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Speaker 1: Black Caps are about to get their summer of cricket underway,

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Speaker 1: first of three Tests against England. McGinn's in the Garden

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Speaker 1: City this morning. Russian Ravender is with us.

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Speaker 2: Very good morning, Good morning, Mike harvy Man.

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Speaker 1: Very well. How's the week been by way of build up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been good. Obviously Test week's always an exciting

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Speaker 2: time and we've been able to get underway and seeing

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Speaker 2: all the boys again is always fun. So it's been

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Speaker 2: a good sofer.

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Speaker 1: And do you have a personal attachment to christ Church

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Speaker 1: in terms? I mean, to my eye, it's the most

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Speaker 1: beautiful place to play test cricket. Do you agree or

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Speaker 1: is there somewhere else for you?

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Speaker 2: I can't completely agree with you there. I do really

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Speaker 2: like the city christ Church, and I love the Grand

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Speaker 2: hagli ovel, but I think Wellington based Reserve takes the cake.

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Speaker 2: Obviously I'm a little biased in that place, but that's

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Speaker 2: the one for me.

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Speaker 1: And they tell do you have any indication of tickets

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Speaker 1: for Christias Because they're told I'm told Wellington's a sellout

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Speaker 1: or virtually a sellout.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it's hitting that way, if not already

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Speaker 2: that way at Hagley it's pretty cool to see the

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Speaker 2: interest in the series and loving you doing, public getting

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Speaker 2: behind us, and I mean home summer, packed out crowd.

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Speaker 2: Nothing really better, is it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Exactly? So how much do you reckon of what happened

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Speaker 1: in India has led to this then and the increased

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Speaker 1: level of interest in expectation?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously it's always hard to tell, but I feel

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Speaker 2: like there is. There's a lot more I use people

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Speaker 2: when walking around just saying congratulations, well done in India

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Speaker 2: and stuff, which is cool. I think. I feel like

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Speaker 2: the viewership was through the roof of currict and specially

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Speaker 2: with it starting at five pm, was great time for

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Speaker 2: people after work, et cetera. But I mean that's what

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Speaker 2: we want, right, We want the public to behind us

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Speaker 2: and hopefully we can keep inspiring people to keep playing

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Speaker 2: the game and more than the cricket itself, also being

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Speaker 2: good people off the pat two and in our little

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Speaker 2: interactions that we have with fans. So that's that's important

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Speaker 2: to us too.

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Speaker 1: And do you walk tall of because of India or

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Speaker 1: does the precious sitting going? Jeez, we did that? We

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Speaker 1: better carry on.

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Speaker 2: I think as a group, I think we're pretty good

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Speaker 2: at managing that expectation plus you know confidence. Look, we're

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Speaker 2: as a group war is confident in our ability and

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Speaker 2: we trust each other to go out there and do

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Speaker 2: the job. But at the end of the day we

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Speaker 2: knowing a good side and challenging side too, but also

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Speaker 2: understanding the conditions are very different to India, so it's

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Speaker 2: a different ball game. But you do take you know,

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Speaker 2: my menterm and stuff plays plays a big factor, but

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's a new series,

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Speaker 2: completely clean slate, so we'll go out there with that mindset.

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Speaker 2: I think, do you.

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Speaker 1: Place a lot of weight on the home team ground advantage?

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Speaker 2: I guess so, but also understanding that England playing very

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Speaker 2: similar conditions too, you know fast ball, the dominant swing,

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Speaker 2: swing conditions, nipping conditions, so it's not too fine for them.

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Speaker 2: So I'd say it's a little more balanced than say,

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Speaker 2: you know, us sitting to India was spinning and stuff,

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Speaker 2: completely different conditions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, here's the thing we came up with on the

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Speaker 1: show the other day. I asked the question, guy Hevelt,

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Speaker 1: who's into cricket. He backed you guys, But I asked

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Speaker 1: this question Auckland FC football right first year in the league,

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Speaker 1: Top of the table, they go and win the whole

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Speaker 1: competition in their first year. Is that the Hellberg Prize

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Speaker 1: winning team of the year or is it the black

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Speaker 1: Caps in India?

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Speaker 2: I look, I can't. I can't come in on there.

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Speaker 2: I guess I'm too invested in one of the teams.

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Speaker 2: And also I'm sorry awkwnd if see I'm a willing

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Speaker 2: to Phoenix guy.

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Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, listen, go well to. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much. Our weathering track is all good and

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Speaker 1: it is a sellout. We can't get We're just trying

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Speaker 1: now to get a ticket, but we can't. For more

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