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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks.

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Speaker 2: EDB White Ferns are up and running at the Cricket

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Speaker 2: World Cup. New Zealand have posted two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: seven for nine before dismissing Bangladesh for one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty seven to clinch a one hundred run win at Guwahati.

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Speaker 2: Sophie Divine hit fifty or more for a third consecutive match.

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Speaker 2: She made sixty three. Brook Holliday top scored with sixty

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Speaker 2: nine to earn Player of the Match on us.

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Speaker 3: So big here, feelers inside the circles, get to a

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Speaker 3: fifty and get there in style. He did a better

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Speaker 3: resurrection when she joined Sophie Devine out there in the middle.

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Speaker 3: She's chosen the game New Zealand and desperate need to

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Speaker 3: get fines on the board.

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Speaker 2: Brooke Calladay is with us. You're on the board the

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Speaker 2: White Ferns with your first win. How much is there

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Speaker 2: a bit of relief mixed them with your satisfaction of

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Speaker 2: a good winner for Bangladesh tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. It's always a good start, isn't it to finally

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Speaker 4: be on the board, And obviously those first two games

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Speaker 4: were disappointing because I feel like, you know, we had

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Speaker 4: a lot of good or positive things that we did

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Speaker 4: well and it was just, yeah, we just didn't get

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Speaker 4: that full performance. But today I felt like we actually

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Speaker 4: had a bit more of a full performance. So it

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Speaker 4: was yeah, very satisfying and I think there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of happy people in our group at the moment.

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Speaker 2: You came in to join Sophie Divine at thirty eight

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Speaker 2: for three after winning the toss and batting first. So

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Speaker 2: when you arrived, what sort of conversations were you having

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Speaker 2: at that time.

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Speaker 4: Cricket's a long game, so basically just a better long time.

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Speaker 4: So we've kind of had those chats in the last

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Speaker 4: just when you're over in India with slower wickets, you know,

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Speaker 4: taking those ones or even those twos for a long

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Speaker 4: And obviously Sophie and I were kind of in that

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Speaker 4: our innings like that's actually really hard because both of

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Speaker 4: us do like to play shots, and we actually had

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Speaker 2: So batting with Sophie Divine, I mean, one of our greats.

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Speaker 2: What's it like out there? Batting with Sophie Divine?

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Speaker 5: Very calm.

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Speaker 4: I think she's you know, quite a you know when

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Speaker 4: you're playing that mini matches for New Zealand and you

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Speaker 4: kind of know how I suppose in her mind how

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Speaker 5: And the biggest thing that I've.

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Speaker 4: Enjoyed over the last couple of games that I've been

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Speaker 5: Bat with her is just how simple she keeps it.

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Speaker 4: And it kind of works for me as well, because yeah,

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Speaker 4: I don't try and overcomplicate too much, and half the

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Speaker 4: and we're very different players, so it's never too technical.

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Speaker 5: It's very simple, so it's actually really enjoyable.

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Speaker 4: And the biggest thing today was just that mental fatigue

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Speaker 4: Sophia's yeah, really good to bat with.

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Speaker 2: So different innings from you today then compared to the

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Speaker 2: seven point three three. So do you feel like you're

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I'm happy with the way I'm betting.

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Speaker 4: I'm probably just more frustrating with the way I'm getting

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Speaker 4: I'm not really learning too quick. But at the same time,

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Speaker 5: Length ball, but you know, I'm really enjoying it.

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Speaker 4: And I think the cool thing about these three games

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Speaker 2: You've batted at four, five, six, and seven for New

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Speaker 2: Zealand during your fifty over career. Number five is number five?

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Speaker 2: Is where you are at the moment? Is that your

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Speaker 5: Do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: You found a natural home there in fifty over cricket

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Speaker 4: It's an interesting one because I feel like when you're

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Speaker 5: So the biggest thing for me, it's nothing really changes.

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Speaker 4: I seem to have a home at five at the moment,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, not two phays.

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Speaker 5: This the end of the day.

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Speaker 4: I just watched the ball and try and bat and

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Speaker 4: put a team in a position to win.

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Speaker 2: And you also today brought up one thousand runs the

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Speaker 4: I came up on the screen when I was waiting

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Speaker 4: to bat and Maddie Green was like, oh, you could

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Speaker 4: I knew, because I sec or the World Cup kind

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Speaker 4: of have those milestones on there on the screen at

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Speaker 2: All right. Well, I mean, well it's a nice one

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Speaker 2: to tick off anyway, and you just continue batting and

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Speaker 2: see what else comes your way. Hey, bowling was three

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I thought even Rocco as well, the way that they

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Speaker 4: probably I think we might have been the eleventh match

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Speaker 2: And you had a couple of overs today as well,

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Speaker 2: you had three in the last game. What is your

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's a heavy question.

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Speaker 4: Just just just field and then if Sophie wants me

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Speaker 5: It seems at the moment, so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going really well, So we'll see if I

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Speaker 2: Do you see a time though, where your bowling contribution

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Speaker 2: is more significant and fifty over cricket? Like, can you

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Speaker 2: see a time where you bowl your ten overs for example.

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Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely not.

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Speaker 4: I do not see me ever bowling ten overs. I

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Speaker 4: from like a yeah, never an ode. Obviously domestic crickets

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Speaker 2: So next up shri Lanka Colombo on Tuesday. How do

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Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously that momentum and the I think the positivity,

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Speaker 2: Well, congrats on the win today and your significant part

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Speaker 2: and it Brook, thanks for chatting to us or the

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Speaker 2: best against Sri Lanka on Tuesday and for the rest

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Speaker 5: Thank you, no, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Brook for joining us. Brook Holliday there out of the

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Speaker 2: white fern. So I will win for them against Bangladesh

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Speaker 2: this morning. The way the Women's World Cup works, there

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Speaker 2: through to the semi finals. So really you kind of

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Speaker 2: got to win four games. That is the size of it. Really.

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Speaker 2: New Zealand lost their first two of course to Australia

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Speaker 2: win on the board here. Next up they play. As

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Speaker 2: I just mentioned Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Sri Lanka have

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Speaker 2: had a loss and a no result so far. Then Pakistan.

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Speaker 2: Pakistan have played three and lost three, and then it

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Speaker 2: is India after that. The home side they've had a

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