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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Martin Guptel has officially confirmed his retirement from international cricket

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Speaker 2: one nine to eighth. Here is the delivery.

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Speaker 3: Martin Guptil drives down the crowd. Four more Stand up

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Speaker 3: New Zealand, Stand up the worlds two, one hundred and

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Speaker 3: three not out Martin Guptel, Jus glorias at the start

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Speaker 3: of the fiftieth that's to be on the roof. It's enormous.

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Speaker 3: It's up the room, frony. About the fourth or fifth

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Speaker 3: time here at Wellington Stadium. Martin Guptel is center ball,

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Speaker 3: out of the arena, on the top of the cake

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Speaker 3: turn the second highest score of one day international cricket history.

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Speaker 2: People, indeed history. It's quite out. We come to Martin

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Speaker 2: Guppler at two thirty seven, given that was a score

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Speaker 2: that day not out. Across a fourteen year international career,

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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty seven games for New Zealand across

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Speaker 2: the formats, twenty three international centuries and numerous white ball

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Speaker 2: batting records, he is New Zealand's highest T twenty international

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Speaker 2: run scorer and third on our list of ODI run scorers,

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Speaker 2: behind only Ross Taylor and Stephen Fleming. Martin Guptel being

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Speaker 2: officially acknowledged at Eden Park today during the third ODI

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Speaker 2: between New Zealand and Sri Lanka. But he's taking the

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Speaker 2: time to join us for a chat. Martin, thank you

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Speaker 2: for doing so. Congratulations on an incredible career. How do

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Speaker 2: you reflect on it in its totality?

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Speaker 4: First of all, first all, thank you very much. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so I sort of still pinching myself that it's actually

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Speaker 4: all happened. You know, been out of the game a

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Speaker 4: couple of years now, and you know it's just yeh,

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Speaker 4: I said, I just sort of pinched myself. It's still

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Speaker 4: pretty surreal that it's all sort of trans by the

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Speaker 4: way it has and yeah, but it's all also look

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Speaker 4: back it with a miss pride that had actually happened

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Speaker 4: and I was able to do it for so long

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Speaker 4: for newr Dyalans.

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Speaker 2: You're at Eden Park at the moment that was the

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Speaker 2: of your ODI deboo. Of course, the first New Zealand

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Speaker 2: did to score a century on ODI I day bo

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty two not out against the Windys there.

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Speaker 2: Could you remember being nervous before that innings.

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Speaker 4: A little bit. I actually remember being more nervous before

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Speaker 4: my test day boo than my actual debut from New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: So but yeah, setting up here now and being able

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Speaker 4: to look down and just remember how the ground was

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Speaker 4: back then, obviously on the angle and a very different

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Speaker 4: dimension to what it is now, it drinks back some

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Speaker 4: really good memories.

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Speaker 2: You've been playing for Auckland for three summers before that,

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Speaker 2: did you feel ready for international cricket?

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Speaker 4: I don't think you ever feel ready. I can just

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Speaker 4: remember the call coming out of the blue. You know,

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Speaker 4: I had had a couple of couple of good things

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Speaker 4: for Auckland letting into that, and yeah, just a total

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Speaker 4: shock you actually get the call and yeah, and then

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Speaker 4: obviously what happened after that was nothing short of pretty

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Speaker 4: pretty awesome for me.

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Speaker 2: The two three seven not out at Wellington. We just

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Speaker 2: heard some highlights from it during the twenty fifteen World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Where is that innings? Right among all of the innings

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Speaker 4: It's in my top three. I wouldn't say it's in

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Speaker 4: my number one, but it's definitely up there. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's pretty it was pretty special day. You know, there

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Speaker 4: was a great worker down there in Wellington and a

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Speaker 4: and yeah, everything just sort of went my way and

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Speaker 4: I was able to do what I did.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is asking if that's not number one, what is.

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 4: Excuse me? I rate my one hundred and eighty not

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Speaker 4: out against South Africa and Hamilton, that's my number one.

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Speaker 4: It was on a tougher wicket against probably what was

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Speaker 4: to have that score was definitely my number one innings.

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Speaker 4: And it's not one league as well, to be fair. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Oh we can double it, then we can double the score.

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Speaker 2: It's worth tys as much on one league. The heads

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Speaker 2: Was that your biggest hit or was there one or

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Speaker 2: more bigger than that?

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Speaker 4: Like honesty, couldn't tell you. There's I've had. I've had

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Speaker 4: a few decent ones in my time, but yeah, it

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Speaker 4: might be the biggest one I've had on the roof there. Okay,

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Speaker 4: I've had three up there just for the record, so

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Speaker 4: just throw that out there. But no, I actually couldn't

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Speaker 4: tell you which is my biggest one's but it definitely

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Speaker 2: When do you Reckon Martin was your absolute sweet spot?

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Speaker 2: When do you think you were batting at your absolute best?

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Speaker 4: Probably twenty sixteen seventeen for that through that. Yeah, well

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Speaker 4: it makes me probably from after the Wild twenty Steen

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Speaker 4: willcarp As everything sort of was about two years where

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Speaker 4: I was probably at the top of my game, and

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Speaker 4: that's where I felt like I was really really on

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Speaker 4: top of my game. So that's sort of yeah, sixteen

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Speaker 2: Was there anybody in particular who enjoyed batting with.

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Speaker 4: I'm enjoyed batting with everyone, you know. I had some

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Speaker 4: some fantastic meetings with Brendon mccarlam, We had great partnerships,

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Speaker 4: Cain Williams, and we had some good ones Roscoe as well.

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Speaker 4: Couldn't put a number on anyone, but also Colin Monroe

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Speaker 4: and the T twenty stuff. We've put on some great partnerships,

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Speaker 4: whether it's for Auckland or or for New Zealand, and

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Speaker 4: even in some French my stuff as well, we've better together.

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Speaker 4: So I can't say a singular any one person. You

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Speaker 4: just you just find a bit of a flow with

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Speaker 2: And let's not forget your your feats in the field

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Speaker 2: as well. The runout of ms DONI and the twenty

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Speaker 2: nineteen World Cup semi final, how fond are your memories

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Speaker 2: of that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Pretty good. It sort of all happened a bit

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Speaker 4: of slow motion to start with. I can remember vividly that,

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Speaker 4: you know, when the ball went off I thought it

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Speaker 4: off the mark pretty quick. So yeah, I've got them

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Speaker 4: there and throw and all that that part happened very quickly.

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Speaker 4: That was a bit of a split split second held

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Speaker 4: all transpire there. But luckily for New Zealand, I you know,

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Speaker 2: And the game that followed. How often do you think

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Speaker 4: Too often earlier on it was, it was, it was

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Speaker 4: pretty yeah, still still pretty wrong in the memories, but

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Speaker 2: Right, And now madam, you're bowling. You twice took three for,

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Speaker 2: You took three for twice in test matches, you twice

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Speaker 2: took two for an ODIs? Are you actually an underused

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Speaker 2: all rounder, a very reluctant.

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Speaker 4: Under unifual rounder. So yeah, brilliant. I leave the bowling

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, I know you've got other commitments, but I

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Speaker 2: just would like to ask you a couple more One is,

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Speaker 2: how much longer do you think you'll go on? You've

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Speaker 2: got franchise cricket obviously opportunities. How much longer do you

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Speaker 4: I've hopefully on another couple of yearslifted me yet, the

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Speaker 4: Religious League starting up and guys overtire getting them back

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Speaker 4: into the game, that sort of things. Those are always

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Speaker 4: hopefully going to be there for me for a while.

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Speaker 4: But to do a full time I hopefully I got an

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Speaker 2: And just finally, how would you like to be remembered

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Speaker 2: by New Zealand cricket fans.

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Speaker 4: Oh gosh, that's something I've never really thought of. You know,

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Speaker 4: I went over I played for New Zealand and I

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Speaker 4: always gave it my all. Didn't always come off that's yeah.

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Speaker 4: I definitely gave it my alls just every time I

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Speaker 2: Well I think it will be good things if all

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Speaker 2: of the reading I've done in the last little while

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Speaker 2: as anything to go by. Martin. Congratulations again on a

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Speaker 2: terrific career. Thank you for everything you gave to cricket

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Speaker 2: fans up and down this country and around the world.

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Speaker 2: And again thank you for taking the time for a

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Speaker 2: chat this afternoon.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much for having me appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: No, I appreciate it very much. Indeed, Martin, thanks for

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Speaker 2: your taking the time. Martin Guptel there from Eden Park

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Speaker 2: where he is the center of attention today being acknowledged

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Speaker 2: for what has been what was a terrific career for

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. You know, the numbers are just astonishingly good,

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Speaker 2: incredibly good across the formats. Two and a half thousand

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Speaker 2: runs in Test matches nearly seven and a half thousand

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Speaker 2: in one day is over three and a half thousand

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Speaker 2: in T twenty Internationals. Nobody has scored more in T

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Speaker 2: twenty Internationals than Martin Guptel in so many moments, the

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Speaker 2: two three seven I think is still my favorite cricketing

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Speaker 2: moment at Sky Stadium, at Wellington Stadium, I've watched a

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Speaker 2: lot of cricket in my life. I haven't watched an

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Speaker 2: awfully large amount at the stadium because it's been mainly

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Speaker 2: white ball stuff since the stadium came to be in

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Speaker 2: two thousand. But that day with what Martin Guptel did

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Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty seven not out in a World

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Speaker 2: Cup quarter final to basically take the game away from

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Speaker 2: the East Indees. Just a remarkable display that day. Just

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Speaker 2: an incredible display of batsmanship from Martin Guptel that day.

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