her in 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.480 the seats out the front, and they came out and 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:26.919