Speaker 1: Okiday there live sort of from the export Big Ann
Speaker 1: Studios and you're sort of listening to the BYC. I'll
Speaker 1: explain shortly, and what an extraordinary week it's been for
Speaker 1: New Zealand cricket. If I'm being honest, I would never
Speaker 1: have predicted those two results in a million years. The
Speaker 1: cricket world has flipped on its axis. So convinced was
Speaker 1: I that the Black Caps were going to be utterly
Speaker 1: humiliated and the White Ferns were not going to even
Speaker 1: cause a blip at the World Cup. I would have
Speaker 1: bet my house on it. Fortunately I didn't, or I
Speaker 1: might have woken up today in a tin Tinranui. It
Speaker 1: truly boggles the mind and reminds us all of the beautiful,
Speaker 1: unpredictable nature of sport. So let's get to it, but
Speaker 1: it with a little bit of a twist, as our
Speaker 1: correspondents are currently scattered around the world. But I believe
Speaker 1: we have a bit of check from our one and
Speaker 1: only Dylan Kleaver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get avabyc is did you hear the one
Speaker 2: about the cricket correspondent who mistagably the greatest twelve hours
Speaker 2: in the history of the sport in this country? By
Speaker 2: finding himself up the Mekong Delta. Yeah, it's still in
Speaker 2: cleaver here. And as the Black Caps and White fans
Speaker 2: carried out their sensational results in Dubai and Bengalaru, I
Speaker 2: was living in my own version, very tame version of
Speaker 2: that of apocalypse now in a gunboat up the Mekong River.
Speaker 2: It's unlikely that the cricinfo dot com live storing has
Speaker 2: ever been refreshed as often from the Greatest Saigon area
Speaker 2: as it was in those twenty four hours where I
Speaker 2: was trying to catch, desperately trying to catch the results
Speaker 2: from Bengalaru and Dubai. Have we now returned to the
Speaker 2: land of along white cloud. I'm still working my way
Speaker 2: through the highlights packages and we'll watch the full final
Speaker 2: of the World T twenty. But I do have some
Speaker 2: top of the head thoughts, so I'd like to share
Speaker 2: before a return to the show properly following the second
Speaker 2: test in Pune, first from BEng Laru. Look, I'm not
Speaker 2: telling you anything you don't know here. Barachin Ravendra has
Speaker 2: the tools to be a multi format superstar. Some of
Speaker 2: his shot making and difficult conditions is breathtaking. That guy's
Speaker 2: ceiling would appear to be limitless. And I know it's
Speaker 2: very early and it's test career to be talking like that,
Speaker 2: but the guy just has something special and watching him
Speaker 2: go about his work has become one of the great
Speaker 2: cricket watching pleasures. Now, I thought New Zealand even in
Speaker 2: even in spinning conditions, although you know there wasn't so
Speaker 2: much spinning conditions in Benglaru all. Obviously it wasn't particularly
Speaker 2: on that first morning, but I just think they look
Speaker 2: a better balanced team with a three man seam attack.
Speaker 2: All were very good, even Jim Sounder, who again just
Speaker 2: couldn't get that kind of clutch of wickets that he
Speaker 2: said desperately needs to convince people that he belongs there
Speaker 2: and who was actually there's facing a controversial selection beforehand,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure if Ben Sears hadn't been injured that
Speaker 2: many of us would have been calling for him to
Speaker 2: play rather than Sali. But I thought Saudi was very good,
Speaker 2: whereas Matt Henry and Willow Rock just had moments of
Speaker 2: brilliance in as I said, admdtly helpful conditions. But I
Speaker 2: just think the whole thing is held better together, is
Speaker 2: more glue to that attack. When they do have the
Speaker 2: three seamers, Pune will almost certainly offer a totally different
Speaker 2: surface that I mean ready reports, so that it looks
Speaker 2: like a very bare black soil wicket that's going to
Speaker 2: spin from day one. So there must be a temptation,
Speaker 2: I guess, to bring a Santana back into the fold,
Speaker 2: but I'm not sure i'd change anything at all. I'd
Speaker 2: be very tempted to run out that same bowling attack.
Speaker 2: Another thought that I had, And look, I don't think
Speaker 2: it's been mentioned many places, and perhaps my cd CAN
Speaker 2: connection has been a lot for this a little bit more.
Speaker 2: But I thought it was a quite important job that
Speaker 2: was done by will Young, who was under immense pressure
Speaker 2: to provide just a semblance of the ballast that came.
Speaker 2: Williamson gives it. Three came. Williams is not going to
Speaker 2: be there again in poone, and I guess it's probably
Speaker 2: looking more and more unlike as each day passes, and
Speaker 2: you'll get to India at all for the Tests, with
Speaker 2: the third and final one to be played at wan
Speaker 2: K Stadium, so Will Young will get at least one
Speaker 2: more run at number three. The forty Old Night Out
Speaker 2: and turned what could have been a treacherous chase into
Speaker 2: a formality. So well done there, and because I guess
Speaker 2: it's cricket and things just changed so quickly. We now
Speaker 2: find that Given Conway is no longer on the run
Speaker 2: scoring hot seat, but Tom Latham certainly still is. You
Speaker 2: know again probably difficult conditions to throw too much heat
Speaker 2: his way out. He desperately needs the score and just quietly.
Speaker 2: I don't think General Richell would say no to one
Speaker 2: either at the moment, but anyway, it was just, you know,
Speaker 2: it's an amazing result to win a Test in India,
Speaker 2: to do it in those circumstances, to running for losing
Speaker 2: the toss and then running through them on the well.
Speaker 2: It was the second morning, but the first day of
Speaker 2: any action was amazing. And then to fight back after
Speaker 2: India pretty much put themselves in a position where it
Speaker 2: looked like they might steal it with the sensational third
Speaker 2: innings betting effort was really good bad you know, if anything,
Speaker 2: it paled to what happened and do by going into
Speaker 2: this tournament, if you had told me that the White
Speaker 2: Ferns would end up winning it, I would have thought
Speaker 2: you were smoking something. A lot of things had to
Speaker 2: go their way and they did. They didn't face Australia
Speaker 2: or England to have been the twin nemeses in the knockouts,
Speaker 2: which was obviously advantageous for them, but you know that
Speaker 2: doesn't really matter. You play who you play. And in
Speaker 2: the semi final, in the final, they were wonderful. And
Speaker 2: I say that in a slightly compromised position, and that
Speaker 2: I haven't seen any other than the highlights at this point.
Speaker 2: But you know, they did what they needed to do.
Speaker 2: They did it in the way that we've been asking
Speaker 2: for a long time, which was from contributions from people
Speaker 2: other than Susie Bates and Safety Divine and Amedia Occur.
Speaker 2: I mean, Amenia cur had at a magnificent final with
Speaker 2: bat and ball and in fact you're bowling probably made
Speaker 2: a dominant figure of the tournament as a whole. But
Speaker 2: they got contributions from players who have been straggling big time.
Speaker 2: They got contributions from Rasmie Meyer, who is superb. They
Speaker 2: got really telling contributions with the bat from Georgia Plymouth,
Speaker 2: who has spent a long time being labeled the most
Speaker 2: promising young woman's batter in the country. But it just
Speaker 2: hasn't been able to put the runs on the board.
Speaker 2: She said they did that at the right time. There
Speaker 2: was a physic and energy clearly to the way they
Speaker 2: went about their work. And I pondered in the bounce
Speaker 2: with this sort of deep philosophical question, whether all the
Speaker 2: pain of the past couple of years, and remember they
Speaker 2: came into this tournament having lost ten, ten, twenty eyes
Speaker 2: in a row, which is really hard to do for
Speaker 2: a competitive team, is it worth it to get a
Speaker 2: result like this? And it clearly is worth it to
Speaker 2: get a result like this, But at the same time,
Speaker 2: they cannot fall back into those patterns that enabled them
Speaker 2: to or not enabled them, which sort of saw such
Speaker 2: a string of poor results. This is going to be
Speaker 2: a catalyst for so real dynamic White Ferns cricket over
Speaker 2: the next couple of years. Sure, they've got a couple
Speaker 2: of other veterans who are still very important, who ain't
Speaker 2: getting any younger, But I see this as a real
Speaker 2: opportunity for a springboard. Not only that, I think if
Speaker 2: you look at the bigger picture, a women's cricket in
Speaker 2: New Zealand has struggled to get the cream of the
Speaker 2: best athletic talent, and I think this could be a
Speaker 2: catalyst for New Zealand cricket to be more proactive in
Speaker 2: that space, because if I'm looking.
Speaker 3: At it as a as a parent of a young
Speaker 3: female athlete who's got real talent, real eye hand coordination,
Speaker 3: cricket offers some serious pathways, some serious career pathways.
Speaker 4: Now with the Women's opl the Woman's one hundred, the
Speaker 4: Women's Big Besh and as we just saw the White
Speaker 4: Perns each creaming a couple of one hundred k from
Speaker 4: winning this tournament, is a real opportunities there, and I
Speaker 4: hope New Zealand Cricket grasps all.
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's for me. I've been gone for long enough now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: an amazing twelve hours to follow, even if it was
Speaker 2: done in foreign conditions, and I look forward to talking
Speaker 2: to you in a more formal setting next week thanks
Speaker 2: to your patience. Well, there you go.
Speaker 1: That's a wrap of this peculiar bee way. See, we're
Speaker 1: very confident that next week all hands will be on
Speaker 1: deck and we'll be able to delve further into what's
Speaker 1: happening in the cricket world. Until then, thanks for taking
Speaker 1: the time to listen. To us, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: next week.