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Speaker 1: Rob Walter is the guy who's just been named the

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Speaker 1: new head coach the black Caps. He takes over from

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Speaker 1: Gary Stead, who, of course only wanted to coach the

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Speaker 1: Red bull cracket, but that was not an option. And

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Speaker 1: Rob is with us right now.

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Speaker 2: I have Rob congratulations, Thanks very much. When did you

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Speaker 2: get the news on Wednesday? Known for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Are you still fizzling about it?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? Obviously today it became a little bit more ill

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Speaker 2: with all the press engagements. But yeah, looking forward to

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Speaker 2: is gonna be awesome opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, how do you feel about the workload you've

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Speaker 1: just been given, because Gary Stead has said that really

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Speaker 1: doing all three formats is just too much.

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Speaker 2: I suppose, you know, having had a taste of it,

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Speaker 2: albeit just in the white ball format for the last

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Speaker 2: couple of years, have a good sense of, you know,

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Speaker 2: the responsibility from a time point of view. So I mean, yes,

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Speaker 2: the workload potentially, you know, is significant, But looking forward

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Speaker 2: to Unfortunately, my family, as I said that, the taste

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Speaker 2: of it and understand very supportive of it. So I

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Speaker 2: just looking forward to getting my feet and the shoes

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Speaker 2: and getting active.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you feel about the fact that so

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Speaker 1: many of our cricketers are now choosing not to sign

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Speaker 1: the central contracts.

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Speaker 2: To be fair, it's kind of, you know, a sign

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Speaker 2: of the times really, you know, the league. The League's

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Speaker 2: obviously you know, drawing players away from national contract team

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Speaker 2: just given you know the financial implications of it already.

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Speaker 2: So I mean, not totally ununderstandable, we get it. It's

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Speaker 2: really about being flexible, trying to evolve with the times,

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Speaker 2: understanding where international cricket is headed. I think fortunately we've

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Speaker 2: got a group of players who are certainly very focused

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Speaker 2: on playing for the Black Apps and so trying to

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Speaker 2: be you know, to move with it and be flexible

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Speaker 2: in terms of how we contract players. News even cred

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Speaker 2: really have been trendsetter in that department, so we know

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Speaker 2: we're going to have to keep moving and you know,

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Speaker 2: there's no black and White, so that it's going to

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Speaker 2: have to be kind of a moving target and trying

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Speaker 2: to get the best of both both.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that you prioritize the players, Like if

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Speaker 1: you have everybody available for selection and you've got people

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Speaker 1: who've signed the central contracts and people who haven't, do

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Speaker 1: you prioritize the ones who've signed the central contracts as

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Speaker 1: if to kind of send a message to the ones

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Speaker 1: who aren't, or do you just treat them all the same?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, obviously there is an element of acknowledging

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Speaker 2: those you have committed through contracts, you know, to New

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Speaker 2: Zealand and to the black Caps. I mean, that's it

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Speaker 2: goes without saying. But in the same breath, there are

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Speaker 2: guys who have earned the right to have a look

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Speaker 2: at these different opportunities, you know. So at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, Kaine Williamson is a perfect example. You said,

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Speaker 2: you're not going to hold it against game that he's

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Speaker 2: having a look at opportunities. You know, he's earned that right.

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Speaker 2: So as I said, you know, there's not going to

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Speaker 2: be one rule that can't work that way. And ultimately

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Speaker 2: we saw want to win games of crickets for the

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Speaker 2: black Caps and for New Zealand and play great cricket

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Speaker 2: and represent the country. Well, so we want to pick

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Speaker 2: you know, players are going to do that.

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Speaker 1: Now, how are you going to feel because that is

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Speaker 1: one hell of an accent you've got there, and it

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Speaker 1: escapes nobody where you're from. How are you going to

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Speaker 1: feel about going up against you know, your homeland?

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Speaker 2: I mean to be fair. You know, I've spent nine

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Speaker 2: years in New Zealand. Although maybe my accent doesn't quite

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Speaker 2: tell the story, but no, I mean for me, as

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, I was very privileged to your

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Speaker 2: coach South Africa and again to get to this job.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm coached to side that I'm fortunate enough

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Speaker 2: to have called home across you know, my life. So

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Speaker 2: first year, you're not going to.

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Speaker 1: Feel a little bit You're not going to feel a

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Speaker 1: bit bittersweet about it.

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. I mean, at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, I'd certainly Shukri is a now the coach

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Speaker 2: is a red Bull coach and I all fought all formats.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to get bragging right over him and we

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Speaker 2: get on really well. But it'd be nice to walk

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Speaker 2: all over that. You know, you know you're.

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Speaker 1: Going to get a hard time. Mate, We're going to

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Speaker 1: give you a hard time because because you've got that accent.

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Speaker 2: I've had it. I've had it, and I understand probably

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Speaker 2: continue to get it. That's okay, I don't that's the

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Speaker 2: way about the authorities, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: As long as you're prepared for it, Rob, go well,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you have many successes because we'll all

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Speaker 1: enjoy it very much. Rob Walter, the black Caps coach.

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